# Gaza
January
January 2024
Funeral of Hamas leader in Beirut as Blinken heads for Middle East amid wider conflict fears
Tensions have surged with Lebanon, where a strike in Beirut on Tuesday, widely assumed to have been carried out by Israel, killed Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Aruri.
Aruri was killed in the south Beirut stronghold of the powerful Iran-backed Hezbollah movement.
The Israeli military, in its campaign to destroy the Islamist militant group, has reported more strikes in and around Gaza City.
Hezbollah leader warns Israel against waging war on Lebanon as fears rise of wider conflict
Hamas’s number two Saleh al-Aruri was killed along with his bodyguards in the strike by Israel.
French President Emmanuel Macron urged Israel to "avoid any escalatory attitude".
Gaza fighting rages as Israel prepares to defend genocide claim
UN agencies have voiced alarm over Gaza’s spiralling humanitarian crisis.
Last year
2023
At least 48 Palestinians killed in overnight Israeli strikes on Gaza, health ministry says
Gaza’s health ministry says the Israeli military campaign has killed at least 21,822 people.
A Hamas delegation was in Cairo on Friday to discuss an Egyptian plan proposing renewable ceasefires.
Asked about the negotiations yesterday, Netanyahu said Hamas had been "giving all kinds of ultimatums that we didn't accept".
'The bombs keep falling on us': Gazans desperate for war to end as Israel presses offensive
The Israeli army is keeping up its campaign across the length of the Gaza Strip in the face of mounting international pushback.
Israel continues to pound Gaza as Egypt to host high-level Hamas delegation for ceasefire talks
The Israeli military said its forces “are extending operation in Khan Yunis” in the coastal territory’s south.
The Israeli military also said it had "eliminated dozens of terrorists" across Gaza over the past 24 hours.
Israeli shelling near Al-Amal in Khan Yunis killed 41 people over the past two days, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said yesterday.
Yesterday, a kibbutz announced that a 70-year-old US-Israeli national thought to be the oldest woman held captive had died in the 7 October attacks.
Gaza health ministry says at least 210 people killed in last 24 hours as Israel intensifies bombing
The health ministry also raised alarm over the spread of disease among children and the overall lack of water, food and medicine in the besieged Strip.
A United Nations report published today urged Israel to “end unlawful killings” against the Palestinian population.
French President Emmanuel Macron emphasised "the need to work towards a lasting ceasefire" in a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
UN 'gravely concerned' by Israeli strikes on central Gaza as Netanyahu doubles down
The WHO reported “harrowing” accounts of Israel’s attacks on Gaza on 24 December.
Netanyahu wrote in the Wall Street Journal that the Israeli state will not stop with its assault.
The UN Human Rights Office said all attacks had to adhere to international humanitarian law.
The WHO detailed how one Gazan child lost her whole family from one airstrike.
Israel continues to strike Gaza after UN Security Council demands aid be rushed in 'at scale'
UN Security Council yesterday approved a resolution demanding “immediate, safe and unhindered” deliveries of life-saving aid.
At Washington's insistence, the UN Security Council avoided calling for a ceasefire that would stop the 11-week-old conflict.
It is still unclear what, if any, impact the vote will have on the ground.
WHO boss Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that "hunger is present, and famine is looming in Gaza".
UN Security Council passes resolution for acceleration of aid into Gaza after days of negotiations
It comes after the UN warned that the entire population of Gaza faces “an imminent risk of famine”.
Israeli army bombs scores of targets in Gaza as diplomats press on with efforts to halt fighting
As places for people to go continues to shrink, international outrage has mounted over the rising death toll.
More than 20,000 dead in Gaza since 7 October, Hamas says
Some 8,000 children are among the dead.
The UN Security Council is set to vote later today on a resolution calling for a pause in the conflict.
It is estimated that 1.9 million of Gaza's 2.4 million residents have been displaced.
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