Live blog update| Israel's war on Gaza
This is an entry from: Gaza live: Palestinian death toll passes 37,000 after brutal Israeli attack on Nuseirat

Evening recap

3 June 2024 23:55 BST

Hello MEE readers.

Our live coverage from Gaza will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

  • The Israeli military has forcibly displaced over one million Palestinians from Rafah after expanding its aerial and ground attacks there last month, according to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. 

  • More than 3,500 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip are at risk of death due to the "Israeli policy of starvation," the government media office in the besieged Gaza strip said

  • At least 40 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip died in Israeli custody since 7 October, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz

  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he is not ready to end the war on Gaza, adding that US President Joe Biden's description of the proposed ceasefire agreement was "not accurate"

  • Satellite image analysis by the United Nations Satellite Centre (UNSOAT) has revealed that 55 percent of all Gaza's buildings have been destroyed or damaged by Israel's ongoing war on the besieged enclave

  • Over 9000 Palestinians, including 300 women and 635 children, have been detained by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank since 7 October, the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS), and Palestinian NGO, Addameer said in a joint statement

  • Palestinian authorities have filed an application with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to join South Africa as a party in its Gaza genocide case against Israel, the court said on Monday

  • Chris Van Hollen has called for the Biden administration to sanction far-right Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich due to his policies against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank

  • Far-right Israeli minister calls for Lebanon to be sent back to 'stone age'