Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza
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Morning update

23 May 2025 05:57 BST

Good morning, Middle East Eye readers,

Here are the latest updates on Israel’s war on Gaza, now in its 594th day, and its assault on the occupied West Bank: 

  • Fighting back tears, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization on Thursday urged Israel to have "mercy" in the Gaza war and insisted peace would be in Israel's own interests.

  • Elias Rodriguez, the suspect accused of gunning down two Israeli embassy staffers outside a Jewish museum in Washington, was charged Thursday with murder.

  • Microsoft said it fired one pro-Palestine employee, Joe Lopez, who interrupted Microsoft’s annual Build developer conference in Seattle this week over the company’s provision of artificial intelligence services to the Israeli military. 

  • Alon-Lee Green, the co-director of Jewish-Palestinian grassroots activist group Standing Together, has said Israeli police showed up at his home in the early hours of this morning “to ask me questions and demand that I identify myself”.

  • An estimated 81 percent of Gaza’s entire territory is now within Israeli-declared “militarised zones” or is subject to forced displacement orders by Israeli forces, the latest UN situation report said.

  • The Israeli military's bombardment of Gaza killed at least 85 and wounded dozens of people across the territory since midnight on Thursday, according to Al Jazeera.