Edited by: Du Yu
According to CCTV news client on December 27, the Israeli government announced on December 26 local time that it would stop automatically issuing visas to UN staff working in the Palestinian-Israeli region.
Elon Levy, spokesman for the Israeli government's press office, said on the 26th that the country will no longer automatically issue visas to UN staff, and he accused the UN of being an "accomplice" of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).
Elon Levy, spokesman for the Israeli Government Information Office (Photo source: CCTV News)
Levy said Israel would consider whether to approve visa applications for UN staff members on an individual basis.
Levy also accused the UN of "shielding" Hamas.
He said Israel would stop dealing with those who worked with the "Hamas propaganda machine" and called on Israeli allies to follow suit.
Relations between Israel and the United Nations have been increasingly strained recently. Foreign Minister Cohen announced on 5 December that the visa of the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Lynn Hastings, was revoked.
Chief of the Israeli General Staff: The military operation in the Gaza Strip will continue for several months
According to CCTV News comprehensive "Times of Israel", Al Jazeera, and Al-Arabiya TV, on December 26, local time, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Hezi Al-Halewi said that the Israeli army is expanding its military operations in the southern and central Gaza Strip and is about to dismantle all the infrastructure of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the northern Gaza Strip. At the same time, he said that the military operation in the Gaza Strip would continue for several months, and that the IDF would hunt down Hamas's leadership, "whether it will take a week or months."
Chief of the IDF General Staff, Hezi Al-Halevi (Credit: The Times of Israel)
In addition, Al-Halevi said that the Israeli side would conduct a thorough investigation into the events that occurred on October 7.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party said in a statement on December 25 that Netanyahu said at a meeting of the Likud Party that day that Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip was far from over. The Israeli army will intensify its offensive in the coming days, and the fighting will continue for a long time.
Israeli forces launched an airstrike on a refugee camp in the West Bank, killing at least six people
According to the Palestinian Quds City Daily, in the early morning of the 27th local time, the Israeli army launched a drone airstrike on the Nur Shams refugee camp in the West Bank city of Tulkarem, killing at least 6 Palestinians and injuring several others.
In addition, Israeli forces seized three ambulances carrying the wounded and prevented them from reaching local hospitals.
So far, there has been no response from the Israeli side.
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks with the Emir of Qatar
On December 26, local time, U.S. President Joe Biden had a phone call with the Emir of Qatar (head of state) Tamim.
The two sides discussed the efforts needed to secure the release of all remaining hostages, including United States citizens, held by the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).
Image source: CCTV News
Since the outbreak of the current round of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, more than 20,900 Palestinians have died in the Gaza Strip
According to CCTV News, the health department of the Gaza Strip issued a statement on December 26 local time, saying that since the outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on October 7, the Israeli army's military operations in the Gaza Strip have killed at least 20,915 Palestinians and injured another 54,918.
The statement also said that in the past 24 hours, 241 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip had been killed and 382 others injured in Israeli military operations.
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