Israel-Hamas war: List of essential occasions, day 64

Here’s how things base on Thursday, December 9, 2023:

Combating

• The Palestinian media stated early today that bombardments by Israeli forces led to “lots” of casualties in the north and south of Gaza.
• Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip eliminated a minimum of 310 Palestinians in a 24-hour duration, according to the authorities in Gaza.
• The Palestine Olympic Committee stated 64 professional athletes and sports-related authorities have actually been eliminated in Gaza considering that October 7, according to the main Wafa news firm.
• An Israeli drone fired on a vehicle in southwest Syria, eliminating 4 individuals, according to Syrian state media.
• Israel performed raids in the southern city of Hebron and in Qalqilya along with Jericho, Jenin, Salfit and Ramallah, according to Al Jazeera sources and the Palestinian media.
• United States authorities informed Reuters that Washington asked Congress to authorize the sale of 45,000 shells for Israel’s Merkava tanks.
• Palestinians commemorated Refaat Alareer, a popular poet and scholar who looked for to inform the stories behind the news headings in Gaza, who was eliminated by Israel.

UN veto

• The United States banned a United Nations Security Council resolution requiring a humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
• Hamas highly condemned the United States veto on the proposed resolution as “dishonest and inhumane”.
• UN General Assembly President Dennis Francis stated he would continue to work for an instant humanitarian truce in Gaza.
• Israel’s envoy to the UN, Gilad Erdan, thanked United States President Joe Biden for “standing steadfastly” with Israel.

Diplomacy

• Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas required an instant end to the war in Gaza and a global peace conference to exercise a long lasting political option, causing the facility of a Palestinian state.
• Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud informed United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken that “immediate actions” should be required to attain a truce in Gaza and the shipment of food and medical products.
• A UN World Food Programme authorities stated “mayhem, desperation” are prevalent as displaced Palestinian households are starving on the streets of Gaza.
• The White House stated more can be done by Israel to decrease civilian casualties and the United States shares global issues about the humanitarian circumstance in Gaza.

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Al Jazeera and news companies