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A newborn Palestinian baby who was 30 days old died in Gaza from hypothermia on Sunday.
The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza confirmed the death of Juma al-Batra, making Juma the fifth newborn baby to die from hypothermia in the besieged enclave.
Speaking to Al Jazeera, Juma's father told the news network that the family had been evacuated from Beit Lahiya to the Central Gaza Strip eight months ago and did not have a tent.
The father told Al Jazeera he only had a few blankets and wood to protect his family, but that was not enough to protect Juma, as he was also unable to bring blankets and winter clothes.
Juma has a twin brother who is currently in the ICU.
Gaza Civil Defence is reporting that Israeli forces killed at least seven people after they attacked the upper floor of the al-Wafaa hospital in Gaza city on Sunday.
The al-Wafaa hospital is one of the last remaining medical facilities in the Gaza Strip.
Good evening Middle East Eye readers. On Saturday, Israeli forces killed at least 39 Palestinians in bombings across the Gaza Strip. Twenty-seven of those killed were killed in northern Gaza.
In the aftermath of the Israeli raid of the Kamal Adwan Hospital on Friday, hospital director Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh remains under Israeli arrest.
In the last photo of him before he was arrested, Abu Safiyeh could be seen walking alone in his medical garb and white coat towards two Israeli tanks amid the rubble.
Here is what else you need to know about Saturday's developments in Israel's war on Gaza:
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Gaza's civil defence said on Saturday that at least three Palestinians were killed or wounded in an Israeli bombing of an area in Gaza City.
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Hamas' armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, said in a statement that its fighters confronted an Israeli military force in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, killing and wounding Israeli soldiers with "light weapons and hand grenades".
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Two rockets were fired from Gaza towards West Jerusalem, in the first such attack to have taken place in months. The attack took place despite Israel's heavy military presence in the north.
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As a result of the missile attack, Israel's military issued a forced displacement notice in Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza.
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The spokesman for the armed forces of the Houthi movement in Yemen said that the group launched a hypersonic ballistic missile targeting the Negev air base in southern Israel. Israel said it had intercepted a missile from Yemen before it entered Israeli air space.
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The Houthi spokesman also said that the Yemeni group downed its 13th American MQ-9 Reaper drone. Each of these drones is roughly worth $31m.
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Amid the ongoing attacks by Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces against Palestinian fighters in Jenin, Palestinian journalist Shaza al-Sabbah was fatally shot in the head.
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Sabbah's family has said that security forces shot her while she was leaving her house. A spokesperson for the PA security forces said they were not at the scene of the shooting.
Palestinian journalist Shaza al-Sabbah was shot dead amid ongoing attacks by Palestinian Authority forces against fighters in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, according to several reports.
According to the director of the Jenin Hospital, Sabbah was shot in the head, and Palestinian news outlets reported that eyewitnesses saw her carrying a child at the time of the shooting.
Several Palestinian news outlets have said that a sniper with the PA security forces killed Sabbah. Middle East Eye cannot independently verify these reports.
Medical sources in the Gaza Strip told Al Jazeera that 39 Palestinians have been killed so far on Saturday in Israeli raids across the enclave.
Twenty-seven of those killed were in northern Gaza.
Gaza's civil defence said on Saturday that at least three Palestinians were killed or wounded in an Israeli bombing of an area in Gaza City.
Photographer Muhannad al-Muqayed has posted on his Instagram account the last photo that he took of Kamal Adwan Hospital director Hussam Abu Safiyeh before he was arrested by Israeli forces.
In the photo, Abu Safiyeh is seen walking alone in his medical garb and white coat towards two Israeli tanks.
Qatar's prime minister and foreign minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, discussed developments regarding the Gaza ceasefire talks with a Hamas delegation in Doha on Saturday, according to the Qatari foreign ministry.
The Hamas delegation was headed by senior official Khalil al-Hayya.
Reporting by Reuters
Hamas' armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, said in a statement that its fighters confronted an Israeli military force in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, killing and wounded Israeli soldiers with "light weapons and hand grenades".
The group did not provide further details, and the Israeli military has not commented on the incident.
