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US-Israel genocide 

More than five months into Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, dozens more Palestinians have lost their lives in overnight airstrikes on the besieged territory. In its latest attack, the regime’s warplanes struck the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza City, killing 8 people and injuring several others. Several homes were also targeted in the southern cities of Khan Yunis and Rafah, resulting in the death of nearly 30 Palestinians there. The regime’s naval forces also shelled the shores of Beit Lahia in the north but no casualties have been reported from there. Separately, Israeli troops once again opened fire on Palestinians trying to reach an aid truck in Gaza City, injuring several people. The death toll from the Israeli onslaught on Gaza since early October has now surpassed 30,600, with a majority of them being women and children.

Gaza humanitarian crisis 

United Nations organizations have warned that child malnutrition levels in northern Gaza are particularly extreme. A WHO representative told a meeting in Geneva that one-in-six children under the age of two were acutely malnourished in northern Gaza. Rik Peeperkorn said an estimated 8,000 patients need to be evacuated from the narrow strip of land, where most hospitals have been repeatedly targeted by the Israeli regime. UNICEF spokesperson James Elder also told the meeting that malnutrition rates for children under five in northern Gaza are extremely high. He said there is also a growing risk from infectious diseases, with nine in 10 children under the age of five falling sick over the last weeks. 

Hezbollah’s Israel strikes 

Israeli media have reported widespread blackouts in the northern occupied territories following yet another rocket attack by Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement. A barrage of rockets was fired at over a dozen settlements and military bases in several towns, with one hitting a utility pole. That prompted Israeli officials to activate anti-missile systems which failed to intercept some of the rockets. The regime has refrained from revealing the severity of the damage and the number of towns that plunged into darkness. Hezbollah’s operations come in response to the regime’s repeated attacks on southern Lebanon. Hezbollah and Israel have been engaged in skirmishes since the regime launched its genocidal war on Gaza in early October. Lebanese resistance fighters have mainly targeted Israeli military positions but the Israeli regime has even targeted residential areas in Lebanon, causing the death of civilians.

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