This is an entry from: Live: Strike announced in Israel amid mounting anger at Netanyahu
Morning update
29 August 2024 06:21 BST
Good morning Middle East Eye readers,
Here are the latest updates:
- Israel's continued bombing of the Gaza Strip killed two girls and a woman in central Gaza, four people near Rafah and two men in and around Khan Younis
- Israel's largest military operation in the occupied West Bank in two decades has so far killed 12 people, wounded 22 and led to 20 arrests
- The Israeli army says it killed five Palestinian gunmen in a mosque in the West Bank's Nur Shams refugee camp, including the commander of the Tulkarm Battalion, Mohamed Jaber, known as Abu Shuja’a
- UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on Israel to immediately end its offensive on the West Bank
- EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said that Israel's operations in the West Bank must not be "the premises of a war extension from Gaza"
- The UN Security Council is set to hold a meeting on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip after Israeli forces fired on a "clearly marked" World Food Programme vehicle
- Belgium's deputy prime minister said she will support sanctioning Israeli ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, ahead of an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels