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Worldwide requires accountability develop after Israeli assault kills Al Jazeera journalist Samer Abudaqa.

Proper right here’s how points stand on Saturday, December 16, 2023:

Latest developments

• Al Jazeera cameraman Samer Abudaqa has been killed in an Israeli assault on Gaza. He’s the 57th Palestinian journalist and media worker to be killed as a result of the battle started on October 7.
• The Al Jazeera Media Neighborhood condemned the Israeli drone strike on a Gaza college that resulted inside the killing of Abudaqa and talked about it holds Israel “accountable for systematically specializing in and killing Al Jazeera journalists and their households”.
• Israel’s navy has admitted to by chance killing three Israeli captives held in Gaza, as an entire lot protest in Tel Aviv calling for renewed talks for the safe return of those held by Palestinian armed group Hamas.
• Israel’s navy police are investigating the killing of two Palestinians inside the occupied West Monetary establishment after a human rights group posted a video that captures the apparent “executions” of the two males by Israeli forces, the Associated Press data firm reported.
• The US navy has talked about that Houthi rebels in Yemen attacked two vessels and threatened a third as tensions inside the Red Sea escalate.

Human have an effect on and combating

• Israeli assaults on Rafah and Khan Younis in southern Gaza proceed to rage. In keeping with the United Nations, a minimum of 5 Palestinians and three Israeli troopers have died due to the extraordinary combating inside the space.
• Israeli assaults have killed Palestinians near a UN Support and Works Firm for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) college in Deir el-Balah in Gaza, primarily based on the Palestinian data firm Wafa. Palestinians had been moreover injured in an air assault on a home near the al-Raws intersection inside the Bureij refugee camp.
• A minimum of 18,787 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli assaults since October 7. The revised demise toll in Israel stands at about 1,200.

Diplomacy

• White Residence nationwide security spokesperson John Kirby has expressed Washington’s “deepest sympathies and condolences” for the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Samer Abudaqa, as worldwide requires accountability, along with from the Al Jazeera Media Neighborhood, for Israel’s killing of  journalists since October 7, develop.
• Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has reiterated the urgent should stop Israeli assaults on Gaza all through a gathering with US Nationwide Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.
• The US needs the PA involved in a post-war Gaza plan, which Israel continues to oppose.
• The director of Israel’s spy firm Mossad, David Barnea, is predicted to satisfy Qatar’s Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani in Europe this weekend to debate the resumption of talks on a deal to protected the discharge of captives held inside the Gaza Strip, primarily based on a report by data website online Axios.
• The UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths has welcomed Israel’s option to open the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing into Gaza, which may allow assist to enter the besieged enclave.