LIVE: Israeli air strikes pound Gaza, more than 70 killed in 24 hours
DEIR AL-BALAH, GAZA – JANUARY 2: Relatives of Palestinians, who lost their lives following the Israeli attack on Maghazi refugee camp, mourn as the bodies are brought to al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital for burial process in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on January 2, 2025. Photojournalist:Ashraf Amra
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By Alastair McCready and Royce Kurmelovs
Published On 3 Jan 2025
3 Jan 2025
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At least five people have been killed in an Israeli attack overnight on a residential home in the Nuseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza, Al Jazeera correspondents report.
Gaza’s Government Media Office said Israel carried out “horrific crimes” over the previous 24 hours with 34 air strikes that killed 71 civilians across the Palestinian enclave.
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7m ago (06:45 GMT)
Ceasefire talks ‘advancing slowly’: Report
Earlier, we reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had approved the return of Israeli negotiators to Doha to continue talks on a Gaza ceasefire.
The Jerusalem Post, citing an unnamed Israeli official, now reports that those talks are progressing but “are advancing slowly”.
The official is also reported to have said that Hamas has not yet handed over the list of Israeli captives who would be released in a potential deal. Hamas has claimed that it cannot reach all of the captives and will need several days after the ceasefire has already begun to provide the list, the newspaper said.
The official said that it was “a false claim”, and that Hamas could provide the list if they wanted to.
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22m ago (06:30 GMT)
‘A new tragic morning’: Israeli attacks kill 77 across Gaza
Tareq Abu Azzoum
Tareq Abu Azzoum
Reporting from Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip
Families of victims who were killed in overnight attacks are outside Al-Aqsa Hospital morgue and waiting for the burial of their loved ones.
Israeli fighter jets have destroyed three residential homes in the central areas, killing more than 25 Palestinians in these simultaneous attacks.
We are still getting reports coming from northern Gaza suggesting that Israeli forces are still pressing on with military operations.
In particular, in the vicinity of the Indonesian Hospital, [Israeli forces] are burning to the ground and destroying all key infrastructure in the north of the Strip as part of the ongoing military operation that has been taking place for more than two months.
The initial confirmation we are still getting is that 77 Palestinians have been killed since yesterday morning.
Currently, drones are still hovering overhead across the skies of the central areas.
We have heard, during the early hours of this morning, sporadic shelling coming from the eastern areas of Deir el-Balah and its suburbs.
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37m ago (06:15 GMT)
Houthi official says missile targeting Israel another failure for US-made THAAD
The latest missile launch from Yemen overnight against Israel highlights yet more failure by the US military’s advanced Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system (THAAD), a Houthi official said.
“Every new day that passes in the life of this aggression on Gaza means more development of Yemeni weapons and another failure for the Zionists and Americans,” Nasruddin Amer, a senior member of the Houthi media authority, said in a post on X.
Israel must realise that no system can reliably protect it from missiles travelling at hypersonic speeds, and must therefore stop the war on Gaza, Amer said.
The Israeli military, which reportedly deployed the THAAD for the first time last week to shoot down a Yemeni missile after a failed interception by Israel’s own defence systems, has not confirmed whether the US-made system was used last night.
The military did say that an initial interception attempt failed last night, allowing the Houthi missile to enter Israeli airspace where it was partially intercepted. The interception is being investigated, the military said.
A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor is launched from the Pacific Spaceport Complex Alaska during Flight Experiment THAAD (FET)-01 in Kodiak, Alaska, U.S. on July 30, 2017. Picture taken on July 30, 2017. Courtesy Leah Garton/Missile Defense Agency/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS – THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.
A THAAD interceptor is launched in Kodiak, Alaska, the US in 2017 [File: Handout/Leah Garton/Missile Defence Agency via Reuters]
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52m ago (06:00 GMT)
WATCH: UN team witnesses the devastation of north Gaza
Humanitarian teams from the United Nations and the World Health Organization finally arrived in northern Gaza in late December, after months of being denied entry by the Israeli military.
They said they observed hospitals in ruins and thousands of people without water, food or sanitation.
