The Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia is among the last still operational in the north of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army launched an operation on Friday, December 27 against Hamas fighters near this key building, described in a press release as “stronghold of terrorist organizations” Who “continues to be used as a hiding place by terrorists.” “The troops are carrying out targeted operations” continued this source. This operation by Israeli forces comes the day after the announcement by the director of this hospital, Hossam Abou Safiya, of the death of five members of his staff in an Israeli strike. Follow our live stream.
The Israeli army announces that it has carried out strikes on the Syrian-Lebanese border. The Israeli army carried out strikes against one “infrastructure” at the Janta post, on the Syrian-Lebanese border, which she said was used to smuggle weapons to the Lebanese Hezbollah movement. The official Lebanese agency ANI also mentioned strikes targeting this area of the mountainous region of Bekaa. The IDF explains that it “will continue to act to eliminate any threat against the State of Israel, in accordance with the understandings of the ceasefire agreement” with Hezbollah in force since November 27. On Thursday, the Lebanese army again accused Israel of violating this agreement.
Renewed tension between Yemeni rebels and Israel. The Houthis claimed responsibility for a missile attack on Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion airport on the night of Thursday to Friday, a few hours after Israeli bombings in Yemen. The group close to Iran and Hamas also claimed to have launched drones towards the city of Tel Aviv and a ship in the Arabian Sea. The Israeli military said a missile targeting central Israel was intercepted before reaching its territory, without giving details of possible other attacks.
WHO chief unharmed after Israeli strike in Sanaa. On Thursday, Israeli army bombings targeted sites controlled by the Houthis in Yemen, including the airport in the Lebanese capital. The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, was there at the time. He let X know that he was “safe and sound”. The UN subsequently condemned the“escalade” tensions between the Houthis and the Jewish state, in particular Israeli strikes “particularly alarming”.
Woman killed in stabbing attack north of Tel Aviv. A person aged around 80 was fatally stabbed on Friday in the city of Herzliya, Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital said. Despite “resuscitation efforts, hospital staff pronounced him dead on arrival”specifies the hospital. Israeli police, for their part, reported the arrest of a Palestinian suspect from the West Bank and the opening of an investigation.
