Gaza situation worsens with each passing day, at least 26,083 Palestinians have been killed & 64,487 wounded by Israeli forces

GAZA, Jan 26 (SABAH): The UN’s human rights office has warned that cold and rainy weather in Gaza risks turning the enclave into a completely uninhabitable place.

“We’re also very worried about the impact of the rainy, cold weather in Gaza,” said Ajith Sunghay, head of the UN Human Rights Office for the Occupied Palestinian Territory. “It was entirely predictable at this time of the year, and risks making an already unsanitary situation completely uninhabitable for the people. Most have no more clothes or blankets.”

Most Palestinians have been internally displaced by Israeli attacks, and many are crammed into overcrowded shelters where they are threatened by the worsening weather, diseases and an accute shortage of food, water and medicine.

Israeli airline El Al is set to cancel a direct flight between Tel Aviv and the South African city of Johannesburg, Israel’s Channel 12 reported.

El Al flights between the two cities will be cancelled from April 1. The move comes following a drop in customer demand due to tense relations between the two states since South Africa filed a resolution at the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza. Judges at the ICJ are set to rule today on whether to issue an order compelling Israel to suspend its operations in Gaza, along with other “emergency measures”

The message from the families has been very clear, and that is to strike a deal with Hamas. Families are saying, ‘We don’t care what it takes; we want our family members or loved ones to come home and to come home alive’. The longer this war goes on, the higher that pressure is mounting. Particularly when we have incidents of, for example, the Israeli army killing three hostages by mistake as they were trying to rescue them inside Gaza.

The longer this war goes on – the captives’ families are saying – the probability of actually getting them out alive goes down. At least 26,083 Palestinians have been killed and 64,487 wounded by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war, according to the latest figures published by the enclave’s health ministry. It added that at least 183 people have been killed and 377 injured in the past 24 hours.