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SvennoJ on 06 February 2024
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Israeli shelling causes multi-day fire in Khan Younis residential building

Palestinian journalist Hassan Islah has shared video on his Instagram account showing a residential building in the city’s Al-Amal neighbourhood, still full of people, on fire. Islah said Israeli forces targeted the building – where the families of two of his journalist colleagues live – with several artillery shells yesterday, causing a section to catch on fire. It continues to burn.

PRCS says two medical volunteers arrested by Israeli forces

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has said that Israeli forces arrested two volunteers with the group on Monday as they were passing through a humanitarian corridor at al-Amal Hospital yesterday.

More than 8,000 people were evacuated from the hospital on Monday after what PRCS described as a two-week siege, during which Israeli forces fired on the facility and killed several people. “The occupation forces arrested PRCS volunteers Tamer Mohammed Hussein Shahin and Hamdan Samer Abu Khattar yesterday while they were passing through the humanitarian corridor for displaced persons at Al-Amal Hospital,” the group said in a social media post.

‘Situation in shelters is unliveable’: UNRWA

“People in Gaza have no safety, no options. Nowhere else to go,” the UN agency for Palestinian refugees says. In an UNRWA video documenting life in shelters, a Palestinian man forced to leave northern Gaza says his children are suffering and sick because of the cold and the rain. “Our situation is difficult and tragic,” he says.

UNRWA’s Lebanon chief: Services will end unless aid resumes

Dorothee Klaus says the agency has the ability to provide services to Palestinians in Lebanon until the end of March after the suspension of aid by 19 donors. Klaus warned that failure to resume funding will affect Palestinians in all 12 refugee camps in Lebanon. According to UNRWA, the total number of registered Palestinian refugees in Lebanon is 489,292.