This is an entry from: Live: Israel kills more than 430 Palestinians on Tuesday
Morning update
8 March 2025 09:45 GMT
Good morning MEE readers,
Here are some of the key developments over the past few hours:
- Two Palestinian civilians have been killed and others wounded this morning from an Israeli drone strike east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip
- Israel's offensive on the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm entered its 41st day, with reinforcement forces deployed in Tulkarm and Nour Shams refugee camps on Saturday
- The Organisation for Islamic Cooperation, which has 57 members across the Muslim world, has endorsed the Egypt-led proposal for the reconstruction of Gaza during an emergency meeting in Saudi Arabia
- Columbia University has suspended four students who were arrested during a pro-Palestine protest earlier this week, after the Trump administration cut $400m to the university over allegations of anti-Semitic harassment during such protests
- A high-level Hamas delegation is still in Cairo Friday to advance efforts to prolong the fragile ceasefire in Gaza
- The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has said that Israel’s blockade of aid into Gaza and killing of Palestinians who go into so-called "no-go zones" are war crimes. Since the truce began, Israeli forces have killed at least 58 Palestinians, including 10 children and three women, near areas it has designated no-go zones