Updates: Kamal Adwan detainees beaten, humiliated by Israeli army

We can now bring you more statistics released by Gaza’s Government Media Office, which show the destruction Israel has unleashed on the Strip after more than a year of war:

• 2 million people displaced .
• 110,000 displacement tents have deteriorated and are no longer suitable for use
• 135 schools and universities destroyed and 353 schools and universities partially destroyed
• 756 teachers and educational staff killed
• 148 scholars, academics, university professors and researchers killed
• 823 mosques destroyed
• 158 mosques severely damaged
• Three churches destroyed
• 19 of 60 cemeteries fully or partially destroyed
• 2,300 bodies stolen by Israel from cemeteries
• 161,600 housing units destroyed
• 82,000 housing units rendered uninhabitable
• 34 hospitals rendered nonfunctional and 80 health centres shut down

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This live page will close soon. Here’s a recap of the today’s major developments:

• At least 36 people have been killed and several wounded in Israeli attacks across Gaza.
• Israel issued a forced evacuation notice for areas in Beit Hanoon after earlier saying that two rockets were fired from northern Gaza into West Jerusalem.
• The Israeli army says the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital has been detained for questioning following Friday’s raid.
• Freed staff from Kamal Adwan Hospital described “difficult” conditions in detention by Israeli forces.
• Qatar’s foreign minister met a Hamas delegation led by senior official Khalil al-Hayya in Doha.
• Israel’s foreign minister said that only Israel could ensure its “security” when asked about its continued military presence in Gaza.
• The WFP says international aid organisations are still unable to meet the needs of the civilian population in the Gaza Strip.
• The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said Israeli forces arrested 15 Palestinians from various parts of the occupied West Bank.
• A Houthi spokesperson says the group’s armed forces brought down a US MQ-9 Reaper UAV which it claims was carrying out operations in Yemeni airspace.

Israeli soldiers have raided and burned down Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, forcing everyone inside to evacuate and detaining dozens of medical staff, including the director, Dr Hussam Abu Safia.

The sick and injured people there have no other medical facility to go to because Israel has destroyed all the other hospitals in the north – and they cannot leave the north.

Most of the people killed are civilians. Tens of thousands of children have lost at least one limb in Israeli bombing and tens of thousands are orphaned.

However, awareness among many Israelis of the extent of their country’s actions in Gaza appears minimal.

The consequence, analysts say, of a pliant media that – with a few notable exceptions – appears ready to parrot the country’s Prime Minister Netanyahu and his increasingly far-right government.

Read the rest of our story here.

Andreas Motzfeldt Kravik, the State Secretary at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, spoke to Al Jazeera about a recent statement by the government calling Israel’s attacks on Kamal Adwan Hospital “unacceptable”.

He said the Norwegian government is using “several means” to apply pressure on Israel.

“We have a political obligation, a moral imperative, to speak out in favour of… Palestinians and in favour of these principles that are being violated,” said Kravik.

“Last week, we presented a resolution to the UN General Assembly where we are asking the ICJ to clarify Israel’s obligations to facilitate aid into the Gaza Strip, into [the] West Bank.

“What we can do as part of the international community is to continue to apply pressure, and we will not relent.”

Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, has condemned the Israeli military’s forced displacement of staff and patients from Kamal Adwan Hospital, which was northern Gaza’s last medical facility.

“Israel is writing one of the darkest pages in the history of genocides, with “Made in the West” ink,” Albanese wrote on X, alongside a video showing a line of Palestinian men, stripped down to their underwear, walking with arms raised between Israeli battle tanks.

Earlier this year, Albanese published a report that found “reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating the commission of … acts of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza has been met”.

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Fighting has broken out between Palestinians and Israeli forces after the latter stormed the town of Tuqu’, east of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, our correspondent on the ground reported.

Translation: Clashes erupt between young men and the occupation forces after they stormed the town of Tuqu’, east of Bethlehem.

Amnesty International has posted on X the words of one of its fieldworkers in Gaza describing his life during Israel’s war on the enclave.

