Hamas militants and civilians killed in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel’s army base in Tulkarem
Israel has banned the pan-Arab Al Jazeera network and accused six of its Gaza reporters of being militants. The broadcaster denies the allegations and says that Israel is attempting to silence its coverage of Israeli military operations.
Several young men attended the funeral outside the hospital, many of them sobbing. The bodies were all wrapped in white shrouds, with blue press vests draped over them.
Islamic Jihad is a smaller and more extreme ally of Hamas and took part in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack in southern Israel that ignited the war. Israel’s military identified four of the men as combat propagandists and said that intelligence, including a list of Islamic Jihad operatives found by soldiers in Gaza, had confirmed that all five were affiliated with the group.
The strike hit a car outside of Al-Awda Hospital. The journalists were working for a local news outlet, which is affiliated with the Islamic Jihad militant group.
Meanwhile, an Israeli strike killed five Palestinian journalists outside a hospital in Gaza overnight, the territory’s Health Ministry said. The Israeli military said all of them were posing as reporters.
A soldier was killed during fighting in central Gaza early Thursday, the military said. Over the course of a year, 389 soldiers have been killed in Gaza.
The war began when Hamas-led militants stormed across the border in a surprise attack on nearby army bases and farming communities. They killed 1,200 people and kidnapped around 250. Some 100 hostages are still in Gaza, at least a third of whom are believed to be dead.
The offensive caused widespread destruction, and drove away most of the population from their homes. Hundreds of thousands are packed into squalid tent camps along the coast, with little protection from the cold, wet winter.
Also Thursday, people mourned eight Palestinians killed by Israeli military operations in and around the city of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. The Israeli military said that it opened fire after militants attacked soldiers, and it was aware of uninvolved civilians who were harmed in the raid.
U.N. Security Council condemnations of the Houthi attacks and Iran for providing weapons: Israeli condemnation of al-Masirah
The U.N. Security Council has scheduled an emergency meeting Monday in response to an Israeli request that the council condemn the Houthi attacks and Iran for supplying them weapons.
The Houthi-controlled satellite channel al-Masirah reported multiple deaths. Iran’s foreign ministry condemned the strikes. The US military has bombed the Houthis.
The U.N. has noted that the targeted ports are important entryways for humanitarian aid for Yemen, the poorest Arab nation that plunged into a civil war in 2014.
The strikes, which were carried out over 1000 miles from Jerusalem, came a day after Benjamin Netanyahu said that the more powerful proxies of Iran had been defeated by the Israeli military.
The military of Israel did not respond to questions about Tedros’ post, but issued a statement that said it could strike anywhere in the world.
He said he was safe with his U.N. colleagues. “We will need to wait for the damage to the airport to be repaired before we can leave,” he said, without mentioning the source of the bombardment. The U.N. Humanitarian Air Service has an injured person in it.
“The air traffic control tower, the departure lounge — just a few meters from where we were — and the runway were damaged,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on the social media platform X.
