Live Updates: Israeli overnight strikes kill more Palestinians in Gaza

Israel's genocide in Gaza — now in its 440th day — has killed at least 45,097 Palestinians and wounded 107,244 others. In Lebanon, Israel has killed 4,047 people since October 2023 and keeps breaching the November 27 truce deal. Thursday, December 19, 2024 0837 GMT — At least 20 Palestinians, including several children, have been killed in overnight Israeli air strikes in Gaza, medics said. Civil Defence spokesman Mahmoud Basal said the bodies of 18 people were retrieved from under the rubble of three homes after Israeli strikes in Gaza City and north of the enclave. Seven children were among the victims, he said in a statement. Separately, a husband and his wife have been killed in an Israeli strike on their home in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, a medical source said. Meanwhile, the Israeli army continued to blow up Palestinian homes in the northern towns of Beit Lahia and Jabalia by using explosive-laden robots, witnesses said. Israeli strikes in Yemen kill at least nine people after Houthis launched missile at Tel Aviv. Yousef Mawry has more Sanaa pic.twitter.com/GQ7v4WLSiQ — TRT World Now (@TRTWorldNow) December 19, 2024 Ashraf Shannon reports on the latest deadly strikes pounding Gaza as Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of committing genocide by depriving the enclave of water pic.twitter.com/q9MgLSgms0 — TRT World Now (@TRTWorldNow) December 19, 2024 0908 GMT — Israeli strikes in Yemen 'dangerous development': Hamas Palestinian resistance group Hamas has said that Israel's strikes in Yemen after the Houthis fired a missile at the country were a "dangerous development," while its armed wing called for more attacks on Israel. "We regard this escalation as a dangerous development and an extension of the aggression against our Palestinian people, Syria and the Arab region," Hamas said in a statement as Israel struck ports and energy infrastructure in Yemen after intercepting a missile attack by the Houthis. "We commend the missile attack carried out by our loyal brothers, the Ansar Allah in Yemen, targeting the heart of the Zionist entity," the group said in a separate statement. 0816 GMT — Israeli forces detain several Palestinians from the occupied West Bank Israeli occupation forces have detained at least 14 Palestinians from various areas of the occupied West Bank since yesterday evening, continuing their ongoing crackdown on the local population. According to the Palestinian Authority's Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoner's Society, the detention operations among the governorates of Nablus, Hebron, Jenin, Tulkarem and Ramallah. Among the detainees was a woman from Gaza who was in the occupied West Bank for treatment, in addition to children and former detainees.