explainer
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees said it could no longer provide services in northern Gaza, citing a lack of staff and a “breakdown of social order.”
Here's what happened on Saturday, February 24, 2024:
Humanitarian crisis, fighting on the ground:
- UNRWA officials say the UN's Palestinian refugee agency is no longer operating in northern Gaza, citing staff shortages and a “breakdown of social order” as Israeli attacks on civilians and limited access to food aid leave residents starving. He said he could not provide the service.
- At least 24 people were killed in an Israeli attack on a Palestinian refugee home in Deir El Bala in the Gaza Strip on Friday. Officials at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said they were still receiving injured people and the death toll was expected to rise further.
- The Gaza Ministry of Health said 104 people were killed and 160 injured in Israeli attacks from Thursday to Friday afternoon, according to the latest situation report from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
- Israeli forces have been raiding villages, towns and cities across the occupied West Bank, conducting raids and clashing with locals resisting the invasion, Palestinian state news agency Wafa reported.
diplomacy
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has released his most detailed vision for post-war Gaza yet. That includes maintaining indefinite military control over the Strip. He will transfer the enclave's civilian administration to Palestinians not affiliated with Hamas (he did not mention the Palestinian Authority (PA)) and create an Israeli-controlled buffer zone along the Gaza-Egypt border. .
- The People's Republic of Palestine has criticized the plan, saying security can only be achieved through the establishment of a Palestinian state.
- The UN Supreme Court has concluded its fifth day of proceedings after being asked by the UN General Assembly to issue an opinion on the legal implications of Israel's occupation of Palestine.
- Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has repeatedly criticized Israel's attack on Gaza, calling it “not a war, but a genocide.”
- Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, warned that countries transferring arms to Israel during the Gaza war could be complicit in “atrocious crimes”.
- Reuters reported that talks are underway in Paris in what is seen as the most serious effort in recent weeks to halt fighting in Gaza.
- Singapore reiterated its call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip at the G20 meeting in Brazil, local media reported.
regional tensions
- The US military says it has destroyed seven anti-ship cruise missiles that Yemen's Houthi rebels had planned to fire at targets in the Red Sea.
- U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) says the British-owned bulk carrier MV Rubimar, which was attacked by Houthi forces in the Red Sea over the weekend, is slowly flooding and leaking oil, posing an environmental hazard to the region. He said there was.
