Morning update

Good morning, Middle East Eye readers,
Here are the latest updates from Israel's war on Gaza:
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Israel’s predawn attacks on northern Jabalia and the central Bureij camp have killed at least 10 people, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.
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The UN’s humanitarian agency (Ocha) said 2024 saw the highest number of Israeli settler attacks in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem since the agency began keeping records nearly two decades ago.
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Palestinian resistance fighters and Israeli forces have engaged in armed clashes following an Israeli raid on the West Bank town of Tammun early this morning, according to local Palestinian news reports.
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Gaza has “alarming rates of microbiological contamination”, an emergency water quality survey conducted by the UN and aid agencies found.
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Israel’s military is holding the bodies of 198 Palestinians killed in 2024, representing one-third of all Palestinian bodies currently held in Israeli morgues and “numbered graves,” according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
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Israeli authorities allowed in just 160 trucks carrying shelter items into Gaza between December 1 and 26, the UN’s humanitarian agency (Ocha) said.
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The WHO reported that 55 Palestinians and 72 caregivers have been evacuated from Gaza to the United Arab Emirates for specialised medical treatment.