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

9 March 2025 23:46 GMT

Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

  • Israel’s energy minister Eli Cohen has signed an order to cut off of Gaza’s already meagre electricity supply, after a week long blockade of aid. The only power line into Gaza supplies the territory's main desalination plant, which serves over 600,000 people.

  • The move threatens already sparse water supplies, as there is no fuel to run generators for water pumping and no cooking gas cylinders.

  • Hamas condemned the decision as “cheap and unacceptable blackmail”.

  • US hostage envoy Adam Boehler has said that Hamas is willing to “lay down arms” for the duration of a five to ten year truce.

  • Palestinians in Khan Younis face severe food shortages and soaring prices amid the renewed Israeli blockade, which has entered its eighth day. Fuel shortages have forced several shops and bakeries to close.

  • US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that the US will be “revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported”. His comments come after US immigration agents arrested a Palestinian graduate student who helmed the Columbia student encampment.