Updates: Israeli attacks wounds 11 Palestinians in Gaza City

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• Israel has continued to launch attacks across Gaza in violation of the ceasefire with Hamas, injuring at least 11 people in a strike in Gaza City.
• Gaza’s civil defence agency has warned that temperatures are set to plummet overnight, threatening Palestinian children and families living in ill-equipped and flooded tent encampments.
• Palestinians in the West Bank refugee camp of Nur Shams are bracing for more Israeli home demolitions as 25 buildings are set to be destroyed this week.
• Qatar’s PM has said aid must urgently be allowed into Gaza and the ceasefire deal must move to the next phase during talks with US Secretary of State Rubio in Washington, DC.

The legislation has authorised $600m in security assistance for the top US ally.

That includes funding for joint missile defence programmes, a measure that has long drawn broad bipartisan support in Congress.

But despite continued US support for Israel overall, American lawmakers from both major parties have increasingly questioned unconditional US military assistance to the country as it wages a genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza.

Rights advocates have also been pushing Washington to suspend weapons sales to Israel amid the Gaza war.

For more on the newly passed US defence bill, which now goes to Trump to be signed into law, check out our story here.

The so-called Humanitarian Country Team in the occupied Palestinian territory – a group of UN agencies and NGOs – has warned that Israeli restrictions “continue to undermine humanitarian operations … or risk the collapse of the humanitarian response, particularly in the Gaza Strip”.

Those impediments include a new Israeli registration process for international NGOs (INGOs) that the country team said “relies on vague, arbitrary, and highly politicized criteria”.

The new system also “imposes requirements that humanitarian organizations cannot meet without violating international legal obligations or compromising core humanitarian principles”, it said.

“Under the current framework, dozens of INGOs face deregistration by December 31, 2025, followed by the forced closure of operations within 60 days.”

The country team warned that the closure of those organisations will have a “catastrophic impact” on Palestinian access to essential services in Gaza because INGOs run or support field hospitals, emergency shelters and other critical infrastructure in the enclave.

“If INGOs are forced to stop operations, 1 in 3 health facilities in Gaza will close,” it added.

A spokesperson for the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza says “the bitter cold threatens the lives of young children who lack shelter and heating” in the bombarded enclave.

“What we are experiencing now in the Gaza Strip is a true humanitarian catastrophe. Save the children of Gaza before the cold claims them,” Mahmoud Basal said in a short statement shared on Telegram.

A Palestinian infant froze to death in Gaza this week after going to hospital with hypothermia.

Prime Minister Netanyahu said he has approved a $35bn natural gas export deal to Egypt, the biggest gas deal in Israeli history.

The gas will be delivered to Egypt over the next 15 years by US energy giant Chevron, a key owner of the gas field off Israel’s coast in the Mediterranean Sea.

Half of the proceeds are expected to go to Israel’s state coffers.

Netanyahu said the deal “greatly strengthens Israel’s position as a regional energy power, and it contributes to stability in our region”.

Egypt, which borders both Israel and Gaza, has served as a key mediator between Israel and Hamas, leading up to the US-brokered ceasefire that was agreed on in October.

Cairo has also has been a vocal critic of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, which has killed more than 73,000 people and caused widespread destruction in Gaza.

Egypt did not immediately confirm Netanyahu’s announcement.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has condemned Trump’s expanded travel ban, which now applies to people holding documents issued by the Palestinian Authority, as “xenophobic and bigoted”.

“Banning American citizens from welcoming their spouses and other family members to America if they happen to be citizens of a banned nation is an unprecedented and unacceptable step,” CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad said in a statement.

“The restriction placed upon travelers with Palestinian-Authority-issued documents is a particularly cruel and unprecedented punishment, especially given how many Palestinian-Americans have family members in the West Bank and how thoroughly vetted those Palestinians are,” Awad said.

“Enabling a genocide against Palestinians and then banning Palestinians from visiting their relatives in America adds insult to injury.”

The US has provided its ally Israel with billions of dollars in military assistance since the war on Gaza began along with unwavering diplomatic support.

To read more on Trump’s expanded travel ban, read our story here.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says without that “lifesaving shelter assistance cannot reach people at scale” in Gaza without “urgent, unrestricted access”.

“Winter storms are overwhelming displaced families in Gaza,” the agency said.

As we’ve been reporting, hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinian families are struggling amid freezing winter temperatures and storms that have unleashed fierce winds and heavy rain on their makeshift shelters.

The UN has said it has tents, blankets and other needed supplies ready to enter the Strip, but Israel continues to block crossings.

Qatar’s prime minister has also affirmed the country’s commitment to working with the US to protect the agreement to end the war in Gaza, noting that his talks in Washington raised the issue of ceasefire violations in Gaza.

Commenting on Israel’s continued violations of the ceasefire, Sheikh Mohammed said the ceasefire violations in Gaza put the mediators in an embarrassing position.

He also stressed that the humanitarian situation in Gaza formed a large part of the discussions he held.

A spokesperson for UN chief Guterres says those families have had their belongings and shelters damaged or destroyed by the storm hitting the Palestinian enclave.

“The rainstorm has also damaged dozens of child-friendly spaces, disrupting or suspending activities related to child protection,” Farhan Haq told reporters in New York.

“The disruption has affected approximately 30,000 children across Gaza. Urgent repairs are needed to ensure these activities can resume without delay.”

The UK’s Metropolitan and Greater Manchester police have issued a statement announcing they will arrest people holding placard and chanting “globalise the intifada,” a slogan that has been used to call for international support of Palestinian resistance against Israeli occupation and its genocide in Gaza.

In a statement following Sunday’s mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, they said they would “act decisively and make arrests” in response to “rising antisemitism globally”.

Sources have told the Palestinian news agency Wafa that the man – believed to be in his 20s – was wounded in the foot after Israeli troops opened fire in the northern West Bank city.

The man was taken to hospital and is reported to be in stable condition.

Let’s bring you up to speed with the latest developments:

• The Israeli army says it is investigating after a mortar shell fired near Gaza’s so-called yellow line “missed its target”. At least 11 Palestinians have been wounded in the attack in central Gaza City.
• The Palestinian Prisoners Media Office says Israel has released 12 Gaza residents from prison, transferring them to the Red Cross at the Karem Abu Salem (known as Kerem Shalom in Israel) crossing.
• Palestinian families have been salvaging their belongings in Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank as Israel prepares to demolish 25 buildings there in the latest wave of forced displacement.
• Qatar’s PM has held talks with US diplomat Marco Rubio in Washington, DC, stressing that aid must be allowed into Gaza and that the second stage of the ceasefire deal must be reached soon.