Live Updates: Israeli overnight strikes kill more Palestinians in Gaza

Thursday, December 19, 2024

0837 GMT — At least 20 Palestinians, including several children, have been killed in overnight Israeli air strikes in Gaza, medics said.

Civil Defence spokesman Mahmoud Basal said the bodies of 18 people were retrieved from under the rubble of three homes after Israeli strikes in Gaza City and north of the enclave.

Seven children were among the victims, he said in a statement.

Separately, a husband and his wife have been killed in an Israeli strike on their home in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, a medical source said.

Meanwhile, the Israeli army continued to blow up Palestinian homes in the northern towns of Beit Lahia and Jabalia by using explosive-laden robots, witnesses said.

0908 GMT — Israeli strikes in Yemen 'dangerous development': Hamas

Palestinian resistance group Hamas has said that Israel's strikes in Yemen after the Houthis fired a missile at the country were a "dangerous development," while its armed wing called for more attacks on Israel.

"We regard this escalation as a dangerous development and an extension of the aggression against our Palestinian people, Syria and the Arab region," Hamas said in a statement as Israel struck ports and energy infrastructure in Yemen after intercepting a missile attack by the Houthis.

"We commend the missile attack carried out by our loyal brothers, the Ansar Allah in Yemen, targeting the heart of the Zionist entity," the group said in a separate statement.

0816 GMT — Israeli forces detain several Palestinians from the occupied West Bank

Israeli occupation forces have detained at least 14 Palestinians from various areas of the occupied West Bank since yesterday evening, continuing their ongoing crackdown on the local population.

According to the Palestinian Authority's Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoner's Society, the detention operations among the governorates of Nablus, Hebron, Jenin, Tulkarem and Ramallah.

Among the detainees was a woman from Gaza who was in the occupied West Bank for treatment, in addition to children and former detainees.