► Eleven dead including the Hamas police chief killed in a strike
Gaza’s civil defense said Thursday, January 2, that at least 11 people, including the police chief of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, had been killed in an Israeli airstrike.
“Eleven people were martyred, including three children and two women, and 15 were injured after the bombing of a tent sheltering displaced people in the Al-Mawasi area, west of the town of Khan Younes , in the south of the Gaza Strip »said civil defense in a press release.
Among those killed were police chief Mahmoud Salah and his deputy, Hussam Shahwan. The Hamas-led Gaza Strip’s interior ministry condemned the strike that killed the two police chiefs, stressing that they “performed their humanitarian duty” in the service of their ” people “.
► The Palestinian Authority suspends the broadcast of Al Jazeera
The Qatari channel Al Jazeera denounced the decision of the Palestinian Authority to suspend its broadcasting and its activities in the Palestinian territories, saying that it was a “attempt to hide reality” in the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Authority announced this decision on Wednesday evening, explaining that it intervened “ in response to Al Jazeera’s insistence on broadcasting content and reporting characterized by disinformation, incitement to sedition and interference in internal Palestinian affairs”.
An Al Jazeera employee in the occupied West Bank confirmed that the channel’s office in Ramallah was informed of his suspension on Wednesday.
► Israel: former Defense Minister Gallant leaves Parliament
Yoav Gallant, former Israeli defense minister dismissed in November by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu due to differences over the conduct of the war in Gaza, announced Wednesday that he would give up his seat in Parliament.
“I will submit my resignation to the Speaker of the Knesset”declared Yoav Gallant in a televised speech. “I served the country for 35 years in the army and a decade in government and the Knesset. There are times when you need to pause and re-evaluate which direction to take.”he added.
Former general turned politician, Yoav Gallant has long been considered a “hawk” within the government. He occupied a central role after the attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on October 7, 2023 on Israeli territory, which triggered the war in Gaza.
But after more than a year of fighting on several fronts, the former defense minister drew the wrath of the ultra-Orthodox parties, key allies of the prime minister’s coalition, by ordering the conscription of 10,000 male members. of this religious community of age to serve under the flags.
