The head of the United Nations has used a rarely exercised power to warn the Security Council of an impending "humanitarian catastrophe" Israel's foreign minister has strongly criticized Guterres's leadership of the UN as "a danger to world peace" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office says Israel has approved a "minimal" increase in fuel supplies to prevent a "humanitarian collapse" in Gaza Israeli troops, tanks, personnel carriers, and bulldozers have rolled into Khan Younis, Gaza's second-largest city
Jordan airdrops emergency aid into southern Gaza
The Jordanian air force has airdropped urgent aid into the Gaza Strip, the armed forces announced in a statement.
The emergency delivery included medical supplies to help sustain a makeshift Jordanian hospital in Khan Younis.
The city, the largest in southern Gaza, has been the epicenter of Israeli troops' operations in the Palestinian territory this week.
The Jordanian military stressed it would continue to provide Gaza residents with "all types of aid and support."
It said this was the fourth time it had airdropped medical and relief supplies to the enclave. The previous three deliveries went to a field hospital in northern Gaza.
The airdrop came as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned of an impending "humanitarian catastrophe." Since the war began two months ago, deliveries of food, water and other vital aid to Gaza have been heavily restricted.
Two months on from the Hamas terror attacks, Israelis are remembering the 1,200 people who were killed in the carnage.
Thursday also marks the start of Hanukkah, the first Jewish festival since the October 7 attack in which the militant group stormed Israeli communities and a music festival.
Hamas, which is designated as a terrorist organization by several countries, also took more than 220 hostages that day back into the Gaza Strip.
Organizers of the music festival in southern Israel, where at least 364 people died, have recreated the scene of the massacre as an exhibition in Tel Aviv for the world to see.
Israel has been heavily bombarding Gaza since the attack, and in late October, it expanded its operation to a ground offensive. More than 16,000 Palestinians have thus far been killed in the territory, according to the Hamas-run health authorities there.
A week-long truce in late November saw the release of dozens of hostages, with Israel saying it believes 138 remain in Gaza.
Israel has resumed its military operations since the expiry of the truce on Friday, shifting the focus of its ground offensive to southern Gaza. It says it is seeking to destroy Hamas.
The Reuters and AFP news agencies have concluded in separate investigations that an attack on a group of journalists in southern Lebanon on October 13 was conducted by Israeli forces.
Rights organizations have said the strikes should be investigated as a war crime.
The attack killed Reuters video journalist Issam Abdallah and injured six others, including two from the French AFP news agency, one of whom later had a leg amputated.
Journalists from the Qatari-owned Al Jazeera broadcaster were also among the group. They were hit by two strikes in quick succession while filming cross-border shelling.
Both Reuters and AFP reported in their investigations that the attack was conducted by a tank shell, which they concluded belonged to the Israeli army. AFP said the tank shell is only used by the Israeli military in this border region.
Reuters said it presented the Israel Defense Forces with its findings suggesting that the tank rounds were fired from within Israel, asking whether Israeli troops were aware they were firing at journalists.
"We don't target journalists," Reuters quoted IDF international spokesperson Richard Hecht as saying. He did not provide further comment.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said in separate statements that the two strikes appeared to be a "deliberate attack on civilians" and should be probed as a war crime.
UAE submits UN Security Council resolution calling for cease-fire
The United Arab Emirates says it has submitted a draft resolution to the UN Security Council calling for a humanitarian cease-fire in the Gaza Strip to be "adopted urgently."
"The situation in the Gaza Strip is catastrophic and close to irreversible," the UAE's mission to the UN said in a statement. "We cannot wait. The Council needs to act decisively to demand a humanitarian cease-fire."
The UAE mission referred to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres's "rare" invocation of Article 99 of the UN Charter, calling on the Security Council to act to avert a "humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza."
It said that its draft resolution has the support of Arab states and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
"This is a moral and humanitarian imperative, and we urge all countries to support the call of the secretary-general," it said.
The Security Council is expected to meet on Thursday or Friday to discuss the invocation.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has announced a new window for residents of a neighborhood in southern Gaza to evacuate as it continues its military offensive across the strip.
Military activities will be "tactically, locally and temporarily" suspended between 10 a.m. local time (0800 GMT) and 2 p.m. in Rafah's Salam neighborhood, Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee said.
He cited "humanitarian reasons" and "reinforcements" as the reasons for the pause.
However, Adraee noted that parts of Salahuddin road, which spans the entire Gaza Strip from north to south and has been consistently used as an evacuation passage, were now effectively a "battlefield."
"IDF fighting and military advances in the Khan Younis area do not allow for the movement of civilians via Salahuddin road in the areas around north and east of Khan Younis city," Adraee said. Israeli troops have encircled the city, the strip's second largest, with the fighting intensifying on Wednesday.
Adraee added that civilians will be granted safe exit via a road west of Khan Younis, allowing movement from the city and Rafah toward western Gaza.
(With inputs from agencies)