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The death toll in Gaza has reached 18,412 since the start of the war on 7 October, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
The ministry added on Tuesday that at least 50,100 Palestinians have also been wounded in the aggression.
The Israeli Knesset Finance Committee on Tuesday approved its final readings for a supplementary budget for 2023 to cover the cost of the bombardment of Gaza and the border with Lebanon, according to Israeli media.
The additional budget adds an extra $7.8bn to the original 2023 budget, raising the total to $138bn.
Video footage posted by an Israeli Channel 13 reporter on social media platform X appears to show Israeli forces bombing a Unrwa school in Gaza's Beit Hanoun on Tuesday.
It is still unclear if anyone was killed in the bombing in the northern Gaza Strip, however thousands of Palestinians have been sheltering in Unrwa schools since the start of the war on 7 October.
Abdullah Yacoub, a resident of Jenin's Sibat neighbourhood, narrates the moment that an Israeli drone attack on Jenin on Tuesday morning.
The drone strike killed four Palestinians and wounded at least five others during a raid on the city in the northern occupied West Bank.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday that only 11 of Gaza's hospitals remain "partially functional" and called for the rest to remain intact.
"In just 66 days, the health system has gone from 36 functional hospitals to 11 partially functional hospitals – one in the north and 10 in the south," Richard Peeperkorn, WHO representative for the West Bank and Gaza, told a UN press briefing by videolink from Gaza.
"We cannot afford to lose any more health care facilities or hospitals," he said. "We hope, we plea that this will not happen."
A French warship, known as the FREMM Languedoc, has destroyed a drone that targeted the Norwegian oil tanker Strinda by Yemen's Houthis, the French defence ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
The ministry said the attack had taken place in the evening of 11 December, and had caused a fire on board the tanker, which was sailing under the Norwegian flag.
A spokesperson for Yemen's Houthi administration, Yahya Saree, confirmed that it was behind the attack on a Norway-flagged chemical tanker off the Yemeni coast on its way to Israel.
"In support of the oppressed Palestinian people, currently reeling under the destruction, killing and siege of the Gaza Strip, and to heed the calls of our free Yemeni people, the Yemeni Naval Forces carried out an outstanding military operation against MV Strinda," Saree said.
The Israeli army believes it would not be "morally sound" to investigate incidents of friendly fire that occured on 7 October, the Israeli media outlet Yedioth Ahronot reported on Tuesday.
The army believes that it likely killed its own people following Hamas's surprise attack, but has decided that "beyond the operational investigations of the events", further investigations of these would be ruled out.
This is due to both the "immense and complex quantity of them that took place in the kibbutzim and southern Israeli communities [and] due to the challenging situations the soldiers were in at the time", according to the report.
It remains unclear how many Israelis were killed by its own army. As many as 1,200 people died on 7 October.
Following a siege for several days, Israeli forces raided Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza on Tuesday, the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza said.
The hospital has also been bombed by Israeli forces over the last week.
The director of the hospital, Ahmed Al-Kahlot, said on Monday that the Israeli military directly bombed the maternity ward, resulting in the deaths of two women and their two children, and the amputation of a third woman's feet, the Palestinian media outlet Wafa reported.
Following Tuesday's raid, Israeli forces gathered the hospital's medical teams and displaced men in the courtyard, Wafa reported.
The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital said that there were 65 cases of infections, 12 children in intensive care, six premature babies, 100 medical personnel and 3,000 displaced people inside the hospital.
According to maritime traffic website Vessel Finder, shipping traffic at the Israeli Red Sea port of Eilat has all but stopped.
No vessels have arrived at the port in 24 hours and no ships are expected to arrive for the next 30 days, according to the tracking website.
The cost of insurance premiums for Israeli shipping have soared following the 7 October assault by Hamas and Israel's war on Gaza. Since then, the Yemeni Houthi group have targeted ships heading towards Israel through the Red Sea.
The spokesperson for Yemen's Houthi administration, Yahya Saree, said on Tuesday that "to heed the calls of our free Yemeni people, the Yemeni Naval Forces carried out an outstanding military operation against the MV Strinda".
The measures against Israeli ships would continue "in support of the oppressed Palestinian people, currently reeling under the destruction, killing and siege of the Gaza Strip", Saree added.
Puma is terminating its sponsorship of Israel's national football team, according to an internal note seen by the Financial Times.
Palestinian activists are celebrating the decision as a victory for the boycott campaign they have been running since the deal was signed in 2018.
Puma, however, said the deal was set to expire in 2024 and that it would not renew its contract with the Israel Football Association (IFA).
Puma's stores in some western cities have been targeted with demonstrations in recent weeks following Israel's two-month assault on Gaza, which has killed more than 18,000 Palestinians.
Following a siege for several days, Israeli forces have raided Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said.
"Israeli occupation forces are storming Kamal Adwan Hospital after besieging and bombing it for days," the ministry's spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said in a statement.
"We call on the United Nations, the World Health Organisation and the International Committee of the Red Cross to act immediately to save the lives of those in the hospital," he added.
About 3,000 people are taking shelter at the hospital.
The hospital is situated near the Jabalia neighbourhood, which has been the scene of intense fighting in recent days.
An Israeli drone attack on Jenin on Tuesday morning killed four Palestinians and wounded at least five others during a raid on the city in the northern occupied West Bank, the local health ministry said.
Yacoub Abdullah, a resident of Jenin's Sibat neighbourhood, told Middle East Eye that he was sitting with his friends near the main street when they heard the sound of a huge explosion.
"The sound shook the entire city. We ran to the site of the explosion to find all the young men on the ground bleeding. Three of them were dead and the others were seriously injured," Abdullah said.
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Of the 105 Israeli soldiers killed in the Gaza Strip during the ground offensive, 20 were killed in friendly fire and other accidents, according to new data released by the Israeli army.
Thirteen soldiers were killed by friendly fire – including air strikes, tank fire and gunfire – The Times of Israel reported.
Two soldiers were killed in incidents involving military vehicles running over troops, the Israeli media outlet reported.
The head of the World Health Organization on Tuesday said he was concerned about the prolonged checks of medical supply convoys in the Gaza Strip and the detention of health workers after such an incident led to the death of a patient in critical condition.
In a post on the X social media platform, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said a WHO-led mission to Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza on Saturday was stopped twice at the Wadi Gaza checkpoint, run by the Israeli army, on the way to north Gaza and on the way back.
"We are deeply concerned about prolonged checks and detention of health workers that put lives of already fragile patients at risk," Tedros said.
A spokesperson for Yemen’s Houthi administration, Yahya Saree, confirmed that it was behind a missile attack on a Norway-flagged chemical tanker off the Yemeni coast on its way to Israel.
“In support of the oppressed Palestinian people, currently reeling under the destruction, killing and siege of the Gaza Strip, and to heed the calls of our free Yemeni people, the Yemeni Naval Forces carried out an outstanding military operation against MV Strinda,” Saree said.
“Over the past two days, the Yemeni Armed Forces prevented a number of vessels from passing through. Those vessels heeded our warnings," he added.
“We reiterate that we will continue to prevent all vessels headed to the Israeli ports, regardless of their nationalities, from navigating in the Arab or Red Sea, until the necessary food and medical supplies are delivered to our brothers in the Gaza Strip,” said Sarie.
