This is an entry from: Israel-Palestine live: Unicef says over 13,000 children killed in Gaza
Evening recap
5 March 2024 23:24 GMT
Good evening readers of Middle East Eye,
Israeli forces have killed at least 97 Palestinians and wounded 123 more over the past 24 hours in 10 "massacres", according to the Palestinian health ministry.
This brings the Palestinian death toll in nearly five months to more than 30,631, with over 72,043 wounded and at least 7,000 missing, believed to be dead and buried under rubble.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said that malnutrition in northern Gaza was "particularly extreme".
"The situation is particularly extreme in northern Gaza," said Richard Peeperkorn, WHO representative for Gaza and the West Bank.
In other developments:
- The Israeli army has re-arrested 11 Palestinian children and women released in November as part of a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas, the Prisoners Affairs Commission said.
- An Israeli air strike killed 17 members of the Faqawi family in Khan Younis late on Monday, including children, according to local media.
- Dr Mohammed Qudaih, a prominent Palestinian doctor in Gaza, has spoken out against Israelis threatening to have him killed in a Telegram channel.
- The US Central Command announced that they have conducted a combined humanitarian assistance air-drop into northern Gaza with the Royal Jordanian Air Force.
- Two female staff members at the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights have been killed by Israeli bombing in the past week, the rights organisation B’Tselem announced on Tuesday.
- In the first week of Ramadan, Israel will permit a similar number of worshippers to enter the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem as in past years.
- The United States is exploring both military and commercial avenues to transport humanitarian aid into Gaza via sea routes.