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Evening recap

10 February 2024 23:33 GMT

It is now just after 01:30 in Gaza and Middle East Eye’s live coverage of Israel's relentless assault on the besieged enclave will shortly be closing for the evening.

Here are the day's key developments:

The Palestinian health ministry on Saturday said the death toll in Gaza had risen to 28,064, with 67,611 injured since 7 October. 

Health officials added that Israeli strikes had killed 117 Palestinians and injured 152 others in the past 24 hours across the Gaza Strip. 

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Israeli forces had fired on people inside the Nasser Medical facility in Khan Younis, with concerns that medical staff were unable to move inside the hospital due to fears of getting shot. "For the last 20 days the hospital had been under siege. Footage posted online showed that Israeli forces had fired upon trying to leave the facility," said MSF. 

Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl who was trapped 12 days ago in a car under Israeli fire and called rescuers for help, was found dead on Saturday. 

Two PRCS medics, Yousef Zeino and Ahmed al Madhoun, who were sent to rescue Rajab, were also found dead after their ambulance was bombed. 

Meanwhile, a Palestinian security source has told AFP that a senior Hamas official had survived an Israeli assassination attempt in Lebanon on Saturday. An official with the Lebanese Risala Scout association, which operates rescue teams and is affiliated with the Hezbollah-allied Amal movement, told AFP that two civilians had been killed.

An Egyptian official said that under no circumstances would fleeing Palestinians be allowed to cross the border into the Sinai peninsula, and any attempt to relocate them to Egyptian soil would collapse the peace deal between Egypt and Israel.

Other news included:

  • Israel’s plans for a military offensive on Rafah in the Gaza Strip are “alarming”, the EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borell, has said.
  • Jordan's foreign ministry also warned Israel against carrying out an offensive on Rafah. "We warn of the danger of the occupation army carrying out a military operation in Rafah, south of Gaza, which is home to a large number of displaced people," the statement by the Jordanian Foreign Ministry said.
  • German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock joined the calls against Israel's planned assault. "The need in Rafah is already unbelievable - 1.3 million people are seeking protection from the fighting in a very small space," Baerbock said on X (formerly Twitter). 
  • “Israel’s declared ground offensive on Rafah would be catastrophic and must not proceed,” Doctors Without Borders said in a statement. “There is no place that is safe in Gaza and no way for people to leave.”
  • The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) said a food shipment for 1.1 million Palestinians is stuck in an Israeli port due to restrictions from Israeli authorities as thousands of Palestinians face imminent hunger. 
  • A total of 17 Houthi fighters were killed in US strikes, the Iran-backed Yemeni rebel group said through its official media on Saturday, following public funerals in the capital Sanaa.