Live Updates: Israel kills 25 civilians in new Gaza carnage — Palestine

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

06:00 GMT - Israel kills 25 civilians in new Gaza carnage - Palestine

Israel has killed 25 Palestinians and wounded dozens of others during its ongoing bombardment of different areas in besieged Gaza, Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.

Citing medical sources at the European Gaza Hospital, WAFA reported that 11 people from the al Saiban and Ben Jermi families, most of whom are children and women, were killed and many others wounded in an Israeli air strike that targeted a house in the Mirage area, north of Rafah in besieged Gaza.

Israel also killed eight people and wounded dozens, including members of the Civil Defence, following an Israeli bombing of a site near the Civil Defence headquarters in Khan Younis City, said WAFA.

Israel also killed four people and wounded several others in air strike on the al Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, the news agency said, adding the Israeli bombardment of the Tel al Hawa neighbourhood in Gaza City resulted in the killing of two people and the wounding of several others.

05:33 GMT - UKMTO reports incident offshore Eritrea's Assab

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations [UKMTO] organisation has received a report of a small craft circling a vessel in the Red Sea about 105 kilometres northwest of Eritrea's Assab.

The vessel and crew were reported safe and are proceeding to their next port after security personnel on the ship "fired warning shots and small craft departed," UKMTO said in an advisory note.

Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have stepped up attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea in protest against Israel's brutal war on besieged Gaza.

04:49 GMT - Israeli 'colonists' attack Palestinian properties in West Bank

Scores of armed "Israeli colonists" have attacked the vehicles of Palestinian civilians in the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, WAFA news agency reported, citing local sources.

A group of "armed colonists" attacked Palestinian vehicles in the town of the town of Sinjil and smashed the windows of several cars.

WAFA said "colonists attacked citizens' vehicles on Monday evening at the junction of Ayun Haramiya, north of Ramallah."

04:15 GMT - Jewish activists storm Austrian Parliament to condemn Gaza genocide

A group of Jewish activists who oppose Israeli carnage have stormed the Austrian Parliament Building in Vienna to voice their rejection of the "massacre" and "genocide" committed by Israel in besieged Gaza.

Russia Today, citing eyewitnesses, stated that a group of young Jewish activists belonging to an organisation called "Don't Speak for Us", which opposes the positions of the Israeli government, interrupted a session of the Austrian parliament on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, shouting "Stop the genocide" and denouncing the Israeli crimes of ethnic cleansing in besieged Gaza.

The activists raised Palestinian flags and threw leaflets inside the Parliament Building while chanting slogans demanding an end to the genocide in Gaza before police intervened and forced them out.

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