Evening recap
Evening recap
Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.
Here are the day's key developments:
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The death toll from Israel's genocide in Gaza has climbed to 63,371 since 7 October 2023, with an additional 159,835 Palestinians wounded.
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Hospitals in Gaza report that at least 77 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes across the enclave since dawn.
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Gaza has become the "most dangerous place in the world for children", Unicef spokesperson Tess Ingram told Al Jazeera, warning that the territory has transformed into a place where their lives are being destroyed.
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Ingram noted that a Palestinian child is killed or wounded every 10 minutes, stressing that the only way to end the "killing and maiming of children is a ceasefire".
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Israel’s decision to halt humanitarian pauses in Gaza City is making it “even harder” to deliver desperately needed aid, Chris McIntosh, Oxfam’s humanitarian response adviser, told Al Jazeera.
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The European Union (EU) has called on the US to reconsider its decision to deny visas to Palestinian officials ahead of the United Nations General Assembly next month.
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Yemen's Houthis announced on Saturday that Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi and several senior officials from the movement were killed in an Israeli air strike targeting a meeting in the capital Sanaa.
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The Israeli army claimed a reservist was killed in a friendly fire incident in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, bringing the number of confirmed military deaths since the start of the war to 900.