In the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces “fight at Khan Younes”in the south of the Palestinian enclave and “extend” their operations in camps in the center, army spokesperson Daniel Hagari said on Tuesday evening, December 26. They issued an evacuation order to residents of the al-Bureij camp, in the center of the Gaza Strip, and its surroundings. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has once again said “deeply concerned about the continued Israeli bombing of central Gaza” and called to do “the distinction” between civilians and combatants. Follow our live stream.
Raid kills six in occupied West Bank. An Israeli raid carried out early in the morning on Wednesday, December 27, left six people dead and many injured in the Tulkarem sector, in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
• Fears of a regionalization of the conflict are increasing. Israeli soldiers were injured on Tuesday in firing by Lebanese Hezbollah on the Israeli-Lebanese border, while Yemeni Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for a drone attack on a ship in the Red Sea and a missile attack towards ‘Israel. According to Al-Qahera News television channel, “a flying object was shot down two kilometers off the coast of Dahab”, an Egyptian seaside town located 150 kilometers south of the border with Israel. As for the American army, which patrols the Red Sea to protect maritime traffic in particular from attacks by the Houthis, it announced that it had destroyed twelve drones and five missiles fired by these pro-Iran Yemeni rebels on Tuesday.
• Benyamin Netanyahu announces an intensification of the fighting. “We say to the Hamas terrorists: we see you, we will come to you (…) we will intensify the fighting in southern Gaza and elsewhere,” Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday during a visit to the Israeli Space Agency. The conflict in Gaza could last for months, army chief of staff Herzi Halevi warned on Tuesday, stressing that “The objectives of this war are not easy to achieve.” So, the strikes on the Gaza Strip as part of its operation against Hamas which, according to her, could last for another “many months” despite serious humanitarian concerns.
Bodies repatriated to Rafah. According to figures released Tuesday by the Hamas Ministry of Health, more than 240 people have been killed in the last 24 hours. Bodies of Palestinians were transported in a truck to a mass grave in Rafah where they were buried, according to an AFP journalist on site. “We received a container containing a large number of martyrs. Some were complete bodies, while others were human remains”lamented Marwan al-Hams, head of the health emergency committee in Rafah.
Pending humanitarian needs. While the UN appointed a coordinator for humanitarian aid in Gaza on Tuesday, outgoing Dutch Minister Sigrid Kaag, the Palestinian Red Crescent indicated that it had received 41 trucks of humanitarian aid and seven new ambulances via the post on the same day. -Rafah border. However, this remains well below needs, according to the World Health Organization.