This is an entry from: Israel-Palestine live: Netanyahu rejects Hamas ceasefire proposal, vows ‘total victory’
Evening recap
5 February 2024 23:33 GMT
Good evening Middle East Eye readers,
Israeli forces have killed at least 113 Palestinians in air strikes across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Monday.
This brings the death toll since 7 October to at least 27,478 with almost 67,000 wounded and 7,000 missing, who are either believed to be dead and buried under rubble.
Israeli forces have shot and killed a 14-year-old Palestinian boy at a military checkpoint near the entrance to al-Eizariya town, east of occupied East Jerusalem.
In other developments:
- Itochu Corp’s aviation unit will end its strategic cooperation with Israeli defence company Elbit Systems by the end of the month after the ICJ ordered Israel to prevent acts of genocide against Palestinians and do more to help civilians.
- The Royal Jordanian Air Force alongside the Dutch Air Force have made humanitarian aid drops in the vicinity of the Jordanian Field Hospital 77 in northern Gaza, according to the Jordanian army.
- The Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said on Monday that "time is running out" to reach a diplomatic solution in the south of Lebanon, as tensions flare between the two countries, with daily cross-border fire.
- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Saudi Arabia as part of his latest tour of the Middle East.
- UN chief Philippe Lazzarini said on Monday that in around four months of war, at least 100,000 people in Gaza have been killed, wounded or are currently missing.
- McDonald's experienced its first quarterly sales deficit in almost four years, stemming from poor growth in its international business unit and due to customers boycotting the firm for its perceived support of Israel, the BBC has reported.
- The White House announced on Monday that the Biden administration is firmly against a proposal from US House Republicans to pass a separate bill solely for aid to Israel.