Evening recap

Good evening Middle East Eye readers,

Israeli forces have killed at least 32 Palestinians and wounded 59 more over the past 24 hours in three "massacres", according to the Palestinian health ministry. 

This brings the Palestinian death toll in over six months to more than 34,183, with at least 77,143 wounded and an estimated 7,000 missing and presumed dead.

More than 70 percent of the victims are children and women, according to health officials.

In other developments:

• Police arrested dozens of people at pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Yale University in Connecticut and New York University in Manhattan on Monday, as the Israeli war in Gaza continued to reverberate through US university campuses.
• Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted by media as saying on Tuesday that he does not believe the Palestinian group Hamas will leave Qatar, where some of its leadership is based, adding he had seen no such signs from Doha either.
• Abu Ubaida, the spokesperson for Hamas’s armed wing, al-Qassam Brigades, urged for heightened action on all fronts in a televised address commemorating the 200th day since the start of the Israel-Palestine war in the Gaza Strip on 7 October.
• An Israeli air strike on Tuesday killed at least two and injured six in the southern Lebanese town of Hanin, Lebanon's official news agency NNA said.
• The White House said on Tuesday that it would have to "have to see real progress" before considering reinstating the funding it previously halted for the UN agency assisting Palestinians (Unrwa).
• The United States intensified sanctions against Iran, labelling four individuals and two companies as participants “involved in malicious cyber activity” on behalf of the country’s military.