The spokesman for the armed forces of the Houthi movement, officially known as Ansar Allah, said on Saturday that the group shot down another American MQ-9 Reaper drone.
The spokesman said that the drone was shot down while it was carrying out missions in the Bayda governorate, an area located between the cities of Sanaa and Aden. He added that the drone was shot down using a "locally-made surface-to-air missile".
After Israel launched its war on Gaza, Ansar Allah responded by launching a blockade of Israeli-linked ships travelling in the Red Sea. After launching the blockade, the Houthis came in direct confrontation with the US, and Washington responded by launching a military operation against the Yemeni group.
This operation has included direct air strikes on Yemeni territory.
According to Ansar Allah, this is the 13th drone that the group has shot down since the Israeli war on Gaza began last October.
With each drone costing approximately $31m, that would mean that the total cost of the downed drones is more than $400m.
US Central Command has yet to comment on the statement from Ansar Allah.
The Israeli military on Saturday confirmed it arrested the director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, a day after Israeli forces stormed the hospital and forcibly emptied it of patients and medical staff.
The military said it had taken Dr Hussam Abu Safiya in for questioning, and accused him of being a "suspected Hamas terrorist operative".
The Israeli military said that it arrested "240+ Hamas, Islamic Jihad terrorists" in the hospital.
Hamas has denied there was any armed presence in the hospital from any Palestinian factions, saying Israel was lying to justify storming the hospital.
Several medical staff were burned alive in fires set off during Israel's raid on the medical facility, and patients and medics were stripped down before being forced out of the hospital on foot.
The Kamal Adwan Hospital was the last large medical facility that remained functioning in northern Gaza before the raid.
Hospitals and medical facilities are considered protected sites during wartime under international law, however, Israel has repeatedly attacked hospitals in Gaza throughout its war on the besieged enclave.
📍𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗽: 𝗛𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗞𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗱𝘄𝗮𝗻 𝗛𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) December 28, 2024
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Israel's military on Saturday issued a forced displacement notice in Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza after saying two rockets were fired from the area into West Jerusalem.
Army spokesperson Avichay Adraee said residents “must evacuate the area immediately and move south towards Salah al-Din Street. Moving via another road exposes you to danger”.
The attack was the first time long-range missiles have been fired from Gaza in months.
Disturbing videos have emerged showing Palestinian officers abusing critics of the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) ongoing crackdown on anti-Israel resistance in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
One video shows a handcuffed and blindfolded young man being thrown into a garbage container, while security personnel assault and curse him.
Another clip depicts a detainee being slapped and beaten in the face while his head is covered with a plastic bag.
In a further disturbing video, two detainees, bound and blindfolded, are forced to face a wall with one leg raised. They are made to chant, "God, President Abu Mazen," in a scene reminiscent of tactics used by the government of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The Committee of Political Prisoners’ Families in the West Bank condemned the arrest campaign, which it said targeted individuals who expressed opposition to the security campaign on social media.
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Days after the US pushed for the retraction of an aid group's report that warned of imminent famine in northern Gaza, aid groups and human rights experts are sharing their concerns over the move.
Earlier this week, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) - an initiative funded by USAID, the US government agency that oversees foreign aid - took down a report on its website that sounded the alarm about tens of thousands of Palestinians in northern Gaza at risk of death under Israeli siege.
The move came after the US ambassador to Israel, Jacob Lew, reprimanded FEWS NET on social media. US officials later confirmed to the Associated Press that the Biden administration pushed for the report to be retracted.
“The whole point of creating FEWS is to have a group of experts make assessments about imminent famine that are untainted by political considerations,” Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch and now a visiting professor in international affairs at Princeton University, told the AP.
“It sure looks like USAID is allowing political considerations - the Biden administration’s worry about funding Israel’s starvation strategy - to interfere.”
A spokesman for the armed forces of the Houthi movement in Yemen said on Saturday that the group had launched a hypersonic ballistic missile targeting the Negev air base in southern Israel.
The Houthi movement, known officially as Ansar Allah, said that the attack "successfully hit its target". The missile was named "Palestine 2".
On Friday night, Israel's military said that it had intercepted a missile launched from Yemen before it reached Israeli territory. It is unclear if this was the same attack announced by the Yemeni group on Saturday.
