Middle East war
Israel continues to advance into Gaza – UN pushes for help
Palestinians look at the destruction around a residential building after an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip. photo
© Abed Rahim Khatib/dpa
Israel is moving deeper into the Gaza Strip. Aid deliveries there are increasing, but are far from enough. The family of a young German woman receives bad news. The overview.
The Israeli army continues to have ground troops Gaza Strip advanced. The army said it had killed dozens of Hamas fighters in its advance.
After three and a half weeks of the Gaza war, the United Nations called for more help for the suffering population. According to UN figures, 117 trucks have arrived in the sealed-off coastal strip since the war began on October 7th. However, much larger quantities are needed to avoid a worsening of the situation and unrest.
Missing 22-year-old Shani Louk dead
The death of German Shani Louk, who has been missing since Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel, has been confirmed. The Israeli military informed the family on Monday night. According to her family, the 22-year-old was killed by the Islamist Hamas at a music festival in Israel’s Negev Desert. The mother assumes that her daughter has been dead since October 7th – she may have been killed by a shot in the head during the terrorist attack, she told the dpa.
The Islamist Hamas, which rules in the Gaza Strip, carried out a massacre of civilians in Israel. More than 1,400 people died during and in the following days. Militants abducted at least 239 people in the densely populated coastal area.
The number of Palestinians killed by Israeli counterstrikes in Gaza rose to more than 8,300, according to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health. The death toll could not be independently verified.
Army continues to advance in the Gaza Strip
As the US television station CNN reported based on its own aerial photographs, the Israeli military has advanced about three kilometers into the Gaza Strip. A video circulating online showed a tank on the main road from the north to the south of the coastal strip. According to a dpa reporter on site, that was about three kilometers west of the border fence with Israel. Eyewitnesses also reported an armored bulldozer there.
When asked, an army spokesman said they do not comment on the location of their own units in the Gaza Strip. Hamas continued to fire rockets at Israel and, according to the army, there was a rocket alarm in Jerusalem.
Journalists targeted in southern Lebanon
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) accused Israel of targeting journalists in southern Lebanon a good two weeks ago. A Reuters journalist was killed in the shelling and four other media workers were injured. The group of several journalists was shot at twice from the same direction from Israel within a few seconds of each other on October 13, RSF reported. This was revealed by the analysis of video recordings. The journalists were clearly identified as such.
In response to a request from the German Press Agency, the Israeli army said the incident was being further investigated. Since the Hamas attack, there have been increasing violent incidents between the Hezbollah militia and the Israeli army on the border between Israel and Lebanon, with deaths on both sides.
Tensions rise in the West Bank – four dead
The already tense situation in the Israeli-occupied West Bank continued to deteriorate. According to Palestinian sources, four people were killed in clashes with the Israeli military in the city of Jenin on Monday night. As the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah also announced, an Israeli drone also fired a rocket onto the roof of a house.
Since the Hamas attack on Israel, 118 Palestinians have died in clashes with the army and radical Jewish settlers in the West Bank, and 314 have died since the beginning of the year. The situation is also tense in East Jerusalem: According to police, an armed Palestinian injured an Israeli police officer there on Monday difficult. Other security forces shot at the attacker. According to media reports, the attacker was killed.
Berlin condemns anti-Jewish protests in Dagestan
The federal government has condemned the violent anti-Jewish protests and attacks in the Muslim Russian republic of Dagestan as “unspeakable and unacceptable”. According to authorities, 20 people were injured and 60 people were arrested in attacks on passengers of a plane that landed from Israel on Sunday evening at the airport in the Dagestan capital Makhachkala.