By Abdul Adil
(AA, Al Jazeera, Wafa, NNA, The Muslim News):
GAZA
At least 19 more Palestinians were killed in unabated Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, bringing the overall death toll since October 2023 to 46,584, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Monday.
A ministry statement added that some 109,731 others were injured in the ongoing assault.
“Israeli forces killed 19 people and injured 71 others in two massacres of families in the last 24 hours,” the ministry said.
“Many people are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” it added.
Six Palestinians were killed and dozens were injured this evening following Israeli airstrikes targeting a residential area in Gaza City.
WAFA correspondents reported that the airstrikes hit a neighborhood belonging to the Abu Qeinas family near Al-Ghafari junction in Gaza City, resulting in six fatalities and more than 30 injuries.
In a separate attack, two people were killed and others were injured when Israeli warplanes targeted a group of civilians near UNRWA schools sheltering displaced families in the Al-Nasr neighborhood, west of Gaza City.
Meantime, medical sources confirmed that the death toll from ongoing Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, which began early this morning, has risen to more than 50.
The Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City is overwhelmed with injured individuals, as reported by medical staff. Due to the overcrowding, some wounded are being treated in the hospital courtyard, with doctors struggling to provide adequate care.
Four Palestinians were killed and several others injured on Monday afternoon as Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes on Gaza City.
According to local medical sources, two civilians were killed and others sustained injuries when Israeli forces targeted a gathering in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood.
In a separate attack near the Al-Yarmouk area, in Gaza City, two more fatalities were reported, along with additional injuries, following another airstrike on a civilian gathering.
Since this morning, Israeli occupation forces have carried out airstrikes on five different locations across the Gaza Strip, leaving dozens dead or injured, according to sources on the ground.
At least 11 Palestinians were killed and several others injured on Monday in Israeli strikes that targeted Gaza City and the northern enclave.
Five Palestinians were killed and others injured early in the day in an Israeli airstrike targeting a shelter in Gaza City, a medical source told Anadolu.
Witnesses said the strike targeted the Salah al-Din school in al-Daraj neighborhood, which serves as a shelter for the displaced.
Earlier, the civil defense reported an initial toll of four Palestinians killed in the attack.
In the northern Gaza Strip, one Palestinian was killed and others were injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a gathering of civilians in Jabalia town.
The UN on Monday reported that Israeli authorities allowed only seven out of 22 planned humanitarian aid into Gaza yesterday.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric, during a news conference, cited the Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), saying that “Israeli authorities continue to deny UN-led efforts to reach Palestinians with vital aid throughout Gaza.”
“OCHA is once again calling on the Israeli authorities to enable the delivery of life-saving assistance to people across the Strip,” Dujarric said.
Noting that Israeli authorities allowed “only seven of the 22 UN-planned humanitarian movements” on Sunday, Dujarric added that “six were denied outright, five were impeded and four were canceled due to security and logistical challenges
Palestinian group Hamas said Monday that its fighters had killed 10 Israeli soldiers in the northern Gaza Strip in the last three days.
“Over 10 Israeli soldiers were killed and scores injured in resistance attacks in the last 72 hours,” Abu Obaida, spokesman of Hamas’ armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, said in a statement.
He said Israeli military losses “are much higher than announced.”
“The (Israeli) enemy will be defeated from northern Gaza and will drag its tails of shame without being able to break the resistance,” he vowed.
The spokesman said the only achievements made by the Israeli army in northern Gaza are “destruction, devastation and massacres against innocent people.”
There was no immediate Israeli comment on the claim.
The Israeli army said on Saturday that four soldiers were killed and six others injured, including two critically, in a bomb explosion in Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza.
WEST BANK
A 19-year-old teenager sustained gunshot wounds in the neck when Israeli forces stormed the town of Saiir near Hebron and opened fire at residents there, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reports.
Confrontations broke out between residents of the town and Israeli soldiers, Wafa said. Upon raiding the town, Israeli troops also launched sound grenades, it added.
The Israeli army arrested 20 Palestinians north of Jericho in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reports.
Local sources told Wafa that the Israeli army stormed the village of az-Zubaidat in the evening. Those arrested were taken to an unknown location.
Earlier, illegal Israeli settlers raided the area of al-Jiftlik, north of Jericho, and fired live bullets. No injuries were reported.
A group of Israeli settlers attacked farmers this evening in the village of Al-Maniya, east of Bethlehem, according to Palestinian security and local sources.
The sources told WAFA that the settlers stormed the village, assaulted several farmers, and stole three livestock animals from them.
In a separate incident, Israeli occupation forces raided the village of Wadi Rahal, south of Bethlehem. They raided a storage facility belonging to a local resident and briefly detained four individuals.
Israeli settlers bulldozed the main road leading to five villages south of Nablus on Monday.
The deputy mayor of Qablan, Abdul Rahman Abed, told WAFA that settlers’ vehicles bulldozed the alternative road between the cities of Ramallah and Nablus, which serves the villages of Qablan, Yitma, Jurish, Talfit, Jalud and Qaryut.
He explained that the occupation forces had closed the road with earth mounds after the aggression on the Gaza Strip in October 2023, and notified 25 shops along the aforementioned road to stop work, and carried out bulldozing and expansion work for Rahalim colony near the road.
