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Live blog update| Israel's war on Gaza

Evening recap

Good evening Middle East Eye readers, 

Israel continued to pummel the Gaza Strip on Tuesday evening, with massive strikes reported in northern Gaza. At least seven people were killed when an Israeli strike hit a school turned shelter in the south. Four people were killed in a strike on a health clinic in southern Gaza.  

Meanwhile, Israel stepped up its strikes on southern Beirut. The UN rights chief said he was “appalled” by an Israeli strike on a hospital in southern Beirut on Monday that killed at least 18 people. 

Here's what else you need to know about today's developments:

  • US envoy Amos Hochstein was in Beirut were he presented several “amendments” to UN Security Council Resolution 1701, according to a Lebanese media report
  • An 11 year-old Palestinian child died after being shot by Israeli soldiers in Nablus 
  • At least 63 people have been killed in the last day by Israeli strikes on Lebanon, according to the Lebanese government
  • Israel arrested seven Jerusalem residents over allegations they were planning to assassinate Israeli officials
  • Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has called on the international community to stop what it labelled an Israeli campaign of "ethnic cleansing" in northern Gaza
  • Members of the British-Palestinian community with family members trapped in Gaza met with Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Tuesday and urged him to evacuate injured children needing life-saving medical care