al jazeera

By Lyndal Rowlands and Alastair Mccready

         “There is nothing left”: United Nations aid agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, shares footage showing where one of its health clinics once stood amid many destroyed buildings in northern Gaza.
   UN truck carrying food supplies has been hit by Israeli navy gunfire, says UNRWA director in Gaza, Thomas White.
   Some 8,000 displaced people leave al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis following a two-week siege by Israeli forces: Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS).
   US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is visiting the Middle East to push for a deal between Israel and Hamas on a truce and the release of captives in Gaza and Palestinian prisoners in Israel.
   At least 27,478 people have been killed and 66,835 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from the October 7 Hamas attacks stands at 1,139.

    UK-owned ship attacked by aerial drone off the coast of Yemen

    A Barbados-flagged, UK-owned cargo ship has been attacked by a drone off the coast of Yemen in the Red Sea, the Reuters news agency reports.

    The attack occurred 57km (around 35 miles) west of Hodeidah, a port city controlled by the Houthis. The ship was damaged but no injuries have been reported.

    The Houthis, who have not yet confirmed they carried out the attack, have been targeting ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden since November in protest at Israel’s war on Gaza.

    Confiscation of Palestinian child’s body a violation of int’l law: Organisation

    Israel has confiscated the body of a 14-year-old Palestinian boy who was killed by Israeli forces near Jerusalem on Monday in the occupied West Bank, the civil society organization Defense for Children International said.

    The withholding of Wadea Shadi Sa’d Elayan’s body brings the total number of Palestinian children’s bodies confiscated by Israel to 25, according to the Defense for Children organization.

    “Palestinian children cannot rest even in death as Israeli authorities continue confiscating children’s bodies and withholding them from their families indefinitely,” the organisation’s accountability director Ayed Abu Eqtaish said in a statement.

    “Israeli authorities’ practice of confiscating and withholding Palestinian bodies is a violation of international humanitarian law and international human rights law,” the organization said.

    From 2016 until now, Israel has withheld the bodies of 25 Palestinian children from their families – a practice that was approved by the Israeli Supreme Court in 2019 following a government order that the bodies of Palestinians alleged to have attacked Israelis be withheld from their families.

    According to the organization, 121 Palestinian children were killed by Israeli forces and settlers in the occupied West Bank in 2023 and, so far this year, 15 children have been killed in the occupied territory by Israeli settlers and soldiers.