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Ongoing hostilities across the Gaza Strip have been “particularly intense” in the southern city of Khan Younis, UN humanitarians warned on Monday, as the UN agency for Palestinians, UNWRA, reported that its shelters were now four times over-capacity.

“There is simply not enough food,” UNRWA tweeted on social platform X, formerly Twitter, with photographs from another city slightly further north, Deir-Al-Balah, showing people queuing “in the rain and cold” for relief supplies.

Israels ongoing war on Gaza Strip has been “particularly intense” in the southern city of Khan Younis, UN humanitarian officials warned on Monday, as the UN agency that assists the Palestinians, UNWRA, reported that its shelters were now four times over-capacity.“There is simply not enough fo ..

The U.S. has paused funding to UNRWA, and UNRWA immediately terminated the 12 employees in question and launched an investigation. Read more.

The State Department has paused funding for UNRWA after the Israeli government accused 12 employees of being involved in the October 7 attack.

 

On January 17-18, Brussels will host a meeting of the highest military body of NATO, the Military Committee in Chiefs of Defence Session. The event will include the first meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council held on the level of commanders of the armed forces.

China released what it called its three-step plan Tuesday for ending the Israel-Hamas war — while Gaza refugees in UN shelters are reduced to sharing a single toilet for every 160 people and one shower for every 700.

The entry of food through Egypt is stopped due to the lack of fuel for the vehicles that distribute it to the refugees. Gaza’s death toll has risen to 12,000, including 5,000 children, according to authorities in the Strip

The IDF raided the Al-Shifa medical complex, the largest in the Gaza enclave, on suspicions of Hamas using the facility as an operations base.