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Evening recap
8 January 2024 23:57 GMT
Good evening Middle East Eye readers,
Several countries across Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America have signed up to a global day of action that will see marches take place on Saturday demanding Israel end its bloody offensive on the besieged Gaza Strip.
Famine, drought and epidemics form a "triangle of death" in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian health ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra warned on Monday.
In other developments:
- Separate Israeli air strikes killed the family members of two Palestinian journalists in Gaza.
- Israeli forces fatally shot three Palestinians in Tulkarm, a city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank,
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that he will do “everything to restore security in the north".
- According to Medical Aid for Palestinians, around 71,000 cases of diarrhoea have been recorded in children in Gaza.
- Israeli NGO B’Tselem said on Monday that Israel is starving Gaza, and that around 2.2 million people are surviving in Gaza “on almost nothing, routinely going without meals”.
- Hundreds of pro-Palestine protestors on Monday blocked the entrances to three major bridges and a tunnel in New York City to demand a ceasefire in the war on Gaza.
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