Live blog: Israel kills 17 more Palestinians in overnight strikes in Gaza

Saturday, January 11, 2025

2350 GMT — Israel has killed at least 17 Palestinians in air strikes across besieged Gaza.

In central Gaza, Israel killed seven Palestinians and wounded others after striking a group of people in Bureij camp, medical sources and witnesses told Anadolu Agency.

Paramedics recovered the body of a Palestinian killed by the Israeli army after Israeli tanks withdrew from the northern area of the Nuseirat refugee camp.

The Israeli military also killed three more Palestinians after striking a home of the Fannana family in eastern Gaza City, a medical source said.

In another strike on the city, Israel killed four Palestinians after the army bombed a group of people in the eastern Shejaiya neighbourhood, a medical source told Anadolu.

In southern Gaza, a Palestinian man was killed and two wounded in a strike on a group of people in Khan Younis, according to a medical source.

A Palestinian succumbed to the wounds he sustained in a previous strike on a tent in Khan Younis's Al Mawasi area, which the Israeli army designates as a "safe humanitarian zone."

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2348 GMT — Houthis announce attack on US aircraft carrier

The Yemeni Houthi group has announced another attack against a US aircraft carrier in the Red Sea.

The group's military spokesperson, Yahya Saree, said fighters targeted the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier and several naval vessels in the northern Red Sea with several cruise missiles and drones.

Saree claimed the attack "foiled a new assault on Yemen by the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier," forcing it to leave the northern Red Sea.

2317 GMT — Zionist settlers assault Palestinian farmers in West Bank

Illegal Israeli settlers have carried out assaults against Palestinian farmers in the Al Aghwar area, also known as the Jordan Valley, in the northern occupied West Bank.

Moataz Bisharat, who is responsible for monitoring Israeli settlement-building activity, told Anadolu Agency that settlers, protected by Israeli forces, attacked the farmers in the Umm al Quba Plain in the northern Al Aghwar area and forced them to leave their lands.

He noted that the army intervened in favour of the illegal settlers and declared the area a "closed military zone."

The activist said that the settlers, in a separate incident, set up a tent on a hill east of a Palestinian community living in the Al Farsiya Khallet Khader area, as a prelude to establishing an illegal settlement outpost.

He said another group of illegal settlers destroyed the olive trees of Palestinian villagers in the Bardala village in the northern Al Aghwar area.

2245 GMT — UK vows to block Gaza protest

London police have said they will not change a decision to ban a planned pro-Palestine march next week, a move that has sparked controversy.

Amid a wide-range demand to retreat from the disputed decision, Metropolitan Police said the Public Order Act to prevent the pro-Palestine rally from forming outside the BBC will be in place on January 18.

"Our position remains unchanged and our statement still stands," a spokesperson for Metropolitan Police told Anadolu Agency in response to a question about whether police will reconsider the decision.

2150 GMT — US expresses 'deep concern' over killings of Gaza journalists

The US has expressed "deep concern" about the "unprecedented" number of journalists killed in besieged Gaza, following the killing of Saed Abu Nabhan, a freelance cameraman for Anadolu Agency, who was fatally shot Friday by an Israeli army long-range rifle.

"We have seen these reports," a State Department spokesperson told Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity when asked about Nabhan's killing.

"As the secretary himself has said, we offer our deep condolences for the many Palestinian journalists in Gaza killed or injured during this war, and for all that they have suffered as they bring these on-the-ground reports to the rest of the world."

"We are deeply concerned by the unprecedented number of journalists killed in Gaza and continue to engage Israel on the importance of protecting journalists and all civilians during the conflict," said the spokesperson.

2122 GMT — Israelis protest for release of Palestinian hospital director

Scores of Israeli activists have staged a protest to demand the release of Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safiya, who was abducted by the Israeli army at his hospital in northern Gaza two weeks ago.

According to an Anadolu Agency reporter, the peace activists, affiliated with the Israeli Standing Together movement, held their protest near the notorious Sde Teiman prison facility in southern Israel.

They raised photos of Abu Safiya and banners that read "Stop hiding people," "Release Dr. Abu Safiya," and "Gaza needs doctors."

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