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Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza

Morning update

Good morning, Middle East Eye readers,

Here are some of the latest updates on Israel's war on Gaza:

  • Israeli military stormed the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, arrested five Palestinian brothers, according to The Palestinian Information Centre.

  • The US and Israel contacted officials from Sudan, Somalia and the breakaway region of Somaliland to “discuss using their territories as potential destinations for resettling Palestinians uprooted from the Gaza Strip”, Associated Press news agency is reporting.

  • Israeli settlers set fire to several Palestinian homes and vehicles in the village of Duma and the town of Khirbet al-Manajim in the occupied West Bank.

  • Israeli forces stormed the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem as Palestinians gathered for dawn prayers, according to Al Jazeera.

  • The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor says Israeli forces have killed three Palestinians in Gaza every day since the ceasefire came into effect, killing at least 150 Palestinians and wounding 605 others between 19  January and 10 March.

  • The Student Workers of Columbia union says its president Grant Miner is among the nine students expelled by the university "the day before we start bargaining” with the university’s administration over staff contracts. Columbia University Apartheid Divest said that the university has suspended, expelled or revoked degrees from a total of 22 students.