Israeli forces killed at least 42 Palestinians and wounded 107 others in attacks across Gaza amid an ongoing vaccination drive against polio, according to Gaza Health Ministry.
Reports were also received of loud explosion in Bureij and Maghazi refugee camps, which were excluded from a humanitarian pause in fighting and the vaccination campaign.
Moreover, The Israeli army is pressing on with raids across several cities in the occupied West Bank. Bulldozers have stormed Tulkarem and the Jenin refugee camp, leaving a trail of destruction.
Soldiers were also detained citizens in Jalazone camp, north of Ramallah.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah stated that it carried out an attack on Israel with a volley of Katyusha rockets, in retaliation, the group said, for Israel’s attacks on its villages in southern Lebanon.
The rockets were launched towards Israeli artillery positions in al-Zaoura in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
The attack was also carried out “in support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their valiant and honorable resistance”.
Hezbollah and Israel have been engaging in tit-for-tat attacks along Lebanon’s southern border since the start of the war in Gaza in October.
Separately, the Danish police arrested Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg at a protest against the ongoing Israeli war in Gaza in Copenhagen, authorities said on Wednesday.
“This morning, we arrested six protesters who briefly blocked the entrance to one of the University of Copenhagen’s buildings in Krystalgade. The six people are charged with domestic disturbance,” the Copenhagen Police said on X, without revealing the names of arrestees.
Thunberg posted a video on Instagram showing her wearing handcuffs and a black-and-white keffiyeh shawl during the arrest.
“Police have been called, violently entered the building with a ram wearing assault rifles. They are evicting everyone as we speak,” Thunberg said on Instagram.
“We are here because dialog, encampment, and demonstrations among other methods after a 3-year campaign did not lead the university to meet the demands including an institutional academic boycott,” she said, adding that students who have been arrested are being taken to the police station this very moment.
Students against the operation said in a press release that they occupied the University of Copenhagen’s Museumsbygning at Frue Plads, which also houses the rector’s office.
“While the situation in Palestine only gets worse, the University of Copenhagen continues cooperation with academic institutions in Israel”, said the press release.
They added that they will not leave the site until the University of Copenhagen terminates cooperation with Israeli universities.
They demanded the university cancel its “research collaboration and exchange agreements” with Israeli academic institutions, publicly criticizing their involvement in the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
Israel has continued its brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip since an Oct. 7 Hamas attack despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire. More than 40,800 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have since been killed and nearly 94,300 others injured, according to local health authorities. Israel faces accusations of genocide for its actions in Gaza at the International Court of Justice.