Live Blog Update| Israel's war on Gaza
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Morning update

15 April 2025 06:00 BST

Good morning Middle East Eye readers,

Here are some of the latest updates from Israel’s war on Gaza:

  • Israeli forces shot a child on the back during a raid in the town of Awarta in the Nablus governorate on Monday night, Wafa news agency reported.

  • The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said 70 percent of schools in Gaza have been directly targeted by Israeli attacks and nearly 90 percent need significant rehabilitation or reconstruction.

  • According to the American Civil Liberties Union, lawyers for detained Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi “have already filed a petition for his release” and a judge in the state of Vermont, where Mahdawi was detained, had “ordered he not be moved out of state”.

  • Two people were killed in an Israeli attack on tent shelters in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahia area amid intense Israeli artillery, helicopter and ground attacks across Gaza, according to Al Jazeera.

  • The spokesperson for the United Nations secretary-general has issued a statement saying that almost 70 percent of the Gaza Strip is now under Israeli “displacement orders” or in “no-go” zones.

  • The US attacks on Yemen have killed 123 people since mid-March, according to the Yemeni health ministry.