Two tanks opened fire on a UN training center that had become a refuge for displaced people in Khan Younes, southern Gaza, leaving “nine dead and 75 injured,” a UN official said on X on Wednesday, January 24 (formerly Twitter). “Two tanks hit a building housing 800 people,” said Thomas White, Gaza director of the United Nations for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), as the Israeli army stepped up operations against the Islamist movement. The Palestinian Hamas in Khan Younès that surrounds them. Follow our live stream.
There will soon be a new ceasefire between Israel and Hamas ? US President Joe Biden's Middle East adviser Brett McGurk is “in Cairo” to discuss a “pause” in fighting and the release of hostages, according to Washington. “I can't tell you if or when we'll be able to get there, but the discussions about trying to complete another hostage deal are very sober and serious,” White House spokesman John Kirby said.
Khan Younes at the center of the fighting. Early Wednesday, witnesses reported Israeli military helicopter fire around Khan Younes, the capital in the southern Gaza Strip where Israel says local Hamas leaders are hiding. The Israeli army claims to have “surrounded” this city and ordered the population to evacuate.
A two-state solution continues to be rejected. So far, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government has rejected the creation of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel. This rejection of the two-state solution is “unacceptable” and carries the risk of “prolonging the conflict,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the Security Council.