Gaza death toll rises to 31,988
21 March 2024 09:20 GMT
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More than 31,988 Palestinians have been killed and 74,188 wounded by Israeli forces since 7 October, the Palestinian health ministry said on Thursday.
At least 65 Palestinians were killed and 92 wounded over the past 24 hours, it added in a statement.
Morning update
21 March 2024 05:43 GMT | Middle East Eye
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https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/2024-03/child-gaza-nuseirat-reuters-march-2024.jpg Israeli forces are still conducting operations in Gaza City’s al-Shifa hospital
Two Palestinians were killed by an Israeli drone strike on the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank
Israeli authorities reportedly ordered 25 patients who had been receiving treatment in occupied East Jerusalem and Israel to be returned to Gaza, but were blocked by the country’s High Court of Justice
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the “gaps are narrowing” between Israel and Hamas, and that a truce agreement is “very much possible.”
20 March 2024 23:56 GMT
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Gaza’s health ministry said the Palestinian death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza has reached 31,923 with over 104 Palestinians killed in the last 24 hours.
The Israeli army said it killed dozens of “terrorists” and apprehended around 300 people in its latest raid on al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
In other developments:
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is due to make another trip to the Middle East in a new push to secure a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
The World Health Organisation said it has recorded 410 attacks on healthcare facilities in the Gaza Strip since 7 October.
The Gaza government’s media office said that over 100 aid workers and seekers were killed by Israeli forces over the course of one week.
Nine women shaved their heads outside the UK’s parliament on Tuesday, as an act of protest against Britain’s role in the war on Gaza.
Israeli air strikes have targeted two vehicles in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, Palestinian media reported on Wednesday.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that efforts are in progress for an incursion into Rafah in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, but noted that this operation “will take some time”.
Arab foreign ministers and a senior Palestinian official are set to meet with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Cairo on Thursday.