Israel’s War on Gaza: List of Major Events, Day 194 | Israeli War on Gaza News

Fighting and humanitarian emergency

• At least 20 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on houses in Rafah, Maghazi and Gaza City since Tuesday afternoon.
• Separately, at least seven police officers tasked with aid security and two bystanders were killed in an Israeli military offensive in Gaza City, the Gaza Interior Ministry said Tuesday.
• Militants in Gaza continue to fire rockets into southern Israel. Two rockets fired from Palestinian territory on Tuesday caused no damage or casualties after landing in open areas. War observers report ed.
• At least 33,843 Palestinians have been killed and 76,575 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7th. The death toll in Israel from Hamas’ attacks on October 7 stands at 1,139 and dozens of people are still held captive in Gaza.

Diplomacy and geopolitical tensions

• Iran has warned Israel that it will face a “painful reaction” if it takes even the “least measures” to retaliate against Tehran’s missile and drone attacks,which were in response to Israel’s bombing of the Iranian embassy in Syria. Israel’s military chief said on Monday his nation would respond to Iran ‘s attack, but he did not elaborate on when and how world leaders pushed against further retaliation, fearing a larger conflict in the Middle East.
• Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant thanked Italy for “bravely standing with Israel following the Iranian offensive” in a phone call with Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto on Tuesday.
• Google contributors object to Project Nimbus’surveillance and AI contracts with the Israeli Defense Forces were arrested at the company’s offices in California and New York on Tuesday.
• According to diplomatic sources, the United Nations Security Council is expected to vote on the Palestinian Authority’s request for full membership in the United Nations on Wednesday. Hamas is “not in a position to make demands,” the US chief of mission to the United Nations responded to a journalist’s question about the release of additional Palestinian prisoners.
• Four months after a contentious congressional investigation led to the resignation of two Ivy League presidents, the head of state of Columbia University will appear before the same commission on Wednesday to address issues of discrimination against Jews and how school buildings respond to conflicts on campus over Israel war against Gaza.

Violence in the occupied West Bank

• Palestinian human rights groups have warned that Israeli military and settler attacks in the occupied West Bank have “increased in intensity and scale.”
• The violence of Israeli settlers against Palestinian residents in the occupied West Bank is a symptom of the much larger problem of Israel’s “territorial expansionism” since 1967, said Mouin Rabbani, co-editor of Jadaliyya magazine.
• During ongoing Israeli raids in the occupied West Bank, an Israeli military bulldozer was caught in a large explosion in Tubas on Tuesday.