Evening recap

Good evening Middle East Eye readers,

At least 21,320 people have now been killed by Israel in the Gaza Strip since the war began on 7 October, the Palestinian health ministry said on Thursday.

Another 55,603 people have been wounded in the fighting, it says. At least 210 Palestinians have been killed in the past 24 hours, the ministry added.

In other developments:

Israeli settlers have used the cover of the ongoing war on Gaza to attempt to take over a large parcel of the Armenian Quarter.
The Israeli army admitted on Thursday that it killed dozens of Palestinians in an air strike on the Maghazi refugee camp in Gaza on Christmas Eve.
An Israeli air strike in Rafah, located in the southern Gaza Strip, killed 20 Palestinians and injured 55 others on Thursday.
JewBelong, a tax-exempt non-profit Jewish organisation, posted, and then deleted, a statement on Instagram saying, "Trust me. If Israel wanted to commit genocide in Gaza, it could."

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