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🔴 RECAP: #Israel #Palestine (as of 23:00 GMT 1 August)

- Death toll in Gaza climbs to 39,480 as Israeli bombing continues

- Israeli settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, under the protection of Israeli police

- Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has said that the "only solution" to the escalating tensions between the group and Israeli forces is to "end hostilities in Gaza"

- Israel has turned into a "rogue" state with its assassination of Ismail Haniyeh and needs to be stopped, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said

- Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated by an explosive device that was secretly smuggled into Tehran weeks ago, according to a report in the New York Times on Thursday

- Retaliation against Israel is 'inevitable', Hezbollah chief Nasrallah says

- Iran and several Tehran-backed groups are reportedly preparing a coordinated retaliation meant to deter Israel but avert all-out war

- Aljazeera denies claims that killed journalist was Hamas member
🔴 RECAP: #Israel #Palestine (as of 23:00 GMT 2 August)

- The Israeli delegation on Gaza ceasefire talks will head to Cairo on Saturday night or Sunday, Netanyahu’s office said

- US Pentagon said it plans to boost military assets in the Middle East and deploy ‘additional land-based ballistic missile defense’

- The representative of Hamas in Tehran has refuted reports that Ismail Haniyeh was killed by a bomb planted in his room long before his arrival to the Iranian capital

- Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan called his Israeli counterpart Israel Katz a “monument to insolence”, in response to Katz’s statements in which he slammed Turkey

- Israel releases Al-Aqsa Mosque imam Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, after arresting him for ‘incitement’ as he described Hamas chief Ismail Hanyieh as ‘martyr’ in Friday prayer sermon

- US President Joe Biden told Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in a ‘tough’ phone call not to rely on Washington’s support in case a regional escalation occurred, according to Axios
🔴 RECAP #Israel #Palestine (as of 00:00 GMT, 5 August)

1. Israeli army says two Hezbollah operatives killed in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah confirms two fighters were killed.

2. Turkey has issued an advisory warning against travelling to Lebanon.

3. Iran’s President Pezeshkian calls the assassination of the Hamas chief a "big mistake" that will not go unanswered.

4. Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi concluded a rare visit to Iran.

5. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided not to seek normalisation with Saudi Arabia before the upcoming US presidential elections in November, Channel 12 reported.

6. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan described Israel’s blockage of humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza enclave as crimes against humanity and the “first phase of the genocide."

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🔴 RECAP #Israel #Palestine (as of 23:00 GMT, 6 August)

Here are some of the day's key developments:

Israeli forces have killed at least 30 Palestinians and wounded 66 others in the past 24 hours, according to the Palestinian health ministry. This brings the death toll since 7 October to 39,653, with more than 91,535 wounded and an estimated 10,000 missing, likely dead and buried under rubble.

Health officials report that around 70 percent of victims are children and women.

Hamas announces Yahya Sinwar as head of the movement

Meta Platforms META.O apologised on Tuesday for erroneously removing Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's social media posts in which he expressed condolences to a Hamas official about the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh

The Gaza Strip must be transferred to the control of legitimate Palestinian authorities, and Israeli plans for temporary control of the enclave are unacceptable, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Russia's RIA news agency in remarks published on Tuesday.
🔴 RECAP #Israel #Palestine (as of 23:00 GMT, 7 August)

Here are some of the day's key developments:

Since 7 October, the death toll stands at 39,677, with over 91,645 wounded and 10,000 missing. Around 70 percent of the victims are children and women

Israeli attacks have killed 620 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank since 7 October, according to the Palestinian health ministry

Turkey has submitted its formal bid to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to join South Africa's genocide case against Israel

Pro-Israel advocacy groups have filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration over sanctions issued against individuals involved in settler violence in the occupied West Bank

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🔴 MORNING RECAP: #Israel #Palestine (as of 6:20 GMT, 9 August)

- At least eight Palestinians were killed in overnight strikes across the Gaza Strip

- A senior US administration official warned Iran that it would face "quite significant consequences" if it attacks Israel

- The Guardian reports that Iran may go after the individuals involved in killing Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh rather than attacking Israel itself

- United Airlines has suspended flights to Israel indefinitely, stating that it will only resume when it is safe for both customers and crew

- US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin informed Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant that the US F-22 Raptors that arrive to the region are there to "to deter aggression, defend Israel and protect US forces in the region"
🔴 RECAP #Israel #Palestine (as of 23:00 GMT, 12 August)

The number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since 7 October has risen to 39,897

Spokesperson for Hamas's military wing al-Qassam Brigades Abu Obeida said that one Israeli hostage was killed by his guard and two other female captives were seriously wounded in two separate incidents in Gaza

Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold talks on Tuesday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who is currently visiting Russia

Israeli soldiers shot and killed 18-year-old Tareq Ziad Abdulraheem Daoud near the town of Azoun, in the occupied West Bank

Half of the school buildings that have been directly hit by Israeli strikes since October 2023 were sheltering displaced people, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said

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🔴 RECAP #Israel #Palestine (as of 23:00 GMT, 13 August)

Here are some of the day’s key developments:

Gaza’s health ministry said the death toll from Israel’s war on the Palestinian enclave has risen to 39,929, with 32 people killed in the past 24 hours.

On Tuesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken approved a new batch of arms sales to Israel, totalling over $20bn in military equipment, according to the Pentagon

Hundreds of Israeli settlers have raided occupied East Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque with Israeli police protection

Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, along with fellow Jewish Power party member and minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf, stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque accompanied by over 1,000 Israeli settlers

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🔴 RECAP #Israel #Palestine (as of 23:00 GMT, 15 August)

Here are some of the day’s key developments:

Israeli forces have killed at least 40 Palestinians and wounded 107 others in the past 24 hours, according to the Palestinian health ministry. This brings the death toll since 7 October to 40,005.

Israel has failed to eliminate Hamas or destroy its tunnels in Gaza and has nothing more to achieve military in the strip, senior US officials reportedly told the New York Times

US President Joe Biden will publicly blame Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if Israel rejects a Gaza ceasefire proposal set to be discussed in the upcoming talks later on Thursday

Hamas has issued a statement criticising the Palestinian Authority, after PA forces detonated an explosive before it hit Israeli troops in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank

The president of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, announced during an address to the Turkish parliament that he has decided to visit Gaza
🔴 RECAP #Israel #Palestine (as of 23:00 GMT, 16 August)

Here are some of the day’s key developments:

The Israeli army issued new evacuation orders for displaced Palestinians north of Khan Younis and east of Deir al-Balah

UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that over 170,000 Palestinians living in sites, shelters and centres for displaced people have been impacted by an evacuation order issued by Israel earlier today

Washington has condemned armed Israeli settler attacks on the occupied West Bank town of Jit overnight, which killed at least one Palestinian

Unicef and the WHO are calling for a humanitarian pause for seven days in Gaza to launch two rounds of a polio vaccination campaign at the end of August in the besieged strip

The Palestinian health ministry said in a statement on Friday that it has detected the first confirmed case of polio in the Gaza Strip in the city of Deir al-Balah, a 10-month-old baby who had not received any polio vaccination dose.