This is an entry from: Live: Palestinian death toll in Gaza nears 26,000
Evening recap
15 January 2024 23:50 GMT
Good evening MEE readers. The war on Gaza has now surpassed 101 days, and Israel's military campaign does not have an end in sight.
At least 132 Palestinians were killed over the past 24 hours, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, which reported that more than two dozen were killed on Monday night alone.
The death toll now stands at 24,100 Palestinians. Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden released a statement marking the 100 days of war, with not a single mention of the word Palestinian.
Here are the latest developments from today:
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The leader of UK's Labour Party Keir Starmer has said that the party will no longer abide by its previous promise to recognise a Palestinian state unilaterally
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) said they destroyed the headquarters of Israel's intelligence agency Mossad in Iraqi Kurdistan, according to state media
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ordered his government to boycott the World Economic Forum in Davos over its stance on the war in Gaza
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Dozens of protesters blocked the entrance to an American weapons manufacturing plant in rural Vermont, where they called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and an end to arming Israel's military
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Yemen's Houthi movement claimed an attack on a US shipping vessel in the Gulf of Aden, and said it will continue to consider all American and British ships in the Red Sea as targets
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Israel's military spokesman announced that the 36th division, one of four military divisions fighting in Gaza, is withdrawing from the enclave
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Al-Qassam Brigades released a new video in which an Israeli captive said that two other hostages were killed by Israeli air strikes. The statement was coupled with footage of the two dead Israeli hostages, Yossi Sharabi and Itai Svirsky. Israel denied that one of the hostages was killed by Israeli fire
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