Evening recap
Hello MEE readers. Just one day after Israel's raid on the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, the harmful results of the operation have materialised.
Five Palestinian patients died at the hospital due to a lack of oxygen caused by an Israeli-imposed power outage that severely restricted supplies, according to health officials.
Israel's first major raid on a large hospital in Gaza, the raid on Al-Shifa Hospital in mid-November - led to a battle of narratives with Israel claiming the hospital was a Hamas command centre. Hamas denied this, and international rights groups expressed major concerns about the raid.
After producing insufficient evidence to back up its claims after the raid, Israel has continued raiding numerous hospitals across Gaza under the allegations that Hamas is operating in the medical facilities.
The government media office in Gaza said that 184 hospitals have meanwhile been rendered out of service due to Israel's war on the enclave.
Here's what else you need to know from today:
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Students at the University of California, Davis passed a measure that would stop their student group's $20m budget from being used on companies named in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
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Egypt's State Information Service denied that Cairo is participating in a process that involves displacing Palestinians in Gaza into Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
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A group of senior American, Arab and European officials met in Munich and reportedly discussed formulating a plan for a post-war Gaza that would be linked to the normalisation of ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
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Biden said he pushed Netanyahu for a "temporary ceasefire".
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The International Court of Justice said an Israeli military campaign on Rafah would "exponentially increase what is already a humanitarian nightmare". However, the court said there would be no additional measures asserted by the ICJ.