Evening recap
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Here are the day's key developments:
- At least 59 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since dawn on Thursday, local health officials said. Half of those killed were in Jabalia in the north of the strip, where Israel has sustained heavy bombardment since it began its war in October 2023.
- The medical director of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, Khalil al-Daqran, has warned that Gaza has entered the fifth stage of malnutrition — the most critical level defined by the World Health Organization — as a result of Israel’s ongoing blockade, reported Wafa.
- Gaza's health ministry announced that 37 of 38 hospitals in the Strip are now non-functional, with the latest casualty being the Mohammed al-Durra Children's Hospital, located east of Gaza City.
- In a move Israel has claimed as a procedural victory, appeals judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) ordered a lower panel to reconsider Israel’s objections to the court’s jurisdiction over arrest warrants issued against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant.
- Fresh footage released by Israeli human rights group Yesh Din shows settlers setting fire to Palestinian homes and farmland in Sinjil, a village northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
- New training for senior NYPD officers to crack down on antisemitism highlights the keffiyeh, the watermelon symbol, and the terms "settler colonialism" and "all eyes on Rafah," Jewish Currents magazine reported on Thursday.