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Live blog update| Israel's war on Gaza

Evening recap

Good evening, Middle East Eye readers.

Our live coverage of Israel's assault on Gaza will shortly be closing for the evening.

Here are the day's key developments:

  • The head of the WHO urged Israel to lift its blockade on Gaza
  • US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken suggested the Biden administration was ready to work on sanctioning ICC officials with Congress
  • At least 7 Palestinians were killed during an Israeli raid on Jenin in the occupied West Bank
  • Israel seized and later returned the Associated Press’s broadcasting equipment 
  • The UN halted all food distribution to Gaza's southern city of Rafah
  • Israeli strikes on Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza damaged an intensive care unit and administrative facilities trapping medical workers and patients
  • Norway became the first country to announce it would arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if the ICC issued an arrest warrant for him
  • The US said new routes are being used to move aid from a pier in Gaza to warehouses after desperate Palestinians intercepted deliveries
  • The US faulted Egypt for the closure of Rafah border crossing, wading into Cairo’s dispute with Israel