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SvennoJ on 01 January 2025
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Main events on December 31st

  • Two rockets have been fired from central Gaza into southern Israel, with one intercepted and the second landing in an open area, the Israeli military said.
  • Gaza’s babies and newborns are particularly vulnerable as cold weather and flooding hit the Strip, where “people have no real shelter”, Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, told Al Jazeera.
  • UNICEF has warned of the “immense” need for warm clothes and blankets in Gaza as seven infants have died of hypothermia in recent days.
  • Israeli attacks have killed at least seven people and left others wounded in separate strikes in Jabalia and Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza.
  • The United Nation’s high commissioner for human rights in the Palestinian territory has accused Israel’s military of carrying out the “systematic destruction of hospitals in the Gaza Strip”.
  • Israeli fighter jets have carried out attacks on locations in southern Lebanon, Israel’s Public Broadcasting Corporation reports.
  • The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has marked the end of 2024 by honouring the 258 team members killed in Gaza since the start of Israel’s war on the territory.




Gaza’s 2024: A year of war and misery

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/31/gazas-2024-a-year-of-war-and-misery

Palestinians in Gaza are entering the new year as defenceless and beleaguered as the last.

Israel’s war on the enclave continued into 2024, killing 23,842 people and wounding 51,925 during this year alone, driving the grisly official death toll to 46,376, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

“This last year has been very dark for us. How can I describe it in any other way? It’s been more than torturous,” said Eman Shaghnoubi, 52, from Deir el-Balah in Gaza.

Shaghnoubi, who has six boys and two girls, said that her children are struggling to survive in the cold and that her small tent does not protect the family from the pouring rain.

“My children sleep on soaked bedding at night,” she told Al Jazeera.

Shereen Abu Nida, 40, also said that she and her four children are coping with hardship due to the terrible living conditions brought on by the war. Worse still, her husband was abducted by Israeli forces about a year ago, leaving her to care for her children alone.

“I have had to go through this whole year alone, all by myself,” she said, her voice quivering.


Eman Shaghnoubi stands with her children inside their modest tent which has been soaked by the rainfall in Deir el-Balah, Gaza