Good evening Middle East Eye readers,
our live blog will soon be closing for the day. Here is what happened today:
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At least 46 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes across Gaza since dawn today, according to medical sources
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Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has openly admitted that Tel Aviv is deliberately starving Palestinians, declaring on Monday: “Not even a single grain of wheat will enter the Gaza Strip”
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In a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at the White House on Monday, US President Donald Trump said that “controlling and owning Gaza would be a good thing”, echoing earlier plans Trump floated about forcibly displacing the population from Gaza to neighbouring countries to “own” and “redevelop” Gaza under US control
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Nearly 400,000 Gaza residents have been displaced in the Gaza Strip since 18 March, with relentless attacks leading to “large-scale civilian casualties” , UN secretary general’s spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Monday
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The Palestine Red Crescent Society said 15 medics and rescuers killed by Israeli forces last month in Gaza were shot in the upper body with “intent to kill”.
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Palestinians across occupied East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank held a general strike in solidarity with Gaza
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu added 400km to a flight to the US to avoid being arrested over an outstanding International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant
