Evening recap
Good evening Middle East Eye readers,
Israeli forces have killed at least 126 Palestinians in air strikes and ground attacks across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Tuesday.
This brings the death toll since 7 October to at least 23,210 with 59,167 wounded and more than 7,000 missing who are believed to be dead and buried under rubble.
The Palestinian Prisoners' Society announced that Israel has detained at least 5,755 Palestinians since the start of the war.
The figure includes around 190 women and 335 children, the organisation said. Journalists are also among those detained.
In other developments:
- The UN's World Health Organisation (WHO) fears that hospitals in the southern and central Gaza Strip will collapse the way they did in the north.
- Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said that steps taken by Israel are aimed at displacing Palestinians.
- An Israeli air strike targeted a car near the home of Wissam al-Tawil on Tuesday, a senior Hezbollah commander who was killed on Monday in an air strike in southern Lebanon.
- Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, citing local sources.
- Air France stated that it will resume flights to Israel from 24 January, according to an airline spokesperson.
- Jordan's King Abdullah is set to meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday at a summit to address the "serious developments" occurring in the Gaza Strip.
- Over a dozen Senate Democrats announced their intention to oppose US President Joe Biden’s proposal to bypass congressional review of arms sales to Israel.
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