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| 6-month-old baby dies of cold exposure in Gaza per Hamas health ministry; IDF finds another weapons cache in tunnel shaft |
| 2026-01-21 |
Hamas and the world keep the Gazans trapped there instead of letting them escape into the light. [IsraelTimes] A 6-month-old baby girl died over the past day from cold exposure in Gaza, the Strip’s Hamas-run health ministry says.Shatha Abu Jarad is the ninth child to die of exposure in Gaza during the winter season that started last month, the ministry says. According to Palestinian media, she died this morning in Gaza City. The health ministry also reports that Gaza hospitals have over the past 24 hours attended to seven people wounded by the IDF, and received the body of one person who was killed. The report does not identify the people, specify the severity of the wounds or say where or when the they took place. The death and injuries bring the number of people the Hamas-run ministry says were killed and wounded by the IDF since the Gaza ceasefire deal to 466 and 1,294, respectively. WAFA, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency, says the 466th casualty is Musael Aqel, who died today of injuries sustained in a previous Israeli strike on central Gaza’s Bureij camp. His age, and the date of the strike, are not reported. The outlet also reports several people wounded by IDF gunfire this afternoon in Bani Suheila, on the Israeli-controlled side of the ceasefire line east of Khan Younis. The IDF has not commented on the reported incident. The army regularly says it fires on gunmen who cross the ceasefire line and who pose a threat to troops. IDF denies issuing new evacuation orders for Gazans [IsraelTimes] Contrary to a report by Reuters earlier today, the IDF says it has not issued any new evacuation orders for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, but did warn civilians against crossing the Yellow Line, which demarcates the military’s withdrawal as part of the ceasefire. According to the Reuters report, the IDF dropped leaflets ordering Palestinians in Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Younis in the Strip’s south, to leave their homes, in what the news agency claimed was the first forced evacuation since October’s ceasefire. “Urgent message. The area is under IDF control. You must evacuate immediately,” said the leaflets, written in Arabic, Hebrew, and English, according to Reuters. The military confirms to The Times of Israel that it dropped leaflets in the area, but says it was intended to warn Palestinians against crossing the Gaza ceasefire line, rather than a forced evacuation of an area where civilians were residing. “Earlier today, IDF troops identified an attempt by Gazan civilians to cross the Yellow Line toward the Israeli-controlled side. The civilians were warned not to cross, including through leaflets that were distributed in the area,” the military says in response to a query. “Contrary to what was claimed in the publication, there is no evacuation of the population in the area,” the army adds. IDF finds weapons cache in Gaza tunnel shaft [IsraelTimes] IDF troops located a cache of weapons in a tunnel shaft during mop-up operations on the Israeli side of the Gaza ceasefire line in the Strip’s south, the military says. The IDF says soldiers of the 188th Armored Brigade and elite Yahalom combat engineering unit found firearms, RPGs and other military equipment in the shaft. Amid the ongoing ceasefire, the military has been operating on the eastern side of the Yellow Line to demolish Hamas tunnels and other infrastructure belonging to Palestinian terror groups. |
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