- UN chief Antonio Guterres said that famine in Gaza is “the result of deliberate decisions that defy basic humanity”. Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza City is levelling entire neighbourhoods, our correspondent on the ground reports, in an attempt to rid the city of its residents. Civil defence reports at least 1,500 homes have been destroyed.
Gaza’s Ministry of Health has recorded four starvation deaths over the past 24 hours, and at least 61 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on the enclave today alone, medical sources tell our team.
Israel has killed at least 62,966 people and wounded 159,266 in its war on Gaza. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023, and more than 200 were taken captive.
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- Israeli forces continued attacks across Gaza, killing over 60 people, including 19 aid seekers, according to local medical sources.
- Four more people, including two children, died of “famine and malnutrition” in the enclave, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
- UN chief Antonio Guterres addressed the mounting hunger-related deaths, saying famine in Gaza is a “present-day catastrophe” caused by “deliberate decisions that defy basic humanity”.
- The UN Security Council voted to extend UNIFIL, a long-running peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, until the end of 2026 when it will begin a yearlong drawdown.
- The Israeli military carried out an aerial assault in Yemen’s Sana’a area, claiming to strike a Houthi “military target”.
Israeli forces have launched several new raids in the occupied West Bank, after earlier carrying out a wave of home invasions and arrests that included targeting activists and journalists, according to the Wafa news agency.
The latest incursions occurred in the town of al-Yamun, near Jenin, and Jalazone camp, near Ramallah, reports Wafa.
In al-Yamun, Israeli forces raided several homes and tampered with residents’ contents, while in Jalazone camp, they fired tear gas near homes, according to Wafa.
Earlier today, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addressed Israel’s extensive military campaigns in the occupied West Bank, calling them “profoundly alarming” developments that are “driving displacement and deepening vulnerability”.
Updates: Israel kills 61 in Gaza, UN chief slams ‘deliberate’ famine
