Live blog update| Israel-Palestine war
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Morning recap

4 December 2023 06:16 GMT

Good morning MEE readers. 

Israel's bombardment of southern Gaza is the “worst bombardment of the war right now”, Unicef spokesperson James Elder said on Sunday.

“I am seeing massive child casualties," Elder posted on X (Twitter).

On Saturday alone, at least 700 Palestinians were killed by Israel. 

While the death toll for Palestinians has been catastrophic, we got a glimpse of the financial devastation. 

Gaza's poverty rate is set to soar to more than 90 percent, according to the director of statistics at the Central Bureau of Statistics, Muhammad Qalalwa.

Israel's devastating war on Gaza since 7 October has resulted in at least $700m worth of losses, just in the first month, said Qalalwa on Sunday.

Here's a round-up of the latest updates:

  • On Monday, the Netherlands will be confronted with a lawsuit claiming that its involvement in exporting F-35 fighter jet components to Israel implicates it in purported war crimes in Gaza.

  • Yemen's Houthi movement targeted two Israeli ships on Sunday with an armed drone and a naval missile, a spokesperson for the group's military said

  • Israel will hunt down Hamas in Lebanon, Turkey and Qatar even if it takes years, the head of Israel's domestic security agency Shin Bet said in a recording aired by Israel's public broadcaster Kan on Sunday

  • The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Sunday called on Israel to respect the international rules of war and said he was accelerating his investigation into violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank