Israeli bombing in south-central Gaza continues unabated as Israel uses hunger as a weapon of war.
Here is the situation for Sunday, February 25, 2024.
Israeli attacks continue
- A two-month-old infant named Mahmoud Fattu died of malnutrition at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Wafa news agency reported.
- Israeli shelling continued in south-central Gaza, with at least eight Palestinians killed in an attack near a busy market in Rafah.
- An Israeli military attack on a house in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, has caused a massive fire.
- Hassam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, said the facility has seen a sharp rise in cases of malnutrition among children, especially newborns.
- Moaz Almajida, a pediatrician in Gaza, said breastfeeding mothers are unable to breastfeed amid the food crisis, which is affecting the health of their infants.
- The Israeli military said one soldier was killed and three others seriously injured in the Gaza Strip.
- The Norwegian Embassy in Palestine shared a social media post mourning the deaths of two Palestinian human rights lawyers, Noor Nasser Abu Al-Nour and Dana Yagi, in Gaza.
- The latest situation report from the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency, UNRWA, said in southern Gaza City that “increased airstrikes in Rafah have heightened fears of an already overstretched humanitarian operation”.
Latest information on the occupied West Bank, Israel
- Israeli forces raided Hebron in the occupied West Bank and beat eight Palestinians during interrogation, Wafa news agency reported.
- Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has strongly condemned the use of force by police against demonstrators opposing President Benjamin Netanyahu's government in Tel Aviv.
diplomacy
- Israeli media Ynet reported that Israeli negotiators are expected to visit Doha in the coming days to continue talks on the release of prisoners and a cease-fire agreement.
- In an interview with Israel's N12 News, Israeli National Security Adviser Tsashi Hanegbi said the Israeli delegation, which has returned from talks with Qatari, Egyptian and US officials in Paris, plans to meet the war cabinet. “I feel like they didn't come home empty-handed,” he said. It was given to me.”
- EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Israel's plan to build 3,300 new homes in the occupied West Bank is “controversial and dangerous”.
regional tensions
- US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has warned that Yemen's Houthi rebels will “continue to suffer the consequences” if they do not stop attacking ships in the Red Sea.
- U.S. Central Command announced that U.S. and British forces, with support from Western allies, have attacked 18 Houthi targets in Yemen.
- The UK Maritime Trade Operations Office (UKMTO), the communications body between the military and commercial shipping, received reports of an explosion near the ship 70 nautical miles (about 130 kilometers) east of Djibouti.
