Update on January 20 status

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Witnesses told The Associated Press and Agence France-Presse (AFP) that the Israeli army carried out heavy bombardment of the town of Khan Younis and its surroundings, as well as the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. On Saturday 20 January after a week of telecommunications outage. Israeli forces claimed destruction “Terrorist Infrastructure” on the territory and attacked rocket launchers in Khan Yunis. Hamas, which has been in power in Gaza since 2007, has also reported heavy fighting in the north of the enclave. Furthermore, leaflets showing photos of the hostages, and calling on residents to share any information about them, were left by the Israeli army on the town of Rafah, on the Egyptian border, where thousands of displaced people were.

The Ministry of Health of the Gaza Strip, a territory ruled by Hamas, announced the death of 24,927 people in the Gaza Strip since October 7, most of them women, teenagers and children. The war in the Gaza Strip was sparked by an unprecedented attack by Hamas in southern Israel that left 1,140 people dead, mostly civilians, according to Agence France-Presse figures from official Israeli figures.

According to Israel, 132 hostages are still in the area. At least 27 were killed, according to an AFP count. A demonstration was also held in front of the home of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, expressing dissatisfaction with his government’s apparent lack of progress in freeing the hostages, fearing that Israeli military action in Gaza would no longer endanger their lives.

The World Health Organization has condemned “Inhumane living conditions” In a region with a population of 2.4 million inhabitants. According to the UN agency responsible for humanitarian coordination (OCHA), 375,000 people are at risk. “severe malnutrition”. At least 1.7 million people have been displaced by the war in Gaza, according to revised figures from the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA).

Netanyahu opposes “Palestinian sovereignty” in Gaza mentioned by Joe Biden

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday that he reiterated his opposition to Joe Biden. “Palestinian Sovereignty” In the Gaza Strip, to ensure that “Israel must retain control over security of Palestinian enclaves”. A day earlier, the American president, after a telephone conversation with the head of the Israeli government, announced that it was still possible for Mr. Netanyahu to accept some form of Palestinian state.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres assured during the Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Uganda that “The right of the Palestinian people to form their own state must be recognized by all” And all that “refusal” was “unacceptable”.

Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip since 2007, for its part, on Saturday rejected the US president’s comments on the possibility of a Palestinian state, calling them“delusion” WHO “Don’t Make a Fool” The Palestinians are not. Mr. Biden is “A perfect partner in a genocidal war and our people expect nothing better from them”An official of the Islamist movement, Izzat al-Richik, was critical “Those who consider themselves to be the official spokesmen for the Palestinian people and who want to determine for the Palestinian people the type of country that suits them”.

Five Iranian Revolutionary Guards Killed in Damascus in Strike Blamed on IsraelEL

Five members of the Revolutionary Guards were killed in an Israeli strike in Damascus, Iran’s ideological army said, prompting Tehran to threaten Israel with retaliation. The victims included two senior IRGC officers, according to a military source and Iranian media “Intelligence Chief and His Deputy for Guards in Syria”, according to the Iranian Mehr news agency. A total of ten people were killed in the strike, which destroyed a four-storey building in Maze District (West), where “Meeting of Pro-Iranian Leaders”Talked to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), a non-governmental organization with a wide network of sources in Syria.

In recent weeks, Israel, Iran’s sworn enemy, has been accused of killing a senior Iranian official in Syria and Hamas’s number two in Lebanon in targeted operations, raising fears of a widening of its war against the movement. Palestinian Islamic in Gaza. Asked by AFP, the Israeli military said it would not “Did not comment on foreign media information”.

This information was given by Nasser Kanani, the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran “firmly” condemned the attack, and his country threatened Israel with retaliation “Right Time and Place”, according to a press release from Iranian diplomacy. On January 15, the Revolutionary Guards launched an offensive against Iraqi Kurdistan “headquarters” From where, according to him, Israel’s intelligence services operated. They explained that they were responding to recent operations by Israel to eliminate Iranian or allied commanders.

The US says it has “destroyed” a Houthi missile

The Pentagon conducted the strike described as such“Self Protection” Around 4 am (local time) against the Houthis and “destroy A Houthi anti-ship missile that was targeted at the Gulf of Aden and was ready to be launched.”, the US military command in the Middle East (CENTCOM) said in a statement. Yemeni rebels have been repeatedly attacking commercial ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden for several weeks.

The Houthis have claimed to target merchant ships “Connected to Israel” in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, as a sign of solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza. American and British forces launched their first attack on the rebels in Yemen on January 12. Several other attacks have since followed, including Friday by the US military against missile launchers.

Around 25,000 people march in Madrid to demand “an end to the genocide in Palestine”

Thousands of people carrying Palestinian flags and chanting slogans against Israel marched in Madrid and other Spanish cities including Barcelona, ​​Valencia and Seville on Saturday. “Stopping the Genocide in Palestine”. In the Spanish capital, about 25,000 people, according to the government, marched in the center of the capital, between Atocha station and Sibel Square.

In Madrid, the head banner, in the colors of the Palestinian flag, told the Spanish government “End arms trade and ties with Israel”. Some demonstrators held signs with words written in English “Stop the Genocide”. There were demonstrations with slogans on the slogan of the Solidarity Network platform against the occupation of Palestine. “Let’s Stop the Genocide in Palestine”.

Within the European Union, Spain has been one of the most critical voices towards Israel in the conflict sparked by the October 7 attack by Hamas in Israel. In November, Israel recalled its ambassador to Spain for consultations over the comments “reprehensible” of the Socialist Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez. The latter was notably requested “Strict respect for international humanitarian law, which is clearly not respected today” in Gaza. Israel’s ambassador returned to Madrid in January.