Live Blog Update| Israel's war on Gaza
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Evening recap

10 September 2024 23:40 BST

Hello MEE readers. A day after Israel's massacre on the Mawasi humanitarian zone in Gaza, rescue teams are still trying to assess the death toll.

The health ministry officially placed it at 19 Palestinians killed, but the Israeli bombs evaporated an additional 21 bodies, which therefore were not able to be registered at hospitals. There are also still persons missing from the area of the strike.

Israel continued bombing parts of Gaza throughout Tuesday, killing at least 46 Palestinians over the past 24 hours.

In Jabalia in northern Gaza, Palestinian medics and rescue workers are currently trying to comb through the rubble of an Israeli air strike to find either the bodies of those killed or any survivors.

Meanwhile, in the occupied West Bank, Israeli military forces killed two Palestinians during a raid on Tulkarm. Additionally, Israel detained two Palestinian medical technicians in the town.

Here's what else happened on the 340th day of the war on Gaza:

  • US President Joe Biden said Israel's killing of US-Turkish citizen Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was "an accident". Eyewitnesses told MEE that Eygi was deliberately shot by Israeli forces, noting she was shot in the head.

  • On the other hand, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Israel to initiate "fundamental changes" in the way it conducts military operations in the occupied West Bank after the killing of Eygi.

  • A Florida state lawmaker celebrated the killing, saying that Eygi's death meant "one less #MuslimTerrorist". Muslim rights groups are calling for the lawmaker to be censured for the comments.

  • The government of South Africa said it will be filing a memorial in its case at the International Court of Justice, pledging that the case in which it accuses Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians will continue.

  • The Palestinian civil defence said at least seven people, including three children and two women, were killed as a result of Israel's bombing of a residential building in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.