Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza
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Evening recap

30 January 2024 23:49 GMT

Good evening MEE readers. An Israeli covert operation in the occupied West Bank early on Tuesday saw several agents disguised as doctors and patients enter a hospital in Jenin and kill three people, including a patient who was semi-paralysed.

Israel said it conducted a successful operation, and the US stood by Israel's claim that it was targeting Hamas operatives who were planning an action against Israeli forces. Human rights groups and experts, however, condemned the act as a war crime.

Meanwhile, Gaza's hospitals continue to face shortages of medical supplies. A delegation from the World Health Organisation attempted to reach Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis to deliver supplies but was unable to because of delays.

Al-Amal Hospital was faced with a barrage of Israeli attacks on Tuesday, leading to the death of one displaced person who was sheltering there. Israeli forces later stormed the hospital, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society, which operates at the hospital.

Here's what else you need to know about today's developments:

  • A new analysis by the BBC has found that more than 50 percent of the buildings in Gaza have been either damaged or destroyed since Israel's war in Gaza began.

  • An international charity told MEE that they are being forced to pay $5,000 a truck to a company linked to Egypt’s General Intelligence Service to get aid into Gaza.

  • Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed Iraqi paramilitary group, announced that it would halt military and security actions against US forces.

  • The White House said that the US could have a tiered response, that includes multiple actions, to the drone attack that killed three American troops in Jordan on Sunday.

  • Israel's military said that it had flooded some Hamas tunnels with seawater.

  • Yesterday, we reported that a young girl was trapped inside a car with the bodies of her family members who were killed by Israeli soldiers. It's now been well over 24 hours since the Palestine Red Crescent Society sent a rescue crew to find her. PRCS is still out of contact with that rescue crew, whose fate alongside the young girl is still unknown.