As it happened
Slovenian lawmakers will vote on Tuesday on whether to recognise a Palestinian state, the parliament speaker said Thursday, just two days after Spain, Ireland and Norway formally recognised it in a coordinated decision. Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said he hoped Slovenian lawmakers would reject this move, saying a yes vote next week would be a “reward” to Hamas. Read our liveblog to see how all the day’s events unfolded.
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Slovenian lawmakers will vote on Tuesday on whether to recognise a Palestinian state, the parliament speaker said Thursday, just two days after Spain, Ireland and Norway formally recognised it in a coordinated decision.
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Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz’s centrist party proposed on Thursday holding a parliamentary vote on dissolving the parliament.
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Thursday urged the international community to ensure Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are not displaced in their war-ravaged territory.
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Israel pressed on with its offensive on Rafah on Thursday, a day after saying its forces had taken control of a buffer zone along the nearby border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, giving it effective authority over Gaza’s entire land frontier.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping called on Thursday for a peace conference on the war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas as he addressed Arab leaders and diplomats at a forum in Beijing.
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At least 36,224 Palestinians have been killed and 81,777 wounded in Israel’s war in Gaza, according to the latest official death toll given by the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry. Some 1,170 people were killed in the Hamas-led October 7 attacks and 250 people were taken hostage, according to Israeli figures, with 132 still missing.
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Street fighting and Israeli bombardment rocked Gaza’s far-southern city of Rafah on Wednesday, Palestinian residents and officials said, a day after Israeli tanks rolled for the first time into the centre of the city near the Egyptian border.
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The United Nations, which has warned of famine in Gaza, said on Wednesday the amount of humanitarian aid entering the enclave has dropped by two-thirds since Israel began its military operation in the Rafah region this month.
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French President Emmanuel Macron urged Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas to “implement necessary reforms”, offering the “prospect of recognition of the state of Palestine” during a phone call Wednesday, his office said.
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An Israeli cabinet minister accused Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s coalition of “failing miserably” amid the Gaza war on Wednesday, prompting a rebuke from Netanyahu’s Likud party as political divisions deepen.
About casualty figures from Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry:
Gaza’s health ministry collects data from the enclave’s hospitals and the Palestinian Red Crescent. For more on the health ministry’s casualty figures, click here.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP & Reuters)