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The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has stated that at least seven Palestinian children died due to the cold weather in the Gaza Strip since the last Sunday when the ceasefire came into effect. “Winter and displacement have taken a heavy toll. With very few homes left standing, displaced families continue to face these sub-human conditions,” the agency added.
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Israeli prisoner Emily Damari who was recently released in a prisoner exchange deal was actually a soldier in the Israeli army at the time of her capture, and Israel tries to hide this. She was serving as a soldier in the city of Hebron.
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Since mid-December, 2024, Israel’s military operations in the Jenin refugee camp have displaced 2,000 families, rendering the area “nearly uninhabitable,” according to Roland Friedrich, director of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).
Meanwhile Israeli forces have encircled the Al Razi hospital in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz calls it a “security strategy shift,” while the Red Crescent reports ambulances blocked from reaching the injured.
The Israeli army launched, Tuesday, a large-scale attack on Jenin and its refugee camp after the Palestinian Authority security forces withdrew from the area.
Israeli occupation forces, accompanied by bulldozers, drones, and warplanes, stormed the city of Jenin and its refugee camp, launching an unprecedented military onslaught. The initial death toll since the onset of the aggression has reached 10, with nearly 40 others injured.
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The Government Media Office in Gaza reported:
5,000 Palestinians were killed or remain missing due to the annihilation plan imposed by Israeli occupation forces over the past 100 days in northern Gaza Strip.
Israeli occupation forces have abducted 2,600 Palestinians, including women and children, from multiple neighborhoods in the northern Gaza Strip.
“Some 9,500 others have also been injured, in addition to the detention of 2,600 people, including women and children, in a flagrant violation of all international conventions and norms,” the media office said in a statement.
“In the past 100 days, our people in northern Gaza have suffered the most horrific forms of killing, ethnic cleansing, destruction, and displacement,” it added.
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French journalist Sylvain Mercadier was detained on Wednesday for over four hours, during which he was “threatened and humiliated” by Israeli forces while reporting on their advance in Syria. Mercadier was reportedly in the southwestern Syrian province of Quneitra where Israeli forces have been seizing additional territory beyond what they already occupied of the Golan Heights.
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Germany has condemned Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s remarks calling for the destruction of Palestinian cities like Jenin and Nablus in the West Bank, comparing them to the devastation of Jabalia in northern Gaza. Smotrich’s exact words were, “Funduq, Nablus, and Jenin must look like Jabalia,” sparking fears of further killings, forced displacement, and the erasure of Palestinian existence.
