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[Live] The devastated Gaza Strip, dispute over the creation of a Palestinian state
The Israeli army is intensely bombing the Gaza Strip this Friday, January 19, and particularly the South, against the backdrop of a major dispute between Israel and Washington over a possible Palestinian state and an increasing regionalization of the conflict until off Yemen.
In the ruins of Rafah, in the Gaza Strip, January 18, 2024. AP - Fatima Shbair
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What you must remember
■ Israel continues its deadly offensive in
Khan Younes
, in the south of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army is also continuing its raids
in the
occupied West Bank.
■
At a press conference, the head of the Israeli government said Thursday that he had informed the United States of his
opposition to the creation of a Palestinian state after the war
.
“
In any future arrangement, Israel needs security control of all territory west of the Jordan River.
This contradicts the idea of sovereignty
,” he believes.
■ The Yemeni
Houthi rebels claimed responsibility early this Friday for strikes
against an American merchant ship circulating in the Gulf of Aden, a new attack by the pro-Iran group which, however, did not cause any damage according to Washington.
■ After an
agreement between Israel and Hamas
, following joint mediation with France, medicines arrived in Gaza on Wednesday evening.
■ According to a report announced on January 18 by the Hamas Ministry of Health,
24,620 people have been killed in Gaza
since the start of the war on October 7.
The majority of the dead are women, adolescents and children.
There are nearly 62,000 injured.
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5:00 a.m.: The Israeli army intensely bombards the southern Gaza Strip
In the early hours of Friday, witnesses reported shootings and airstrikes in Khan Younes, the main town in the south of the Gaza Strip where, according to Israel, many members of the local leadership of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas are hiding.
The Palestinian Red Crescent deplored “
intense
” artillery fire “
in the surroundings
” of the local al-Amal hospital, with the Palestinian Wafa agency reporting numerous deaths and injuries overnight in Khan Younes, the epicenter. now there are fights.
“
Soldiers supported by artillery and aircraft eliminated dozens of terrorists (in hand-to-hand combat)
” in Khan Younes, said the Israeli army, claiming to have reached the “most southern” sector of Gaza since the start of its ground deployment which began in the very north of the Palestinian territory.
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