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Live blog update| Israel's war on Gaza

Evening recap

Good evening, Middle East Eye readers.

Our live coverage from Gaza will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

  • The Palestinian health ministry said that 35,984 Palestinians had been killed and 80,643 injured in Israeli strikes since 7 October in Gaza.
  • Sunday saw another evening of intense Israeli bombardment in Gaza, with at least 35 Palestinians killed and dozens of others wounded after a number of Israeli air strikes hit a camp for displaced people in Rafah. Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri described the attack in Rafah as a "massacre".
  • Hamas said that Palestinians must "rise up and march" against the Israeli "massacre" in Rafah.
  • Hamas's al-Qassam Brigades said it had launched a "big missile" attack on Tel Aviv on Sunday for the first time in six months. Sirens were sounded across central Israel, with Hamas saying the rocket attack was in response to "Zionist massacres against civilians".
  • Israeli strikes on south Lebanon on Sunday killed five people, official media and a source close to Hezbollah said, as Israel's military claimed attacks targeting the Iran-backed militant group.
  • The threat of famine has returned to northern Gaza as Israel continues to restrict the entry of aid from all crossings, the Hamas-led government in the besieged strip has said. Salam Marouf, head of the government media office, said on Sunday that the food security crisis was also worsening in the central and southern districts. 
  • Spain's foreign minister condemned as "scandalous and execrable" a video posted by his Israeli counterpart suggesting Hamas would be grateful to Spain, in a growing spat between the two countries over the Gaza war. A short video posted by Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz on the social media platform X on Sunday said "Hamas: Gracias Espana" ("Hamas: Thanks Spain").