Status: 23.12.2023, 06:35 a.m.
By: Bona Hyun, Felix Durach, Christian Stör
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Israel announces further attacks on Hamas targets. Street fighting is raging in the Gaza Strip. The news ticker on the war in Israel.
- UN resolution on the situation in Gaza: Israel "takes note" of UN resolution
- Israel confirms: Another Israeli Hamas hostage killed in the Gaza Strip
- The information processed here on the war in Israel and the Gaza Stripcomes from local and international media as well as news agencies. Much of the information cannot be independently verified. Even in these cases, we remain transparent.
Update from December 23, 6:35 a.m.: Israel has announced that it will continue its attacks in the Gaza Strip despite the recent United Nations Security Council resolution. Secretary of State Eli Cohen said after the vote that his country would continue "the war in the Gaza Strip" against the Islamist terrorist organization until it was "eliminated" and the 129 hostages it was still holding were freed.
Meanwhile, fighting between Israel and Hamas continued in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army said that operations in the city of Gaza would continue unabated. Street battles with Hamas fighters are underway there. An army spokesman said Israeli forces had destroyed an underground tunnel complex, "hit Hamas headquarters and eliminated terrorists."
Israeli soldiers fire mortars from southern Israel into the Gaza Strip near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip. © Tsafrir Abayov/dpa
Israel "takes note" of UN resolution on situation in Gaza Strip
Update from December 22, 23:22 p.m.: Israel has taken note of the UN Security Council resolution calling for an increase in humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. "Israel will continue the war in Gaza until all hostages are released and Hamas is eliminated in the Gaza Strip," Secretary of State Eli Cohen wrote on Platform X, formerly Twitter, on Friday evening. From Israel's point of view, there will also be no change in the control of deliveries. "Israel will continue to inspect all humanitarian aid to Gaza for security reasons," Cohen wrote.
Hezbollah Reports Death of Israeli Soldier
Update from December 22, 20:42 p.m.: Hezbollah killed an Israeli soldier in an attack led from Lebanon on Friday, according to the Israel Defense Forces. Another soldier was "seriously wounded" in the attack near the northern Israeli city of Shtula.
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War in Israel: UN Security Council calls for more humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip
Update from December 22, 18:28 p.m.: After days of wrangling, the UN Security Council has passed a resolution calling for an increase in humanitarian aid for about two million people in need in the Gaza Strip. The UN's most powerful body adopted a watered-down compromise text in New York on Friday. The U.S. refrained from vetoing it and abstained.
Putin on the phone with Palestinian President Abbas about war in Israel
Update from December 22, 14:18 p.m.: Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed possible de-escalation strategies in the war between Israel and Hamas in a telephone conversation with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday. This was announced by the Kremlin, according to the Reuters news agency. Abbas and Putin had agreed that the Palestinian president would travel to Russia for a state visit.
Israel Confirms Death of Another Hamas Hostage
Update from 22 December, 12:45 p.m.: Another Israeli hostage, abducted to Gaza by Hamas, is dead. Kibbutz Nir Oz announced the death of 73-year-old Gadi Haggai. His body is still in the hands of Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip. It is not clear from the report how the officials received the information about the death of the Israeli. Haggai's wife was also abducted to Gaza as part of the October 7 attacks. There is no information about their condition.
121 Hezbollah members killed since attacks on northern Israel
Update December 22, 12:09 p.m.: 121 members of the Islamist militia Hezbollah have been killed since the beginning of the war between Israel and Hamas. This was announced by Hezbollah on Friday. Officially, the Lebanese terrorist militia is not involved in the war against Israel, but repeatedly fires rockets at the border region between Israel and Lebanon. In recent months, the Israel Defense Forces have repeatedly responded to Hezbollah's aggression with air strikes, including in the morning.
Update from 22 December, 06.30 a.m.: The members of the United Nations Security Council have once again postponed the vote on a resolution to alleviate the humanitarian hardship in Gaza. The point of contention was a veto by the United States. The text, obtained by the German Press Agency, calls on Israel to "immediately allow safe and unhindered humanitarian access." The conditions for a sustainable cessation of violence must also be created.
Humanitarian situation in Gaza due to Israeli war
First reported on 22 December: Gaza/Tel Aviv – The humanitarian situation in Gaza is becoming increasingly catastrophic. Due to the "globally unprecedented" situation, the United Nations warns of the starvation of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. "I've never seen anything like it," said World Food Programme (WFP) spokeswoman Shaza Moghraby. "The scale of acute food insecurity is unprecedented in terms of severity, rate of deterioration, and complexity."
A new study concludes that 577,000 people in Gaza fall into the most serious category of hunger. In the rest of the world combined, however, there are currently 129,000 people who, according to the analysis, are similarly threatened. The people threatened by "catastrophic" hunger are more than a quarter of the more than two million people in the area. Almost all of them are affected by hunger or displacement.
Israel's army claims control of Hamas stronghold of Shejaiya
The Israel Defense Forces say they have established "operational control" over the Gaza neighborhood of Shejaiya, which is considered a Hamas stronghold. "The troops will continue to carry out limited operations in the neighborhood to destroy Hamas' remaining infrastructure and kill militants who are hiding," the military said in a statement. Shejaiya in the north of the coastal strip was the scene of fierce fighting between Israeli soldiers and terrorists of the Islamist Hamas until recently. At the end of last week, the military accidentally shot dead three Israeli hostages who had escaped the violence of their captors. (red with agencies)