what to remember from Tuesday, January 16

Off the coast of Yemen, a Greek bulk carrier was hit by a missile on Tuesday. The Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for the operation, warning that they would continue their attacks “in solidarity with the Palestinian people”.

The Israeli army shelled the south of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, January 16, after announcing the imminent end of the phase “intensive” fighting against Hamas in this region of the Palestinian enclave on Monday. In the morning, explosions and artillery fire rang out in the south of the Gaza Strip, according to an AFP journalist. The IDF also bombed the Khan Younes sector during the night. Tuesday morning, rockets were fired from Gaza to southern Israel without causing any injuries, according to Israeli authorities. Here’s what to remember from Tuesday

More than 24,000 dead, according to latest Hamas report

In the Gaza Strip, 24,285 people have been killed by Israeli bombings and military operations since October 7, the vast majority of them women, children and adolescents, according to the latest report on Tuesday from the Hamas Ministry of Health. An unverifiable assessment, due to lack of an independent source on site. This represents 1% of the Gazan population. The Ministry of Health of the Palestinian Islamist movement, in power in the Gaza Strip, has also recorded 61,154 injured since the start of hostilities.

Greek bulk carrier hit by missile off Yemen

Off the coast of Yemen, a Greek bulk carrier was hit by a missile, maritime risk company Ambrey announced on Tuesday. An American cargo ship was hit there on Monday by a missile from the Houthi rebels. The latter claimed responsibility for the operation “targeted” using “several missiles” carried out against the Greek bulk carrier, warning that they will continue their attacks “to defend Yemen and in solidarity with the Palestinian people”. According to a statement from the Yemeni rebels, the ship “Zogravia” was heading towards Israel when it was targeted, after “its crew refused repeated calls (…) and warning messages from the naval forces” Houthis. At the end of last week, Washington and London bombed rebel positions in Yemen, in an attempt to stop their attacks in the Red Sea.

Transport of liquefied natural gas “affected” by these attacks in the Red Sea

Transportation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) “will be affected” over there “dangerous climbing” in the Red Sea, Qatar Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahmane Al-Thani said on Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland). He also said that US-British strikes would not stop attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels in the Red Sea.

Hamas hostages will have access to medicines sent by France

France delivered medicine on Saturday for 45 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, Philippe Lalliot, director of the Crisis and Support Center (CDCS), a department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, announced on Tuesday on France Inter. “We organized delivery by diplomatic bag, accompanied by a nurse from the CDCS, who handed everything over to the Qatari authorities”he explained. “It is the Qatari authorities, in contact with Hamas, who are responsible for the delivery on site.”

At the origin of this initiative, “families of hostages who are united in a forum”. “They were the ones who came to us saying: ‘Among the hostages there are people who need serious treatment, of which they are deprived, and we need to collect these treatments and send them there'”added Philippe Lalliot.

Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief leaves Palestinian enclave

Journalist Waël Dahdouh, head of the office of the Qatari channel Al Jazeera in Gaza, announced to AFP that he had left the Palestinian territory. He left for Egypt via the Rafah border post, before going to Doha (Qatar) where he must undergo surgery on his hand injured in a bombing. He will find four of his children there, who arrived last week.

Waël Dahdouh, 53, lost his wife, two of his children and a grandson in a strike on the Nousseirat refugee camp at the end of October. On January 7, an Israeli strike killed his son Hamza Dahdouh, who also worked for Al Jazeera. The next day, two other members of his family, Mohammed and Ahmed Dahdouh, were also killed.

New strikes on the border between Israel and Lebanon

On the Israeli-Lebanese border, the Israeli army carried out new air and artillery strikes on Tuesday against “dozens of positions, military structures and weapons infrastructures” of Hezbollah. These strikes took place in Wadi Slouqi, in southern Lebanon. Lhe exchanges of fire between Hezbollah and Israeli forces are daily on the border between the two countries.