Live Blog Update| Gaza Under Attack
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Evening recap

18 December 2024 00:00 GMT

Good evening Middle East Eye readers,

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

Here are some of the day's key developments:

  • The Palestinian health ministry said on Tuesday that at least 45,059 people have been killed during Israel's war on Gaza, including 31 deaths in the past 24 hours

  • The ministry added that 107,041 people have been wounded in the Gaza Strip since 7 October 2023. More than 10,000 are missing and presumed dead under the rubble.

  • The Ministry of Education said that 12,799 students were killed and 20,942 were injured in Gaza and occupied West Bank since the beginning of Israel's war on Gaza, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported

  • Israeli MP Avichai Boaron, from the Likud party, has submitted a draft proposal to allow freedom of movement for Israelis within the Gaza Strip, overturning the long-standing ban imposed under the 2005 "disengagement" law, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported

  • Over 13,500 soldiers and officers have been wounded during Israel's war on Gaza, with about 1,500 of them sustaining injuries on two separate occasions, the Israeli Ministry of Defence's Department of Rehabilitation said

  • Over 7,000 writers and book industry workers have joined forces for the largest boycott in history against Israeli literary institutions "complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people", according to the Palestine Festival of Literature, an annual event held throughout the occupied West Bank

  • Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has stated that fortifications and so-called defensive measures on Mount Hermon must be finalised, indicating that Israeli forces plan to occupy the newly aquired land for a long time

  • Louise Wateridge, spokesperson for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa), has strongly condemned the Israeli bombing of a school-turned-shelter in Khan Younis, southern Gaza

  • The United Nations humanitarian agency, OCHA, has accused Israeli authorities of “overwhelmingly” blocking aid missions to northern Gaza, where a prolonged siege has left civilians in desperate need of food and water

  • Both Israel and Saudi Arabia have rejected reports suggesting progress in negotiations to normalise relations, with The Times of Israel citing denials from officials in both nations