A video footage has shown staff and residents at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis digging a new mass grave to bury 14 people who were for days inside the hospital’s mortuary refrigerator. The director of the morgue at Nasser Medical Hospital said the burials were taking place without the presence of their families due to their displacement.

He appealed for an end to the war and the siege on the hospital, saying: “It is not reasonable to bury martyrs in the sand, you must stand with the Palestinian people, we do not have electricity, water, food or shrouds, life has become non-existent in Nasser Medical Hospital.”

“We are trapped inside the hospital on all four sides,” he added.

This is the second mass grave to be dug inside Nasser Hospital due to the siege of the hospital by Israeli vehicles and the inability of citizens to reach the cemeteries in the city.

The ministry says medical and non-medical waste is piling up everywhere inside the medical centre in Khan Younis, which has been besieged by Israeli forces. Medical waste, which could be toxic, may contribute to the spread of the diseases amid already deteriorating public health conditions in southern Gaza.

The Palestinian foreign ministry is directing attention toward the plight of some 1.9 million displaced Palestinians in Gaza as the main UN agency delivering humanitarian aid loses its financial backing.

“Scenes of forcibly displaced people are a disgrace to humanity,” it said in a statement. “Over half a million Palestinians in Khan Younis were instructed by the occupying forces to evacuate their homes, including hospitals and health centres, in a cruel expansion and deepening of forced displacement from southern regions.”

The UN warned that the rain and winter cold in Gaza is “making an already unsanitary situation completely uninhabitable for the people”. “Most have no warm clothes or blankets,” UN official Ajith Sunghay said.

In al-Mawasi- a narrow coastal strip once designated as “a safe zone” but struck by Israeli attacks in recent days – displaced Palestinians tiptoed on sandaled feet through garbage-lined puddles in damp and chilly weather. Walls of sheets and tarps billowed in the wind. A mother wept after rain leaked in and soaked the blankets. “This is our life. We have nothing and we left [our homes] with nothing,” said Bassam Bolbol, whose family ended up in al-Mawasi after leaving Khan Younis and finding no shelter in Rafah.

At least 165 Palestinians were killed and 290 others wounded over the last 24 hours. “The Israeli occupation committed 19 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, leaving 165 martyrs and 290 injured,” Gaza’s Health Ministry said in a statement. “Many people are still trapped under rubble as rescuers are unable to reach them,” it added.

The latest killings bring the total death toll to 26,422 since October 7 with more than 65,000 people wounded.

The UN’s agency for children says kids in the occupied West Bank are living in “constant fear and grief” as the Israeli army continues to assault the area during its war on Gaza. “The streets used to be good and paved, but they were destroyed when the army arrived,” said 11-year-old Hussam.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators holding a sit-in protest outside US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s home in Virginia are encouraging cars driving past to “honk their horns”.

“Kids in Gaza have to hear bombs and drones Secretary Blinken. You are afraid of honking and have to instruct people not to honk???”, Hazami Barmada, an activist at the protest, wrote in a post on social media.

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Demonstrators have launched a sit-in in the Swedish city of Whitbury in solidarity with Palestine, according to a Facebook live broadcast of European Palestinian Media Centre At other demonstrations in the Swedish cities of Malmo and Göteborg, participants waved Palestinian flags and banners demanding an end to the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, the Facebook page showed.

‘Children are dying’: 20,000 march in Spain’s capital against Gaza war

About 20,000 people marched in Madrid in support of Palestinians. Many carried banners and placards denouncing the “genocide” in Gaza. Some carried Palestinian flags and shouted slogans denouncing Israel. Others held signs thanking South Africa for bringing the genocide case against Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

“They have been without water, without food, without anything, for almost 110 days,” one Madrid demonstrator, Lobna Elnakhala, 54, said of the situation in Gaza. “Children are dying and living in a very difficult situation.” Some banners called for sanctions to be levied against Israel.

_{Thousands demonstrate in support of the people of Gaza in front of the City Hall in Madrid on Saturday}

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Jordan TV, the kingdom’s public broadcaster, cites a government spokesperson as saying that the attack that killed three US service members targeted al-Tanf base in Syria. “The base is outside our border,” the Jordanian spokesperson says.

