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Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza

Evening recap

Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

  • Israeli drones killed two children in Gaza, one in Shujaeya neighbourhood in Gaza City and the other in Beit Hanoun, northern the Strip,
  • Hamas has dismissed reports about extending the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, as part of a temporary deal to release more Israeli captives, as the group spokesperson Hazem Qassem said they are committed to the existing ceasefire and will enter its second stage,
  • The World Health Organisation (WHO) has authenticated 54 “attacks on health centres” in the occupied West Bank since January, according to the spokesperson of the United Nation Secretary General Stephane Dujarric. Around 20 facilities are now currently out of service,
  • An official at Gaza’s health ministry said the enclave is in “urgent” need of at least 10 oxygen generators, after Israeli attacks had destroyed the hospitals’ medical equipment in the Strip,
  • The National Campaign to retrieve Martyrs’ Bodies, a Palestinian advocacy group, said that Israel is retaining the corpses of 676 Palestinians in freezers and burial sites known as “cemeteries of numbers,”
  • Israel said it targeted on Hezbollah facilities used for "manufacturing and storing strategic weapons" in the Bekaa valley in Lebanon,
  • A group of US Jewish activists have protested at Trump Tower in New York City, calling for the immediate release of Palestinian Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil, who was detained for organising a pro-Palestine protest on campus.