Between the afternoons of 12 and 14 January, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza, 260 Palestinians were reportedly killed, and another 577 people were reportedly injured. Between 7 October 2023 and 12:00 on 14 January 2024, at least 23,968 Palestinians were killed in Gaza and 60,582 Palestinians were injured, according to the MoH.
On 14 January, UNRWA Commissioner-General, Philippe Lazzarini, stated: “The crisis in Gaza is a man-made disaster compounded by dehumanizing language and the use of food, water and fuel as instruments of war. The humanitarian operation has fast become one of the most complex and challenging in the world; largely due to cumbersome procedures for the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip and a myriad of obstacles to the safe and orderly distribution of aid, including ongoing hostilities. Humanitarian aid alone will not be sufficient to reverse a looming famine. A flow of commercial goods must also be allowed in.”
Violence and Casualties in the West Bank:
On 12 January 2024, Israeli forces shot and killed three Palestinians, including a 16-year-old child, who had infiltrated into the Adora Israeli settlement near Idhna village in the Hebron governorate. One Israeli soldier was shot and injured during the incident by one of the assailants. Israeli forces subsequently conducted a search operation in the houses of the Palestinians and arrested two men.
On 14 January, Israeli forces shot and killed a 14-year-old Palestinian child during clashes that erupted in Ein As Sultan Refugee Camp in Jericho during an Israeli search-and-arrest operation.
Also on 14 January, Israeli forces shot and killed two Palestinians, both aged 17, who were driving near Bet El Israeli settlement in the Al Bireh area (Ramallah). Israeli sources reported that the two were attempting to throw a Molotov cocktail at the settlement. Israeli forces closed the area and prevented medical crew from accessing the vehicle for half an hour and shot at the ambulance, damaging the front light; one of the bodies is still withheld by Israeli forces.
From 7 October 2023 and as of 14 January 2024, 339 Palestinians have been killed, including 88 children, across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Additionally, two Palestinians from the West Bank were killed while carrying out an attack in Israel on 30 November. Of those killed in the West Bank (339), 330 were killed by Israeli forces, eight by Israeli settlers and one by either Israeli forces or settlers. So far in 2024 (as of 14 January), 30 Palestinians, including seven children, have been killed. The number of Palestinians killed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in 2023 (507) marks the highest number of Palestinians killed in the West Bank since OCHA started recording casualties in 2005.
Read the full report: Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel | Flash Update #92
A displaced family in the Gaza Strip. On 12 January, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths warned that “more and more people are being crammed into an ever-smaller sliver of land, only to find yet more violence and deprivation, inadequate shelter and a near absence of the most basic services.” Photo by UNRWA