Abed pointed out that this road was used as an alternative road for the Nablus-Ramallah-Jerusalem line, when the main road passing near the villages of Al-Sawiya and Al-Lubban Al-Sharqiya was closed.
Israeli occupation forces Monday issued notifications of the demolition of a sheep barn in Khallet al-Fara, west of Yatta, south of Hebron.
Ibrahim al-Harini, a local resident, said that the occupation forces handed him a notice to demolish a sheep barn within a week from its date, noting that the barn has been in place for ten years, and that he lives in a tin room near the barn that was not included in the notice.
Khallet al-Fara is close to the Otniel colony, which is located on citizens’ lands in the area, and the occupation aims to demolish citizens’ properties to displace them from the area in favor of colonial expansion.
Settlers cut down olive seedlings in lands in the town of Nahalin, west of Bethlehem.
Local resident Hussein Shakarna, one of the victims, told WAFA that he was surprised today when he entered the land owned by his cousin Ali Shakarna in the Ein Fares area west of the town, located between Beitar Illit colony and the villages of Wadi Fukin and Al-Jab’a, when the settlers cut down 200 olive seedlings.
In a previous interview with WAFA, the head of the Nahalin village council said that a group of settlers established a pastoral colonial outpost in Ein Fares area, where they installed two large “barracks” for raising livestock.
He said that these steps will deprive citizens of their land, which is about 2,000 dunams in area, noting that the aforementioned area has been subjected to repeated attacks by the colonists of Beitar Illit, which included pumping wastewater, which led to the destruction of crops and the pollution of the water.
Israeli occupation forces Monday demolished a house under construction, a commercial store, and an agricultural facility, and bulldozed agricultural lands east of Qalqilya.
Local sources told WAFA that the occupation forces, with military reinforcements, stormed the village of Al-Funduq, and demolished a house under construction, estimated at 150 square meters, owned by local resident Hamouda Muhaisen, and a commercial store owned by local resident Mahran Muhaisen, with an area of half a dunam, under the pretext of not having a license.
The same sources added that these forces demolished an agricultural facility containing a barrack, a plastic house, and a water tank, owned by local resident Mohammad Amin Taym, and built on an area of approximately four dunams, which caused huge material losses.
In the same context, the occupation forces stormed the main entrance area of the village of Amatin, and began bulldozing areas of the village’s lands, near the main and only entrance.
LEBANON
Lebanese media on Monday reported four more Israeli violations of the cease-fire deal between Beirut and Tel Aviv.
The state news agency NNA said that an Israeli reconnaissance plane flew at low altitude over the southern city of Tyre.
Israeli army forces blew up several homes in the town of Aita ash-Shaab in southern Lebanon, the same source said.
Israeli soldiers also staged a large-scale search operation in the town of Khiam, while military vehicles were reported to be advancing into the town of Meiss El-Jabal, NNA said.
The Lebanese army forces were scheduled to be deployed in Meiss El-Jabal on Monday, but the move was postponed to a later time.
Lebanon and Israel reached a cease-fire deal on Nov. 27 to end over 14 months of fighting between the Israeli army and the Hezbollah group since the start of the Gaza war.
Lebanese authorities have reported, however, more than 470 Israeli violations of the cease-fire, including the killing of 32 people and injury of 39 others.
Under the cease-fire terms, Israel is required to withdraw its forces south of the Blue Line – a de facto border – in phases, while the Lebanese army is to deploy in southern Lebanon within 60 days.
The Israeli military conducted airstrikes in eastern Lebanon late Sunday.
Reports indicated that Israeli warplanes bombed areas near the town of Jinta, east of Baalbek.
In a statement, the Israeli military confirmed that based on intelligence information, it targeted several Hezbollah positions in Lebanon with airstrikes.
It said the Israeli military had informed the cease-fire monitoring mechanism that these targets posed a threat to Israel’s home front and military, but no action had been taken in response.
The airstrikes, according to the Israeli statement, were specifically aimed at Hezbollah’s smuggling routes used for transporting weapons along the Lebanon-Syria border.
Under the agreement, the Lebanese army is expected to gradually deploy to areas in southern Lebanon currently occupied by Israeli forces within 60 days.
YEMEN
The Israeli army claimed Monday that it intercepted a drone in southern Israel that had been launched from Yemen.
“The Air Force has just intercepted a drone launched from Yemen in southern Israel,” army spokesperson Avichay Adraee said on X.
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree has issued a statement confirming the group’s responsibility for two air raids launched against Israel today.
A hypersonic ballistic missile was launched towards a “vital target” of the Israeli military in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa area, Saree said in a video statement posted on X.
Four drones were also launched towards the same area, he added.
Houthis have launched attacks on what they say Israeli-linked commercial shipping in the Red Sea for more than a year, in solidarity with Palestinians being attacked in Gaza by Israel.
In response, the US is leading a military coalition that is bombing Houthi targets in Yemen.
Houthis have recently escalated their attacks against Israel and US targets.
[Photo: A view of the heavy destruction in the buildings of Shamaa, a town in southern Lebanon’s Tyre district, following the withdrawal of the Israeli army two days ago, on January 13, 2025. Photojournalist: Stringer/AA]
