January 25, 2024 Israel-Hamas war

By Kathleen Magramo, Sophie Tanno, Antoinette Radford, Aditi Sangal, Tori Powell and Elise Hammond, CNN

Updated 12:00 a.m. ET, January 26, 2024

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At least 20 people were killed and dozens injured after shelling struck an area near Gaza City where people were awaiting aid delivery, according to the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza.
The director of the CIA is expected to meet in coming days with Israeli, Egyptian and Qatari negotiators to discuss a deal to secure the release of the remaining hostages held by Hamas, according to a US official.
The UN says a dozen people have been killed after one of its shelters was shelled in Khan Younis, a focal point of fighting in southern Gaza.
The International Court of Justice said it will deliver its ruling Friday on whether to enact provisional measures to temporarily suspend Israel's military campaign in Gaza.
Meanwhile, Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels said they targeted US warships with ballistic missiles.
Here's how to help humanitarian efforts in Israel and Gaza.

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7:38 p.m. ET, January 24, 2024

Urgent action needed to stop complete medical shutdown in Gaza, Red Cross says

From CNN's Hamdi Alkhshali

Gaza faces a complete medical shutdown unless immediate action is taken to safeguard essential services, the International Committee of the Red Cross warned on Thursday

The Nasser medical complex and the European Gaza Hospital, both in southern Gaza's Khan Younis, are the only referral hospitals “that provide advanced surgical and medical emergency services with large bed capacities, which is not sufficient for the current wounded and sick across Gaza,” the Red Cross said.

More than 1.5 million people are living in dire conditions in southern Gaza, according to the Red Cross.

“Every functioning hospital in the Gaza Strip is overcrowded and short on medical supplies, fuel, food and water. Many are housing thousands of displaced families. And now two more facilities risk being lost due to the fighting,” said William Schomburg, the head of the Red Cross' office in Gaza. “The cumulative impact on the health system is devastating and urgent action must be taken.”

The Israel Defense Forces have insisted that Hamas systematically operates in Gaza hospitals and adjacent areas, "using the residents as human shields." The IDF said Wednesday that it will continue to operate in Khan Younis for "several days."

7:34 p.m. ET, January 24, 2024

Israeli military operation in Khan Younis will force main hospital to close, UN agency says

From CNN’s Celine Alkhaldi and Kareem Khadder

The Israeli military operation in Khan Younis will shut down the largest operating hospital in southern Gaza, the director of affairs for the UN's relief agency for the enclave told CNN.

Thomas White of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East said the Nasser Hospital is “under threat” because it is located in an area that is being forced to evacuate.

“The Israeli army intend to undertake a major operation in the west of Khan Younis, despite all of the assurances that we receive that people would be safe there,” White said.

For several days, UNRWA has been trying to get access to western Khan Younis, where the hospital is located, but White said the agency has been denied by the Israeli military because "fighting is too heavy."

“Now, tens of thousands of people are on the road again, many of them displaced multiple times,” White said, adding that many are making their way to the southern city of Rafah, where “there is no more open ground for people.”
“Nobody imagined the level of death, destruction and displacement that we've seen in the last three months,” he said.