Evening recap

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Here are the day's key developments:

- US contractors at a Gaza aid centre interrogated a source of Middle East Eye journalist Mohamed Salama seeking information about his identity and whereabouts before he was killed, MEE can exclusively reveal.

- Fourteen of the 15 United Nations Security Council members - four permanent ones and 10 that rotate - are demanding a ceasefire and that aid be let into Gaza, calling the situation a "famine". The United States was the only holdout.

- Hamas said it welcomed the statement and added that "the continued obstruction of binding resolutions by the US makes it complicit in the crimes committed against the Palestinian people".

- Israel announced it will establish two additional humanitarian aid distribution centres in the southern Gaza Strip to serve Palestinians forcibly displaced by its planned military takeover of Gaza City.

- At least 80 Palestinians have been injured in an ongoing Israeli military raid on Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

- Israel carried out another round of air strikes on the Damascus countryside on Wednesday, targeting what it says are military sites in the areas of al-Kiswah and Tal el-Manea, south of the capital.

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Evening recap

Evening recap

US obstruction of UN resolutions "makes it complicit" in Gaza crimes: Hamas

US obstruction of UN resolutions "makes it complicit" in Gaza crimes: Hamas

All United Nations Security Council members, except for US, call for ceasefire and aid into Gaza

All United Nations Security Council members, except for US, call for ceasefire and aid into Gaza