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Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza
This is an entry from: Live: Gaza death toll nears 50,700

Morning update

Good morning Middle East Eye readers.

Here are some of the latest updates on Israel’s war on Gaza and the occupied West Bank:

  • The Israeli air strikes targeting an apartment killed at least three people in the Lebanese port city of Sidon

  • The Trump administration plans to freeze $510m in federal grants to Brown University over allegations of "anti-Semitism" on its campus, the Reuters news agency reported, citing an unnamed US official

  • The Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man during a raid on the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, the Quds News Network reported. The military announced killing another person who threw stones near the occupied West Bank village of Husan, located west of Bethlehem

  • At least 10 people have been killed in an air strike targeted a home in al-Manara, southeast of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, The Quds News Network and the Palestinian Information Centre reported

  • Israeli fighter jets have bombed a tent housing displaced Palestinians in a western area of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, killing at least one woman and injuring others, according to Al Jazeera Arabic

  • Israeli fighter jets have bombed and destroyed a water desalination plant in the Tuffah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City in northern Gaza, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.

  • The US military has continued its bombing campaign against targets in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen over recent days, killing several people.