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Pictures of the week: Latest round of Palestine-Israel conflict entering its fourth month

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Residents and civil defense teams carry out a search and rescue operation around the rubble of the building demolished after an Israeli attack in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, January 5, 2024. /CFP
Residents and civil defense teams carry out a search and rescue operation around the rubble of the building demolished after an Israeli attack in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, January 5, 2024. /CFP

Residents and civil defense teams carry out a search and rescue operation around the rubble of the building demolished after an Israeli attack in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, January 5, 2024. /CFP

As the conflict enters its fourth month, the total number of deaths in the Gaza Strip has crossed 22,600, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza on Friday.

Palestinians wait in line to get clean water from a fountain, Gaza, January 3, 2024. /CFP
Palestinians wait in line to get clean water from a fountain, Gaza, January 3, 2024. /CFP

Palestinians wait in line to get clean water from a fountain, Gaza, January 3, 2024. /CFP

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Ishtaye said on Wednesday that the Gaza Strip, which has been under an intense Israeli military assault for nearly three months, is witnessing an "unprecedented state of hunger and starvation."

Israeli army humvees move along a dirt road in the Gaza Strip near a position along the border with southern Israel, January 4, 2024. /CFP
Israeli army humvees move along a dirt road in the Gaza Strip near a position along the border with southern Israel, January 4, 2024. /CFP

Israeli army humvees move along a dirt road in the Gaza Strip near a position along the border with southern Israel, January 4, 2024. /CFP

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Thursday that local Palestinians will run civilian affairs in the Gaza Strip while Israel will maintain security control of the coastal enclave after the current conflict ends.

Gallant said Israel is going to move into what he referred to as phase 3 of the conflict, which would include raids, destruction of "terror" tunnels, aerial and ground activities, and special operations.

People inspect the site of a strike, reported by Lebanese media to be an Israeli strike targeting a Hamas office, in the southern suburb of Beirut, January 2, 2024. /CFP
People inspect the site of a strike, reported by Lebanese media to be an Israeli strike targeting a Hamas office, in the southern suburb of Beirut, January 2, 2024. /CFP

People inspect the site of a strike, reported by Lebanese media to be an Israeli strike targeting a Hamas office, in the southern suburb of Beirut, January 2, 2024. /CFP

Hamas announced a freeze on ceasefire negotiations with Israel after the faction's deputy chief, Saleh al-Arouri, was killed Tuesday evening in an Israeli attack in Lebanon, according to Xinhua, citing a Palestinian source.

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati warned Friday of Lebanon being dragged into a regional war as the ongoing violence and conflict in the region is escalating.

This photo shows the UN Security Council meeting on Houthi attacks in the Red Sea at the UN headquarters in New York, January 3, 2024. /Xinhua
This photo shows the UN Security Council meeting on Houthi attacks in the Red Sea at the UN headquarters in New York, January 3, 2024. /Xinhua

This photo shows the UN Security Council meeting on Houthi attacks in the Red Sea at the UN headquarters in New York, January 3, 2024. /Xinhua

The UN Security Council on Wednesday held an open meeting on Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, amid growing concerns for global trade and regional stability due to the ongoing conflict in Gaza.

A Chinese envoy on Wednesday expressed China's steadfast commitment to collaborate with all involved parties in ongoing efforts to facilitate de-escalation in the Red Sea.

"China stays committed to working with all parties to make unremitting efforts to promote de-escalation in the Red Sea, a political settlement of the Yemen issue, the cessation of hostilities in Gaza, and long-lasting peace and stability in the Middle East," Geng Shuang, China's deputy permanent representative to the UN, told the Security Council.

Containers being loaded into a C-130 military plane at a French military airbase in Jordan, January 4, 2024. /CFP
Containers being loaded into a C-130 military plane at a French military airbase in Jordan, January 4, 2024. /CFP

Containers being loaded into a C-130 military plane at a French military airbase in Jordan, January 4, 2024. /CFP

France announced Friday that a French and a Jordanian military transport aircraft air-dropped a total of seven tonnes of medical aid to a field hospital in the Gaza Strip during a joint operation. The operation is meant to deliver medical aid to the Jordanian field hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis.

(With input from agencies)

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