Casualties & Key Developments
- Gaza: 8,850 Killed and 22,219 Wounded
- Another Jabalia massacre: 50 people killed and 400 injured
- Occupied West Bank: 128 Killed and 1,980 Wounded
- Over a dozen Israeli soldiers killed as ground invasion continues
· U.S. sends additional troops, Israel deploys Saar-class corvette boats to Red Sea
- Hamas says seven captives killed in Jabalia bombing.
- Bolivia severs ties with Israel; Jordan, Colombia, and Chile recall ambassadors.
- Israeli warplanes bombed the Jabalia refugee camp for the second day in a row, killing and injuring dozens of Palestinians.
- Hamas confirmed that seven captives, including Israelis and three foreign citizens, were killed in Israel’s bombing of Jabalia.
- An entire neighborhood, known as Block 6, was flattened in the Jabalia refugee camp on Tuesday, killing 50 people and injuring 400.
- Scotland’s First Minister: “I am sorry to those innocent men, women and children in Jabalia Refugee Camp that the world could not protect you.”
- Israeli army: 15 soldiers have been killed in ground operations in Gaza
- Israel cut off communication and internet services in the Gaza Strip early on Wednesday, Palestine’s main telecommunications company, Paltel, announced.
- The Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital, the only cancer hospital in Gaza, was forced to shut down due to a fuel shortage just one day after being struck by Israel.
- Al-Jazeera: 76 “exceptional cases” were allowed to cross through the Rafah border into Egypt to receive urgent medical treatment; 300 people who hold foreign citizenship were allowed to leave the Gaza Strip
- Bolivia severs ties with Israel; Colombia and Chile recall their ambassadors. An Israeli official condemned Bolivia’s decision, accusing it of “supporting terrorism.”
- Hamas spokesperson ‘Abu Obaida’ refutes claims that Israel freed a captive soldier in a ground operation, saying the alleged soldier identified by Israel was never captured by Hamas.
- Hezbollah: group has carried out 105 attacks on Israel since October 7, claiming 120 Israeli military casualties (killed and injured), and the destruction of nine armed military vehicles; 48 Hezbollah fighters have been killed.
- Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah is expected to give a televised speech on Friday, the day the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will be visiting Israel.
