Live Blog Update| Gaza Under Attack
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Evening update

15 December 2024 23:50 GMT

Good evening Middle East Eye readers.

Gaza has suffered another bloody day, with three deadly Israeli attacks on shelters in Khan Younis and Beit Hanoun, and a civil defence centre in Nuseirat refugee camp killing around 40 people.

  • An Israeli strike targeting a school-turned-shelter near the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis killed at least 20 people, Wafa news agency is reporting, citing local sources.

  • Israeli forces raided the Khalil Awida school in Beit Hanoun firing live ammunition and killing at least 15 people, Wafa is reporting.

  • An Israeli attack on a civil defence centre in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp killed three members of the civil defence search and rescue team and Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmad al-Louh. Al Jazeera issued a statement condemning the attack as "targeted".

  • Gaza's death toll now approaches 45,000.

  • The Palestinian Ministry of Health said on Sunday that Israeli forces have completely destroyed the Abu Shbak Health Centre in Jabalia, northern Gaza. The facility provided essential first aid services and mental healthcare.

  • Israel is to close its embassy in Dublin in light of "the extreme anti-Israel policies of the Irish government", Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said in a statement on Sunday.