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SvennoJ on 26 January 2024
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Meanwhile in Gaza


At least 26,083 Palestinians have been killed and 64,487 wounded by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war, according to the latest figures published by the enclave’s Ministry of Health.

It said at least 183 people have been killed and 377 injured in the latest 24-hour reporting period.

PRCS: Israel continues to target our headquarters in Khan Younis

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society says that for the fifth day in a row, Israeli forces are targeting the vicinity of its headquarters in al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis with “intense shelling and gunfire”. The PRCS also said that for the past three days, Israeli forces have imposed a complete curfew in the hospital vicinity, preventing the movement of ambulance teams to and from the hospital.

“The Palestine Red Crescent expresses deep concern for the safety of its teams besieged in Al-Amal Hospital and calls on the international community to urgently act to protect its personnel working there,” the organisation said.

Israeli tanks fire at al-Amal Hospital gate: Red Crescent

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says Israeli army tanks are targeting the eastern gate of al-Amal Hospital, causing fragments to scatter inside the building. “The hospital is under siege with heavy gunfire, resulting in several injuries in the vicinity,” the PRCS said in a post on X.

Al-Amal and Nasser hospitals in Khan Younis have been under siege by Israeli forces for several days. Al-Amal is run by the PRCS.

Israeli snipers shoot two brothers leaving al-Amal Hospital

Among the casualties of Israeli sniper attacks, we’ve seen two brothers who were walking out of the facility of al-Amal Hospital. They were shot by the sniper despite the fact that one of them was carrying a white flag.

This is another reminder that Palestinian civilians are not protected. It has become very difficult for people to find their way out of the city of Khan Younis. The city is increasingly dangerous. The snipers are shooting at every moving object as people are trying to leave the facilities, seeking shelters elsewhere in the city or trying to find a way out of Khan Younis for a safer refuge.

Siege on Nasser Hospital continues for fifth day

Ashraf al-Qudra, the spokesman for the Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip, said that the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis has completely run out of food, anaesthetics and painkillers as a result of the occupation’s siege imposed on it for the fifth day.

“There are 150 health personnel, 350 patients, and hundreds of displaced families in the Nasser Medical Complex in catastrophic conditions of starvation, targeting, and lack of treatment,” al-Qudra said.

Health Ministry spokesman: Israeli forces targeting Nasser and al-Amal hospitals

Gaza’s Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra says Israeli forces are “deliberately paralysing” the capabilities of the Nasser Medical Complex and al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis.

Al-Qudra said the two hospitals are being subjected to Israeli fire and besiegement in addition to Israeli forces preventing ambulance movement.

UNRWA warns of spread of hepatitis A in overcrowded IDP camps

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) says the spread of hepatitis A is increasing at a rapid pace in informal camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Gaza due to overcrowding and a lack of clean water and sanitation.

“Suspected cases [are] almost 16 times higher in January so far compared to the whole of November 2023,” UNRWA said in a post on X.

OCHA: Situation in Gaza Strip ‘brutal, unacceptable and catastrophic’

The representative of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territories says that the situation in the Gaza Strip is “nothing less than catastrophic”.

“Displaced people in Rafah have no place to stay and are actually living on the streets,” said Ajith Songhai. “The people we interviewed fear that severe violence will spread to Rafah, which will have catastrophic effects on more than 1.3 million people there.” Songhai added that there is no access to northern Gaza, which remains under Israeli shelling and bombardment, even to provide basic humanitarian assistance.

“Failure to deliver aid violates Israel’s obligations under international law,” Songhai said, adding that continuous attacks continue on medical and UN facilities in Khan Younis, as well as on schools and residential areas.

Cold and rainy weather in Gaza making it ‘completely uninhabitable’: UN

The UN’s human rights office has warned that cold and rainy weather in Gaza risks turning the enclave into a “completely uninhabitable” place. “We’re also very worried about the impact of the rainy, cold weather in Gaza,” said Ajith Sunghay, head of the UN human rights office for the occupied Palestinian territory.

“It was entirely predictable at this time of the year, and risks making an already unsanitary situation completely uninhabitable for the people. Most have no more clothes or blankets.”

Most Palestinians have been internally displaced by Israeli attacks, and many are crammed into overcrowded shelters where they are threatened by the worsening weather, diseases and an acute shortage of food, water and medicine.

Last edited by SvennoJ - on 26 January 2024