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Peace activist Vivian Silver is dead. She was murdered by Hamas on October 7, an autopsy revealed. The UN estimates the number of refugees in the Gaza Strip at 200,000. All developments in the live blog.
Israel’s army has once again given civilians in the contested northern Gaza Strip a window of opportunity to flee to the south of the coastal area. The escape corridor will remain open for humanitarian purposes between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. local time, an army spokesman said in Arabic on the X platform, formerly Twitter. He also published a map with the escape route drawn.
In addition, civilians stuck on the northern coast due to the ongoing fighting could reach the main Salah Al-Din road between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. local time, it said. From there they could go to the region south of Wadi Gaza.
The spokesman also named two neighborhoods in the city of Gaza where there should be a humanitarian pause in fighting during the day. This should enable the people there to escape to the south. All civilians who were prevented from fleeing by the terrorist organization Hamas could contact the Israeli army by telephone or via the Telegram platform.
According to Palestinian sources, seven people were killed in clashes during an Israeli army operation in the occupied West Bank. The Ministry of Health in Ramallah said the dead were between 21 and 33 years old. During the military operation in Tulkarim in the north of the Palestinian territory, twelve people were injured on Tuesday night, four of them seriously.
The Israeli army said suspected terrorists fired explosive devices at the emergency services during a raid. That’s why the military used an aircraft. Palestinian media reported that Palestinians were killed in both a drone strike and gunfire. The army said several attackers were killed in exchanges of fire with armed Palestinians. Soldiers arrested and questioned suspects during the raid.
According to the Israeli government, the power of the militant Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip is collapsing. “The terrorist organization Hamas has lost control of Gaza,” said Defense Minister Joav Galant. “Civilians are looting Hamas bases and they have no trust in their government,” he said on Monday evening. Terrorists would also flee to the south of the sealed-off Palestinian coastal area. The attacks on tunnels have intensified in recent days, Galant’s assessment of the situation continued.
Israel’s military had previously announced that 200 targets in the Gaza Strip had been attacked on Monday alone. These included members of terrorist organizations, weapons depots, rocket launch pads and command centers. During ground operations, soldiers also uncovered a tunnel shaft in a mosque in the Gaza Strip.
Conflict parties as a source
In the current situation, information on the course of the war, shelling and casualties provided by the Palestinian and Israeli conflict parties cannot be directly verified by an independent body.
According to the UN, two water suppliers in the south of the Gaza Strip have stopped working due to a lack of fuel. As a result, 200,000 people no longer have drinking water, reported the UN emergency relief office OCHA, citing the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). The aid organization therefore does not know how it will maintain its humanitarian support for hundreds of thousands in the second half of the week. The last fuel stocks have practically been used up. This also calls into question the distribution of aid supplies that come from Egypt via the Rafah border crossing.
Vivian Silver, one of Israel’s most prominent peace activists, was killed in the Hamas attack on Kibbutz Beeri in southern Israel on October 7. Forensics told the family they had identified the 74-year-old’s remains. The Israeli-Canadian peace activist from Kibbutz Beeri in southern Israel had been missing since October 7th. It was initially believed that she had been abducted to the Gaza Strip.
According to Palestinian sources, six people were killed in clashes during an Israeli army operation in the occupied West Bank. The Ministry of Health in Ramallah said the dead were between 21 and 32 years old. During the military operation in Tulkarim in the north of the Palestinian territory, 12 people were injured during the night, four of them seriously. The Israeli army said it was investigating the reports. Initially, five Palestinians were reported killed.
According to the UN, around 200,000 people in the embattled Gaza Strip have so far fled to the south of the sealed-off coastal area. That’s how many people are estimated to have used the corridor opened by the Israeli army to leave the north of the Gaza Strip, the UN emergency agency OCHA said. “Concerns are growing about overcrowded accommodation and limited access to shelter, food and water in the south,” the OCHA said. At the same time, despite increasing fighting, hundreds of thousands of people remained in the north who could not or did not want to move south. They would have difficulty getting a minimum amount of drinking water and food to survive.
According to the army, Israeli soldiers found numerous weapons in the basement of a hospital in Gaza City. There are also signs that hostages may have been held in the basement of Rantisi Hospital, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said. Hamas rejects the account.
Five Palestinians have been killed in clashes with Israeli forces in the northern West Bank. The men, aged between 21 and 29, were killed during an Israeli army operation in the town of Tulkarim, Amin Chader, head of Thabet Hospital where the deaths were confirmed, told AFP. Eyewitnesses reported violent clashes and a large presence of Israeli forces. The Israeli army confirmed an operation in the West Bank, but did not provide any further details.
Conflict parties as a source
In the current situation, information on the course of the war, shelling and casualties provided by the Palestinian and Israeli conflict parties cannot be directly verified by an independent body.
In view of the dramatic situation in the Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli armed forces have reportedly offered to supply incubators for premature babies. “We have made a formal offer to the health authorities in Gaza to bring incubators to the Gaza Strip to help the children’s clinic at Shifa Hospital,” a spokeswoman for the Israeli Cogat authority, which is responsible for contacts with the Palestinians, said in a video. “We are at war with Hamas, not with the people of Gaza.” Photos showed an Israeli soldier bringing incubators into a van.
According to the Ministry of Health, which is controlled by the terrorist militia Hamas, the Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip has been out of operation since the weekend. The UN emergency relief office OCHA announced that 36 premature babies who are dependent on incubators and therefore on electricity, as well as several dialysis patients, were in acute danger of death due to the power outage.
According to the UN, the dire fuel shortage in the Gaza Strip threatens to severely impact the delivery of urgently needed aid supplies to the area. Trucks filled with supplies that are supposed to arrive through the Rafah border crossing cannot be unloaded because there is no fuel for the forklifts, said Andrea De Domenico, the head of the UN emergency agency OCHA in charge of the Palestinian territories. There is also not enough fuel for vehicles that are supposed to bring food, water supplies and medicine to those in need.
“Human lives in Gaza are hanging by a thread due to the loss of fuel and medical supplies,” De Domenico said. Since Israeli troops advanced into the center of Gaza City five days ago, it has become too dangerous for the UN to coordinate aid operations in the north of the Gaza Strip.
US President Biden has called for the Shifa Hospital in Gaza to be protected. More than 500 other people with foreign passports were able to leave the Gaza Strip. Monday’s developments to read.