EXPLAINER
Biden signed order to sanction West Financial institution settlers, Israeli siege on Gaza’s hospital continues.
Right here’s how issues stand on Friday, February 2, 2024:
Newest on human influence and combating
- The Palestine Pink Crescent Society (PRCS) has reported that Israel’s siege of the al-Amal Hospital in Gaza’s Khan Younis has continued for an eleventh day.
- PRCS additionally mentioned Israeli forces stormed al-Amal hospital for the third time on Thursday.
- Gaza’s Well being Ministry spokesperson, Ashraf al-Qudra, launched a press release on Thursday, warning that over 30,000 displaced folks in colleges close to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis don’t have any water, meals or child components.
- Israel introduced on Thursday that it had succeeded within the struggle within the southern Gaza metropolis of Khan Younis, the place Israel launched a serious floor assault final week, which suggests its forces may advance to Rafah on the enclave’s southern border.
- Greater than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million persons are sheltering in Rafah, primarily chilly and hungry in makeshift tents and public buildings.
Diplomacy
- The US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, spoke with the Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant, about shifting to “low-intensity operations in Gaza”, help for a diplomatic resolution alongside the Israel-Lebanon border and stability within the occupied West Financial institution.
- British Overseas Secretary David Cameron mentioned on Thursday that his nation may formally recognise a Palestinian state after a ceasefire in Gaza with out ready for the end result of talks on a two-state solution.
- US President Joe Biden will be a part of grieving households at Dover Air Power Base on Friday to honour three American service members killed in a drone assault in a US facility in Jordan’s Tower 22.
- Biden has signed an govt order on Thursday that goals to punish settlers who assault Palestinians within the occupied West Financial institution because the violence has surged since Israel’s battle on Gaza started.
Assaults within the West Financial institution
- Israeli forces fired at and injured a Palestinian man within the metropolis of Hebron, in response to native sources, Palestinian information company Wafa reported.
- Israeli settlers tried to set a automotive on fireplace on the outskirts of the Palestinian city of as-Sawiya, south of Nablus, Wafa reported.
- Israeli forces have performed raids within the cities of Jenin, Nablus and Hebron on Thursday night time, Wafa reported.