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<article data-history-node-id="432522" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/two-palestinians-killed-israeli-gunfire-north-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/two-palestinians-killed-israeli-gunfire-north-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Three Palestinians killed by Israeli gunfire in north Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Three Palestinians, including a child, were killed by Israeli forces in Jabalia, northern Gaza, this afternoon, Wafa news agency reported.&nbsp;</p> <p>The death toll in Gaza since the ceasefire began on 10 October has thus risen to 383 people.</p> <p>Jabalia is one of several residential neighbourhoods in Gaza that fall under the "Green Zone" – where the Israeli army is still stationed – and are facing systematic demolition, in violation of the ceasefire.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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People in the enclave fear the resumption of the full-scale genocidal war as Israeli ceasefire violations persist.

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<article data-history-node-id="432277" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-mp-demands-palestinians-be-killed-if-they-burn-rubbish" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-mp-demands-palestinians-be-killed-if-they-burn-rubbish" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli MP demands Palestinians be killed if they burn rubbish</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>An&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a>&nbsp;MP has called for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinians</a>&nbsp;who set fire to waste to be killed, either by shooting or air strikes.</p> <p>Zvi Sukkot, a far-right member of the Otzma Yehudit party, proposed the measure during a parliamentary committee discussion on illegal waste-burning on Wednesday.</p> <p>“The Air Force needs to act and kill them,” Sukkot said. Committee chairman Yitzhak Kreuzer, also from Otzma Yehudit, and Environment Minister Idit Silman of the Likud party, agreed.</p> <p>“The simplest thing is to send an F-16 to put out the fire,” Kreuzer added.</p> <p>All three justified the idea of summary killings on the grounds that burning waste “constitutes terrorism”.</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a aria-label="Israeli MP demands Palestinians be killed if they burn rubbish" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-lawmaker-calls-killing-palestinians-over-waste-fires">Israeli MP demands Palestinians be killed if they burn rubbish</a></h3> <p><img alt="Israeli member of Knesset, Zvi Sukkot holds an Israeli flag outside Damascus gate in Jerusalem on 5 June 2024 (ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters)" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/max_2600x2600/public/images-story/2024-06-05T195433Z_396084436_MT1ZUMA000UQBPLH_RTRMADP_3_ZUMA%20%281%29.jpg.jpg?itok=zrSrD9_4"></p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="432271" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/update-israeli-strike-kills-five-people-including-two-children-and" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/update-israeli-strike-kills-five-people-including-two-children-and" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Update: Israeli strike kills five people, including two children, and wounds 32 others</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Gaza's civil defence agency said that a series of Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed five people, including two children,&nbsp;in a shelter camp housing people displaced by Israel's war.</p> <p>"Five citizens, including two children, killed and others injured, some seriously, as a result of an Israeli missile strike" in Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Yunis, civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP.</p> <p>The agency said the strike hit near the Kuwaiti Field Hospital in Khan Yunis and "targeted" a shelter camp.&nbsp;</p> <p>The hospital also reported that five people, including two children aged eight and 10, were killed and another 32 were wounded.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="432234" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-fire-kills-palestinian-gaza-citys-zaytoun-neighbourhood" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-fire-kills-palestinian-gaza-citys-zaytoun-neighbourhood" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli fire kills Palestinian in Gaza City’s Zaytoun neighbourhood</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="108" data-start="0">Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian in the Zaytoun neighbourhood, southeast of Gaza City, on Wednesday, in another breach of the fragile ceasefire, reported the Palestinian news agency Wafa.</p> <p data-end="557" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="376">Despite the truce announced on 11 October, Israeli gunfire and shelling have continued across the enclave, with roughly 360 Palestinians killed since the agreement came into effect.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="432235" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/more-42000-palestinians-now-live-life-changing-injuries-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/more-42000-palestinians-now-live-life-changing-injuries-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">More than 42,000 Palestinians now live with life-changing injuries in Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="476" data-start="239">Around 42,000 Palestinians in Gaza now live with severe, life-changing injuries, almost double the figure recorded a year ago, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, citing World Health Organization estimates.</p> <ul> <li data-end="602" data-start="477"> <p data-end="602" data-start="479">22,500 cases had already been documented by July 2024, a number that has continued to climb as Israeli attacks persist.</p> </li> <li data-end="783" data-start="603"> <p data-end="783" data-start="605">The most common injuries include complex limb trauma, amputations, burns, spinal cord and brain damage, many of them resulting in permanent loss of movement or sensation.</p> </li> <li data-end="885" data-start="784"> <p data-end="885" data-start="786">The report recorded more than 5,000 amputations, with around 75 percent&nbsp;affecting the lower limbs.</p> </li> </ul> <p data-end="885" data-start="786"><strong>Children remain among the hardest hit:</strong></p> <ul> <li data-end="885" data-start="784"> <p data-end="885" data-start="786">More than 10,000 children now live with injuries causing long-term disability.&nbsp;One in four of those seriously wounded is a child</p> </li> <li data-end="1347" data-start="1165"> <p data-end="1347" data-start="1167">Doctors Without Borders says 70 percent&nbsp;of burn patients requiring surgery were children, most of them under five, highlighting the brutality of injuries and the lack of supplies.</p> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </article>