This is an entry from: Israel-Palestine live: Israel bombs Unrwa building in Gaza
Evening recap
8 February 2024 23:31 GMT
Good evening Middle East Eye readers,
At least 27,840 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, the Palestinian health ministry said on Thursday.
More than 67,317 have been wounded from Israel’s aggression on the blockaded territory the ministry added.
In its latest press release the Palestinian Prisoners Society said that the number of Palestinians arrested by Israel in the occupied West Bank over the past four months is more than 6,920.
In other developments:
- Former students at a high school in the South African city of Cape Town have raised concerns that the seat of learning is serving as a recruitment tool for the Israeli army.
- Iraq has reiterated its call to end the US military presence in the country following the death of a high-ranking militia commander in a "unilateral strike” in Baghdad.
- France's former president, Francois Hollande, has called French citizens killed in Gaza “collateral victims”, during an event paying tribute to people killed in Israel on 7 October.
- Yesh Din, an Israeli human rights organisation, has published a video showing violent masked Israeli settlers rampaging through Bizzariya, a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank.
- US President Joe Biden will host Jordan's King Abdullah in Washington on 12 February, the White House said on Thursday.
- The Hague mayor Jan van Zanen announced on Thursday that additional security measures have been implemented at the Israeli embassy in The Hague following a threat "that must be taken extremely seriously".
- The US Senate advanced a $95.34bn bill encompassing assistance for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, following the Republicans' blocked compromise legislation that aimed to significantly reform immigration policy.
- The White House said that it would oppose any significant military initiatives by Israel in Rafah.