Two
shepherds are killed in the village of
Wazzani,
Lebanon, after Israeli soldiers opened fire in their direction, while a 16-year-old boy is killed during
shelling by the Israeli Army, bringing the death toll in Lebanon to 66.
(AFP via Barron's)
Russia strikes 118
Ukrainian towns and villages with
artillery, missiles, and drones over a 24-hour period, the most in a single day this year. More than 40 attacks are reported in
Avdiivka.
(BBC News)
Four people are killed in
Wadi Saluki,
Lebanon, during a shelling by Israeli soldiers. Hamas also launches 12 rockets from southern Lebanon towards
Kiryat Shmona, wounding two people.
(The National)
The
Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital,
Gaza's only medical facility serving
cancer patients, is forced to suspend operations after running out of fuel. Sixteen of the Gaza Strip's 35 hospitals and more than 50 of its 72 primary healthcare clinics are now unusable.
(Al Jazeera)
The number of victims of the Israeli bombings of the refugee camp exceeds 1,000 with 195 confirmed killed, 120 still missing, and at least 777 injured.
(Al Jazeera)
UNICEF estimates that more than 3,500 children have been killed during the war, saying that "children have endured too much already, the killing and captivity of children must stop".
(The Courier)
Israel strikes a
UNRWAschoolyard in the
Al-Shati refugee camp where thousands of
displaced people are taking shelter. The strikes come after five Palestinians were killed in an earlier raid targeting areas near the school.
(Al Jazeera)
Eleven bakeries in Gaza have been destroyed in airstrikes during the war, according to the
UN relief agency.
(Al Jazeera)
At least 9,061 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the war began, including at least 3,760 children.
(The Business Standard)
At least 60 people are detained overnight across the West Bank. The total number of Palestinians detained since the war started now exceeds 1,800 with about half of them being held in
administrative detention.
(Al Jazeera)
The
IsraeliMinistry of Labor reports that the country's
agricultural sector is suffering "significant damage" due to an exodus of thousands of
foreign workers. More than a quarter of the nearly 30,000 foreign workers have left the country and about 20,000 Palestinian agricultural workers have not been allowed to enter Israel.
(Al Jazeera)
Six people are killed during heavy rains in the region of
Tuscany,
Italy, with
riversflooding and causing damage. Several roads and
highways are closed amid
landslides, and dozens of buildings are damaged. Severe damage also occurred in
Campobasso,
Molise, evacuations are being made in
Veneto with highways being closed, and emergency calls occurred in
Rome. In
Sardinia, strong winds fueled fires that burned hectares of vegetation, while a man is killed in
Capoterra, and in
Tortolì an entire
sawmill burned down.
(Rai News)
A study published in the journal Nature reports that reanalysis of skeletal remains from
Spain suggests that large-scale warfare occurred in
Europe about 5,000 years ago during the
Neolithic period.
(The Guardian)(Nature)
Twelve
cancer patients have died in the Gaza Strip after the
Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital, Gaza's only medical facility serving cancer patients, was forced to suspend operations after running out of fuel.
(Dawn)
An eruption takes place off the coast of
Iwo Jima, forming a temporary new island and continuing the first magmatic eruptions of the volcano in at least 1000 years.
(asahi.com)
The Rapid Support Forces capture
Geneina, capital of
West Darfur, after seizing control of the
headquarters of the Sudanese military's 15th Infantry Division in the city.
(Sudan Tribune)
A man drives onto the tarmac at
Hamburg Airport in
Germany and holds his four-year-old daughter
hostage underneath an airplane, causing all flights at the airport to be suspended. The man surrenders to police 18 hours later.
(BBC News)
At least 25 people in
Somalia and 15 more in
Kenya are killed during
floods caused by significant rainfall. Approximately 241 acres of
farmland have been destroyed and 1,067
livestock killed in Kenya, while several homes, bridges and roads are destroyed in Somalia.
(AP)
Opening of
Éric Dupond-Moretti's trial, the
Keeper of the Seals of France (French Justice Minister), at the
Cour de Justice de la République (a special French court established to try cases of ministerial misconduct), accused of abusing his position as justice minister to order probes targeting magistrates who investigated him, his friends or his former clients. The trial marks the first time in modern France that a government minister has been put on trial while still in office.
(France 24)
United Nations monitors say that only about 5,000
Palestinians have been evacuated from northern to southern Gaza on Monday, stating that "entire families, including children, elderly people and persons with disabilities" could only make the journey on foot as roads have been heavily damaged.
(Al Jazeera)
At least eight people are killed and dozens more are injured in
Israelimissile attacks on the
Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza City, which includes the Al-Nasser Children's Hospital.
(Al Jazeera)
The
International Labour Organization reports that job losses in
Gaza and the
West Bank are costing Palestinians US$16 million per day, with 182,000 jobs lost in Gaza, equivalent to 61 percent of the territory's total employment. A further 208,000 jobs were lost in the West Bank, equivalent to 24 percent of the territory's total employment.
