Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza
This is an entry from: Gaza live: Fresh Israeli order forces over 170,000 Palestinians to leave their homes

Evening recap

7 August 2024 23:52 BST

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

Here are some of the day's key developments:

  • Since 7 October, the death toll stands at 39,677, with over 91,645 wounded and 10,000 missing. Around 70 percent of the victims are children and women

  • Israeli attacks have killed 620 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank in the past 10 months since 7 October, the Palestinian health ministry said on Wednesday.

  • The United States has communicated to Iran and Israel that conflict in the Middle East must not escalate, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday, even as the Pentagon warned that it would not tolerate attacks against its forces in the region

  • Turkey has submitted its formal bid to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to join South Africa's genocide case against Israel, Anadolu news agency is reporting

  • Acting Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri said that Iran expects support for its right to defend itself against Israeli attacks

  • Pro-Israel advocacy groups and dual US-Israeli citizens have sued President Joe Biden over an executive order that imposes financial and immigration sanctions on those involved in settler violence in the occupied West Bank

  • The assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh threatens to plunge the Middle East into a broader conflict, warned Gambian Foreign Minister Mamadou Tangara, chair of a Saudi-based Islamic bloc, at a summit

  • Reacting to the far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s suggestion on Monday that starving Palestinians in the besiged Gaza Strip is “justified and moral”, even if it leads to the deaths of two million civilians from hunger, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell stated that he expects the Israeli government “to distance itself from his word”