This is an entry from: Israel-Palestine live: Biden urges Egypt, Qatar to press Hamas for hostage deal
Evening recap
3 April 2024 23:37 BST
Good evening readers of Middle East Eye,
The Palestinian health ministry in Gaza said that 59 people were killed by Israeli attacks over the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 32,975 since the beginning of the war on 7 October.
14,500 children have been killed since the beginning of the war, including 30 of starvation. Of the victims, 73 percent are women and children, while 17,000 children have lost at least one of their parents.
Additionally, 484 medical personnel have been killed, along with 140 journalists and 65 civil defence members.
In other developments:
- One in three children below the age of two is now acutely malnourished, the World Food Programme said.
- Belgium's Foreign Minister says her country is open to recognising Palestine as a state "when the moment comes".
- Ambulances transporting some of the dead bodies of the World Central Kitchen workers arrived in Egypt.
- Haaretz, Israel's longest-running newspaper in print, called for an end to the war in Gaza in an editorial.
- The United Nations has implemented a temporary suspension of its night-time operations in Gaza.
- Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz called for the holding of national elections in September.
- Founder of World Central Kitchen celebrity chef Jose Andres told Reuters on Wednesday that an Israeli assault, which resulted in the death of seven food aid workers in Gaza, had "systematically, car by car" targeted them.
- President Joe Biden is scheduled for a phone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday.