Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza
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Evening recap

11 February 2024 23:31 GMT

It is now just after 01:30 in Gaza and Middle East Eye’s live coverage of Israel's relentless assault on the besieged enclave will shortly be closing for the evening.

Here are the day's key developments:

Israeli forces have killed at least 112 Palestinians and wounded 173 more over the past 24 hours in 14 "massacres", according to the Palestinian health ministry. This brings the Palestinian death toll in four months to more than 28,176, with over 67,784 wounded and 7,000 missing, who are believed to be dead and buried under rubble. Over 70 percent of the victims are children and women, according to health officials.

On Sunday, US President Joe Biden told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel should not proceed with a military operation in Rafah without a plan to ensure the safety of the roughly one million people sheltering there. The hostage release deal was another subject discussed during the 45-minute telephone call, according to White House officials.

Hamas's armed wing, al-Qassam Brigades, said Israeli air strikes across Gaza in the past 96 hours had killed two Israeli captives and seriously wounded eight others. In a communique published on its Telegram page, al-Qassam said the conditions of those wounded are worsening as it struggled to treat them amid continued Israeli attacks on the health system in Gaza. 

Netanyahu on Sunday suggested that "enough" of the remaining people, believed to be more than 100, held by Hamas in Gaza were alive to justify its continued aggression against the Gaza Strip.

But Hamas warned that a ground offensive on Rafah city would scupper any possibility of hostage exchange negotiations. Speaking to the Hamas-run Al Aqsa TV channel, one senior Hamas leader said an Israeli incursion on Rafah would "blow up" hostage exchange negotiations. 

The war has devastated the economies of the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, the International Monetary Fund's chief said on Sunday, adding that only "durable peace" would improve the outlook. "The Palestinian economy's dire outlook is worsening as the conflict persists," managing director Kristalina Georgieva told the World Governments Summit in Dubai.

Cairo has threatened to suspend a key peace treaty with Israel if it invades Rafah city on the border with Egypt in Gaza. Two Egyptian officials and a western diplomat told the Associated Press that Egypt would suspend the historic Camp David Accords if Israel followed through with Netanyahu's plan to take over Rafah city.

Other key developments included:

  • The Palestine Red Crescent said three patients had died in Gaza after the Israelis failed to deliver oxygen to Palestinian health facilities for over a week.
  • An Israeli sniper shot dead a Palestinian man in the courtyard of the Nasser medical complex in Khan Younis, according to the Wafa news agency.
  • The Gaza Municipality has warned of an environmental catastrophe and said more than 700 litres of wastewater had leaked onto the streets of Gaza City.