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UN team witnesses the devastation of North Gaza
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1h ago (05:45 GMT)
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Israeli military carrying out shelling in central Gaza
The artillery shelling is taking place east of the Bureij refugee camp and the city of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.
Israeli gunboats stationed off the coast are also reportedly opening fire at the shoreline near Gaza City in the north.
No casualties have been reported in either incident so far.
We will bring you more information when we have it.
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1h ago (05:30 GMT)
Babies in Gaza at risk ‘before their lives have started’: MSF
Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, has warned that a paediatric department in Nasser Hospital in Gaza’s Khan Younis has been operating beyond its capacity and the neonatal intensive care unit is treating children with respiratory infections, dehydration and premature newborns with life-threatening complications.
MSF emergency coordinator Pascale Coissard said the onset of winter in Gaza, disintegrating tents and no other shelter for people displaced by Israel’s war on the territory has created “exceptional” conditions that threaten the lives of babies before they are even born.
“Even before their lives have started outside the womb, babies are at risk of disease and death,” Coissard says.
“Once born, babies face immediate and extreme challenges: displaced in the cold of winter, without adequate access to warmth, shelter, or healthcare, as Israel continues to bomb Gaza and restrict essential supplies from entering the Strip,” she said.
MSF called on the Israeli government to ensure “rapid, unimpeded and safe entry of humanitarian aid at the level sufficient to address people’s needs, including water and medical supplies”.
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What is hypothermia and why is it killing Gaza’s children? | Analysis
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1h ago (05:15 GMT)
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Infrastructure damage in besieged Gaza
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The Israeli military has continued its assault on Gaza overnight, killing at least 17 people in separate attacks in the north and centre of the Strip since dawn, according to local media reports.
Among the dead is Omar al-Diraoui, whose home in the az-Zawayda area of central Gaza was struck by an Israeli bomb, making him the second Palestinian journalist to be killed in the enclave in the past 24 hours.
The Israeli military has shot down a missile fired from Yemen as it entered Israeli airspace, with the resulting explosion sending shrapnel falling over central Israel. No casualties have been reported.
Israeli authorities have confirmed they are holding Kamal Adwan Hospital director Dr Hussam Abu Safia in custody, ABC News reports, citing a military statement provided to the network.
UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese has called on “medical professionals worldwide” to suspend ties with Israel in an act of solidarity with their more than “1,000 colleagues” killed in Gaza.
Palestinians gather to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen, amid a hunger crisis, as the Israel-Hamas conflict continues, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, January 2, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
Palestinians gather to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen, amid a hunger crisis, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on January 2, 2025 [Hatem Khaled/Reuters]
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2h ago (04:45 GMT)
Israeli air strike kills five children in Gaza ‘safe zone’: UNICEF
An Israeli air strike on a tent for displaced Palestinians within a so-called “humanitarian zone” killed five children and injured others, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
The attack took place in al-Mawasi, a coastal area near the southern town of Khan Younis, killing three boys and two girls. All were aged between seven and 13 years old, UNICEF said.
“Children have nowhere to be protected from bombs, cold, disease and hunger,” the UN agency said.
“This must stop, now.”
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2h ago (04:30 GMT)
At least 17 killed in Israeli attacks since dawn: Reports
As we have been reporting, the Israeli military has continued its assault on north and central Gaza over recent hours.
At least 17 people have been killed in total in those attacks since dawn, the Quds News Network and the Palestinian Information Center report.
Attacks over recent hours include a strike on the Mishmish family home in the Nuseirat camp, which killed two children, and a strike on the Salman family home west of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, which has killed at least four people.
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2h ago (04:15 GMT)
Developing
Video clip shows missile from Yemen in flight over Israel
Video shared on social media is said to show the missile fired from Yemen flying over central Israel earlier this morning.
The video appears to show the missile, a bright light in the sky, before it disappears as Israeli warning sirens wail in the distance.
The video, shared by the Al Mayadeen news outlet, was reportedly recorded from Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank.
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2h ago (04:00 GMT)
Israeli air strikes kill more Palestinians in the occupied West Bank: UN
Most of the 11 Palestinian people killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank in the last week of December were killed in air strikes, demonstrating Israel’s excessive use of force in the occupied territory, the United Nations said.
