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New statements from Hamas and Netanyahu amid heightened stress on Gaza’s hospitals – listed here are the primary updates.
Right here’s how issues stand on Wednesday, December 6, 2023:
The most recent developments
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated at a press convention on Tuesday that Gaza must be demilitarised after the struggle.
- On Tuesday, senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan stated the group is “well prepared” to battle regardless of how lengthy the struggle lasts.
- Germany’s harsh remedy of pro-Palestinian teams and local weather activists has made it drop in international rankings for civil liberties, Civicus, an organisation monitoring civil society worldwide, reported on Wednesday.
- The Qatari-Saudi Coordination Council launched an announcement on Tuesday expressing “deep concern about the humanitarian catastrophe”, in Gaza. They referred to as for compliance with worldwide regulation, and to “intensify efforts” in the direction of the two-state resolution.
- On Tuesday, presidents of a number of United States school campuses together with Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Know-how, and College of Pennsylvania, testified in Congress on anti-Semitism of their campuses.
Human influence and preventing
- An Israeli assault on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza has killed at the least six whereas injuring a number of others and destroying buildings, Al Jazeera correspondents reported from the location on Wednesday.
- Israel’s military claimed on Wednesday that it “eliminated” a number of Hamas commanders in air strikes. It additionally introduced that two of its troopers have been killed in confrontations with fighters in Gaza.
- For the third consecutive day, Rafah was the one governorate in Gaza the place some help distribution occurred.
- Gas and medical provides at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza are critically low, and will maintain employees again from finishing up life-saving remedy, Docs With out Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) stated on Tuesday.
- The World Well being Group’s consultant in Gaza, Richard Peeperkorn, stated on Tuesday that the state of affairs within the enclave is “close to being the darkest in human history”.
- In an hours-long raid on Jenin within the occupied West Financial institution, Israeli forces arrested at the least 18 Palestinians, in response to the Palestinian information company, Wafa. Army autos additionally blocked ambulances’ rescue efforts.
Diplomacy
- On Tuesday, leaders of six Gulf nations and Turkey met in Qatar to debate the Israel-Gaza struggle. Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani referred to as for a everlasting ceasefire and accused the worldwide neighborhood of “turning their back” on the Palestinian folks.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin will go to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia at the moment the place talks will deal with bilateral relations and the Israel-Gaza struggle, a Kremlin spokesperson stated on Tuesday.
- The Biden administration is shifting to impose visa restrictions on Israeli settlers believed to be concerned in undermining peace, safety, or stability within the occupied West Financial institution, Secretary of State Antony Blinken introduced on Tuesday.
- The State of Palestine’s mission to the United Nations wrote to the president of the UN Safety Council on Tuesday, urging it to behave on Israel’s “non-compliance” with worldwide regulation.
- The UK’s newly appointed overseas minister, David Cameron, is on his strategy to the US the place one of many subjects on the agenda is the Israel-Gaza struggle.
- Jeremy Corbyn, a member of the UK Parliament, wrote a letter to Cameron on Tuesday looking for clarification on whether or not British troopers have been deployed to Gaza for Israel’s struggle. He additionally reiterated his demand for a everlasting ceasefire.
- Nicaragua’s overseas minister arrived within the West Financial institution on Tuesday whereas the nation additionally expressed its “fraternal and militant” solidarity with Palestine.
- In an announcement to the press on Tuesday, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez stated his nation is shifting to recognise the state of Palestine “even if it does not receive sufficient support” for it within the European Union.