Morning update

Good morning Middle East Eye reader, 

Here are the latest updates from the Israeli war on Gaza, now in its 298th day:

• The Palestinian death toll since 7 October stands at 39,363, with more than 90,923 wounded and an estimated 10,000 missing, likely dead and buried under rubble

• Gaza's Health Ministry has declared a polio epidemic across the Strip, highlighting a severe public health crisis caused by the ongoing Israeli conflict in the Palestinian territory

• Hamas has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of adding new conditions to a US-backed ceasefire proposal after the latest round of talks in Rome

• An Israeli drone attack killed two Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon, amid heightened tensions following a rocket attack that killed 12 people, mostly children, in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights

• Senior Israeli officials have condemned demonstrators who stormed a military base to protest the arrest of nine soldiers accused of abusing a Palestinian prisoner