This is an entry from: Gaza live: Israel to build 'different government' in Gaza, says defence minister
Evening recap
25 May 2024 23:56 BST
Good evening, Middle East Eye readers.
Our live coverage from Gaza will shortly be closing for the evening.
Here are the day's key developments.
- Israeli forces have killed at least 46 Palestinians and wounded 130 more over the past 24 hours in five "massacres", according to the Palestinian health ministry. This brings the Palestinian death toll in over five months to more than 35,903, with over 80,420 wounded and an estimated 10,000 missing, believed to be dead and buried under rubble.
- Hamas's military wing killed, wounded or captured Israeli soldiers during fighting in the Gaza Strip late on Saturday, according to an official spokesman for the group. Israel denied the claim.
- The Palestinian Wafa news agency said an Israeli air strike killed 10 Palestinians, including children and women, in the city of Beit Hanoun, in the north of the Gaza Strip.
- An Israeli official said on Saturday that the government had an "intention" to renew "this week" talks aimed at reaching a Gaza ceasefire and prisoner exchange deal, after a meeting in Paris between US and Israeli officials. A Hamas official denied reports that Gaza ceasefire talks would resume in Cairo on Tuesday.
- The European Union's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, called on Israel to "immediately" follow the ICJ's ruling to halt its military offensive on Rafah. Spain's Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares also demanded the implementation of Friday's ICJ ruling.
- The British government criticised the ICJ for ordering Israel to immediately halt its military assault on Rafah, saying the ruling would strengthen Hamas.
- The Spanish defence minister said on Saturday the Israeli war on Gaza is a "real genocide", as relations between Israel and Spain worsen following Madrid's decision to recognise a Palestinian state.
- Some Palestinian families in the Gaza Strip have been forcibly displaced up to six times since Israel launched its war on the besieged enclave, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, has said.
- Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani announced on Saturday that Rome would resume funding for Unrwa, at a meeting with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa.
- Heavy seas battered the US maritime humanitarian mission to Gaza on Saturday, US Central Command (Centcom) said, with four vessels serving a floating aid delivery pier breaking free from their moorings.