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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:

  • The US proposed a “bridge” plan aims at extending the Gaza ceasefire to April, which goes beyond Ramadan and Passover, and will allow more time to negotiate a permanent end to the issue of captives,
  • Hamas said it will not renegotiate the ceasefire and insisted to proceed on the agreed upon truce with all its phases, and have proposed to release an Israel-American captive and another four bodies, as a "positive gesture,"
  • Columbia University  detained a second student for his pro-Palestine activism, and revoked a student visa from another student. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said his country is likely to revoke more students’ visas in the coming days,
  • A number of students, who support Palestine, demonstrated on Friday at Columbia University in New York City, calling for the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil,
  • Hamas said on its Telegram channel that a delegation is heading to Cairo to meet with Egyptian officials, to discuss ceasefire updates,
  • Two Palestinian teenagers were arrested by Israeli forces  in the city of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, according to Wafa news agency,
  • The Forum of Palestinian Journalist announced the death of Alaa Hashim, a Palestinian journalist, who died out of injuries she had previously sustained in an Israeli attack in Gaza city.