Live – Israel-Hamas war: Washington claims to have seized spare parts for Iranian missiles intended for Houthi rebels.

The “intensive” phase of the fight is coming to an end. The “intensive” phase of fighting in southern Gaza will “soon end”, Israel now predicts, at a time when the Hamas administration puts the death toll in the war at 24,000, 1% of the local population still spreading. During the night, Israeli aircraft bombed the Khan Younes sector, the focus of ground fighting and airstrikes in recent weeks, where, according to the Israeli military, the local leadership of Hamas is hiding. According to the press office of the Palestinian Islamic Movement, a total of 78 people were killed and many wounded during the evening and night in the Israeli attack on Gaza.

“The future of Israel depends on the outcome of this war.” At the start of the war, which passed its 100th day, “we clearly said that the intensive phase of the operation would last about three months,” said Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant. “In the north of Gaza, this phase is ending. In the south, we are going to achieve it and it will end soon,” he added, stressing that Hamas’s Khan Younis Brigade “is disintegrating.” “Our enemies and our friends are watching the war in Gaza and watching us. The future of the State of Israel, here in our land, depends on the outcome of this war.”

Hamas announced the death of two hostages. Hamas reported the deaths of two Israeli hostages on Monday, airing a video announcing the death of a young woman – also a hostage and apparently under duress. There is no indication of the date of the shooting in the video. “They were killed in the Zionist bombing of Gaza,” Hamas’ armed wing said in a statement. The IDF rejected these “lies” and condemned the “cruel use of hostages of innocent people”.

The UN launched a new call for a humanitarian “truce”. The United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, called for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire”, which he said was necessary to ensure humanitarian aid but also to “facilitate the release of hostages”. “We continue to call for rapid, safe, unhindered, comprehensive and sustained humanitarian access to and through Gaza,” he told reporters, adding that “nothing can justify the collective punishment inflicted on the Palestinian people.”

All the dangers in winter?

Gaza’s roughly 2.4 million residents, most of whom have been displaced, now lack everything. In a joint statement, UNICEF, the World Food Program (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday of the “threat of drought” and “epidemics of deadly diseases” and this, in the middle of the winter cold. .