In the past 24 hours, 210 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been killed and 360 injured in Israeli military operations, the Palestinian health department of the Gaza Strip said in a statement on December 28. Since the outbreak of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on October 7, 21,320 Palestinians have been killed and 55,603 injured in the Gaza Strip.
Conflict dynamics. On 28 December, heavy fighting continued between the Israeli army and the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli military claims to have struck Hamas infrastructure.
On 28 December, the Israeli army continued its military operations in the Gaza Strip. On the same day, the Israeli military released footage of Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, which it said had attacked the infrastructure of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military also released footage of Israeli forces operating in Khan Younis, a city in the southern Gaza Strip.
Hamas said it had struck Israeli military vehicles and drones.
On December 28, the Qassam Brigades, an armed wing affiliated with Hamas, announced the attack on Israeli military vehicles in the Gaza Strip by its militants. The Qassam brigade also claimed to have shot down an Israeli reconnaissance aircraft in the Gaza Strip. Abu Ubaida, spokesman for the Qassam Brigades, said on the same day that since the Israeli army launched its military operation in the Gaza Strip, the Qassam Brigade has struck hundreds of Israeli military vehicles.
At least 20 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes in the southern Gaza Strip.
According to the Palestinian "Al-Quds Al-Sharif" newspaper, on the night of December 28 local time, Israel carried out an airstrike on a densely populated community building in Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza Strip. So far, at least 20 people have died.
Humanitarian situation. UN agencies: 40% of the population of the Gaza Strip is at risk of famine.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said on 28 December that the Gaza Strip is battling catastrophic hunger and that 40 per cent of the Gaza Strip's population is at risk of famine.
The agency also said that Israel's evacuation order for the central Gaza Strip has led to a continuous increase in the number of displaced people, leaving more than 150,000 locals, including young children, women, people with disabilities and the elderly, and the only hope is a humanitarian ceasefire.
Shortages of supplies Displaced people in the Gaza Strip are struggling to survive the winter.
In the midst of northern hemisphere winter, a large number of displaced people in the Gaza Strip say they and their children lack winter clothes and shoes, as well as mattresses and blankets.
In Deir Barah, in the central Gaza Strip, a large number of people displaced by the war are temporarily living here with their children. In winter, when the temperature is low, they can't find clothes and shoes to keep the children warm.
Surrounding situation. An exchange of fire continued between Lebanese and Israeli armed elements on the temporary border between the two sides.
On December 28, local time, the Lebanese Allah Party issued a statement saying that its armed men had attacked a number of Israeli military bases along the Lebanese-Israeli temporary border and their nearby troops on the same day. According to the Lebanese National News Agency, Israeli forces have launched air strikes and artillery shelling on a number of towns on the Lebanese side of the temporary border in the past 24 hours.
On the same day, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) issued a statement stating that the Israeli side of the Lebanese-Israeli interim border had been hit by multiple rockets from the Lebanese direction that day. At the same time, the alarm sounded in some areas due to the intrusion of drones into the airspace. In response, the Israeli army intercepted a drone from the Lebanese direction and dispatched warplanes, tanks and other troops to carry out a wide range of strikes on the military infrastructure of several Lebanese Allah forces.
Israel said it could expel Lebanese Allah fighters from the Israeli-Lebanese border.
Benny Gantz, a member of Israel's wartime cabinet and leader of the National Unity Party, said on December 27 that the situation on Israel's northern border needs to change and that the time left for a diplomatic solution is running out. If the international community and Lebanon** do not act to prevent attacks on northern Israel, Israeli forces may take military action to remove Lebanese Allah fighters from southern Lebanon along the border with Israel. On the same day, while inspecting the army in the north, Israeli Chief of General Staff Hezi Halevi said that the Israeli army "needs to be ready to launch a strike after receiving orders" and that the Israeli army in the Israeli-Lebanese border area is in a state of "high readiness."
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