In its latest situation update, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that two women and two children were among the 11 people killed by Israeli forces between December 24 and 30. Almost 50 others were injured, including 19 children and four women, OCHA said.
Eight of the 11 who were killed died in strikes by Israeli aircraft, OCHA said, adding that basic services, such as education, water and healthcare in the Jenin refugee camp have been severely disrupted for almost a month due to an ongoing operation by Palestinian Authority (PA) forces.
In the Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps, a two-day military operation by Israel damaged more than 1,000 housing units and left 21 Palestinian households, comprising 94 people, displaced, OCHA said.
Last year saw the highest number of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank displaced in the nearly two decades since OCHA began to keep records of such incidents, with some 4,250 Palestinians losing their homes and 1,760 structured destroyed.
There were also 1,400 “incidents” involving Israeli settlers across the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem in 2024, OCHA said.
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3h ago (03:45 GMT)
WATCH: Journalist in Israel says ‘there is no starvation in Gaza’
Dan Perry, former chairman of the Foreign Press Association of Israel, acknowledged there has been obstruction of aid during the harsh winter months, leading to severe humanitarian issues across the Gaza Strip.
But he highlighted Israel’s argument that Hamas hijacks aid, complicating relief efforts. Despite accusations from aid organisations and the UN, Perry also contended there is no widespread starvation occurring in Gaza.
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Dan Perry: ‘There is no starvation in Gaza’
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3h ago (03:30 GMT)
Second Palestinian journalist killed overnight: Report
A second Palestinian journalist has reportedly been killed in Gaza, marking the second media worker killed in the enclave in the past 24 hours.
The Palestinian media centre reported that journalist Omar al-Diraoui was killed overnight when the Israeli military bombed his home in the az-Zawayda area in central Gaza.
His death follows the killing of photographer Hassan al-Qishaoui, whose death was verified by Al Jazeera on Thursday.
At least 217 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023.
You can read more about them here.
Translation: Journalist Omar Al-Diraoui was martyred when the occupation bombed his house in the az-Zawayda area in the central Gaza Strip.
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3h ago (03:15 GMT)
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Israeli military says air defences intercepted missile launched from Yemen
The Israeli military has shot down a missile fired from Yemen as it entered Israeli airspace.
According to the Israeli military, missile interceptors were fired with the resulting explosion sending shrapnel from the destroyed missile falling over the Modi’in area in central Israel.
Air attack sirens sounded across central and southern Israel as the missile approached with the Israeli ambulance service, Magen David Adom, reporting 12 people requiring treatment for injuries sustained in the rush to bomb shelters and nine suffering anxiety attacks.
The emergency service said there were no immediate reports of injuries from the strike or falling shrapnel.
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3h ago (03:00 GMT)
Editor’s Choice: What to read and watch
Here are a few highlights from the content recently published on Israel’s war against Gaza:
Photos: Dozens of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza
From Gaza: Gaza police chief among Palestinians killed in latest Israeli attacks
Watch: The Palestinian Authority (PA) suspends Al Jazeera in the occupied West Bank
Press freedom: ‘Crime against journalism’ – Gaza journalists decry PA’s Al Jazeera ban
And there’s plenty more here.
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3h ago (02:55 GMT)
Houthi
Israel on alert after suspected missile launch from Yemen
Sirens have sounded across Tel Aviv and areas of central Israel after detection of what is suspected to be a missile fired from Yemen.
The air attack alert is the latest response to almost nightly missile launches from Yemen’s Houthis targeting Israel in a campaign of support for Palestinian people in war-torn Gaza.
The Israeli military said it was investigating the situation and “the details are under review”.
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4h ago (02:45 GMT)
UN expert calls on medical professionals worldwide to suspend ties to Israel
The UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, has called on “medical professionals worldwide” to suspend ties with Israel in an act of solidarity with the more than “1,000 colleagues of yours” killed in Gaza over the past 14 months.
Countless more Palestinian medical workers “were arrested, tortured, disappeared”, Albanese said in a post on social media.
