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

27 November 2023 22:53 GMT

Good evening Middle East Eye readers,

The number of Palestinians killed has passed the 15,000 mark.

Among the dead killed by Israel are more than 6,150 children and 4,000 women. An additional 7,000 Palestinians are missing and believed to be under rubble or their fate is unknown.

At least 4,700 children and women are missing. Palestinian deaths are likely to slow down for an additional two days after Qatar announced that it had secured an additional two days for the truce.

While Hamas, US President Joe Biden, and the EU have welcomed the two-day extension of the truce, Israel has yet to comment.

Eleven Israelis were also released in the last few hours and have now entered Israel. The truce extension agreed to by Qatar today will see an additional 20 Israelis being held in Gaza released in return for 60 Palestinians over the next two days. In other updates:

  • Israeli police have conducted a number of raids on the houses of Palestinian prisoners expected to be released tonight
  • US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Israel, the occupied West Bank, and the United Arab Emirates later this week, Reuters reported, citing a senior State Department official
  • Nasser Beydoun, a businessman and Democrat running for the US Senate in Michigan, was offered $20m to drop out of the race, in a bid to help defeat Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib
  • More than a dozen state lawmakers and activists, including Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon, started a hunger strike on Monday, calling for a permanent ceasefire