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[Live] Gaza Strip: downtown Khan Younes ravaged, calls to save UNRWA
A ravaged city center, shooting near hospitals and a population on the run: Khan Younes is still the scene, this Wednesday, January 31, of fierce fighting against a backdrop of appeals from the UN to maintain aid to Gaza. agency for Palestinian refugees.
Displaced Palestinians flee Khan Younes, in the south of the Gaza Strip, January 30, 2024. AFP - MAHMUD HAMS
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What you must remember :
■ The town of
Khan Younes,
in the south of the
Gaza
Strip , has been bombarded relentlessly for weeks. Hospitals, under pressure, are at the center of concerns.
■
Israel
is also continuing its
deadly raids in the occupied West Bank.
■ At the same time, the heads of several UN organizations warned on Wednesday that the suspension by several countries of their
funding to UNRWA,
the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, will have “
catastrophic consequences
” for the band of Gaza.
■ Fears of a further
extension of the conflict
resurfaced after the death of three American soldiers killed in Jordan in a drone attack this weekend, blamed by Washington on pro-Iran groups, against a backdrop of tensions in Yemen, in the Red Sea, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria.
■ After almost four months of war, the leader of Hamas, Ismaïl Haniyeh, based in Qatar, affirmed Tuesday that his movement had received a
proposal for a truce with Israel,
the result of a meeting in Paris between the director of the CIA, William Burns, and Egyptian, Israeli and Qatari officials.
■ According to the latest report from the Hamas Ministry of Health, Tuesday January 30,
26,751 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
65,636 injured.
Times are given in universal time (Paris-1),
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5:00 a.m.: Inauguration of Gaza Street in Nicaragua
During the inauguration of Gaza Street in support of the Palestinian people, in the historic center of Managua on January 30, 2024. AFP - OSWALDO RIVAS
During the inauguration of Gaza Street in support of the Palestinian people, in the historic center of Managua on January 30, 2024. AFP - OSWALDO RIVAS
5:00 a.m.: The city center of Khan Younès devastated
A ravaged city center, shooting near hospitals and a population on the run: the main city in the south of the Gaza Strip Khan Younès where Israeli forces on the ground are trying to defeat the fighters of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas is the scene on Wednesday of fierce battles.
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