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SvennoJ 8 hours ago
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Main events on December 21st

  • Israel’s bloodshed in Gaza continues, with a woman and her three daughters killed in northern Gaza City, and 10 other Palestinians, including two children, killed in central Nuseirat and Deir el-Balah.
  • Israeli forces also launched more attacks on the besieged Kamal Adwan Hospital, surrounding the facility with drones and tanks after ordering people inside and near the facility to flee.
  • The US military claimed attacks on Houthi positions in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, hours after the rebel group launched a missile at Tel Aviv.
  • Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front met in Egypt say they are closer than ever to a ceasefire agreement with Israel, if it stops setting new conditions.
  • The Palestinian factions also urged an end to the weeks-long clashes between the Palestinian Authority and fighters in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
  • Pope Francis condemned an Israeli attack that killed 25 Palestinians, including children, as “cruelty … not war”, in his annual Christmas address, drawing an angry response from the Israeli Foreign Ministry.




‘We are being directly attacked’, Kamal Adwan director says

Hussam Abu Safia, the director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, has released a video message describing what he says is an unprecedented attack on the facility.

Here’s what he said:

“The Israeli military has targeted the Kamal Adwan Hospital with different types of weapons without prior warning. We are being directly attacked, the ICU unit, along with the maternity and nursing departments, are coming under fire.

“The bombing is being conducted with tank fire and quadcopters, directly targeting us while we are present inside the hospital departments. We don’t know why we are being targeted at this hour.

“We have been informed that the hospital will be evacuated in the next few hours. This is catastrophic because we are the only hospital providing services here in the north.

“Evacuating the hospital means, evacuating 66 patients and all of the hospital facilities and the medical staff. We had asked the world to intervene immediately and protect the healthcare system from this brutal attack.

“For more than an hour, the shelling continues. We hold the world accountable.”