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

19 November 2024 23:52 GMT

Our live coverage from Israel's war on Gaza and Lebanon will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are some of the day's key developments:

  • Israeli forces have killed at least 50 Palestinians and wounded 110 in the last 24 hours, the Palestinian health ministry said on the 410th day of Israeli war on Gaza

  • This brings the death toll in the besieged enclave since 7 October 2023 to 43,972, with more than 104,008 wounded. At least 10,000 people are still missing, likely dead and buried under rubble. The UN says nearly 70 percent of the victims are children and women

  • An increasing number of malnutrition cases are arriving at the war-battered Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza due to the ongoing famine, the hospital's director has said

  • The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised alarm over the dire conditions in hospitals across northern Gaza, with Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia facing what its director called an “extreme catastrophe” 

  • Gaza's civil defence agency reports that most of its emergency vehicles are no longer operational due to severe fuel shortages

  • Israeli attacks on Lebanon have resulted in at least 3,544 deaths and left more than 15,036 wounded since 8 October 2023, according to the Lebanese health ministry

  • The ministry reported that 28 people were killed in strikes on Monday alone

  • More than 200 children have been killed and 1,100 wounded in Lebanon in the past two months, a spokesperson for the UN children's agency (Unicef) said on Tuesday

  • Heavy rain flooded the tents of displaced people in central and southern Gaza late on Monday, according to Palestinian reports

  • The US has imposed further sanctions on a number of Hamas leaders, according to the Treasury website. The sanctions target six individuals, including senior Hamas officials Basem Naim and Ghazi Hamad

  • France's minister of the armed forces said "we" need to support the Lebanese army and the UN resolution giving them authority in southern Lebanon

  • The political office of the Palestinian Hamas movement in Doha has not been permanently closed, Qatari foreign ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari said on Tuesday

  • Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has dismissed Israel's complaint to the UN Security Council regarding attacks by Iraqi Shia militias. He called the move a "pretext and argument to attack Iraq" and an attempt to "expand the war in the region"

  • Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi accused Israel of violating international law and using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, blaming the international community's inaction

  • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed that Turkey refused to allow Israeli President Isaac Herzog to fly through its airspace en route to the COP29 UN Climate Change Conference in Azerbaijan