Occupied Al-Quds: At least 37 Palestinians are martyred – including 25 in the enclave’s north – as Israel officially notifies the United Nations of its decision to cut ties with its agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA.
The Israeli army’s ground invasion and forced evacuation of Palestinians from northern Gaza continues with the Palestinian Civil Defence agency saying at least 1,300 people have been killed in the month long incursion.
Kamal Adwan Hospital is attacked again by Israeli forces as the deadly siege of north Gaza draws new famine warnings with humanitarian aid almost completely blocked.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed at least 43,374 Palestinians and wounded 102,261 since October 7, 2023. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day and more than 200 taken captive.
In Lebanon, at least 3,002 people have been killed and 13,492 wounded in Israeli attacks since the war on Gaza began.
Israeli soldiers “continue to bomb and destroy” Kamal Adwan Hospital in war-battered northern Gaza, the territory’s Health Ministry says, suggesting that the plan seems to be to “execute” medical workers who refused to evacuate.
At least 16 people have been killed and 90 others wounded in Lebanon, according to the Ministry of Public Health’s latest figures, bringing the death toll after more than a year of war between Hezbollah and Israel to 3,002.
Israel’s air force says fighter jets attacked the “intelligence headquarters” of Hezbollah in Syria, while Syria’s SANA news agency reported that “civilian areas” were hit south of the capital Damascus.
Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant approved sending an additional 7,000 draft notices to members of the country’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, saying the military needs more soldiers.
The UN agency supporting Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said Israel’s ban on its operations would lead to the “collapse” of humanitarian work in besieged Gaza as UN
An Israeli attack on Kamal Adwan Hospital resulted in six children being injured, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
“Shortly after the WHO-led mission to Kamal Adwan Hospital yesterday, the facility’s third floor was reportedly hit again, injuring six children who are patients there,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
“It is appalling that hospitals in Gaza continue to be attacked, patients continue to be harmed, and health workers and humanitarians continue to work under life-threatening conditions.”
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has responded to Israel’s announcement that it is terminating the agreement facilitating the work of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees – the main aid provider in Gaza.
Guterres stressed that UNRWA was essential and there was no alternative, his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
Israel sent a letter notifying the UN General Assembly it was ending its agreement for UNRWA to operate in the occupied Palestinian territory, which has been in effect since the end of the 1967 Middle East war.
If it’s impossible for UNRWA to operate, Israel will be responsible for providing Palestinians in occupied territory with humanitarian goods and services, as well as education and healthcare, Dujarric said.
“Obviously, our lawyers and UNRWA’s lawyers are also taking a closer look at the letter.”
Hezbollah targets Israeli forces in southern Lebanon
The Lebanese armed group says it fired rockets at a “movement of the Israeli enemy army forces” on the northeastern outskirts of the town of Maroun al-Ras.
The group also said it bombed the Israeli city of Safed with a “salvo of rockets”.
Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging fire across the border of Israel and Lebanon since the start of the war on Gaza in October 2023.
At least 29 Palestinians were martyred early on Tuesday in Israeli airstrikes on tents housing displaced people in several areas of Gaza, including Beit Lahiya, Deir Al-Balah and the town of Al-Zawayda, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
According to WAFA, 20 people were killed in a heavy airstrike on a home in Beit Lahiya, located in the northern part of Gaza, two people were killed when a tent in central Deir al-Balah was hit and four people were killed and others injured in a similar attack on a tent in al-Zawayda.
At least four people were killed on Tuesday during an Israeli military raid and airstrikes on the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
The Palestinian ministry said two people had been killed in the city of Qabatiya and two others in the Tammoun area.