“My entire life as a father boils down to protecting, or trying to protect, my family and securing at least something that resembles but is nowhere near a decent life for them,” he says.

“Getting access to water for washing, bathing, and drinking is now akin to fighting for survival. Life in a tent stretching over four by five metres is suffocating. It weighs on your chest. It makes you feel as if the entire world is conspiring to make you suffer.”

Israeli forces have fired on a vehicle in the southern area of Tulkarem city in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reports.

Israeli troops stormed the city through its southern entrance, stopping and searching vehicles.

In one instance, they stopped one vehicle near the Shobaki roundabout and shot at it, which resulted in the driver being injured and later being detained by Israeli forces.

Israeli police pushed protesters staging demonstrations in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to call on the government to accept a ceasefire deal to release the captives held in Gaza.

Al Jazeera verified the footage below of Israeli police forcibly pushing protesters in Jerusalem amid protest chants.

Translation: Police violence at a demonstration for the kidnapped, tonight in Jerusalem.

Israeli troops have forced a Palestinian man to demolish his home in the neighbourhood of Jabal al-Mukaber, Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank.

According to the Palestinian Authority’s Jerusalem Governorate, the Israeli municipality told Ibrahim Mashahra to demolish his 70-square-metre (753sq-foot) home, housing six members of his family.

Mashahra confirmed to Wafa news agency that the municipality issued a voluntary demolition order on December 4.

Israeli authorities regularly pressure Palestinian residents in Jerusalem to demolish their own homes, citing a lack of building permits.  Receiving a building permit as a Palestinian citizen is almost impossible.

If residents refuse, Israeli bulldozers demolish the homes, and owners are often forced to pay fines for the demolition.

Since Israel began its war on Gaza in October 2023, the total number of demolitions and destructions in the Jerusalem governorate since October 7, 2023, has reached 391.

Winter conditions in Gaza have created an even more dangerous environment for Palestinians across the Strip.

Food is scarce. But there’s also a severe lack of shelter and ways to keep warm.

Sila al-Fasee is 22 days old and has already endured all these hardships.

“I sleep here, my wife sleeps here and the children sleep here,” said al-Fasee’s father. “I got up in the morning and I touched my daughter and to my shock she had turned very blue and was solid like a piece of wood. I took my daughter to the hospital where they told me she died because of the very cold weather.”

The lives of others are being claimed by starvation.

Qusay Naser said his brother Sameer died while they were searching for flour to bring to their mother.

“Instead of bringing flour, I brought my dead brother. My brother died because we don’t have bread and we were trying to get some,” Naser said.

At least 36 people have been killed and a number of others wounded in Israeli attacks across Gaza since this morning, Wafa news agency reported.

In Gaza City, Mohammed Ibrahim al-Khatib and Mahmoud Mohammed al-Areini were killed when Israeli warplanes targeted people on al-Jalaa Street in the western part of the city.

In Jabalia, northern Gaza, Israeli air strikes targeted a house, resulting in multiple deaths.

In the Qizan an-Najjar area, south of Khan Younis, several people were wounded after Israeli planes hit a house.

Al Jazeera is reporting from Amman because the Israeli government has banned it from Israel and the occupied West Bank.

Just a couple of days ago, Israel and Hamas were pointing fingers at each other for why there hasn’t been a deal.

The Israelis said that Hamas is not being lenient enough. Hamas says that Israel continues to add new conditions.

We’ve been discussing this for more than a year since the first and only ceasefire in November 2023.

These talks have been stalled for so long because each side has really tough sticking points.

Hamas has said it will not accept a ceasefire unless it includes a complete end to the war, but Israel said it will not accept that.

In Israel, you have people protesting against the government.

New polls showed that 67 percent of the country said that they do not have faith in Netanyahu’s government, especially when it comes to securing a ceasefire deal.

So even though a Hamas delegation has spoken with the Qataris, there’s been no sort of information from the Israeli side as to where they’re at in these negotiations.