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

Right here’s how issues stand on Saturday, December 16, 2023:

Newest developments

• Al Jazeera cameraman Samer Abudaqa has been killed in an Israeli assault on Gaza. He’s the 57th Palestinian journalist and media employee to be killed because the battle began on October 7.
• The Al Jazeera Media Community condemned the Israeli drone strike on a Gaza faculty that resulted within the killing of Abudaqa and mentioned it holds Israel “accountable for systematically focusing on and killing Al Jazeera journalists and their households”.
• Israel’s navy has admitted to by accident killing three Israeli captives held in Gaza, as a whole lot protest in Tel Aviv calling for renewed talks for the secure return of these held by Palestinian armed group Hamas.
• Israel’s navy police are investigating the killing of two Palestinians within the occupied West Financial institution after a human rights group posted a video that captures the obvious “executions” of the 2 males by Israeli forces, the Related Press information company reported.
• The US navy has mentioned that Houthi rebels in Yemen attacked two vessels and threatened a 3rd as tensions within the Red Sea escalate.

Human affect and combating

• Israeli assaults on Rafah and Khan Younis in southern Gaza proceed to rage. In line with the United Nations, no less than 5 Palestinians and three Israeli troopers have died because of the extraordinary combating within the area.
• Israeli assaults have killed Palestinians close to a UN Aid and Works Company for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) faculty in Deir el-Balah in Gaza, based on the Palestinian information company Wafa. Palestinians had been additionally injured in an air assault on a house close to the al-Raws intersection within the Bureij refugee camp.
• No less than 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 Home nationwide safety spokesperson John Kirby has expressed Washington’s “deepest sympathies and condolences” for the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Samer Abudaqa, as worldwide requires accountability, together with from the Al Jazeera Media Community, for Israel’s killing of  journalists since October 7, develop.
• Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has reiterated the pressing must cease Israeli assaults on Gaza throughout a gathering with US Nationwide Safety Advisor Jake Sullivan.
• The US desires the PA concerned in a post-war Gaza plan, which Israel continues to oppose.
• The director of Israel’s spy company Mossad, David Barnea, is predicted to fulfill Qatar’s Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani in Europe this weekend to debate the resumption of talks on a deal to safe the discharge of captives held within the Gaza Strip, based on a report by information web site Axios.
• The UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths has welcomed Israel’s choice to open the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing into Gaza, which can enable support to enter the besieged enclave.