Dozens of Palestinians depart besieged Nasser Hospital in southern metropolis of Khan Younis after Israeli forces order an evacuation.
Right here’s how issues stand on Thursday, February 15, 2024:
Humanitarian disaster in Gaza
- Dozens of Palestinians have been seen leaving the besieged Nasser Hospital in Gaza’s southern metropolis of Khan Younis after Israeli forces ordered the evacuation of the medical centre, however well being officers mentioned 1000’s, together with critically ailing sufferers, stay inside.
- Heavy tank and machine gun hearth have been reported because the Israeli military entered the hospital.
- The Israeli army described the assault as “precise and limited”, including it was primarily based on “credible information” that Hamas fighters have been hiding within the facility and preserving captives there. A spokesperson for Hamas denied the allegations, calling them “lies”. Israel has made comparable claims prior to now however has not supplied proof.
- Al Jazeera correspondents reported that at the very least 11 individuals have been killed in an intense bombardment on the Nuseirat refugee camp within the central a part of the Gaza Strip.
Regional tensions and diplomacy
- United Nations reduction chief Martin Griffiths warned that the 1.4 million Palestinians who’ve sought shelter in Rafah is perhaps pressured into Egypt if Israel launches its deliberate army operation in opposition to the border city.
- “The possibility of a military operation in Rafah with the possibility of the crossing closing down, with the possibility of spillover, … a sort of Egyptian nightmare, … is one that is right before our eyes,” Griffiths mentioned.
- Individually, the US army’s Central Command, or CENTCOM, mentioned its forces have seized superior standard weapons and different deadly help from Iran that have been sure for Houthi-held areas of Yemen on a vessel within the Arabian Sea on January 28.
- In Lebanon, Israeli warplanes carried out a wave of at the very least 12 strikes within the Wadi Saluki space of Lebanon, based on an Israeli army assertion posted on social media.
Occupied West Financial institution
- Israel arrested at the very least 20 Palestinians within the West Financial institution, together with a toddler and a former prisoner, the Palestinian Fee of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society mentioned.
- The arrests happened in Tulkarem, Bethlehem, Hebron, Nablus, Jenin and Jerusalem. The full variety of arrests since October 7 now stands at 7,040.