► Gaza: five members of a hospital die in a raid
The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, in the north of the Gaza Strip, announced Thursday, December 26, that five members of his staff, including a doctor, had been killed in an Israeli army raid, which did not did not immediately comment.
“Israeli strike left five hospital staff martyred”said Doctor Hossam Abou Safiya in a press release, specifying that they were a pediatrician, a laboratory technician, two paramedics and a maintenance worker.
► Israeli raids in Yemen
Airstrikes targeted several sites in Yemen, including Sanaa international airport and a power plant, controlled by Houthi rebels, according to witnesses and these insurgents.
Israel announced shortly after striking “military targets” Houthis, whom he accused of being “at the heart of the Iranian axis of terror”. “We are determined to cut off this terrorist branch from the Iranian axis of evil. We will continue until the job is finished”said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a video released by his office.
Three people were killed and 11 injured in the strikes, the Houthi rebels said on their Telegram channel. The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), who was at Sanaa airport during the bombing, said he “safe and sound” on X.
Iran condemned the attacks, calling them “crime against the heroic people of Yemen”while Palestinian Hamas denounced a “brutal terrorist attack carried out […] against our brothers in Yemen.
► Gaza: five journalists killed in an Israeli strike
A Palestinian television channel affiliated with Islamic Jihad announced the death of five of its journalists, killed according to it during an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army claiming to have targeted a cell of the armed group.
In a press release, Al-Quds Today announces the death at dawn of “five martyred journalists Faisal Abu Al-Qumsan, Ayman Al-Jadi, Ibrahim Al-Sheikh Khalil, Fadi Hassouna and Mohammed Al-Lada’a, killed in a Zionist attack targeting (and) vehicle “ from this local TV station.
According to the media, its employees were killed in the Nusseïrat refugee camp, in the center of the Palestinian territory, “while they were carrying out their journalistic and humanitarian duty”. Eyewitnesses said a missile fired by an Israeli plane directly hit their vehicle, parked in front of Al-Awda Hospital, killing the journalists.
The Hamas government’s health ministry for the Gaza Strip announced that at least 38 people had been killed in the last 24 hours in this Palestinian territory. This brings the total death toll to 45,399, he said in a statement, adding that 107,940 people had also been injured in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war.
► Criticism after the visit of an Israeli minister to the Esplanade des Mosques
The visit of the far-right Israeli minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, to the Esplanade des Mosques in Jerusalem was denounced as a « provocation » by the Palestinian Authority and Jordan.
“I went up to our sanctuary this morning to pray for the safety of our soldiers, for the rapid return of all the hostages (detained in Gaza) and for total victory, with the help of God”published on X the Minister of National Security with a photo of him on the esplanade.
The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Foreign Affairs ” sentenced “ the visit of the Israeli minister, seeing in his “Talmudic rituals” on the site of the Al-Aqsa mosque a “unprecedented provocation against millions of Palestinians and Muslims”.
Jordan, which administers the place, also denounced, via its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “a provocative and unacceptable visit” as well as a “violation of the historical and legal status quo” from the Esplanade des Mosques.
► Lebanon: UNIFIL “concerned” by destruction carried out by Israel
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said it “concerned” par “the continuation of destruction” carried out by the Israeli army in southern Lebanon, despite a truce that came into force almost a month ago.
“It is concerning that Israeli army forces continue to destroy residential areas, agricultural land and road networks in southern Lebanon, in violation of Resolution 1701”wrote UNIFIL in a statement.
The truce came into effect on November 27 after two months of open war between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah. Under the agreement, the Lebanese army and UN peacekeepers must deploy in southern Lebanon and the Israeli army must withdraw within 60 days. But both camps accuse each other of repeated violations.
► Gaza: three babies died from the cold
The pediatric head of a hospital in the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory ravaged by more than a year of war with Israel, announced Wednesday that three babies less than a month old had died in 48 hours this week due to the cold.
“The most recent case is that of an innocent three-week-old baby girl brought to the emergency room with a significant drop in body temperature, which led to her death”said Doctor Ahmed Al Farra.
The head of the pediatric department at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younes, southern Gaza, reported “two other cases” processed Tuesday by his team: “a three-day-old baby and another less than a month old, both died after a significant drop in temperature”.
“This is because they live in tents. The tents do not protect against the cold and it is very cold at night, with no way to heat up”he stressed, specifying that the malnutrition from which many mothers suffered affected their breastfeeding.
► Israeli president calls for agreement on hostages “by all means”
Israeli President Isaac Herzog called on the country’s leaders to conclude “by all means” an agreement on hostages held for more than a year in the Gaza Strip.
“I call on our leaders to act with all their strength and by all the means at their disposal to reach an agreement”declared the president, whose role is mainly ceremonial in Israel.
