The Israeli army carried out new airstrikes in Khan Younes in the Gaza Strip on Monday, January 8th. The IDF claimed to have “killed ten terrorists who were preparing to fire rockets into Israel” in this besieged city and the new epicenter of the fighting. According to Gaza's Health Ministry, Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours left 73 dead and 99 injured in central Gaza, where the conflict has entered its fourth month. Follow our live stream.
Two Al Jazeera journalists killed in Gaza. The Qatari broadcaster reported that two of its reporters were killed in an attack on their vehicle in Rafah on Sunday. Moustafa Thuraya – a videographer who also works for AFP – and Hamza Waël Dahdouh were returning from reporting on the site of an airstrike on a house. The second is the son of Al-Jazeera's Palestinian bureau chief, Waël Dahdouh, who lost his wife and two of his children in an Israeli attack at the end of October.
The Israeli army says it has discovered a “weapons production site.” The IDF said on Sunday it had killed “terrorists” in the central Gaza Strip, including through the use of drones that targeted the Bureij refugee camp. The Israeli army also said it had discovered an underground “weapons production facility” run by Hamas in the north of the Palestinian enclave.
Blinken is expected in Tel Aviv. The head of American diplomacy, Antony Blinken, is expected in Israel on Monday evening for tough talks about the war in Gaza. On Sunday, the diplomat called the deaths of thousands of civilians a “tragedy” and warned that the conflict could “easily metastasize” as tensions escalated between Israel and Lebanon.