Morning update

Good morning Middle East Eye readers,

Here are the latest updates in Gaza and the occupied West Bank:

• Three Palestinians were wounded by live Israeli gunfire early on Friday during an Israeli army raid on the town of al-Eizariya, southeast of occupied Jerusalem.

• UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini has warned that millions of Palestinian refugees are at risk of losing access to essential services unless the agency receives substantial new funding.

• The mayor of Khan Younis has warned that Gaza has been subjected to what he described as deliberate and systematic destruction, saying that “everything has been destroyed” — including the territory’s natural environment, with an estimated 90 percent of its vegetation wiped out.

• Palestinian media sources reported that Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes on the eastern areas of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

•  Israeli forces deployed stun grenades while carrying out a raid in the Old City and surrounding areas in central Nablus, in the northern West Bank.