Israel’s war on Gaza: List of key events, day 68

admin December 13, 2023

Pressure is mounting on Israel in the wake of a UNGA resolution, as Biden makes statements highlighting divisions with the Netanyahu government.

This is what it says on Wednesday, 13th December2023:

The latest developments

The United Nations General Assembly met in an emergency session on the Israel-Gaza war on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly for a ceasefire. The United States and Israel were among ten voices that voted against the non-binding resolution.
Harvard University Board of Directors has supported President Claudine Gay called for her resignation over Gay’s controversial actions Congressional Statement on the campus anti-Semitism dispute.
US media reports on Tuesday suggested that Israel has begun flooding with seawater a network of tunnels allegedly used by Hamas.
Sports brand Puma will stop sponsoring Israel’s national soccer team in 2024, a spokesman for the German company said on Tuesday. Puma has been on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) list since 2018 after the company first signed a deal to sponsor the Israel Football Association.

On Tuesday, Israeli forces exploded a UN Relief and Works Authority school building in Beit Hanoon in the north of the Gaza Strip.
An Israeli military attack on Jenin According to Al Jazeera correspondent Charles Stratford, pressure in the occupied West Bank has been going on for 29 hours as of Wednesday morning.
According to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Association, up to 100 Palestinians may have been arrested so far in the Jenin raid, while around 30 of those originally detained may have been released.
Around 8,000 people are missing or trapped under the rubble in Gaza, according to a civil defense official.
A statement from Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on Yemen’s Houthi group on Wednesday to “immediately release” hostages. Attacks on ships in the Red Sea that HRW says have no connection to Israel.
The Israeli military said on Wednesday that it had sent four new warships to the Red Sea following attacks by the Yemeni armed group.
Eight Israeli soldiers were killed last day, military spokesman Daniel Hagari said on Wednesday.
About 360,000 cases of illness have been discovered in overcrowded shelters for the 1.9 million people displaced by Israel’s military attack, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Tuesday in its latest situation report.

US President Joe Biden was at a fundraiser on Tuesday told the donors that Israel risks losing international support because of its “indiscriminate bombing” of civilians in the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was “extremely concerned by reports of a raid in….” Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza after several days of siege” in a post on X on Tuesday. Tedros called for an immediate ceasefire and the protection of everyone in the hospital.
To speed up aid deliveries, the Karem Abu Salem border crossing (called Kerem Shalom by Israel) between Israel and Gaza was opened on Tuesday and humanitarian trucks were checked before they were brought into the enclave through the Rafah border crossing, according to Palestinian Red Crescent officials .