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Morning recap
28 May 2024 05:37 BST
It's day 235 of Israel's war on Gaza. This is a recap of the last few hours to get you up to speed this morning:
- The death toll from Israel’s bombing of a tent camp for displaced Palestinian people in a designated safe zone in Rafah is now 45, most of them women and children
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called the deadly attack a “tragic incident” which his government is “investigating”
- An investigation is under way after an Egyptian soldier was killed following a “shooting incident” at the Rafah crossing, news agencies report
- Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong has called for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, saying Israel’s strikes have had “horrific and unacceptable consequences”
- Foreign ministers from the European Union met with their counterparts from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar as part of talks concerning a two-state solution to the conflict with Israel