As of now, there has been no reaction from the Iranian side yet. However, just to give context here, Iran’s position regarding such attacks is quite clear. They say these attacks are not conducted or planned by Iran. Iran is not involved in these attacks that are being carried out by groups across the region. They say that Iran has allies across the region, however these allies – or so-called “axis of the resistance” – make decisions based on their own assessments.

It says that the US is complicit in the atrocities conducted by Israel, and the “axis of the resistance” is just reacting to Israeli atrocities in Gaza. This is Iran’s official position as of now.

The former US president and current presidential candidate has hit out at his likely opponent in the general elections in November over the attack that killed three American service members. “This brazen attack on the United States is yet another horrific and tragic consequence of Joe Biden’s weakness and surrender,” Trump wrote in a social media post.

He added that today’s incident, Hamas’s October 7 attack and the Russian invasion of Ukraine would not have happened if he had still been in power. “Instead, we are on the brink of World War 3,” Trump wrote.

Tom Cotton, a hawkish Republican, calls for a forceful response against the killing of three US service members, which Biden has blamed on Iran-backed groups. “The only answer to these attacks must be devastating military retaliation against Iran’s terrorist forces, both in Iran and across the Middle East. Anything less will confirm Joe Biden as a coward unworthy of being commander in chief,” Cotton said in a statement.

Agnes Callamard, the secretary general of Amnesty International, has called the cuts a “heartless decision” by some of the world’s richest countries “to punish the most vulnerable population on earth because of the alleged crimes of 12 people”.

“Right after the ICJ ruling finding risk of genocide. Sickening.”

While Western nations, including the US, rushed to suspend UNRWA’s funding after allegations that members from the agency participated in the October 7 attack, the same countries have failed to formally revise their ties to Israel despite mounting reports of abuse by Israeli forces.

The “Return to Gaza Conference” in Jerusalem – attended by Israeli cabinet ministers and members of parliament – has laid out a plan for the re-establishment of 15 Israeli settlements and the addition of six new ones, on where recently destroyed Palestinian communities stood.

An Israeli humanitarian lawyer said the fact that Israeli officials would convene a high level meeting to plan what he called an act of aggression – the acquisition of occupied territory and its colonisation – is an early indication of intent to breach the provisional measures order by the International Court of Justice.

#Israeli Ministers (including #Smotrich and #BenGvir) dancing at the conference would form part of the compelling evidence of noncompliance with the #ICJ order. pic.twitter.com/TQWDxWe0lu

— Itay Epshtain (@EpshtainItay) January 28, 2024

Got to keep the western media biased beyond doubt

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David Cameron has condemned the attack that killed US troops near the Jordan-Syria border, which he blamed on “Iran-aligned militia groups”. “We continue to urge Iran to de-escalate in the region,” Cameron wrote in a social media post.

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The US National Iranian American Council (NIAC) says Washington and Tehran “are now closer to the brink of being pulled into a full-blown regional war by the vortex of violence” unleashed by the conflict in Gaza.

The group called on Biden to secure an immediate ceasefire between Israelis and Palestinians. “President Biden must show leadership and recognize that there is no military solution to this crisis that has only been expanded and prolonged by military escalation and a dearth of diplomacy,” NIAC president Jamal Abdi said in a statement.

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Ahmed Moghrabi, head of the plastic and burns department at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis has given Al Jazeera an update of the situation there. Here’s what the Palestinian physician said:

• I can hear [Israeli] bombing very close; the building is shaking all the time. Glass from the window smashed and we put a nylon to cover the window.
• I’m the only surgeon here in the hospital in my speciality, plastics and reconstructive surgery. We have only two or three orthopaedic doctors and two general surgeons, that’s all. If there’s no medical supplies, or no food or no clean water.
• I told my family – they are staying in the hospital with me – I told them don’t eat too much; if you can eat once a day, do that please.
• If Israeli forces start to move into the hospital, the patients will remain in their beds until they die; it’s like an execution sentence. We have many patients in the main ICU, many that need surgery; all of them will die if they don’t have proper care.

Palestinian women giving birth in plastic tents: MSF