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Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza

Morning update

Good morning Middle East Eye readers, here are the latest updates:

  • Israeli forces shot and killed at least 31 Palestinians at US-backed aid distribution sites in Rafah and Gaza City

  • The US-backed group running the sites, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, is denying the reports of deaths, saying that Israeli soldiers fired "warning shots'"

  • Israeli forces are barring ambulances from reaching the Rafah site, according to the Gaza ambulance director

  • Hamas has condemned the attack as a "brutal massacre", which "confirms the fascist nature of the occupation and its criminal objectives behind this mechanism"

  • Hamas has proposed key changes to a US-backed Gaza ceasefire proposal, which US envoy Steve Witkoff has dismissed as "unacceptable".