Israeli forces have arrested at least 35 people in occupied the West Bank since yesterday, a pair of prisoner advocacy groups in a statement
Children were among those detained, the Commission for the Affairs of Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners and the Palestinian Prisoners Club said.
The arrests were mostly made in the Jenin camp, it said. Israeli forces also raided the towns of Nablus, “accompanied by widespread sabotage and destruction operations,” the statement said. Since Oct. 7, about 4,730 people have been arrested by Israeli forces, it added.
Gaza is on the brink of a famine as more than half-a-million people face catastrophic levels of hunger, the World Food Programme’s chief economist, said yesterday in a video on X.
“We can still avoid this famine. But we need to make sure that people have food, people have water, they have shelter, they have sanitation,” Arif Husain said.
For that to happen, border crossings into the enclave need to open up, he said, before calling for a humanitarian cease-fire.
Only a few dozen aid trucks are being let into the Strip on a daily basis.
Hundreds would enter before Oct. 7. when Hamas launched a multipronged attack on Israel.
Hamas leader killed as Israeli operations go on in Khan Younis, IDF spokesperson says
A warplane killed a Hamas leader in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza as Israel’s navy, ground forces and air forces, engage in joint combat across the Gaza Strip, a spokesperson for the country’s military in a statement today.
Avichay Adraee added that militants “holding a rocket-propelled grenade in their hands,” had also been “eliminated by an Air Force plane.”
An IDF brigade also found weaponry inside a building, Adraee added, saying its troops destroyed Hamas infrastructure inside home of a militant.
NBC News has not independently verified the claims.
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