This is an entry from: Israel-Palestine live: Unicef says over 13,000 children killed in Gaza
Evening recap
7 March 2024 23:48 GMT
Good evening Middle East Eye readers,
Israeli forces have killed at least 83 Palestinians and wounded 142 more over the past 24 hours in nine "massacres", according to the Palestinian health ministry.
This brings the Palestinian death toll in nearly five months to more than 30,800, with nearly 73,000 wounded and at least 7,000 missing, believed to be dead and buried under rubble.
Twenty-seven Palestinian detainees kidnapped by Israeli soldiers from Gaza since October have died during interrogations, Haaretz said on Thursday.
In other developments:
- Norway has issued formal advice against any trade or business activities with illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
- The Israeli army said on Thursday that it carried out air strikes on buildings in the southern Lebanon towns of Aitaroun and Ayta.
- The bodies of 47 Palestinians have been returned to Gaza by Israeli forces and have been buried in a mass grave on Thursday.
- Israel accused South Africa on Thursday of acting "as the legal arm of Hamas" after Pretoria again petitioned the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to take measures against Israel.
- Israel is destroying Gaza's food system as part of a "starvation campaign", according to a UN expert.
- US President Joe Biden is set to reveal plans for the US military to build a port along the Mediterranean coast of Gaza to receive humanitarian aid.