(Al Jazeera)
Malaysia says that it will not recognise unilateral
sanctions, responding to a proposed
US law that would impose sanctions on supporters of
Hamas and other Palestinian groups.
(Bloomberg)
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators rally at the
Port of Tacoma,
Washington, United States, to block the sailing of a
military supply vessel that they believe will carry weapons from the United States to Israel.
(Al Jazeera)
At least 4,237 Palestinian children have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war. An additional 1,350 children are reported as missing and most are presumed dead under the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza.
(Al Jazeera)
Israeli aircraft renew their bombardment of the
Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, resulting in at least 18 deaths. A residence belonging to a local family is also hit, with people trapped under the rubble.
(Al Jazeera)
Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital is hit with intense Israeli bombardment and flares. The hospital is housing tens of thousands of people sheltering from Israel's bombardment.
(Al Jazeera)
Sites near the
Indonesia Hospital are hit with Israeli bombardment. Electricity at the hospital is expected to be
cut off soon due to the short supply of fuel.
(Al Jazeera)(WAFA)
Experts and activists warn that the entirety of
Darfur is close to being seized by the Rapid Support Forces, with North Darfur remaining the last state in the region under
government control.
(Al Jazeera)
Zimbabwe imposes
import quotas on fertilizer and cement at five metric tons per entity, effective until the year ends, due to
shortages of the two commodities.
(Xinhua)
Toxic gray
smog causes tens of thousands of people in
Lahore,
Pakistan, to become ill, forcing
authorities to close schools, markets, and parks for four days.
(AP)
Puerto Rico declares an
influenzaepidemic after 25,900 cases have been reported since July, with 42 deaths and more than 900 hospitalizations.
(AP)
Video chat site
Omegle, which allowed users to have anonymous one-on-one conversations with strangers, shuts down after 14 years due to criticism by U.S. authorities of failing to block
predatory users.
(CBC)(AP)(BBC News)
Human Rights Watch warns that thousands of patients and
civilians sheltering at Al-Shifa Hospital faced "grave risks" amid Israel's continued bombardment of Gaza.
(Al Jazeera)
The vicinity of Gaza's Patient's Friends Hospital is hit by an Israeli airstrike. Another Israeli strike is reported near the
Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, resulting in damage to an
ambulance.
(Al Jazeera)
The director of Gaza's Al-Rantisi Children's Hospital says that an Israeli airstrike has hit the medical facility, causing a fire.
(Al Jazeera)
Nearly 80 Palestinians are detained by Israeli forces in overnight raids in the West Bank.
(Al Jazeera)
The
United Nations warns that if the war in Gaza continues for a second month,
poverty among Palestinians will increase by 34 percent, causing nearly half a million people to experience poverty. After a third month,
GDP will decline by more than 12 percent, with losses of US$2.5 billion for the economy, and causing more than 660,000 people to experience poverty.
(UNDP)(Al Jazeera)
The
Dominican Republic accuses
Haiti of multiple border violations after a brief standoff stemming from apparent confusion over border limits occurring on the northern tip of
Hispaniola near one of more than 300 concrete barriers that delineate the border.
(AP News)
Hundreds of protesters, led by a group of media workers calling themselves Writers Bloc, occupy the lobby of The New York Times office in
New York City, US, accusing the newspaper of bias towards Israel in its coverage of the ongoing war in Gaza.
(AP via Toronto Star)
Authorities find 123 Central and South American migrants trapped in a trailer in
San Luis Potosi,
Mexico after a local reported hearing cries for help from a locked trailer box.
(AP)
The
Norwegian Refugee Council condemns Israeli attacks on Gaza hospitals, calling for an urgent
ceasefire and for the protection of medical staff, saying that "it is an affront to wage war around and on hospitals".
(Al Jazeera)
At least 11,078 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says that 168 Palestinians, including 46 children, have been killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank. Another eight people, including one child, were killed by
Israeli settlers in
East Jerusalem.
(Al Jazeera)
Mexican officials impose severe, months long cuts to
Mexico City’s water supply, acting just a month after initial restrictions were ordered as
drought dries the city's
reservoirs.
(AP)
The Arab-Islamic emergency summit in
Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia, releases a statement calling for an end to the siege of
Gaza, demanding that aid be allowed to enter Gaza, and calling for a cessation of
arms exports to
Israel. The statement also says that Israel's war should not be described as "self-defence" and condemned Israeli aggression in Gaza and the
West Bank.
(Al Jazeera)
Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the
UNRWA, calls on Arab countries to take stronger action to protect civilians in Gaza and to exercise pressure to increase the flow of
humanitarian aid into Gaza, including through the opening of additional
border crossings.
(Al Jazeera)
The
UN Development Programme office in
Gaza is shelled, with reports of a significant number of deaths and injuries. Office chief
Achim Steiner says that "
civilians, civilian infrastructure and the inviolability of
UN facilities must be always protected".
(Dawn)
The United Nations says that several hospitals in Gaza have been directly hit, and that "hospitals are explicitly entitled to specific protection under
international humanitarian law", as Israel intensifies its shelling and ground attacks around hospitals in
Gaza City and northern Gaza.
