GAZA: Dozens of people were killed and injured, the majority of them women and children, at dawn today as a result of ongoing Israeli bombings that targeted most of the besieged Gaza Strip. Warplanes bombed two houses in the northern Gaza Strip killing at least 14 people and wounding others, while dozens of others, including children and women, were killed and injured as a result of the bombing of a house in Jabalia, while a large number of people are still trapped under the rubble. A young man was also killed in Tal al-Zaatar area, north of Gaza, after an Israeli sniper shot him inside his house. The occupation warships also opened heavy machinegun fire at Rafah shores, south of the Gaza Strip. Kamal Adwan Hospital remains under siege for the eighth day in a row with a severe shortage of water and food. The occupation forces ordered all medical staff, the wounded, and those present to leave it and gather in its courtyards amid the cold weather as 12 infants are still held in the incubators without water or food and medical attention. The forces have also destroyed the southern part of the hospital and are still targeting everyone who moves in it. Warplanes also targeted the vicinity of the UNRWA al-Mazraa School in Deir al-Balah and a house in Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. Israeli warplanes also fired missiles at a house in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, while the occupation army continued its bombing of al-Shuja'iya, al-Tuffah, and al-Daraj neighborhoods in Gaza City. Warplanes also attacked neighborhoods in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip. The Ministry of Health said in its latest statistics that 18,700 people were killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the Israeli aggression on the seventh of October, the majority of them (70%) were women and children, while more than 51,000 were injured, pointing out that thousands are still missing under the rubble of the targeted residential areas. Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA Caretaker Minister of Environment, Nasser Yassin, launched today the first geological trail in Lebanon in the "Jaj Cedar Nature Reserve" in Jbeil, as part of the joint 'Land Degradation Reduction' project between the Ministry of Environment and the United Nations Development Programme. 'The new trail, which will highlight the distinctive natural and geological wealth in the Jaj Cedar Reserve, is the result of cooperation with the Lebanese Mountain Trail Association, the Reserve Management Committee, and other partners, and with scientific support from the Department of Earth Sciences at the American University of Beirut," explained Yassin. He added: 'Today is a step in deepening our work in organizing and managing natural reserves in Lebanon, and the beginning of the path to achieving a geological park that will be the first in Lebanon.' Source:National News Agency - Lebanon