WHO slams Israeli attack on Gaza hospital while Israel bombs Lebanon
- As dozens are reported killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza, Al Jazeera’s correspondent on the ground says patients and staff at Kamal Adwan Hospital were “soaked in blood” after multiple Israeli drone strikes on the besieged medical facility.
- The International Rescue Committee (IRC) warns that bitterly cold weather in Gaza is making conditions harder for forcibly displaced families “struggling to survive” in makeshift shelters without warm clothes or blankets.
Israel PM links Australia synagogue arson to government’s ‘anti-Israel sentiment’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says an arson attack on a synagogue in Australia “cannot be separated” from what he called its government’s “anti-Israel sentiment”.
In a statement, Netanyahu said that “this heinous act cannot be separated from the anti-Israel sentiment emanating from the Australian Labour government.”
He cited Canberra’s “outrageous decision” in September to vote for a UN resolution that demanded the end of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory, and arguing that “anti-Israel sentiment is anti-Semitism”.
Two killed as Israel bombs Gaza City
The Israeli army has carried out an attack on the Zeitoun neighbourhood in the south of the city, our correspondent reports.
Several people were also wounded in this attack, our correspondent said.
Israeli army says it is bolstering forces around border with Syria
The military says the move is due to developments in the civil war in the neighbouring country.
It deployed soldiers to the occupied Golan Heights, saying it is “raising their readiness according to the various scenarios”.
Heavy attacks on Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum reports from Deir el-Balah on the relentless air strikes and attacks on medical facilities that have turned places of healing into battlegrounds in Gaza.
Germany rejects Amnesty’s accusation that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza
Asked for a response to Amnesty’s report that accused Israel of committing “genocide” against Palestinians in its war on Gaza, German Foreign Ministry spokesman Sebastian Fischer told reporters: “The question of genocide presupposes a clear intention to eradicate an ethnic group. I still do not recognise any such clear intention and therefore I cannot share the conclusions of the report.
“We take the accusations in the report very seriously and are currently analysing them,” he said.
“We have repeatedly urged the Israeli government to adjust its military operations in Gaza and better fulfil its obligations to protect civilians,” Fischer said.
“However it is still our opinion that Israel is acting in defence against Hamas which sparked this conflict with its terror attacks,” he said.
On Thursday the London-based human rights group published a 300-page report on Israel’s offensive in Gaza, saying its findings were based on satellite images documenting devastation, fieldwork and ground reports from people in Gaza, as well as “dehumanising and genocidal statements by Israeli government and military officials”.
Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on central Gaza
Al Jazeera’s correspondent on the ground reports that two people were killed when Israeli forces bombed al-Magazi refugee camp.
Others were wounded in the attack.
Our correspondent also reports that more people were killed and wounded in an Israeli attack on the east of Bureij refugee camp, also in central Gaza.
We will update you on these attacks as information comes in.