(OCHA)(Business Standard)
The cardiac ward of the
Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, is destroyed by Israel's ground offensive and the hospital's intensive care unit is severely damaged by Israeli army bombing. The
World Health Organization (WHO) says that there are reports that people who fled the hospital "have been shot at, wounded and even killed" and calls for a humanitarian
ceasefire, saying that they are concerned about the safety of workers and patients who remain inside the hospital. The WHO also says that it has lost communication with its contacts inside the hospital.
(The Journal)(WHO)(Al Jazeera)(Al Jazeera 2)
Australian Foreign Minister
Penny Wong calls on Israel to stop its attacks on hospitals, expressing concern about the number of civilian deaths from Israel's assault on Gaza, saying that "international humanitarian law does require the protection of hospitals, of patients and of medical staff".
(Sydney Morning Herald)
PalestinianMinister of HealthMai al-Kaila says that Israeli forces "are not evacuating people from hospitals; instead, they are forcibly evicting the wounded and patients onto the streets, leaving them to face inevitable death".
(Al Jazeera)
UNICEF spokesperson Toby Fricker has said the situation inside hospitals across the Gaza Strip is a tragedy, noting how
premature babies inside Al-Shifa Hospital are struggling to stay alive due to the lack of electricity and water.
(Al Jazeera)
More than 11,100 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since the war began with Israeli forces currently intensifying their raids in the
West Bank with the number of raids increasing to about 40 per day in the past week.
(Al Jazeera)
The death toll from clashes in
Geneina increases to 1,300 people, with more than 2,000 injured. The
UNHCR also confirms that around 8,000 people have fled to
Chad from Geneina in the past week.
(Al Jazeera)(ABC News)
Médecins Sans Frontières says that Gaza hospitals "will become a morgue if action isn't taken right now" as "electricity in a hospital is a lifeline and we know without it patients die". They also called for the "bloodshed" to end "immediately with a ceasefire or at the bare minimum a medical evacuation of patients".
(Al Jazeera)
Hundreds of thousands march in
Spain to protest Prime Minister
Pedro Sánchez's law granting judicial amnesties in exchange for political support to retain power.
(New York Times)
Fighting occurs between the military and the
Arakan Army in several townships in
Rakhine State, with the Arakan Army claiming that it took several outposts.
(The Irrawaddy)
A bus carrying passengers slides off the road and falls down a 300-foot valley in
Doda district,
Jammu and Kashmir,
India, killing at least 39 people and injuring 19 others.
(TOI)
The
Bangladesh Election Commission announces that parliamentary elections will occur on January 7 next year, following weeks of violent protests by supporters of the opposition.
(Al Jazeera)
The
European Commission suspends all paid advertising on X, citing the risk of "reputational damage" to the
EU, and "widespread concerns relating to the spread of
disinformation" on the platform.
(Politico)
Everton Football Club receives a 10-point deduction this season for breaching the
Premier League's profit and sustainability rules, having made losses of
£124.5 million (around
US$155 million) in the three years up to
2021–22, with the limit being £105 million ($131 million). It is the largest points deduction in the league's history.
(AP)
The Jebel Aulia Bridge, part of the
Jebel Aulia Dam complex, is destroyed amid heavy fighting in
Jabal Awliya, although the dam itself remains intact. It is the second bridge in
Khartoum to be destroyed in the past week.
(Sudan Tribune)
Houthi spokesman Yahya Sarea declares the group's intention to target ships that are owned or operated by Israeli companies, or are flying the
Israeli flag.
(Al Arabiya)(The Jerusalem Post)
The death toll from the
floods in
Kenya,
Somalia, and
Ethiopia, increases to 130 people. The Somali town of
Beledweyne has been completely submerged after the
Shebelle River burst its banks, forcing 90% of the population out of their homes, while 30,000 people are
displaced in Kenya as hundreds of homes have been destroyed.
(AP)
At least 40 civilians are killed and more than 50 others are injured when Sudanese army
warplanes bomb the vicinity of the 20th Infantry Division in East Darfur.
(Sudan Tribune)
Sam Altman returns as
CEO of American
artificial intelligence company
OpenAI, only days after being
dismissed by the company's Board of Directors on November 17. The surprise dismissal had resulted in major pushback, with 95% of company workers saying that they would quit if Altman was not brought back as CEO.
(BBC News)
Four people are killed and another is injured as a former soldier and
para-athleteopens fire at his wedding party in northeast
Thailand, before killing himself.
(BBC News)
Hamas confirms the deaths of several senior commanders including
Ahmed Ghandour, the commander of its
Northern Gazabrigade, and Ayman Siam, the head of its rocket firing array. The Israel Defense Forces had previously said it had targeted Ghandour and Siam, but did not confirm that they had been killed.
(The Times of Israel)
Three students of Palestinian ethnicity are shot and injured by an unknown attacker in
Burlington,
Vermont,
United States, in what police are investigating as a possible hate crime.
(Time)