Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza
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Evening recap

9 July 2024 23:51 BST

Our live coverage from Gaza will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are some of the day's key developments:

  • Gaza's health ministry said that the Palestinian death toll from Israel's war on Gaza has risen to 38,243, with 50 people killed in the past 24 hours. Additionally, 88,033 people have been wounded since the start of the war on 7 October

  • A new investigation by Israeli outlets +972 Magazine and Local Call has found that Israeli soldiers have been shooting Palestinians, including civilians "virtually at will" during their operations in Gaza

  • Famine has spread through the Gaza Strip, with several more children having died due to malnutrition, a group of independent human rights experts mandated by the UN have said

  • Israel has lashed out at a UN report that accused Israel of carrying out a “targeted starvation campaign” which has resulted in the deaths of children in Gaza

  • An ex-bodyguard to Hezbollah's leader and an Iranian commander were killed in an Israeli air strike on a vehicle in the Damascus countryside along the Syria-Lebanon border, according to L'Orient Today

  • Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has approved a plan to begin drafting ultra-Orthodox Jews into the military

  • French President Emmanuel Macron lambasted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over election interference in the country during a phone call last week, reported Israeli journalist Barak Ravid, citing two sources familiar with the conversation's details

  • The US military will temporarily reinstall a pier in Gaza on Wednesday to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid

  • According to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, over 9,600 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem are presently imprisoned in Israeli jails