Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza
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Evening recap

4 December 2024 23:46 GMT

Good evening Middle East Eye readers. On Wednesday, Israel launched several major attacks across Gaza, leading to several massacres both in the north and south.

One Israeli bombing on al-Mawasi, an area that Israel had designated a humanitarian zone, killed at least 20 Palestinians and wounded dozens of others. Rescue crews could be seen pulling charred bodies from the site of the strike, including the burned bodies of children.

Another Israeli strike targeted an area in Gaza City. That air strike killed at least 25 Palestinians, and wounded another 50.

Around 70 Palestinians were killed in total across Gaza on Wednesday.

Here's what else you need to know about Wednesday's developments in Israel's war on Gaza:

  • Israeli security forces raided Al-Araby Hospital in the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, kidnapping a man who was wounded in an Israeli drone attack the day before. The security forces were disguised as doctors and nurses.

  • Hamas' armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, released a video showing an operation in which its fighters targeted an Israeli tank using an improvised explosive device as well as rocket fire in Jabalia.

  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the body of Israeli captive Itay Svirsky was recovered in a rescue operation in Gaza.

  • Gaza's ministry of health said on Wednesday that more than 100 patients at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza are currently facing death. The hospital has been targeted several times by Israeli forces in recent days.

  • The Palestinian Prisoners' Club said that Palestinian prisoner Muhammad Walid Hussein Ali, who was detained by Israel several days ago, has died while in Israeli detention.

  • US President-elect Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy travelled to Israel and Qatar in a push to seal a ceasefire deal in Gaza before Trump’s inauguration in January.

  • Two Palestinian-American sisters who are also students at George Mason University in Virginia had their home raided by the FBI. The house was searched for six hours and their electronic devices were seized.

  • Hamas threatened that it would "neutralise" the captives in its possession if Israel Israel tried carrying out a hostage rescue operation similar to one conducted in Gaza's Nuseirat camp in June. That Israeli operation killed more than 200 people, making it one of the bloodiest Israeli assaults of the war.

  • Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, announced it sold all its shares in Israel’s largest telecoms group, Bezeq, as it provides telecommunication services to illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.

  • An Israeli drone attack killed at least five children in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.

  • Palestinian officials revealed that Hamas and Fatah are nearing a historic agreement to establish a committee of politically independent technocrats to govern the Gaza Strip following the war.