Live blog update| Israel's war on Gaza
This is an entry from: Gaza live: Israeli attack hits Unrwa centre

Morning updates

20 June 2024 05:51 BST

Good morning Middle East Eye readers, 

Here are the latest updates from the Israeli war on Gaza, now in its 258th day:

  • An Israeli strike on citizens and merchants waiting for aid killed at least nine Palestinians and wounded others on Wednesday evening, medical sources have told Reuters. The strike targeted the group of Palestinians in the southern Gaza Strip as they waited for convoys of aid trucks carrying goods through the Kerem Shalom crossing connecting Rafah with Israel. 

  • In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces re-arrested Aziz Dweik, the speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, days after releasing him. Dweik, 77, was arbitrarily arrested in October and placed under administrative detention without trial or charge for nearly nine months. 

  • Israeli forces also carried out a drone strike in the West Bank city of Tulkarem on Thursday morning in what appeared to be a failed assassination attempt on a Palestinian member of a local resistance group. No one was hurt in the strike. 

  • Two US officials told Reuters the military's floating pier in Gaza is expected to resume aid delivery operations on Thursday.