Saudi Arabia, Spain condemn Israel’s attacks

The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs denounced in the “strongest terms” what it called Israel’s continued and systematic targeting of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), including its workers and facilities.

It noted the latest Israeli attack on the UNRWA-run Abu Assi school in northern Gaza which killed at least 10 people on Saturday.

Spain, meanwhile, renewed its appeals for a ceasefire as Israel ramps up bombings of Gaza and Lebanon.

“The intensification of bombings in Beirut and Gaza, which we condemn, is leaving dozens of victims,” Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said on X. “The destruction and death must stop in the Middle East. We demand a cease-fire and compliance with international law.”

Pro-Palestine protesters join march for freedom in Prague

People waved Palestinian flags and held signs calling for peace at a protest in solidarity with Palestinians and against Israeli attacks. The protest was part of a larger demonstration on the Day of Struggle for Freedom and Democracy on the 34th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution.

_{People hold signs protesting their government’s support for Israel, including from foreign minister Jan Lipavsky}

_{The Czech Republic was one of only 14 countries to against a UN General Assembly resolution calling for Israel to end its occupation of Palestinian territory within 12 months, in September}

EU needs to keep up diplomatic ‘dialogue with Israel’: Dutch FM

The European Union needs to continue its diplomatic dialogue with Israel amid tensions in the Middle East, Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp has said, disagreeing with the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, who proposed last week the bloc pause its dialogue with the country.

Borrell’s proposal included the bloc suspending its political dialogue with Israel, citing possible human rights violations in the war in Gaza, and saying the EU has to “put pressure on the Israeli government”.

PRCS evacuates 30 patients from northern Gaza to al-Shifa Hospital

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says it has evacuated 15 patients and their 16 companions from Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza to al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City in coordination with the World Health Organization.

“Additionally, 15 patients and two companions were evacuated from Al-Awda Hospital to Al-Shifa Hospital, in coordination with the International Committee of the Red Cross,” it said on X.

The Israeli army has placed the northernmost part of the Strip under a state of complete siege since early October, cutting off the area from all humanitarian aid, including medical supplies, and relentlessly bombing it.

Israeli attack on Beit Lahiya kills two, strands residents

Al Jazeera’s correspondent reports that two people were killed and others wounded when the Israeli army hit a group of displaced people in the northern Gaza Strip city. The besieged people there are appealing for ambulances to be allowed to reach the area after the bombing, our correspondent says.

This is the same scene that played out yesterday, when the Israeli army attacked a multistorey building killing at least 50 people. In the aftermath of the bombing, the civil defence said it was unable to aid the victims of the attack due to the presence of Israeli troops.

Israeli drone kills Palestinian north of Rafah

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that one person has been killed in an attack by an Israeli drone on the Khirbet al-Adas area, north of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. Israeli forces also blew up residential buildings in Rafah’s Saudi neighbourhood, and launched a raid on a house in the vicinity of al-Jalaa Street in western Gaza City.

Three people killed, including children, in Gaza City

Israel’s most recent attack on Gaza City has killed at least three people, two of whom were children, our correspondent on the ground says. The attack targeted a house near al-Jalaa Street in the west of the city.

‘Huge increase’ in displaced people in Gaza City: MSF

Amande Bazerolle, from Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, told Al Jazeera that the organisation has one clinic in Gaza City that is seeing a “huge increase” in newly displaced people.

“We are reporting about 140,000 people and more coming every day, about 300 people per day with injuries but also chronic diseases that are not being taken care of,” Bazerolle told Al Jazeera.

She added that some of their staff are currently stuck in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, in Jabalia, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoon, amid Israel’s more-than-a-month-long siege.

“We are [getting] reports from what’s happening there from our staff as well which is very terrible without having access to food or water and just no security to be able to flee the area,” she said.

Bazerolle explained that the amount of medicine getting through to north Gaza is also “very little, a drop in the ocean”.

Injured patients arriving at hospital from ‘very deadly’ areas

A drone missile was fired on a group of people near a grocery shop in the Nuseirat refugee camp. It’s an area filled with many street vendors and shops and people were simply on their way to pick up what they need for the day.

Four people, including a woman, a teenage boy and two others were hit by flying shrapnel as they were walking by this street.

What we saw from the ambulances at Al-Aqsa Hospital behind me, as injured people were coming out, they were clearly in areas that are very lethal, very deadly. Either the shrapnel hit them on the back of their head, or in the abdominal area or in the lower part, causing paralysis. People are unable to walk for a long time or sometimes become disabled permanently because of the bombings.

Elsewhere this morning, five people were reported killed in a tent in Khan Younis. In Gaza City, five people were killed, including three children and two women from one family who were sheltering inside a residential home.

Israelis protest outside Netanyahu’s home to demand swap deal

Families of the Israeli captives are outside the residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in West Jerusalem to demand the captives’ exchange with Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.

“End war. Hostage deal immediately,” and “Hostages won’t survive another winter”, read a few of the banners waved by protesters.

In a statement, organizers of the protest warned that the captives “won’t survive the freezing cold in the tunnels of Gaza”.

Relatives of Israeli captives and opposition parties have escalated their protests against Netanyahu’s government, which they accuse of sabotaging efforts to reach an exchange deal.

Israel estimates that about 101 captives are still being held by Hamas and other groups in Gaza. Some captives are believed to have been killed by indiscriminate Israeli air attacks across the densely populated enclave.

UNRWA says 109 food trucks looted after crossing into Gaza last week

All the trucks in an aid convoy have been looted after crossing into Gaza, an official from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) tells Reuters.

Louise Wateridge, UNRWA senior emergency officer, told Reuters that the convoy, which was carrying food provided by UNRWA and the UN World Food Programme, was instructed by Israel to depart at short notice via an unfamiliar route from the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing.

The incident on Saturday resulted in the loss of 98 of the convoy’s 109 trucks, she said. “This incident highlights the severity of access challenges of bringing aid into southern and central Gaza,” Wateridge added.

Over a dozen Palestinians arrested in Israeli raid on West Bank camp

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli forces stormed the Dheisheh refugee camp near the city of Bethlehem and arrested at least 15 Palestinians.

The arrests came as Israeli forces also carried out raids elsewhere in the occupied West Bank. They include: