Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that the recent resolution on Gaza adopted by the UN Security Council must be implemented.
“UN Security Council members must urgently turn their recent resolution – to create pauses in hostilities, and humanitarian corridors – into reality in Gaza,” he said in a social media post.
WHO said that its teams have carried out high-risk missions to deliver supplies to hospitals in northern and southern Gaza.
UN reported that intense fighting is ongoing between Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters in “most areas” in the Gaza Strip, except the southern area of Rafah, and rockets continue to be fired into Israel while Israel blasts the Palestinian enclave from air, land and sea.
According to the latest situation report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), 195 Palestinian people were reported killed and 325 injured in Israeli attacks between Tuesday and Wednesday.
During the same period, 22 Israeli soldiers were killed in Gaza, bringing the death toll for Israeli forces to 162 with almost 900 wounded since the invasion of the Palestinian territory began two months ago.
It added that six Palestinians were killed on Wednesday by Israeli snipers in the as-Saftawi area of Gaza City. Also on Wednesday, Israel’s military attacked the UN-run Preparatory School for Girls in the Maghazi refugee camp, killing five people and injuring others.
Latest casualty figures in Gaza puts those killed at 21,110, with 55,243 injured and more than 7,000 missing.
Israeli forces continue to pound several targets in southern Gaza, resulting in more deaths and injuries in the last 24 hours.
Israeli army spokesperson, Daniel Hagari said that additional reinforcements have been sent into the southern part of the Palestinian territory on the outskirts of Khan Younis.
Also on Thursday, Israeli military raided the centre of Ramallah city in occupied West Bank , which is the administrative headquarters of the Palestinian Authority.
Israeli raids also continued elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, including cities of al-Bireh, Hebron, Halhul, Nablus, Jenin, Tulkarem and Jericho.
Before October 7, Israeli raids took place on a fairly regular basis in the occupied West Bank but currently the scale and the frequency of the raids have intensified.
Raids Meant To Prevent Occupied West Bank Eruption
Rami Khouri, distinguished fellow at the American University of Beirut, opined that the military raids were confirmation that the Israelis are moving to prevent the occupied West Bank from erupting in confrontation against Israel amid the war in Gaza.
Israel and US forces, which Khouri described as being almost “synonymous” now, have in the past week clashed with armed fighters in the West Bank, Hamas fighters in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and smaller armed groups in Iraq and Syria.
Speaking from Boston in the U.S to a news agency, Khouri said, “That’s six fronts that have been active. Relatively low-key, but exchanging fire and people killing each other.”
“They don’t want the West Bank to emerge now as the next one,” he said.
Khouri noted that the Israeli raids are trying to end Palestinian resistance in the occupied West Bank. Resistance which they have failed to stifle since the start of their occupation of Palestinian territory in 1967.
“They’ve been trying to do this since 1967 and look where it’s gotten them,” he said.
