This is an entry from: Gaza live: Israel continues bombing central Gaza
Evening recap
24 April 2024 23:40 BST
Good evening Middle East Eye readers,
Israeli forces have killed at least 79 Palestinians and wounded 86 more over the past 24 hours in six "massacres", according to the Palestinian health ministry.
This brings the Palestinian death toll in over six months to more than 34,262, with at least 77,229 wounded and an estimated 7,000 missing and presumed dead.
More than 70 percent of the victims are children and women, according to health officials.
In other developments:
- Israel's foreign minister on Wednesday thanked the US Senate for approving $13 billion in military aid that he said sent a "strong message" to the country's enemies.
- The Jamaican government has recognised the State of Palestine, Foreign Minister Kamina Johnson Smith announced.
- Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestine woman in the occupied West Bank of Hebron on Wednesday morning
- The Israeli army says it carried out a series of attacks against Hezbollah in the village of Ayta ash-Shab, southern Lebanon.
- Severe infections and epidemics are spreading in Gaza due to the overflow of sewage into the streets and the lack of clean drinking water, Gaza's health ministry warns.
- President Joe Biden signed a bill into law on Wednesday that provides billions of dollars of new US aid to Ukraine and Israel.
- On Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu labelled pro-Palestinian student protests in US universities as "horrific", insisting that such demonstrations "have to be stopped".
- White House national security advisor Jake Sullivan said that US officials have been in touch with Israeli counterparts regarding reports of mass graves discovered in Gaza.