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

20 January 2025 23:50 GMT

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

Here are some of the day's key developments:

  •  At least 47,035 Palestinians have been killed and 111,091 injured in Israel's war on Gaza since 7 October 2023, the Gaza health ministry said on Monday.

  • Gaza’s civil defence agency has provided an update on the besieged Strip, revealing that more than 10,000 bodies remain buried under rubble from destroyed homes and buildings, with recovery efforts ongoing on the second day of the Gaza ceasefire.

  • Gaza’s civil defence reported that 137 bodies have been recovered from beneath the rubble in Rafah alone since the ceasefire took effect.

  • Hamas said that one of the Palestinian prisoners who had been slated for release yesterday under the prisoner exchange deal in the Gaza ceasefire agreement with Israel was not freed,  Israeli news outlet Ynet reported.

  • Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank, detaining more than 60 Palestinians before withdrawing shortly after, according to local reports.

  • Palestinian telecom companies have begun restoring limited operations in Rafah and northern Gaza, desperately working to reconnect a population cut off by Israel’s 15-month bombardment.

  • More than 630 trucks with humanitarian aid entered Gaza on Sunday, with at least 300 of them travelling to the territory’s besieged and bombed north, the UN’s aid chief Tom Fletcher said.

  • Fresh footage circulating online exposes a violent rampage by Israeli settlers, who torched Palestinian homes and property in the villages of Funduq and Jinsafut, east of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank, according to reports. 

  • At least 21 Palestinians have been wounded in brutal attacks by Israeli settlers in two villages east of Qalqilya, the Palestinian Red Crescent has reported.

  • Qatar has begun supplying the besieged Gaza Strip with 1.25 million litres of fuel per day, as part of a humanitarian effort during the first ten days of the newly agreed ceasefire.

  • Lebanon’s Hezbollah has praised the Palestinian resistance and its backers for what it calls a “great victory” in securing a ceasefire with Israel, lauding their resilience in the face of more than 15 months of relentless bombardment.

  • A recent Harvard CAPS/Harris poll, released over the weekend, revealed that 21 percent of American voters express support for Hamas in the ongoing conflict with Israel.