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

8 November 2024 23:42 GMT

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

Here are some of the day's key developments:

  • At least 60 Jordanian men and women have joined an open hunger strike to demand the lifting of the Israeli siege on the northern Gaza Strip

  • At least 13 air raids hit Beirut's southern suburbs

  • Trump tells Palestinian president he’s committed to ending Gaza war

  • The Israeli army has detained eight Palestinians from Tabaqa, southwest of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, Wafa news reported on Friday

  • There is a "strong likelihood that famine is imminent in areas" of the northern Gaza, a committee of global food security experts said on Friday

  • The Metropolitan Police’s War Crimes Team has shared a “small number of referrals” with the International Criminal Court (ICC) since the Hamas-led attack on Israel last October and the ensuing war on Gaza

  • Israeli bulldozer destroys part of UN structure in south Lebanon

  • The UN Human Rights Office has verified 8,119 Palestinian deaths in Gaza during the first seven months of Israel’s war on the enclave