Dozens of Palestinians depart the besieged Nasser Hospital within the southern metropolis of Khan Younis after Israeli forces ordered an evacuation.
Right here's how issues stand on Thursday, February 15, 2024:
Humanitarian disaster in Gaza
- Dozens of Palestinians had been seen leaving the besieged Nasser Hospital within the southern Gaza metropolis of Khan Younis after Israeli forces ordered the evacuation of the medical middle, however well being officers stated hundreds, together with the sick important, keep inside.
- Heavy tank and machine gun hearth had been reported because the Israeli military entered the hospital.
- The Israeli army described the assault as “exact and restricted,” including that it was based mostly on “credible info” that Hamas fighters had been hiding within the facility and holding prisoners. A Hamas spokesman denied the allegations, calling them “lies.” Israel has made related claims up to now, however supplied no proof.
- Al Jazeera correspondents reported that not less than 11 individuals had been killed in an intense shelling on the Nuseirat refugee camp within the central a part of the Gaza Strip.
Regional tensions and diplomacy
- United Nations reduction chief Martin Griffiths has warned that the 1.4 million Palestinians who’ve sought refuge in Rafah could possibly be compelled into Egypt if Israel launches its deliberate army operation towards the border city.
- “The potential for a army operation in Rafah with the opportunity of closing the crossing, with the opportunity of spillover, … a type of Egyptian nightmare, … is one that’s proper earlier than our eyes,” Griffiths stated.
- Individually, the US army's Central Command, or CENTCOM, stated its forces had seized superior standard weapons and different deadly assist from Iran that had been headed for Houthi-held areas of Yemen. on a ship within the Arabian Sea on January 28.
- In Lebanon, Israeli warplanes carried out a wave of not less than 12 assaults in Lebanon's Wadi Saluki space, in accordance with an Israeli army assertion posted on social media.
occupied West Financial institution
- Israel has arrested not less than 20 Palestinians within the West Financial institution, together with a toddler and an aged prisoner, the Palestinian Detainee and Ex-Detainee Affairs Fee and the Palestinian Prisoners' Society stated.
- The arrests occurred in Tulkarem, Bethlehem, Hebron, Nablus, Jenin and Jerusalem. The whole variety of arrests since October 7 is now 7,040.
