🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached more than 16,248, with over 42,000 injured and at least 7,600 still missing under the rubble.
🟡 “Every day in captivity was extremely challenging. We were in tunnels, terrified that it would not be Hamas, but Israel, that would kill us,” a former Israeli captive in Gaza told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting.
🟡 The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has warned that the situation in Gaza is “getting worse each minute,” adding that “Another wave of displacement is underway in Gaza,” calling the entire Strip “one of the most dangerous places in the world.”
🟡 Since the end of the temporary ceasefire on December 1, Israeli attacks have killed at least 1,240 Palestinians in Gaza, 70% of whom were children and women.
🟡 Referencing Israeli military attacks on the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, Hamas announced yesterday that its fighters had targeted 25 Israeli army vehicles and dozens of Israeli soldiers in the town.
🟡 Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan said that “Netanyahu and his war staff are sinking deeper and deeper into the swamp of Gaza” and that the group is “well prepared” to fight no matter how long the war lasts.
🟡 Israeli forces arrested at least 60 Palestinians from the West Bank overnight. 3,640 Palestinians have been arrested in the West Bank since October 7.
🟡 For the first time since October 7, Israeli shelling in southern Lebanon killed a Lebanese soldier and wounded three others. The attack occurred although the Lebanese army hasn’t engaged in any form of armed conflict with Israel since the Israeli forces started targeting H3zbo!lah in southern Lebanon in October.
🟡 Nicaragua’s Foreign Minister Denis Moncada traveled to the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank to express solidarity with the Palestinians, condemning Israel’s “brutal aggression.”
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