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Live blog update| Israel's war on Gaza

Evening recap

Good evening Middle East Eye readers, 

The world’s focus may be on Syria, where rebels are advancing against President Bashar al-Assad’s government, but it was another deadly day in Gaza and southern Lebanon. 

Israel pounded the Gaza Strip on Saturday. At 37 Palestinians were killed and dozens more injured by Israeli strikes across Gaza, according to Palestinian health officials. Meanwhile, at least six Lebanese were killed in the country's south by Israeli strikes. 

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

  • An Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank was seriously wounded in a car ramming
  • Israel said it is assisting United Nations peacekeepers in the occupied Golan Heights in repelling an attack by unnamed forces
  • Norway said it wants to see an "integrated" Palestine made up of the occupied West Bank and Gaza
  • More than 4,000 people have had their upper or lower limbs amputated in Gaza since Israel began its assault with the majority being children, Mohammad Abu Salmiya, director of al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza told Al Jazeera