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Main events on December 26th

  • About 50 people have been killed, including five medical staff, in an Israeli attack on a building near the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, the hospital’s director said.
  • An Israeli officer has been killed during fighting in northern Gaza and a tank commander was seriously injured, Israel’s military said.
  • Israeli fighter jets have hit a home on Muqat Street in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City killing at least nine people and wounding several, the Wafa news agency reports.
  • Houthi fighters in Yemen have warned Israel to expect a “response” after Israeli warplanes targeted the Yemeni capital Sanaa and the port of Hodeidah in a series of air strikes on Thursday that killed at least six people.
  • A Palestinian teenager has been shot dead by Israeli forces in the town of Yabad, southwest of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank.
  • The National Union of Journalists in the United Kingdom and Ireland said the killing of five journalists in Gaza on Thursday by Israeli forces is an attempt to “silence” those still reporting on the war.
  • WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the Israeli attack on Yemen’s Sanaa international airport took place just as he and teams from the UN agency were leaving the country.
  • Iran’s Foreign Ministry has condemned Israel’s attacks on Yemen as a “violation” of peace and security