Israel’s war on Gaza: List of key events, day 117

admin January 31, 2024

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Israel confirms flooding of tunnels with seawater as UN demonstrates to resume UNRWA funding.

This is what it says on Wednesday, 31 January2024:

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The Israeli army confirmed on Tuesday that it has been flooding tunnels in Gaza with seawater for several weeks.
A Hamas official told Reuters on Tuesday that the group was considering a new attack proposal three-stage ceasefire with Israel.
At least half of the buildings across the Gaza Strip have been destroyed since October 7, according to an analysis confirmed by the BBC on Tuesday.
Israel has repeated new evacuation orders for neighborhoods in western Gaza City where 88,000 Palestinians had been living in emergency shelters, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said in a report on Monday.

The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) said a US warship shot down a Houthi anti-ship cruise missile in 2019 the Red Sea on Tuesday.
US-based think tanks Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and Critical Threats Project (CTP) said on Wednesday that Palestinian armed groups were likely in the early stages of rebuilding their military and government capabilities only in northern Gaza. Their assessment added that Hamas was not necessarily preparing for an offensive campaign in the manner suggested by Western media.
The Israeli military announced on Wednesday that three soldiers were killed Fight in Gazafive others were seriously injured.
The fate of an ambulance crew and a six-year-old girl who tried to rescue them from a car that had been bombed Israeli military in Gaza City remains “unknown,” the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said on Tuesday.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to major donors to resume funding for the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) at a closed meeting of 35 countries on Tuesday, The Times of Israel reported.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opposes the immediate closure of UNRWA because he fears it could lead to a “humanitarian catastrophe,” a senior government official said on Tuesday, according to The Times of Israel.
Martin Griffiths, U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, warned in a statement released on Tuesday that suspending funding to UNRWA would “lead to the collapse” of the aid system in the Gaza Strip.
The US has “reached out to the Israeli government for further information.” Accusations made by Israel against the involvement of 12 UNRWA employees in the October 7 Hamas attacks, Washington’s UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told reporters on Tuesday.
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The UN Security Council is expected to meet to discuss the International Court of Justice’s decisions preliminary decision about Israel’s war in Gaza on Wednesday at 11 a.m. New York time (16:00 GMT).
The U.N. human rights office released a statement on Tuesday saying the “planned extrajudicial execution” of three people was taking place Palestinian men indoors Ibn Sina Hospital in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin “unlawful.”
Iraq’s Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah group said in a statement released Tuesday that it had suspended all military operations against U.S. forces in the region to prevent “embarrassment of the Iraqi government.”