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

21 November 2024 00:03 GMT

Our live coverage from Israel's war on Gaza and Lebanon will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are some of the day's key developments:

  • At least 66 people, mostly women and children, were killed, and over 100 others injured when a residential neighborhood near Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza was destroyed by Israel on Thursday

  • Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, told Al Jazeera Arabic that dozens of bodies lie on the ground following an Israeli attack that destroyed a residential neighborhood near the hospital in northern Gaza

  • Gaza's health ministry said on Wednesday the total  number people killed by Israel has climbed to 43,985 since 7 October

  • Additionally, 104,092 people have been wounded since the start of the war

  • The director of the besieged Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia has said that 85 injured people, including women and children, remain trapped at the facility and are receiving "minimal health services"

  • Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa), has said that despite the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the rights of Palestinian children "are violated day in, day out"

  • The US vetoed the UN Security Council vote on the Gaza ceasefire resolution, ending with 14 votes for and one against. It’s the fifth US veto on a Gaza UN ceasefire resolution in the past 13 months

  • Oxfam has issued a statement denouncing the US' veto of the latest UN Security Council ceasefire proposal for Gaza as a "profound failure"

  • Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed at least 3,558 people and injured 15,123 since 7 October, 2023, according to Lebanon’s health ministry

  • In the past 24 hours alone, 14 people were killed and 87 wounded, the ministry reported

  • At least four Israeli soldier was killed in Gaza and Lebanon today. This brings the death toll in the army to 800 since the war started on 7 October 2023 for Gaza and at least 50 soldiers have died in Lebanon

  • A Hezbollah official said on Wednesday that any US-brokered ceasefire deal to end the Israeli war on Lebanon must end fighting swiftly and preserve Lebanon's sovereignty, an apparent reference to Israel's stance that it will keep striking the group even with a truce in place

  • The Biden administration is lobbying senators to approve continued US weapons shipments to Israel, emphasizing the stakes ahead of an unprecedented congressional vote on the policy, the Huffington Post has reported