Israel-Hamas war, Gaza genocide

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Main points for December 7th

• Israeli attacks on two southern Lebanese villages killed six people and wounded five, the Lebanese Health Ministry says, in the latest potential challenge to a fragile ceasefire.
• Renewed Israeli attacks on Kamal Adwan Hospital cut power to the critical northern Gaza medical facility and wounded four people, including three children.
• Israeli attacks killed at least 40 people across Gaza on Saturday, including a bombardment of several homes in the central Nuseirat refugee camp that killed at least 26 people and an attack on a house sheltering displaced people in as-Saftawi, north of Gaza City, that killed four women.
• Hamas has released a video claiming to show a living captive in Gaza, in which a man who introduces himself as Matan Zangauker, 24, can be seen pleading with Israeli leaders to make a deal that would bring captives held by Hamas back to Israel.
• Israeli forces have sealed off roads going in and out of Hebron in the occupied West Bank after two Israeli soldiers were injured in a car ramming.
• A month after suspending its mediation bid, Qatar has said it sees “momentum” in efforts to reach a deal to end Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip.

More than 4,000 people had amputations in Gaza amid Israeli war: Official

Mohammad Abu Salmiya, director of al-Shifa Hospital, said during a conference held to mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities at Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza, that “the majority of those who have lost limbs are children”.

“More than 4,000 people have had their upper or lower limbs amputated since the beginning of the genocide,” he said. He added that more than 2,000 people with spinal and brain injuries are now bedridden and in urgent need of rehabilitation.

Thousands more have suffered hearing and vision impairments due to the relentless bombardments, he added.