This is an entry from: Israel-Palestine live: Week three ends with over 7,000 Palestinians killed
Evening recap
23 October 2023 23:10 BST
Good evening MEE readers,
As of Monday, the death toll of Palestinians in Gaza killed by Israeli air strikes now exceeds 5,000, around 70 percent of whom are children, women and elderly people.
Israel has killed over 2,000 children in 17 days, and doctors have warned that premature babies could die in "minutes" if incubators lose power.
Here's a recap of what you may have missed over the past few hours:
- Hamas said it has released two captives after mediation from Egyptian and Qatari authorities on "humanitarian and health" grounds.
- An Israeli air strike on Gaza's Al-Shati refugee camp has killed scores of Palestinians, and left many - including children and women - trapped under rubble.
- A Hamas figure has died in Israeli police custody, sparking protests in the occupied West Bank. While Israel said the death of Omar Hamzeh Daraghmeh, 58, was due to a sudden deterioration of his health, Hamas believes he was deliberately killed.
- Turkey asked Hamas' top leadership to leave the country on 7 October, when hundreds of Palestinian fighters attacked Israeli communities, according to sources who spoke to Middle East Eye.
- Almost 20,000 people have been internally displaced in Lebanon, mostly in the south, since the war broke out
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