Published On 14 Jan 202414 Jan 2024
Here’s how things stand on Sunday, January 14, 2024:
Latest updates
- Yemen’s Houthi rebels say standing by Palestinians is a “religious and moral duty”, even as US-UK strikes target the group for its attacks on ships headed towards Israel.
- The Palestinian football team will play its first game at the Asian Cup against the backdrop of the war.
- An Israeli army strike overnight hit a house in Rafah killing 14 Palestinians, including a two-year-old girl. More than 100 Palestinians have been killed there in the last 24 hours.
- Israel has carried out overnight raids in various towns across the occupied West Bank such as al-Mazra’a al-Gharbiya, northwest of Ramallah; Biddya, west of Salfit; and Nablus. Israel also deployed bulldozers in Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
- Two sisters of Saleh al-Arouri, the senior Hamas official killed in Beirut, are among several people arrested in West Bank raids overnight, according to Wafa.
- Israeli war cabinet ministers Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot attended a protest demanding the release of captives held by Hamas in Gaza.
- Two Paltel employees are among dozens killed in Israeli raids on Gaza on Saturday, as the strip faces a new telecommunications blackout.
100 days of war
- Pro-Palestine protests were held around the world, with the US capital of Washington, DC seeing its largest turnout yet.
- Tel Aviv also marks 100 days since Hamas’s October 7 attack with a 24-hour event that began in Tel Aviv at 6:29am, the start time of the attack.
- “No one will stop us. Not The Hague,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a speech marking 100 days of war on Gaza, referring to the genocide trial it faces in the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
- The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) renewed its calls for the end to the killing of journalists by the Israeli military as the war enters its 100th day.