Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza
This is an entry from: Gaza live: Dozens killed and wounded in Israeli strikes on Gaza and Yemen

Late night update

14 July 2024 00:14 BST

Hello MEE readers,

The death toll for what have widely been deemed "massacres" in Khan Younis and Gaza City reached 90 today, with more expected as bodies are dug out from rubble and dirt. 

Israel said its target was top Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif. The Hamas movement has said that Deif was not killed. 

More updates from this evening include:

  • Former US President Donald Trump appeared to be grazed by a bullet during a rally in Pennsylvania. 

  • The International Court of Justice announced that it will issue an advisory opinion on legal consequences related to Israeli actions in occupied Palestinian land during the next week.

  • Pramila Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, condemned Israel's attacks in Gaza, reiterating calls for a ceasefire.

  • The Council on American-Islamic Relations says Israel is acting with impunity, knowing that it will continue to receive US support despite its atrocities against Palestinians.

  • Senior Hamas official Abdel Hakim Henini took to the official Hamas Telegram channel to call on Palestinians to defend those being "slaughtered" in the Gaza Strip and "to stand up to Israeli settlers wreaking havoc across the West Bank".

  • In a statement, the Hamas movement said its political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, held phone calls with officials in Egypt and Qatar, which are mediating ceasefire talks with Israel, as well as other countries in the region to ask for more pressure to be placed on the US and Israel to "stop the massacres".