This is an entry from: Israel-Palestine live: Netanyahu rejects Hamas ceasefire proposal, vows ‘total victory’
Evening recap
7 February 2024 23:41 GMT
Good evening Middle East Eye readers,
Israeli forces have killed at least 123 Palestinians over the past 24 hours in 16 "massacres", according to the Palestinian health ministry.
This brings the Palestinian death toll in four months to more than 27,708, with over 67,000 wounded and 7,000 missing, who are believed to be dead and buried under rubble.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that a total victory in Gaza was achievable, rejecting Hamas's latest ceasefire proposal aimed at securing the release of hostages still held in the besieged enclave.
In other developments:
- A Palestinian patient, 77, has died due to an oxygen shortage at Khan Younis' al-Amal Hospital, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said.
- An estimated 11,000 patients and wounded people are in urgent need of leaving the Gaza Strip to receive life-saving treatment abroad, the Palestinian health ministry said in a brief statement.
- Israeli forces wounded two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, during a military raid on Tulkarm.
- Head of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), Dr Younis al-Khatib, and president of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Kate Forbes, visited Gaza for the first time since the current war began on 7 October.
- Abu Baqir al-Saadi, a high-ranking official in Kataib Hezbollah, the Iranian-supported militia in Iraq implicated by the Pentagon in the assault that resulted in the death of three US soldiers, was killed during a drone attack on a vehicle in eastern Baghdad on Wednesday evening.
- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that while Hamas's ceasefire proposal in Gaza contains definite "non-starters", it offers room for a potential agreement.