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Live blog update| Israel's war on Gaza

Good morning Middle East Eye readers, 

Here are the latest updates from the Israeli war on Gaza, now in its 370th day:

  • An Israeli air strike on al-Yamen al-Saeed Hospital located in Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp has killed at least 15 people, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
  • Al-Awda Hospital, Indonesian Hospital and Kamal Adwan Hospital, which are all partially functioning in northern Gaza, have received Israeli orders to evacuate, as bombings intensify in the area.
  • Nineteen international aid organisations, including civil society groups from the UK, France, the US, and Switzerland, have warned that the ongoing conflict in northern Gaza will lead to a humanitarian catastrophe.
  • Al Aqsa TV  journalist Mohammed Al-Tanani was killed in an attack by Israeli forces on several news crews in north Gaza, while Al Jazeera cameraman Fadi al-Wahidi is critically wounded the neck.
  • US President Joe Biden held his first phone call since August with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in which he called for humanitarian access to northern Gaza via a Jordanian corridor and discussed Israel’s plans to respond to Iran’s missile attacks.
  • Reuters is reporting sounds of explosions are heard in the Syrian city of Daraa, and Syrian state TV says that an Israeli 'aggression' has taken place on Hasiya industrial city in Syria's Homs countryside