Israel’s war on Gaza: List of key events, day 140

admin February 23, 2024

EXPLAINER

As attacks continue in the besieged enclave, Gaza’s 2.3 million residents face acute hunger and a humanitarian crisis.

This is what it says on Friday, February 23rd2024:

Fighting and humanitarian crisis

Authorities in the besieged enclave said 40 people were killed and more than 100 injured in a series of Israeli attacks on the center of the Gaza Strip on Thursday.
As the Israeli attack on Nasser Hospital in the town of Khan Younis continues, aid agencies hope to evacuate an estimated 140 patients stranded there. Palestinian authorities reported that Israeli troops withdrew from the complex and then stormed it again.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said 110 patients were awaiting evacuation. It said eight patients at Nasser had died four days earlier from a lack of power and oxygen and that their bodies had begun to decompose, posing a danger to other patients.
Gaza’s 2.3 million residents are suffering acute hunger and the spread of disease in a humanitarian crisis that aid workers say is unprecedented.
Separately, an independent panel investigating Israeli claims about links between the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, will consider whether the agency has done enough to stop the U.N. maintain standards of neutrality.

Speaking to reporters during the G20 foreign ministers’ summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Israel cannot unilaterally block a Palestinian state.
In New York City, thousands of demonstrators marched to the offices of the pro-Israel lobby group American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), demanding an immediate ceasefire in Israel’s war on Gaza.
China declared this before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). that the Palestinians Justice “should not” be denied at a hearing on the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.
“Justice has been a long time coming, but it cannot be denied,” Chinese Foreign Ministry legal adviser Ma Xinmin told the court in The Hague
Finally, as tensions continued to rise in the region, the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah said it attacked several Israeli bases and targeted two buildings in the cities of Metula and Manara where troops had gathered.
The group said its attacks on Israel would stop when the war in Gaza ends.

In the occupied West Bank, an Israeli airstrike hit a vehicle in Jenin refugee camp, killing at least one person.
Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the country’s Defense Ministry would approve the construction of 3,344 new homes in illegal Israeli settlements.
Israeli forces also destroyed two houses, a well and the electricity grid in the community of Khallet al-Farra, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency reported.
On Wednesday, at least one person was killed and eight wounded when three Palestinian gunmen opened fire on motorists near an Israeli checkpoint near occupied East Jerusalem.