This is an entry from: Israel-Palestine live: US and Israel air differences over Gaza strategy
Morning update
11 December 2023 05:38 GMT
Good Morning readers of Middle East Eye, on Sunday afternoon, the Palestinian Health Ministry said almost 18,000 Palestinians had now been killed.
Rafah and Khan Younis faced intense bombing in the early hours of this morning as the Israeli army expanded its military operations in the south.
While in the West Bank nearly night raids and arrests by Israeli occupation forces continued.
Here are some other developments:
- Egypt and Mauritania invoke Resolution 377, with the UN General Assembly. A special session will now be held on Tuesday to discuss an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza
- Three Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza Strip, another killed in road accident
- Israel's bombardment of Gaza is "narrowing the window" for a new truce, the Qatari prime minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani has said at the Doha Forum
- White House National Security adviser Jake Sullivan, is set to visit Israel the Times of Israel reported citing US and Israeli officials
- Heavy casualties have been reported in central Gaza’s al-Maghazi refugee camp
- The al-Quds Brigades – the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad – claimed to have killed a dozen Israeli commandos in Gaza City. Israel has not commented on the alleged attack