What happened in the last few hours?
These are the most important news about Israel's military offensive in Gaza and the escalation in the Middle East this Thursday, January 25, at 8:00 p.m.:
The Red Crescent reports attacks on Khan Yunis Hospital, where its rescue center is located, for the fourth day in a row. The Palestinian Red Crescent has denounced for the fourth consecutive day that Israeli troops continue to attack Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Yunis (southern Gaza Strip), where the organization has its rescue center. According to the NGO, there are “constant bombings and shootings” in the area near the medical center. The Hamas-controlled Health Ministry in Gaza said on Thursday that Nasser Hospital, the only hospital in Khan Younis where civilians can still go, had run out of food and painkillers, according to the Qatari network Al Jazeera. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warned this Thursday that the Gaza Strip is at risk of a “complete medical closure.”
Israel is calling on the United Nations to evacuate the Khan Younis refugee center, where 15 people were killed yesterday. The United Nations has denounced that Israel has called for the evacuation of one of its centers in Khan Yunis (southern Gaza Strip), where hundreds of people displaced by the war are seeking refuge, and that it was attacked by the Israeli army yesterday, which claimed twelve lives and at least 75 were injured, 15 of them in critical condition. “The Israeli army has given until 5 p.m. [hora local, una hora menos en la España peninsular] on Friday to evacuate the shelter,” a spokesman for the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) told Agence France Presse.
Israel accuses the World Health Organization of “collusion” with Hamas. This Thursday, Israel accused the World Health Organization of “collusion” with Hamas, ignoring documents that, according to Israel, show that the Islamist organization has used hospitals in the Gaza Strip “for terrorist purposes.” During a WHO Executive Board meeting, Meirav Eilon Shahar, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, said “even as they were presented with concrete evidence of what was happening underground and on the surface, weapons, headquarters, locked rooms, etc.” The WHO has chosen to turn a blind eye and endanger those it is supposed to protect.”
The leader of the Houthi rebels says they will continue attacks in the Red Sea until Gazans receive more help. Yemeni rebel leader Abdelmalik Al Houthi said in a televised address on Thursday that attacks on Israeli-linked ships will continue until the Palestinian people in Gaza receive the humanitarian aid they need. “Our country will continue its operations until food and medicine reach the people of Gaza,” he said, according to Portal news agency. Meanwhile, the United States announced this Thursday the imposition of joint sanctions with the United Kingdom against key Houthi leaders for their support of terrorist attacks against commercial shipping in the Red Sea. The sanctions target four individuals who supported recent Houthi attacks on merchant ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, which included taking civilian crew hostage. For his part, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov met this Thursday in Moscow with a Houthi delegation led by the movement's spokesman, Mohamed Abdelsalam. “In this context, the US and UK attacks against Yemen, which could destabilize the situation at the regional level, were categorically condemned,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Hamas denounces that an Israeli attack in Gaza City killed 20 civilians waiting for humanitarian aid. At least 20 people died and another 150 were injured in an attack on civilians queuing in Gaza City, in the north of the Palestinian enclave, waiting for “humanitarian aid,” the Ministry of Palestine said on Thursday Gaza Strip, controlled by Hamas. “The Israeli occupation has carried out a new massacre of thousands of hungry people waiting for humanitarian aid at the Kuwait roundabout in Gaza City,” reported Ashraf al Qudra, spokesman for the Ministry of Health, this Thursday.
According to the United Nations, more than half of Gaza's population is overcrowded in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. The intensive Israeli offensive against Gaza, now focused on the south, has already forced more than 50% of Gaza's population – an estimated 2.2 million – to flee to Rafah, which lies in the far south of that territory and where “there is no overcrowding “. safe,” said today’s United Nations statement. “Israeli forces continue to bomb areas they have unilaterally designated as 'safe' for evacuation, confirming that nowhere in Gaza is safe (…) and increasing the risk of a further escalation of hostilities in Rafah,” he told Daily Report the UN Human Rights Office (OCHA). The Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed 25,900 people since October 7, the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry reported Thursday. That's 200 more people than the day before. The ministry also reported that the number of additional injuries is 370, bringing the total to over 64,110.