Rome, December 26, 2023 – During Yahya Sinwar appeared on video for the first time after the October 7 attacks and made the announcement “Hamas will never submit to Israel”The disputes continue Gaza Strip. He stood up at least 106 dead the death toll of Israeli airstrike which arrived on Monday Maghazi refugee camp: This is reported by the American news agency Associated Press on its website, citing documents from the nearby Al-Aqsa Hospital.
The devastation after the Israeli attack on the Maghazi refugee camp
A previous figure provided by Gaza's Health Ministry said there were at least 70 deaths: this is one of them bloodier Israeli raids since the beginning of the military operation. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has begun a “review” of the airstrike on the Maghazi refugee camp, Israel Military Radio reported yesterday. The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported “Heartbreaking” testimonies collected by his teams at the hospital in the Strip where the victims of the bombing are located.
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8:37 p.m
MSC: “The attacked ship is the container ship United VIII”
The shipping company MSC confirms the attack on one of its ships in the Red Sea. This is the container ship United VIII. “All crew are safe and no injuries have been reported. A thorough investigation of the vessel is underway,” it said in a statement.
7:08 p.m
An Israeli warplane shoots down a drone over the Red Sea
An Israeli Air Force fighter jet shot down an “enemy air target” over the Red Sea this morning. According to the Israeli military, the target was a drone launched from Yemen and heading towards Israel. In fact, today the Houthis claimed to have fired multiple drones against the city of Eilat in Israel.
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6:50 p.m
Houthis claim attack on MSC United ship
The Houthis said they “conducted a targeted operation against a merchant ship called MSC United and launched a series of “drones against military targets” in southern Israel.
6:24 p.m
Houthis attack another ship in the Red Sea
Yemen's Houthi rebels have attacked an MSC ship in the Red Sea to prevent it from reaching Israel. The news reported by Al Jazeera is also republished by Israeli websites.
6:23 p.m
“Hezbollah fired from a mosque”
The IDF denounces: “Hezbollah fired on Israeli civilians from a mosque in southern Lebanon.” And they add: “This is not the first attack by Hezbollah on a holy site today. Places of worship should be sacred and not sacrificed to terrorism.”
6:23 p.m
Three more Israeli soldiers died
The IDF announced the deaths of three more soldiers killed in combat in the central and northern Gaza Strip. They are reservists Maor Lavi (33 years old), Shay Shamriz (26 years old) and Shaul Greenglick (26 years old). The number of soldiers killed since the ground operation began is 161.
3:05 p.m
All communications in Gaza were cut off
Palestinian telecommunications company Paltel has announced a new telecommunications cut in the Gaza Strip, the fourth since the war between Israel and Hamas began on October 7. “We regret to announce a total disruption of fixed-line telecommunications and internet services (…) in the Gaza Strip due to the ongoing aggression,” the company said in a statement, adding that its technical teams “are nonetheless working to “To restore services to the dangerous conditions on site.”
12:50 p.m
Gaza, almost 21,000 dead
The Health Ministry of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip said at least 20,915 people have been killed in the Palestinian enclave since the war with Israel broke out on October 7. According to the ministry, a further 54,918 people were injured in more than eleven weeks of fighting.
11:57
Hezbollah attacks a church in northern Israel with a rocket
Hezbollah attacked a church in northern Israel with an anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon. The Times of Israel reports on this, highlighting that Hezbollah said in a statement that it had attacked an Israeli army position near the northern municipality of Shomera. However, according to the Jewish press, it was a church that was hit in the nearby, virtually depopulated Christian Palestinian village of Igrit. The church caretaker, an 80-year-old man, was not seriously injured.
11:08
Minibus explodes in Khan Yunis: 4 dead
Four people died in a minibus explosion in Khan Yunis (southern part of the Gaza Strip) today. This was reported by local sources, according to which the explosion occurred in the western part of the city, not far from the Halil al-Rahman Mosque. The identity of those killed is not yet known. A few days ago, a jeep was hit by a missile from an Israeli aircraft in the nearby town of Rafah. It later became known that it was a “targeted execution” of a Hamas member who Israel said was involved in the arms trade.
09:25
Wafa: Two Palestinians killed in clashes in Hebron, West Bank
Two Palestinians – one of them 17 years old – were killed in clashes with the Israeli army in Al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of Hebron in the West Bank. This was reported by the Wafa agency, citing medical sources. They are Ibrahim Majid Abdel Majeed Al-Titi (31 years old) and Ahmed Muhammad Youssef Yaghi (17), who were “killed by the crew's bullets,” according to the same source. Two people were also injured in the same clashes. The Israeli army has not yet commented on the matter.
09:07
Raid on Red Crescent headquarters in Khan Yunis: “There are victims”
Several people were injured in the bomb attack on the headquarters of the Palestinian Red Crescent in the town of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. This was announced by the same humanitarian organization on June 17, 2019. “The building houses thousands of people.”
07:44
Israeli Air Force: “More than 100 Hamas targets hit overnight”
The Israeli Air Force said it struck more than 100 Hamas targets in the southern Gaza Strip overnight in preparation for a ground operation. According to the Tel Aviv Army, the targets included “tunnels, wells, military sites and other infrastructure used by terrorists to attack Israeli forces.”
06:51
Iran: “We will respond to Mousavi’s assassination in due course”
“Iran reserves the right to take the necessary measures and respond at the appropriate time and place” to the assassination of Pasdaran leader Seyyed Razi Mousavi by Israel: Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said this. “The Zionist regime has committed a new cowardly and aggressive act of terrorism. This heinous act is a new, clear sign of the terrorist nature of the Zionist regime,” Kanani added, quoted by Mehr Agency. “Since its founding, the Israeli regime has committed all kinds of crimes, repeatedly and continuously violating international rules,” concluded the Tehran Foreign Ministry spokesman.
06:45
Netanyahu: “Israel will be responsible for security in Gaza in the near future”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will remain responsible for security in the Gaza Strip “for the foreseeable future.” “The expectation that the Palestinian Authority will demilitarize Gaza is a pipe dream,” Netanyahu wrote in an editorial in the Wall Street Journal, stating that “Israel must maintain maximum security responsibility in Gaza for the foreseeable future.” Netanyahu also defended his military operation Landes noted the number of civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip – over 20,000, according to local health authorities – and wrote that Israel was distributing leaflets and sending text messages to warn of attacks. According to the Israeli Prime Minister, Hamas is deliberately positioning itself in civilian areas.
06:42
Lapid: “Israel is not doing enough to bring the hostages home”
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid said the country was “not doing enough” to return hostages captured by Hamas, the Times of Israel reported. Lapid, who refused to join the war cabinet, said the hostages must be brought home “immediately”: “We must do everything and will do everything to bring them back,” he said.
06:41
Israel: Two more soldiers dead. The number rises to 158
The Israeli army announced today that two reservist soldiers, aged 24 and 25, were killed yesterday in fighting in the southern Gaza Strip. This brings the number of soldiers killed since the ground operation against Hamas began to 158.