This is an entry from: Live: Strike announced in Israel amid mounting anger at Netanyahu
Evening recap
18 August 2024 23:43 BST
Good evening, Middle East Eye readers.
Here's what's happened in the last few hours:
- At least nine Palestinians have been killed and more injured due to fresh Israeli strikes targeting central Gaza
- The Israeli military has shot a Palestinian journalist in the back in Gaza's Khan Younis
- Hamas has said that the US proposal for a Gaza ceasefire did not include the Israeli army's withdrawal from Gaza and commitment to a future ceasefire
- The British civil servant who resigned on Friday citing concern over complicity in Israeli war crimes has said he was formerly the lead author of the central assessment governing the legality of UK arms sales in the Foreign Office's Middle East and North Africa Directorate