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from thefreeonline on 4 Dec 2023 By Virginia Pietromarchi, Stephen Quillen and Edna Mohamed at Al Jazeera
The Israeli army has ordered more people to evacuate from southern Gaza, which was earlier declared ‘safe zone’.
Hundreds more Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air raids in the past 24 hours in Gaza as the Israeli army ordered more areas in and around the enclave’s second-largest city of Khan Younis to evacuate.
The Director General of the Government Media Office in Gaza told Al Jazeera on Sunday that more than 700 Palestinians have been killed since Israel resumed bombardment after a seven-day truce ended on Friday.
More than 1.5 million people have been displaced, most of them from northern Gaza, since Israel launched a military offensive on October 7 in the wake of a deadly Hamas attack.
Overnight and into Sunday, intense bombing was reported in Khan Younis, Rafah, and some northern parts targeted by Israel’s air and ground attacks.
“Everywhere you turn to, there are children with third-degree burns, shrapnel wounds, brain injuries and broken bones,” James Elder, UNICEF’s global spokesperson, told Al Jazeera from Gaza.
“Mothers crying over children who look like they are hours away from death. It seems like a death zone right now.”
The main hospital in Khan Younis received at least three dead and dozens wounded on Sunday morning from an Israeli air raid that hit a residential building in the eastern part of the city, according to an Associated Press journalist at the hospital.
Separately, the bodies of 31 people killed in Israeli bombardment across the central areas of the strip were taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza’s central city of Deir el-Balah, said Omar al-Darawi, an administrative employee at the hospital.
In northern Gaza, rescue teams with little equipment scrambled on Sunday to dig through the rubble of buildings in the Jabaliya refugee camp and other neighbourhoods in Gaza City in search of potential survivors and dead bodies.
Hopes of any future cessation in the fighting were dashed on Saturday when Israel announced it was pulling out negotiators from the Qatari capital, Doha, saying talks had reached an “impasse”.
At least 60 Palestinians, including former prisoners, have been detained in Israeli forces’ raids in the occupied West Bank overnight and this morning.
In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said that some of the arrests were concentrated in the Dheisheh camp in Bethlehem, while the rest were distributed across the occupied West Bank.
Some of those arrested were later released.
Since October 7, more than 3,540 Palestinians have been arrested in the occupied West Bank.
As our colleague Hoda Abdel-Hamid reported earlier, raids took place across the occupied territories last night, including in Qalqilya, where two Palestinians were killed.
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The head of Firearms Licensing Department has quit his post after learning that Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s staff issued gun permits to Israeli citizens without proper training.
Yisrael Avisar was head of the department responsible for issuing gun permits. During a Knesset hearing, he said that Ben-Gvir’s staff were given the title of “temporary licensing official” after one day of training that usually lasts at least a month, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.
Citing security sources, Haaretz said firearm licenses were granted to people not meeting the criteria, including mental and physical health requirements.
“They are handing out guns like candy,” a security official told Haaretz.
Ben-Gvir defended his weapons distribution policy as “clear and continuous”.
Since October 7, Ben-Gvir and Netanyahu have encouraged the arming of civilians. According to Channel 13 TV, there have been 150,000 applications for gun licenses since the war started – compared to 42 applications the same period last year.
Overnight and early morning Israeli attacks have hit homes, commercial centres and hospitals across the north, centre and south of Gaza.
Here are some of those areas in Gaza that have come under Israeli attacks today:
A Palestinian boy carrying a baby stands at a site of Israeli strikes in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip [Mohammed Salem/Reuters]
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from thefreeonline on 2nd Decenber 2023 Today in Pictures from Al Jazeera
Israel’s attacks on Gaza have stretched into a second day after a seven-day truce with Hamas ended as Qatar and Egypt mediate talks to renew a pause in hostilities.
The United Nations said on Saturday that the fighting would worsen the extreme humanitarian emergency in Gaza.
“Hell on Earth has returned to Gaza,” said Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN humanitarian office in Geneva.
“Today, in a matter of hours, scores were reportedly killed and injured. Families were told to evacuate, again. Hopes were dashed,” UN aid chief Martin Griffiths said, adding that children, women and men of Gaza had “nowhere safe to go and very little to survive on”.
Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza said Israeli tanks have not stopped shelling the enclave and gunboats are attacking its coastline.
“Houses have been targeted. At least three mosques were hit. Areas across the Gaza Strip – the north, south and centre – have all been targeted.”
The Israeli army said on Saturday that it hit more than 400 targets overnight, including in the Khan Younis area in the south, to which tens of thousands of civilians evacuated over the past month.
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