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While some non-fuel supplies have entered Gaza via the northern Erez crossing in recent days, the U.N. agencies said this was insufficient and difficult to deliver to Rafah, where a million Gazans are sheltering since Israeli military operations drove them out of northern Gaza, since it meant crossing active combat zones.
The Israeli military takes control of the Palestinian side of Gaza's southern Rafah Crossing. Reuters was able to locate the IDF footage of Rafah crossing from matching the building layout, road and vegetation layout as seen on file and satellite images. Reuters was not able to independently verify the footage.
According to analysis from the Institute for the Study of War and the AEI Critical Threats Project, Israeli forces had begun transitioning from clearing operations to holding operations in some areas of the northern Gaza Strip.
Bombing was at its most intense over the northern part of the Gaza Strip where orange flashes of explosions and black smoke could be seen as morning broke from across the fence in Israel. Planes roared overhead and the booms of air strikes thundered every few seconds, punctuated by rattling gunfire.
A map of the Gaza Strip shows Israeli forces ground incursions at three places along the southern-eastern border near Khan Younis. It also shows regions that have been demarcated as evacuation zones by the IDF.
Sources: Institute for the Study of War and AEI Critical Threats project; United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA); Global Human Settlement (European Commission); OpenStreetMap.
Two side-by-side maps of Gaza show likely damage to buildings between Oct. 5 - Dec. 4 and Dec. 4 - Dec. 16. The first one shows a lot of damage in North Gaza and Gaza City. The latter shows more new damage in the south compared to the north.
Notes: No recorded deaths during the ceasefire. On Nov. 11-12, Nov. 17-23, and Dec. 15-17, due to reasons including aerial bombardment and communications blackouts in Gaza, the Health Ministry did not update its cumulative death toll.
Palestinians fleeing northern Gaza walk towards the south, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip, Nov. 9, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
After encircling northern Gaza with ground forces, the Israeli air force dropped leaflets in eastern areas of Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip telling people to evacuate to shelters for their own safety.
While the truce for exchanges of hostages and prisoners between Israel and Hamas still holds, a resumption of hostilities and an expected Israeli offensive in the south could compel hundreds of thousands who fled Gaza City to uproot yet again, along with residents of Khan Younis, a city of more than 400,000, compounding an already dire humanitarian crisis.
Khan Younis is located in the southern half of the Gaza Strip. Tens of thousands of people displaced from the north have already sought refuge there in schools and tents, causing severe overcrowding amid shortages of food and water.
The surge in displaced people seeking safety has led to overcrowding in these facilities. Those newly displaced from the northern regions and other areas affected by the conflict are finding refuge in makeshift tent camps positioned around the hospitals and schools.
U.N. shelters are accommodating far more people than their intended capacity and are unable to accommodate new arrivals. Overcrowding is contributing to the spread of diseases, including acute respiratory illness and diarrhoea, prompting environmental and health concerns.
Women sit with children as displaced Palestinians, who fled their homes due to Israeli strikes, take shelter at Nasser hospital, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip Nov. 18, 2023. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Displaced Palestinians shelter in a tent camp, amid the conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Nov. 15, 2023. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Displaced Palestinians take shelter, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in a tent camp in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Nov. 20, 2023. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Two pipelines coming from Israel have been piping potable water into southern Gaza, according to the OCHA, but in the north, the main water desalination plant and Israeli pipelines have been out of service. Access to supply water to people in the north has been restricted for weeks. The risk of dehydration and of waterborne diseases from drinking unsafe water continues.
Palestinians queue as they wait to buy bread from a bakery, amid shortages of food supplies and fuel as the conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Nov. 17, 2023. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
A displaced Palestinian sheltering in a tent camp collects rainwater, due to the lack of drinking water, as the conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Nov. 15, 2023. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Displaced Palestinians work to fix a tent under the rain as people shelter in a tent camp, amid the conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Nov. 15, 2023. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
A satellite image of the Al Shifa hospital complex is annotated to show parts of the hospital, including a maternity department, a dialysis unit, a surgery and a morgue. People are also seen taking shelter in tents outside the hospital.
Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City has become the main target of the Israeli ground operation in northern Gaza. Israeli forces say the hospital sits atop tunnels housing a headquarters for the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas whose fighters are using patients as shields, a claim which Hamas denies.
The IDF has encircled the hospital complex on three sides, according to data from the Institute for the Study of War and AEI Critical Threats Project, a research group tracking IDF movements within Gaza. Witnesses described a situation that appeared calm, if tense, as Israeli troops moved between buildings carrying out searches.
A map shows the location of the Al Shifa Hospital complex in Gaza. The map has a base of rectangles for buildings. Two layers of blue shapes outline the areas where Israel said it is clearing out Hamas militants and the furthest reported Israeli advance positions close to the hospital. An inset map shows the whole of Gaza along with areas of reported Israeli ground operations.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said on Friday that one person was killed and 28 others, mostly children, were wounded in a shooting by Israeli forces at al-Quds. The group said a convoy sent to evacuate patients and staff had been unable to reach the hospital.
Israel has told civilians to leave and medics to send patients elsewhere. It says it has attempted to evacuate babies from the neonatal ward and left 300 litres of fuel to power emergency generators at the hospital entrance, but the offers were blocked by Hamas.
A graphic shows all demonstrations in the ACLED data clustered by whether they were pro-Palestinian, pro-Israel or neutral. Pro-Palestinian make up 3,761 demonstrations; pro-Israel, 529 demonstrations; and neutral, 95 demonstrations. About 5% of all demonstrations were unpeaceful or violent.
Note: Analysis includes peaceful protests, protests with intervention, protests with excessive force used against protesters and violent demonstrations as categorised by ACLED. Data from Oct. 7 to 27.
The largest number of demonstrations it recorded globally were directly after Israeli defence forces ordered Gazans to evacuate the northern half of the enclave on Oct. 13 and after the controversial blast at the Al-Ahli al-Arabi Hospital in Gaza City on Oct. 17, which Hamas attributed to Israeli forces. Israel and many western nations have strongly disputed the claim Israel was responsible for the strike.
A chart shows the number of demonstrations over time and divided by region. The Middle East and North Africa contribute the largest number of demonstrations. The highest overall number of demonstrations occur after events on Oct. 13 and Oct. 17.
While protests in cities such as London, Berlin and Washington received most media attention in the West, most demonstrations recorded by ACLED were in the Middle East and North Africa, predominantly Islamic areas where protestors were overwhelming pro-Palestinian.
More than 300,000 pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched through central London on Saturday, with police arresting over 120 people as they sought to stop far-right counter-protesters from ambushing the main rally.
At U.S. universities, duelling groups of student protestors have faced each other in tense standoffs, and there have been reports of harassment and assaults of both pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian students.
Sources: Institute for the Study of War and AEI Critical Threats project; United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA); Global Human Settlement (European Commision); OpenStreetMap.
On Monday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they had reopened an evacuation route for Gazans fleeing south. IDF spokesman Jonathan Conricus expressed hope that residents would do so, leaving northern Gaza relatively clear of civilians.
Since Israel ordered the evacuation of northern Gaza on Oct. 13, the IDF said they had dropped millions of pamphlets, conducted thousands of phone calls and used social media to tell Gazans to move south. Israel said at the time that more than 1 million people would be affected by the order. Hamas vowed to fight to the last drop of blood and told residents not to go.
Maps distributed by the IDF have directed Gazans to different areas of the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Pamphlets dropped in Gaza on Oct. 13 directed people to evacuate south of the Wadi Gaza, a coastal wetland in central Gaza. Other material shared by an IDF Arab media spokesperson on Oct. 16 showed a line far further south, near the northern border of the Khan Younis governorate.
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