‘Relentless artillery shelling’ in Khan Younis

It’s day 82 of the war, and this is where things stand:

• At least 241 people have been killed and 382 were injured in the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry has said
• The Government Media Office in Gaza says bodies had been delivered “mutilated” and accused the Israelis of removing “vital organs from them”.
• Six Palestinians have been killed during Israeli drone attacks in Nur Shams in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem, Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher reported.
• Palestine’s representative to the UN, Riyad Mansour, wrote to the president of the UNSC that Israel’s attacks have only intensified since the UN resolution passed.
• Israel’s Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer reportedly met with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in Washington, where they discussed the remaining captives.
  

  Iran’s Revolutionary Guard vows revenge for commander’s assassination

  The spokesman for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Ramazan Sharif, has vowed to take revenge for the killing of IRGC commander Sayyed Razi Mousavi in Syria on Monday.

  He said that Mousavi’s assassination broke international laws as he was an advisor of a country that is a UN member and called on all international institutions to condemn the strikes.

  Sharif said the reason that Israel decided to assassinate Mousavi now is due to the success of Hamas’s Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7 and Israel’s failure to defeat “the resistance” in more than 80 days of war.

  Israel gives initial approval for Cyprus-Gaza sea corridor: Report

  Israel has agreed “in principle” to allow Cyprus, with the support of Britain, to open up a humanitarian sea corridor into Gaza, reports Israel’s Hayom newspaper.

  The corridor would bring more supplies and equipment into the besieged Palestinian enclave, which has so far relied only on the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, and recently, the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing by Israel.

  Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohen relayed the initial approval for the corridor to his counterparts in Cyprus and the UK on Tuesday, saying it could likely begin operating “upon completion of the required preparations”, according to Hayom.

  Several killed in Israeli attack on central Gaza school

  At least five people were killed and more wounded in an Israeli bombing of Maghazi Secondary Girls School in Maghazi refugee camp, housing displaced people in the enclave.

  Footage obtained and verified by Al Jazeera shows the victims being brought to nearby hospitals, with some of those killed lying on the floor as grieving relatives and friends mourn over their bodies.

  Israel says it targeted 200 sites in Gaza in 24 hours

  The Israeli army has hit 200 targets in Gaza from air, land and sea within the past 24 hours, the military posted on its website.

  Earlier, we reported Israeli attacks on several cities in southern Gaza, including Khan Younis and Rafah.

  Three dead from Israeli strike in Bint Jbeil, Lebanon: Report

  Lebanese state media report that an Israeli strike has killed three people and injured one in the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, 4km (2.5 miles) from the Israeli border.

  The Israel-Lebanon frontier has seen frequent deadly exchanges of fire amid the Gaza war.

  More than 150 people have been killed on the Lebanese side, most of them Hezbollah fighters but also more than a dozen civilians, three of them journalists. On the Israeli side, at least four civilians and nine soldiers have been killed.

  Several wounded in Israeli raid in Bethlehem

  Three people have been injured by Israeli forces in the Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem, in the southern occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency is reporting.

  Earlier, we reported several Israeli raids in the occupied territory, including in Tulkarem where six people were killed in an Israeli drone strike.

  Deaths of more Israeli soldiers pile more pressure on Netanyahu

  The Israeli military’s mounting death toll is putting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under more scrutiny at home, reports Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher.

  The majority of soldiers’ deaths have occurred since the end of the ceasefire on December 1.

  “The number of dead will certainly put pressure on Netanyahu,” said Fisher from occupied East Jerusalem. “People are asking questions. They’re wondering if the [Israeli military’s] objective is to free the captives held in Gaza, how many soldiers will die as they move that operation forward.”

  Israeli attacks in southern Gaza continue overnight

  There were renewed attacks in Khan Younis overnight, this time around the vicinity of the Nasser Hospital and the Jordanian field hospital.

  There has been heavy and relentless artillery shelling in that area, creating lots of concern among local residents.

  The Israeli military is repeating the same scenario that took place at al-Shifa Hospital bringing it under heavy firepower. There is a growing fear that the hospitals will be stormed in the coming days amid increased intensity of the air raids in the vicinity of the Nasser hospital and the Jordanian field hospital.

  Here in Rafah, a major attack took place overnight at the residential buildings in al-Jenina district, in southeast Rafah.

  Large numbers of residential homes have been destroyed there and completely turned into rubble.

  Residents of West Bank’s Nur Shams fear ‘what might come this evening’

  We have an update for you on the Israeli military raids and strikes on the Nur Shams refugee camp that have killed at least six Palestinians.

  Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher, reporting from occupied East Jerusalem, says clashes were ongoing in Nur Shams “until just an hour or so ago”.

  “We were told that there were snipers on the roof, and that Israeli forces had moved into Nur Shams to try to arrest people they say are ‘wanted’,” said Fisher. “They’ve destroyed at least one house that we know of.

  “The fact that [raids] have happened for a second night in a row leaves people in Nur Shams equally concerned about what might come this evening.”