This is an entry from: Live: Strike announced in Israel amid mounting anger at Netanyahu
Morning update
22 August 2024 06:07 BST
Good morning Middle East Eye readers,
Here are the latest updates:
- An overnight Israeli strike on the Hammouda family home in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza killed 11 people, the Wafa news agency reports
- An Israeli strike on Maghazi, central Gaza killed at least six people, Al Jazeera reports
- The US military said the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and accompanying destroyers have arrived to the Middle East, making it the second carrier to reach the region among the ongoing tensions
- PBS journalist Judy Woodruff has apologised for her on-air remarks in which she said Donald Trump lobbyed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against signing a ceasefire deal, saying she got that information from Axios and Reuters
- Palestinian activists are protesting the Democratic party's decision to not have any Palestinian speaker at the Democratic National Convention, while the parents of Israeli-American captive Hersh Goldberg-Polin were given the chance to speak on the main stage