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Live blog update| Israel's war on Gaza

Morning update

Good morning Middle East Eye readers,

Here are the latest updates:

  • Israeli forces conducted overnight raids across the West Bank, arresting five people in Tulkarem
  • Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said his country will "streamline security checks" to "flood" Gaza with humanitarian aid, planning to reach 500 trucks a day
  • The US government's Gaza humanitarian envoy, David Satterfield, said that "the majority, if not all, the 2.2 million population of Gaza" face imminent famine
  • Israel's Yedioth Ahronoth reports that Indonesia may normalise ties with Israel in exchange for the latter supporting Indonesia's entry into the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
  • UK police arrested five people accused of spraying red paint on the defence ministry's London headquarters to protest the UK's arms sales to Israel