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

16 February 2025 23:44 GMT

Good evening Middle East Eye readers, 

Our blog will soon be closing for the day. Here are some of today's main developments:

  • Karim al-Madhoun, an 8-year-old Palestinian child suffering from severe malnutrition and cerebral palsy, died in Gaza on Sunday, Eye on Palestine reported.

  • Israel has received a shipment of heavy MK-84 bombs from the US, after Trump lifted a block imposed on the export of the munitions by the Biden administration, the defence ministry said.

  • The Hind Rajab Foundation said on Sunday that it has filed a complaint with the ICC against Israeli foreign minister Gideon Sa’ar ahead of his Brussels visit.

  • The Israeli High Court of Justice rejected a petition to publish the full text of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, ruling that the government is entitled to conduct secret diplomacy, The Times of Israel reported.

  • At least 20 Palestinians, including four schoolchildren, were wounded by Israeli fire on Sunday during a military raid of Nablus and al-Bireh in the occupied West Bank.

  • An Israeli negotiating team will fly to Cairo on Monday to discuss continuing the implementation of the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Sunday.

  • The Palestinian health ministry is reporting severe oxygen shortages in hospitals across Gaza, adding that this is hampering intensive care and other vital operations.

  • Lebanese media is reporting that Israeli forces shot and killed a woman in a southern Lebanese border town, as residents were returning home.

  • The Palestinian health ministry has said that a total of seven deaths and five injuries were recorded at hospitals in the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours.