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

21 November 2024 23:53 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:

  • Gaza's health ministry said that 71 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks on the enclave in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 44,056 killed since 7 October 2023

  • Additionally, 104,268 people have been wounded since the start of the war

  • The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) said that, on average, Israeli forces have killed three Palestinian children per week in the occupied West Bank since 7 October 2023

  • The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant

  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office has said that the International Criminal Court's decision to issue arrest warrants for the leader and former defence minister Yoav Gallant is "antisemitic"

  • EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said the ICC warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant are not political and the court decision should be respected and implemented

  • South Africa has hailed the ICC's arrest warrant decision as a "significant step towards justice for crimes against humanity, and war crimes in Palestine"

  • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is "now officially a wanted man", Amnesty International declared, following the International Criminal Court's decision to issue arrest warrants for the Israeli leader and his former defence minister

  • The US has issued a statement rejecting the ICC's issuance of arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant

  • Israeli attacks have claimed the lives of at least 3,583 people and injured 15,244 in Lebanon since October 2023, the Lebanese health ministry reported on Thursday

  • Among the casualties, 25 deaths were recorded on Wednesday

  • The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the recent Israeli air strikes on Palmyra were the most intense by Israeli forces in Syria to date, with the death toll reaching 79