Live: Israel kills at least 58 Palestinians in 24 hours

Good morning Middle East Eye readers. Here are some of the latest updates from the Israeli war on Gaza, now in its 432nd day: 

• At least 35 Palestinians were killed early on Thursday in Israeli bombings of various areas in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported

• A suspected Palestinian shooting attack on an Israeli bus in the occupied West Bank killed a child overnight between Wednesday and Thursday, Israeli emergency services said

• Israel Defence Minister Israel Katz told his US counterpart Lloyd Austin in a phone call on Wednesday there was now a chance for a new deal that would allow the return of all the hostages and pause the fighting in Gaza, Katz's office said

• The death toll from two Israeli airstrike which targeted a group of Palestinians tasked with securing aid trucks in Rafah on Wednesday has risen to eight, medics said

Good evening Middle East Eye readers, 

The UN General Assembly on Wednesday overwhelmingly adopted a resolution calling for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Gaza, in a symbolic rebuke to the US and Israel. 

Gaza continued to suffer from Israeli strikes, with scores of Palestinians killed, including by an Israeli attack targeting the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. 

Israeli troops ceded the first Lebanese village back to the Lebanese army as part of a US-brokered ceasefire, but Israel continued to bomb Lebanon. The latter's health ministry said Israeli strikes on the south killed four people. 

Here is what else you missed: 

• Ireland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs said his country would intervene in South Africa’s International Court of Justice (ICC) case against Israel alleging genocide in Gaza
• A shooting in Jerusalem injured several people 
• At least seven people were killed by Israeli strikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah

The UN General Assembly on Wednesday overwhelmingly adopted a resolution calling for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Gaza, in a symbolic rebuke to the US and Israel. 

The resolution was adopted by a vote of 158 to 9, with 13 abstentions.

The resolution urges "an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire," and "the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages" .

The US vetoed a resolution with similiar language at a Security Council last month. 

Israel UN envoy Danny Danon slammed the text ahead of the vote: "The resolutions before the assembly today are beyond logic. (...) The vote today is not a vote for compassion. It is a vote for complicity."

At least seven people were killed by Israeli strikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah on Wednesday, according to Arabic media reports. 

Israel shelled "aid security personnel", according to Al Jazeera Arabic. 

Scores of people were also injured. 

Israeli troops withdrew from the first occupied town in Lebanon on Wednesday, ceding it to Lebanon's army. 

Lebanese troops deployed to the town of Khiam, which Israel had occupied as part of its invasion, the Israeli military said. UN peace keeping troops also entered the town. 

The ceasefire in Lebanon has generally held, but Israel has continued to bomb Lebanon. 

A shooting in Jerusalem injured several people on Wednesday night, according to Hebrew and Arabic media reports. 

The shooting took place south of Jerusalem. 

At least one victim, a 12 year-old boy, was seriously injured. 

Israeli soldiers launched a raid on Wednesday on Bazariya village northwest of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, killing a Palestinian and detaining two others, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa. 

Israeli soldiers fired volleys of live ammunition, concussion grenades and teargas canisters towards local youths protesting the raid, injuring one, according to Wafa. 

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society provided first-aid treatment to the injured Palestinian and rushed him to hospital.

Ireland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheal Martin said on Wednesday that his country would intervene in South Africa’s International Court of Justice (ICC) case against Israel alleging genocide in Gaza.

“The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin today secured government approval for Ireland to intervene in South Africa’s International Court of Justice case against Israel under the Genocide Convention,” Ireland's foreign ministry said in a press statement.

The decision was welcomed by the Palestinian Authority. 

At least five Palestinians were killed, and several others were injured on Wednesday evening by Israeli air strikes targeting the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to Wafa news. 

Israeli fighter jets bombed a house in the Nuseirat camp, killing four people and injuring at least 16 others.

Separately, an Israeli drone strike targeted a group of civilians near Deir al-Balah Preparatory School housing displaced people. At least one civilian was killed and several injured. 

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz told his US counterpart, Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, that there is an opportunity to reach a deal for the release of the hostages held in Gaza, according to a readout on Wednesday of the call provided by Israel. 

“There is a chance for a new deal right now that will hopefully release all the hostages, including those with American citizenship,” Katz told his counterpart Lloyd Austin. 

Lebanon's health ministry said fresh Israeli strikes on the south killed four people on Wednesday, after earlier reporting one dead in a drone strike.

"An Israeli strike on the town of Bint Jbeil killed three people," the health ministry said in a statement, adding that a separate "Israeli strike on Beit Lif killed one person".

Israeli air strikes targeting a house in the Al-Zawaida area in the central Gaza Strip killed at least one child and injured scores of people, according to Arabic media reports.  

The US State Department confirms Secretary of State Antony Blinken will be heading to Jordan and Turkey to discuss efforts to secure a captives exchange deal in Gaza and advance a peaceful transition in Syria.

"He will discuss the need for the transition process and new government in Syria to respect the rights of minorities, facilitate the flow of humanitarian assistance, prevent Syria from being used as a base of terrorism or posing a threat to its neighbors, and ensure that chemical weapons stockpiles are secured and safely destroyed," a US readout says.

"He will also discuss the urgent need to conclude a ceasefire agreement in Gaza that secures the release of hostages, facilitate additional humanitarian assistance to vulnerable Palestinian civilians, and continue to implement the cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah."

Women and girls in Gaza, including 50,000 pregnant women, are enduring an extreme lack in essentials amid a worsening humanitarian crisis and winter setting in. 

According to the latest report from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Palestinians in the enclave are facing a shortage of food, shelter items, and water amidst deteriorating sanitation and hygiene conditions.

"Harsh winter temperatures, compounded by heavy rains and rising sea tides, are further exacerbating dire water, sanitation and hygiene conditions, sewage accumulation and the spread of disease," the report says, adding that women and girls are increasingly reporting reproductive and urinary tract infections due to poor hygiene conditions and lack of sanitary products. 

According to the report, 72 percent of women face difficulty in accessing menstrual hygiene products.

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The UN on Wednesday appealed for over $4bn to provide desperately needed aid in war-ravaged Gaza and the West Bank next year, saying that the actual amount needed was far higher.

The aim will be to provide assistance to "the entire population of Gaza, estimated at 2.1 million people, and 900,000 people in the West Bank," the United Nations humanitarian agency said in its appeal.

Reporting by AFP