“Out of dismay [and] solidarity you should revolt, and urge suspension of ties with Israel until it stops the genocide [and] accounts for it. What are you waiting for,” she said.
Earlier on Friday, Albanese and the UN’s special rapporteur on the right to physical and mental health, Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, issued a joint statement denouncing the “blatant disregard” for the right to health in the Gaza Strip following Israel’s attack on the Kamal Adwan Hospital and the detention of its director, Dr Hussam Abu Safia.
“For well over a year into the genocide, Israel’s blatant assault on the right to health in Gaza and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory is plumbing new depths of impunity,” the UN experts said.
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4h ago (02:30 GMT)
Israeli military confirms Gaza hospital director in detention: Report
The Israeli military has confirmed it is holding Kamal Adwan Hospital director Dr Hussam Abu Safia in custody, ABC News reports, citing a statement provided to the Australian network.
The Israeli military said in the statement that Abu Safia was “apprehended for suspected involvement in terrorist activities and for holding a rank in the Hamas terror organisation”.
Israeli authorities have provided no evidence of Abu Safia’s connection to Hamas.
The doctor is “currently being investigated by Israeli security forces”, the military added.
Israeli forces detained Abu Safia during an assault on the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza on December 27.
Israel’s military denied they were holding him in custody, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel said on Thursday, despite video evidence of his arrest near the hospital which Israeli forces destroyed.
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4h ago (02:15 GMT)
LISTEN: Israel kills at least 60 in Gaza, Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon
Israeli forces have carried out a series of air strikes on Gaza City, and Palestinians in the north of the territory are using any materials they can find to carry the wounded to receive medical treatment.
The number of people killed in those strikes is unclear at present, but since dawn on Thursday, Israeli attacks have killed at least 60 people across the Strip.
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4h ago (02:00 GMT)
Israeli military arrests settlers attempting to enter Gaza
Israeli military radio has reported that a number of settlers have been arrested for attempting to break into Gaza in order to begin establishing settlements in the Palestinian territory.
Army Radio said the arrests took place following an event to promote Israel’s settlement of the war-torn Gaza Strip.
Israeli politicians and far-right settler organisations have held events in recent months to push for the establishment of settlements in post-war Gaza.
Prominent settler activist Daniella Weiss reportedly attempted to enter Gaza in November with the help of Israeli soldiers to survey areas for potential settlement.
Israeli political leaders held a similar event in October, entitled “Preparing to Resettle Gaza”, in which 10 of 32 members of Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu’s Likud party attended.
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Israeli settlers’ ambitions for Lebanon and Greater Israel
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5h ago (01:45 GMT)
Palestinian shot, injured as Israeli forces raid occupied West Bank
There were reports of gunfire as Israeli troops carried out raids and arrests across the occupied West Bank.
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that Israeli forces raided the village of Jayyous, north of Qalqilya city, overnight where the Palestine Red Crescent Society reported that one man was shot with live ammunition.
Palestinian news service Wafa also reports that Israeli forces arrested a Palestinian man.
The arrest took place at an Israeli military checkpoint east of el-Bireh, when a 32-year-old man, identified as Muhammad Ibrahim al-Ashqar, was passing through, Wafa reports.
a soldier aims a gun at the camera next to armoured vehicles
Israeli soldiers raid the occupied West Bank city of Qalqilya on December 12, 2024 [Majdi Mohammed/AP Photo]
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5h ago (01:30 GMT)
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One killed by Israeli shelling in Gaza City
One person was killed and several more wounded following Israeli military shelling, which struck a house on Jalaa Street, west of Gaza City in northern Gaza, our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues report.
We will bring you more information when we have it.
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5h ago (01:15 GMT)
Photos: Desperate Palestinians gather for charity kitchen food in southern Gaza
A child reacts as Palestinians gather to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen, amid a hunger crisis, as the Israel-Hamas conflict continues, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, January 2, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
A child cries as Palestinians gather to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen in Khan Younis on January 2, 2025, amid a hunger crisis caused by Israel’s war on Gaza [Hatem Khaled/Reuters]
