Palestinian children, displaced from their homes, smile for a picture at the school where they took refuge in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on December 28, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. Gaza health officials said on December 28, that Israeli forces detained the director of a hospital in the north, which the World Health Organization said was put out of service by an Israeli raid. On December 27, the Israeli military said it had launched an operation in the area of Kamal Adwan Hospital, alleging the facility was a "key stronghold for terrorist organisations". (Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP)