This is an entry from: Gaza live: Israel continues bombing central Gaza
Evening recap
22 April 2024 23:52 BST
Good evening Middle East Eye readers,
Gaza's health ministry said that 54 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on the enclave in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 34,151 since 7 October.
Additionally, 77,084 people have been wounded since the start of the war.
At least 8,425 Palestinians have been arrested by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank since 7 October, according to Palestinian prisoner groups.
In other developments:
- Three people were lightly wounded following a car-ramming and attempted shooting attack in Jerusalem, Israeli police say.
- The World Food Programme said it was able to deliver fuel ad wheat flour to bakeries in northern Gaza "so they can begin production again after 170 days of being inoperable".
- Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to follow Israeli army intelligence chief Aharon Haliva's footsteps and resign over the failures of 7 October.
- As many as 50 people have been arrested on the campus of Yale University in the US for "aggravated trespassing" over their participation in a protest camp against the Gaza war.
- Gaza's civil defence agency said that health workers had recovered about 200 bodies within the past three days. These individuals were said to have been killed and buried by Israeli forces at a hospital in Khan Younis.
- Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the US is investigatig allegations of human rights abuses by Israel during its operations against Hamas in Gaza.
- Google fired over two dozen employees who protested last week against the company's cloud computing contract with the Israeli government.