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Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza

Evening recap

Our live blog is now closed until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

- At least 90 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in Gaza on Wednesday, health officials said.

- More than 100 international human rights and humanitarian organisations have called for an end to Israel's siege of Gaza, citing widespread starvation affecting their staff.

- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa) has said that its own staff members are fainting due to severe hunger.

- The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the motion passed in Israel's Knesset that called for the assertion of "Israeli sovereignty" in the occupied West Bank. 

- The interim US ambassador to the United Nations, Dorothy Shea, told the Security Council that use of the term 'genocide' to describe Israel's actions in Gaza is nothing more than "propaganda" fueled by Hamas. 

- Al-Azhar Al-Sharif has acknowledged that it had deleted a strongly worded call to action over the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza, citing its potential negative impact on ceasefire negotiations.