Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza
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Late night recap

22 January 2024 23:36 GMT

Good evening readers of Middle East Eye,

At least 25,295 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since 7 October, according to the Palestinian health ministry. Its latest update says at least 63,000 have been wounded in attacks by the Israeli military.

The manager of the surgical division of Nasser Hospital, in the Gazan city of Khan Younis, speaking to Al Jazeera, said that the hospital has received at least 50 dead bodies and over 100 people wounded in Israeli army strikes over the past 24 hours.

The intensive care unit, which includes four beds, is at full capacity and cannot receive any more patients.

Israel has given Hamas a proposal, through Qatari and Egyptian mediators, which offers a fighting pause lasting up to two months. This is part of a broader multi-stage agreement that would also entail the release of all remaining captives held in Gaza, Axios reported.

In other developments:

  • Of the 600,000 people facing starvation globally, only five percent live outside of Gaza, according to figures from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).
  • The world is in a “watershed” moment in the Gaza conflict with a “genocide unfolding.” said the UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese,  responding to a tweet by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
  • Around 4,000 pro-Palestinian protesters in Melbourne, Australia, rallied on Saturday and Sunday for the 15th week in a row, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and blocking a major freight terminal. 
  • Israel is considering building an artificial island with sea and air ports off blockaded Gaza, as a long-term solution to shipping goods into the Palestinian territory, the transport minister said.
  • The US called for an investigation in response to the death of 17-year-old Tawfic Abdel Jabbar, a Palestinian American in the West Bank, who was killed by Israeli forces, according to Palestinian health officials.
  • Three US officials said that American and British forces launched a new series of strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen.

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