Live Blog Update| Gaza Under Attack
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Morning update

19 December 2024 05:51 GMT

Good morning Middle East Eye,

Here are the latest updates from the Israeli war on Gaza, now in its 439th day:

  • Human Rights Watch said on Thursday that Israel has killed thousands of Palestinians in Gaza by denying them clean water, which it says legally amounts to acts of genocide and extermination.

  • Israel’s latest attacks have killed seven people in the port of Salif and two others at the Ras Issa oil facility in Yemen, Al Masirah TV reported.

  • Israeli attacks on Jabalia in northern Gaza killed and injured several people and the bombing of the Maghazi refugee camp killed at least two people. At least 16 others were killed in Israeli bombings in the north, and three in the south, Al Jazeera reported.

  • Kenneth Roth, the former executive director of Human Rights Watch, said Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has made clear “his answer to the Palestinian problem is mass forced deportation, from both Gaza and the West Bank”.

  • There have been 2,038 incidents of violence against or obstruction of access to healthcare in the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel since 7 October 2023, said Insecurity Insight, a Swiss NGO.