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Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza

Evening recap

Our live coverage from Gaza and Lebanon will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are some of the day's key developments:

  • At least 43,374 people have been killed and 102,261 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since 7 October 2023, Gaza's health ministry said

  • Thirty-three people were killed and 156 wounded in the last 24 hours alone, the ministry said

  • Peace Now, an Israeli rights group, has accused the Israeli army of carrying out “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians in northern Gaza

  • Lebanon’s health ministry reports that over 3,000 people have died in 13 months of Israeli strikes on Lebanon, with at least 13,492 injured

  • All hospitals in northern Gaza are out of service, amid continuing Israeli air strikes and a military siege that prevents access to humanitarian aid including medical supplies, the Gaza government's media office has said

  • Vice President Kamala Harris pledged her commitment to a ceasefire in Gaza as she appealed to 200,000 Arab American voters in Michigan ahead of the 2024 US presidential election on Tuesday, 5 November

  • Germany has called on Israel to let more humanitarian aid into northern Gaza, where a lack of supplies has led to a "desperate" and "unbearable" situation, a spokesperson for the German foreign ministry said

  • The United States said on Monday that it is "deeply concerned" about escalating violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said, following reports of settlers setting fire to homes, cars and olive trees near Ramallah

  • Carrefour announced on Facebook that it will shut down all of its branches in Jordan starting Monday. This move aligns with heightened calls from the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which had urged boycotts against Carrefour due to the ongoing Gaza war and accusations of support for Israel