what to remember from Tuesday, December 26

The UN has appointed a coordinator to organize humanitarian aid to Gaza, while Israel has promised an intensification of fighting in the territory.

Israeli strikes on Gaza are further intensifying, aggravating the concerns of the international community. Here are the main events of this 81st day of fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

More than 240 Palestinians killed in 24 hours according to Hamas

Israeli strikes have killed 20,915 people in the Gaza Strip and injured 54,918 others since October 7, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health – a toll that franceinfo cannot confirm, due to a lack of independent verification on site.

UN appoints humanitarian aid coordinator for Gaza

Sigrid Kaag, Dutch Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister in the outgoing government of Mark Rutte, has been appointed by the UN to be coordinator of humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Gaza, the organization announced Tuesday, December 26 .

Sigrid Kaag, who is due to take office on January 8, “facilitate, coordinate, monitor and verify shipments of humanitarian aid to Gaza” and will also have the task of putting “establishes a United Nations mechanism to accelerate shipments of humanitarian aid to Gaza through states not parties to the conflict”specified the spokesperson for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

Nine soldiers injured in Israel by fire from Lebanon

Nine Israeli soldiers and a civilian were injured by missile fire from Lebanese Hezbollah, including one that hit a church in an Arab village in northern Israel, according to the army. In “indiscriminately attacking places of worship”Hezbollah “commits war crimes”declared an Israeli army spokesperson.

Telephone and internet completely cut off again in Gaza

The Palestinian telecommunications company, Paltel, announced on Tuesday a new general outage in the Gaza Strip, the fourth since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas on October 7. Paltel explains this blackout by “the continuation of the aggression” Israeli on the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian MP arrested by Israeli army

Khalida Jarrar, one of the figures of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), was arrested Tuesday by the Israeli army in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, her family said. Israeli army soldiers broke into family home in Ramallah “by breaking down the door, at 5 a.m.”her husband, Ghassan Jarrar, told AFP.

Member of the Palestinian Parliament suspended since 2007, Khalida Jarrar was arrested in October 2019 following the death of a 17-year-old Israeli girl, killed in an attack in the occupied West Bank attributed by the Israeli army to the PFLP, a movement of obedience Marxist considered “terrorist” by Israel, the United States and the European Union. She was released in September 2021 after two years in an Israeli prison.

In a statement, the PFLP claimed that the Israeli army “led Tuesday morning a vast campaign of arrests among the leaders and members of the PFLP in the occupied West Bank”. The Israeli army confirmed in a statement that it had arrested Khalida Jarrar, presenting her as “the leader of the PFLP” in the West Bank claiming that she was “wanted for terrorism”.

Paris “seriously concerned” by the intensification and prolongation of the fighting

France says to itself “seriously concerned by the announcement by the Israeli authorities of an intensification and prolongation of the fighting in Gaza”, in a press release published Tuesday, December 26. The Quai d’Orsay “strongly reiterates its call for an immediate truce leading to a ceasefire”and demands once again “concrete measures” from Israel “to protect the lives of the civilian population in Gaza”.

80 bodies returned by Israel buried in mass grave in Gaza

The bodies of 80 Palestinians killed during the war in the Gaza Strip were returned by Israel to local authorities on Tuesday via the Red Cross. They were then transported on a truck and buried in a mass grave, dug in land that serves as a makeshift cemetery, in the Rafah region in the south of the Gaza Strip.