Gaza live: Dozens killed and wounded in Israeli strikes on Gaza and Yemen

Israels war on Gaza has killed at least 500 health workers since October, including several specialised doctors, AP news agency reports.

Amongst those killed were highly specialised doctors, including a plastic surgeon specialising in wound care, a reconstructive surgeon, an obstetrician/gynaecologist, an orthopaedic surgeon, a fertility doctor, and the only liver transplant doctor in Gaza.

Hassan Hamdan, a plastic surgeon who specialised in wound reconstruction, was killed along with 12 members of his family earlier this month after coming out of retirement to help during the war.

On Monday, an unmanned watercraft caused minor damage to the port side of the Liberian-flagged Greek tanker, Chios Lion, as part of a series of Houthi attacks on the vessel and another ship approximately 100 nautical miles northwest of Yemen’s port city of Hodeidah.

The Yemeni movement, which controls most of the country, claimed responsibility for targeting the Chios Lion and Bentley I with ballistic missiles, drones, and booby-trapped boats in what they say was retaliation for an Israeli air strike on Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Saturday.

Since November, Houthi strikes have impacted global trade, prompting ship owners to reroute vessels away from the Suez Canal and toward the longer, costlier route around Africa, following Israel's war on Gaza.

The Houthis have stated that as long as Israel's war on Gaza continues, shipping through the Red Sea will be restricted.

Israeli artillery is shelling the Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps in central Gaza, Al-Jazera is reporting. 

So far there has been no casualties reported. 

In a separate Israeli attack at least two people have been confirmed killed and 15 wounded following an Israeli strike on a mosque in central Gaza, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reports.

The US activist group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) has accused the Biden administration of "actively assisting" Israel in committing genocide in Gaza.

"The Israeli government's genocide is accelerating with full support from the US," JVP stated in a series of social media posts, urging supporters to contact their political representatives and take action against Israel.

JVP highlighted Washington's clear intent by noting the resumption of transferring 500-pound bombs to Israel's military last week.

"The US isn't just allowing the Israeli government to commit genocide; it's actively assisting it. It's well past time for a weapons embargo," the group added. 

At least Eight people are now confirmed dead following an Israeli military attack on a home in the az-Zawayda area of central Gaza where more than 70 people were sheltering. 

Good morning Middle East Eye readers,

Here are some of the latest updates:

• At least 38,713 Palestinians have been killed and 89,166 wounded in Israel's military offensive on Gaza since 7 October, the Palestinian health ministry said in a statement on Tuesday

• At least 18 people have been killed in an Israeli attack near tents housing displaced families in Khan Younis, while at least 25 more have been killed in an attack on a school in the Nuseirat camp

• 70 percent of Unrwa schools in Gaza have been bombed and that 539 people sheltering on its premises have been killed by Israel

• Israeli military bombs home in az-Zawayda, killing at least 7 in central Gaza 

• More than 700,000 people could be at risk from a “health and environmental crisis” as wastewater pumping stations in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah city have stopped working due to a lack of fuel

Our live coverage from Gaza will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are some of the day's key developments:

• At least 38,713 Palestinians have been killed and 89,166 wounded in Israel's military offensive on Gaza since 7 October, the Palestinian health ministry said in a statement on Tuesday

• Muhammad Abdullah Mishmish, the programme director at Sawt al-Awsa Radio, has been reported dead by Gaza’s Government Media Office, as Israel's onslaught on the besiged Strip continues. Mishmish is now the 160th journalist to have lost their life in Israel's war on Gaza

• The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa) said at least 539 displaced Palestinians have been killed in its facilities in Gaza since 7 October

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a halt to the recording of security consultations and cabinet discussions held in the underground operations centre of military headquarters, according to Haaretz 

• Three far-right groups that have been preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza have raised over $200,000 in donations from Israel and the US, the AP and Israeli investigative site Shomrim have found in an examination of crowdfunding websites and other public records

• China on Tuesday expressed willingness to facilitate "reconciliation" between rival Palestinian factions, after Fatah said its officials would meet in Beijing this month with Hamas counterparts

• US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has told two top Israeli officials of the "unacceptably high" civilian casualties in Israel's bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip, his spokesman said

• At least 23 Palestinians were killed and 73 were wounded in an Israeli air strike on a school in central Gaza on Tuesday, the Palestinian health ministry said

Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh recently discussed the latest ceasefire negotiations and the humanitarian situation in Gaza, according to Anadolu Agency.

This conversation follows a previous meeting in April when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hosted Haniyeh in Istanbul

Israeli forces raided several areas in Jenin in the occupied West Bank reported the Palestinian newsagency Wafa.

Soldiers stormed the villages and towns of Yabad, Arrabeh, Faqqua, and Jalbun in the Jenin Governorate of the occupied West Bank.

Security sources reported that troops drove their vehicles through these municipalities, deployed infantry, and conducted neighborhood searches.

No arrests have been reported so far,

Israeli far-right groups accused of attacking aid convoys to the Gaza Strip have raised more than $200,000 on crowdfunding sites from donors in the US and Israel, where the contributions can be deducted from the individuals’ taxes.

Donations to the groups have poured in on Givechack, an Israeli crowdfunding site, and JGive, a US and Israeli crowdfunding site, according to a report by the Associated Press and the Israeli investigative site, Shomrim, based on open source inspections of the websites and other public records.

Charitable contributions are tax-deductible in the US and Israel.

Groups working to get aid into the besieged Palestinian enclave told the AP and Shomrim that "incentivizing these donations by making them tax-deductible runs counter to America’s and Israel’s stated commitments to allow unlimited food, water and medicine into Gaza".

One of the groups, Mother’s March, raised the equivalent of over $125,000 on Givechack and $13,000 on JGive.

Read more: Far-right groups attacking Gaza aid receive $200,000 from US, Israeli donors

At least nine Palestinians have been killed by Israeli air strikes in central Gaza, according to Al Jazeera’s correspondent in the besieged Strip.

In the first attack, an Israeli raid on a house in the Nuseirat camp resulted in two deaths and several injuries.

In the second attack, an Israeli air strike on a house in the Az Zawayda area killed seven Palestinians and injured others.

Ohio Senator JD Vance says US President Joe Biden’s policies are prolonging the Gaza war, saying that a lack of US support for Israel was the reason fighting in the besieged enclave has not ended. 

In a wide-ranging interview with Fox News, Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate provided what may be the clearest explanation yet of how the former president’s America First foreign policy would apply to Israel’s war on Gaza.

“Joe Biden has done nothing to help our ally Israel. Joe Biden has made it harder and harder for Israel to win that war. He has prolonged the war to take out Hamas,” Vance told Fox News, reiterating a view that has been expressed within Israel that the Biden administration is micromanaging Israel’s offensive, preventing it from attacking the Gaza Strip more forcefully.

Israel has conducted widespread bombing across the enclave and has killed at least 38,664 Palestinians in its response to Hamas’s 7 October attack on southern Israel, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

Read more: JD Vance slams Biden's 'weak little bombing runs' against Iran, vows to deepen support for Israel

French President Emmanuel Macron spoke on Tuesday with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Qatar's Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, and Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa to discuss the conflict between Israel and Hamas, said Macron's office, as reported by Reuters. 

A mental health NGO has found “alarmingly high” rates of mental health disorders among Palestinians in Gaza, particularly women and children.

In a report published on Tuesday, the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP) said that Israel’s ongoing war on the enclave has produced an “unprecedented mental health crisis” which could endure for “generations to come”.

The report found that Gaza’s children “live in a state of endless tragedy”, with many of them suffering from sleeplessness, sleepwalking, night terrors, constant shaking and bedwetting.

One father told GCMHP that one his children wets the bed at the sound of war planes and drones flying overhead.

Some children develop serious mental health disorders. A 13-year-old mentioned in the report suffers from visual and auditory hallucinations.

Read more: Palestinians suffering from 'unprecedented mental health crisis'