Live blog update| Israel's war on Gaza
This is an entry from: Israel-Palestine live: Week three ends with over 7,000 Palestinians killed

Evening recap

25 October 2023 23:16 BST

Good evening MEE readers, 

As we come to the end of the 19th day since the war began, the number of Palestinians killed and missing in Gaza has now exceeded the numbers of the victims in the Srebrenica genocide.

The current death toll in Gaza stands at 6,546, with over 1,900 others missing. Sixty-five percent of Palestinians killed this week were in south Gaza, where Israel had forcibly ejected 1.1 million people, according to the health ministry.

Here's what you may have missed from the last few hours: 

  • An Israeli air strike has killed the wife, daughter and son of Al Jazeera Arabic’s Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh. The attack was strongly condemned by the media network, as well as by a senior Qatari government minister.
     
  • An exclusive story by MEE revealed that Palestinian resistance groups expect Israel to flood Hamas tunnels with nerve gas and chemical weapons under the surveillance of US Delta Force commandos, according to senior a source familiar with the groups.
     
  • Competing US and Russian resolutions on the war failed to pass at the UN Security Council on Wednesday. The US resolution called for humanitarian pauses in the fighting, while Russia's version called for an immediate ceasefire.
     
  • The US is reportedly planning to send its entire Iron Dome stockpile to Israel, including two batteries and 300 interceptors.
     
  • Families in Gaza are now wearing ID bracelets in case they die. They say it will help identify loved ones as Israeli bombs continue to be dropped all across the enclave.

  • President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey “owes nothing” to Israel and announced he would no longer visit the country as previously planned. He added that Hamas was not a terrorist group, labelling them instead as a liberation movement fighting to “protect their land and citizens”.

  • Around 7,000 patients in Gaza's hospitals face imminent death, as fuel is set to run out in the besieged enclave. Doctors and health officials say newborn babies in incubators, wounded people in ICU units, and kidney dialysis patients are among those at risk of death

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