A loss for Hamas. At least 11 people, including the police chief of the Palestinian Islamist movement and his deputy, were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the town of Khan Younes on Thursday (January 2), Gaza Civil Defense said. Also among the victims are “three children and two wives”specified the same source, indicating that 15 people had been injured. “By committing this assassination, the occupation continues to spread chaos in the Gaza Strip and aggravate the human suffering of citizens”condemned the Gazan Interior Ministry, administered by Hamas. Follow our live stream.
The Palestinian Authority suspends the broadcast of Al Jazeera. The Palestinian Authority has decided to suspend the broadcasting and activities of the Qatari channel Al Jazeera in the Palestinian territories, accusing it in particular of“incitement to sedition” and“interference” in his business. The channel denounced this decision, claiming that it was a “attempt to hide reality” in the occupied West Bank.
Former minister Yoav Gallant leaves his seat as a deputy. 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 that he would give up his seat in Parliament. “There are times when you need to pause and re-evaluate the direction you need to take.”he justified.
-Israel threatens to intensify its strikes in Gaza. “If Hamas does not soon allow the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza (…) and continues to fire on the Israeli population, it exposes itself to blows of an intensity that Gaza has not seen for a long time “threatened Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz.
