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The Israeli military has killed 13 members of the same family in Gaza City, new footage captured by Al Jazeera has shown.
The organisation's Moath al-Kahlout, a journalist in northern Gaza, visited the scene of a recent Israeli attack in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of the city and found that it killed 13 members of the Zohod family.
"We only managed to recover two from under the rubble," surviving relative Ayman Zohod said.
An Israeli attack on the designated "humanitarian zone" of al-Mawasi near Khan Younis in Gaza injured children, footage verified by Al Jazeera has shown.
Videos released by local platforms showed that children comprised the majority of people injured in the bombing.
Local sources have reported that the bombing killed one Palestinian woman.
Wounded people were seen arriving at Nasser Hospital for treatment on Monday.
Israeli air strikes have killed 15 Palestinians in various parts of the Gaza Strip since Monday morning, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.
Earlier, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported that the Israeli army had carried out three massacres over the past 24 hours, leaving 48 dead and 75 wounded.
The Israeli minister of regional cooperation, Dudi Amsalem, has issued a stark warning, suggesting that Israel may seize control of the Gaza Strip if detainees held by Hamas there are not returned.
In an interview on Israeli media, he said "The [Israeli army] won't leave Gaza for another ten years. If our kidnapped people don't come, there's no way, there's no other reality at all."
During the interview he also added that "the fighting in Gaza will continue for many more years".
Israeli occupation forces have established military checkpoints in Nablus, restricting access to roads leading to Jenin and Tubas in the northern occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera Arabic.
This follows a shooting in the occupied West Bank that killed three Israelis and wounded eight others, with one of the injured in critical condition.
A shooting in the occupied West Bank has killed three Israelis, and wounded eight others, with one of the injured in critical condition.
Attackers on Monday morning targeted a bus and two cars near the village of al-Funduq, east of Qalqilya, where settlers often transit through to the illegal settlements of Kedumim, Shavei Shomron, and others.
Israeli officials said two Palestinians were responsible for the shooting with the fate of the attackers unknown.
According to Israel's emergency services, Magen David Adom, a bus driver was left seriously wounded while two other Israelis were in moderate condition and five more had mild injuries.
Israel's finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, described the attack as an act of terrorism and compared it to the events in Gaza.
Read more: Several Israelis killed and wounded during shooting in occupied West Bank
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has come under fire after the Magistrate Court in Ramallah, located in the occupied West Bank, ordered the closure of several Al Jazeera websites for four months, according to court documents.
In a letter issued on Sunday, the attorney general’s office instructed the Palestinian Ministry of Communication to enforce the decision. The affected websites include aljazeera.net, aljazeera.net/live, aljazeera360.com, and global.ajplus.net.
The court order demanded all licensed broadcasting companies comply “under penalty of legal accountability,” claiming the websites contained material that "threatens national security and incites the commission of crimes."
Critics have decried the move as a troubling escalation in the PA's restrictions on press freedom, accusing it of mirroring Israeli practices aimed at silencing dissenting voices and limiting coverage of events in the occupied territories.
The General Union of Arab Journalists has also strongly criticised the Palestinian Authority’s decision to close Al Jazeera’s office in the West Bank, urging an immediate reversal of the move.
The General Union of Arab Journalists has strongly criticised the Palestinian Authority’s decision to close Al Jazeera’s office in the West Bank, urging an immediate reversal of the move, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.
The union issued a statement condemning the closure as aligning with Israeli practices against Al Jazeera crews, including the recent shuttering of the network’s Ramallah office.
“This decision serves the continuation of Zionist aggression on Gaza and the targeting of journalists,” the union said, adding that such actions undermine press freedom and the public’s right to information.
The statement demanded the Palestinian Authority allow Al Jazeera to resume its operations and freely cover events in the West Bank. Critics have called the closure a dangerous blow to independent journalism in the region.
Since 7 October, 2023, the death toll from Israel's assault on Gaza has climbed to 45,854, with 109,139 individuals wounded, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza has reported that the Israeli occupation carried out three massacres in the Strip over the past 24 hours, leaving 48 dead and 75 injured.
Philippe Lazzarini, who heads the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (Unrwa), has said only a Palestinian state can replace the work his agency does.
Unrwa has been subject to a sustained Israeli campaign, which accuses it of supporting "terrorism" against the state.
Critics instead accuse Israel of wanting to stifle the organisation's work, as it is responsible for highlighting the plight of Palestinian refugees, who are largely descendants of Palestinians expelled to make way for the establishment of Israel during the Nakba.
“In #Gaza, since the war began, UNRWA has become a lifeline for 2 million people.
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) January 6, 2025
🔹Our health teams provided 6.7 million medical consultations (over 1,600/ day)
🔹730,000 people received mental health and psychosocial support
🔹With partners, we vaccinated 560,000 children… pic.twitter.com/8SVUH7Ij4U
The bombing of Beit Hanoun has been intensifying since a rocket barrage by Palestinian resistance fighters on a key crossing with Israel.
On Saturday, the Israeli army said a rocket launched from northern Gaza struck the Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing, with no immediate reports of damages or injuries.
Rockets have been launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel for nine days in a row as Israel continues its relentless bombing campaign and ground invasion of the Palestinian enclave.
Footage shared on social media reportedly shows the Israeli army’s intense bombing of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza. Many reports say families in the area are being completely wiped out by the Israeli military pic.twitter.com/VLawKbu90e
— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) January 6, 2025
Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich took to X, stating that Palestinian towns in the West Bank "should look like [Gaza's] Jabalya," a reference to the heavily bombarded area in Gaza.
"The terror [attacks] in Judea and Samaria and the terror coming from the Gaza Strip is one and the same," Smotrich declared, further adding that Israel should not trust the Palestinian Authority when assessing its security needs.
The number of casualties from a shooting attack on vehicles and a bus near the village of Funduq, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, has risen to seven, according to the Israeli military and emergency services.
Magen David Adom, Israel's emergency service provider, confirmed that three victims were killed, including two women and a man.
Israeli Army Radio reported that the military has sealed off surrounding villages in a bid to locate the suspects.
Palestian sources informed Al Jazeera Arabic that Israeli settlers launched an attack on Palestinian vehicles near the village of Burin, south of Nablus.
