Evening recap

Good evening, Middle East Eye readers.

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Israeli forces have killed at least 37 Palestinians and wounded 68 more over the past 24 hours in four "massacres", according to the Palestinian health ministry. 

This brings the Palestinian death toll in over six months to more than 34,049, with over 76,901 wounded and an estimated 7,000 missing and presumed dead. More than 70 percent of the victims are children and women, according to health officials.

In other developments:

• Five Palestinians, including a child, were killed and at least 11 others injured, amid the ongoing Israeli raid on the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
• Israeli forces have detained 30 Palestinians in two days of raids across the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners Society has said. According to the group, half of the detainees were arrested at the Nur Shams camp.
• Israeli fighter jets bombed and destroyed the Gaza Strip's largest pharmaceutical factory on Saturday, according to the Deir al-Balah municipality.
• A volunteer paramedic for the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has been missing for 120 days since he was detained by Israeli forces, the society said.
• Three Hezbollah fighters were killed on Saturday in an Israeli strike on a house in southern Lebanon, according to a source close to the Iran-backed group. 
• The Palestinian Authority is reconsidering its ties with the US following an American veto of a Palestinian request for full United Nations membership, President Mahmoud Abbas said in an interview with Wafa news agency. He said the veto "constitutes a blatant aggression against the rights, history, land, and sanctities of the Palestinian people, challenging the will of the international community".
• A bipartisan majority of the US House of Representatives voted in favour of a bill allocating additional funds to Israel on Saturday, part of a package of bills worth $95bn in total that would send aid to key allies around the world.
• Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday met with Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, who was on his first official visit to Istanbul since the Israeli war on Gaza started in October.
• Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and his Egyptian counterpart, Sameh Shoukry, discussed the "grave situation" in Gaza and how to step up humanitarian aid deliveries to the besieged enclave in a meeting on Saturday in Istanbul.
• China's foreign minister, Wang Yi, said that admitting Palestine into the UN would "rectify a prolonged historical injustice".
• Thousands of Israeli demonstrators took to the streets on Saturday in the latest round of protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.