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17 May, 40 tweets, 15 min read
Death toll continues to rise after a week of increased crackdown on Palestinians in the West Bank and intense airstrikes on Gaza by Israeli forces.

Follow MEE’s live blog for all the latest and up-to-date information: middleeasteye.net/live/israel-pa…
🔴 Updates:

- Death toll in Gaza rises to over 197 - including 58 children
- Gaza hit with more than 100 overnight raids
- US blocks UN Security Council statement calling for ceasefire
- Erdogan calls on Pope to back sanctions against Israel

More: middleeasteye.net/live/israel-pa…
Palestinian activists call for a general strike to protest ongoing Israeli human rights violations - the first of its kind since the famous 1936 general strike against the British Mandate’s policies. middleeasteye.net/live/israel-pa…
🔴 Update: Biden administration approves $735 million sales of weapons to Israel middleeasteye.net/live/israel-pa…
🔴 Update: US Secretary Anthony Blinken says he had not seen any Israeli evidence of Hamas presence in Gaza media building that was struck down middleeasteye.net/live/israel-pa…
🔴 Update: Islamic Jihad confirms Israel killed its senior commander middleeasteye.net/live/israel-pa…
Hospitals targeted amid heavy Israeli bombardment, MSF raises concerns over devastating air operation ow.ly/Ht4x50EOsE3 | 📷: MSF
🔴 Update: Israeli injured during protests in Lod succumbs to wounds middleeasteye.net/live/israel-pa…
🔴 Update: Israeli air strikes damage medical clinic and offices in Gaza, severe damage reported ow.ly/Ht4x50EOsE3
🔴 Update: Israel has destroyed Gaza's only laboratory testing for the coronavirus, a senior health official said ow.ly/Ht4x50EOsE3
#BREAKING: Turkey's President Erdogan has described Joe Biden as having "blood-soaked hands" after he approved the emergency transfer of guided missiles to Israel

📸: AFP ow.ly/Ht4x50EOsE3
🔴 Update: YouTube users have complained of struggling to find a viral clip from Jon Oliver's TV show.

The British comedian attacked media outlets for creating a sense of parity between Israel's bombing and rocket attacks from Gaza ow.ly/Ht4x50EOsE3
🔴 Update: Israeli soldiers have fired "warning shots" at protesters on the Lebanese side of their shared border, according to reports ow.ly/Ht4x50EOsE3
🔴 Update: Israeli air strikes have destroyed the Qatari Red Crescent headquarters in Gaza ow.ly/Ht4x50EOsE3
#BREAKING: Israeli soldiers have shot and killed a Palestinian man at a refugee camp north of Hebron

📸: AFP ow.ly/Ht4x50EOsE3
🔴 Update: HBO responds to MEE on complaints over 'hard to find' John Oliver Gaza segment ow.ly/Ht4x50EOsE3
#BREAKING: 40,000 families have been displaced since the Israeli bombardment of Gaza, the health ministry said

📸: AFP ow.ly/Ht4x50EOsE3
Paris Hilton's decision to remove tweets reacting to the killing of Palestinians in Gaza has raised more than a few eyebrows.

Meanwhile, Palestinian-heritage model Bella Hadid was the subject of false accusations by an official Israeli account. More here: ow.ly/3Hwg30rI3m7
🔴 Live updates:

- Former CIA chief criticises Israeli bombardment of Gaza
- MEE reporter takes viewers on a tour of areas bombed by Israel ow.ly/z53q30rI3vU
🔴Live update:

- Rockets fired from Lebanon towards Israel: Reports

More: middleeasteye.net/live/israel-pa…
#BREAKING

Biden expresses 'support for a ceasefire'.

"The President expressed his support for a ceasefire and discussed US engagement with Egypt and other partners towards that end," the White House said in a statement.

middleeasteye.net/live/israel-pa…
"If the Ministry of Health is not safe, then there is no safe place in the Gaza Strip. This is a war crime and the world cannot remain silent"

middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-covi…
US President Joe Biden's administration conveyed to the Israeli government that it is nearing the end of its ability to resist calls for a ceasefire in Gaza.

More in our live blog here: 👇

middleeasteye.net/live/israel-pa…
Norway, Tunisia and China will raise the ongoing war on Gaza at the UN Security Council for a fourth time at a meeting on Tuesday, Oslo's mission to the international body has said

middleeasteye.net/live/israel-pa…
UPDATE: Rashida Tlaib calls on Biden administration to allow UN to demand ceasefire

Follow our live coverage here: middleeasteye.net/live/israel-pa…
🔴 Live update: Israel resumes bombing Gaza with at least 50 air strikes

More: middleeasteye.net/live/israel-pa…
🔴 Update:

- Palestinians in the occupied territories and Israel begin a general strike

- The Palestinian health ministry confirmed that Israel destroyed Gaza's only functioning coronavirus testing facility

📸: AFP

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🔴 Update:

Palestinians record no deaths from overnight raids in Gaza for the first time since Israeli air strikes began on the besieged territory

More:

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🔴Update:

Israeli forces kill Palestinian man in Hebron checkpoint

Images and videos posted on social media showed Islama Fayyad Zahda, a 31-year-old man, lying dead outside a checkpoint after Israeli forces shot him

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According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, over 38,000 people have taken shelter in their schools in Gaza, fleeing from Israeli shelling

📸: Reuters

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Palestinians across cities in the West Bank are taking to the streets in large numbers as part of the nationwide "dignity" protests organised to condemn Israel's air strikes on Gaza

📸: AFP

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Marwan Barghouthi, a Fatah leader who has been imprisoned since 2002, has been placed in solitary confinement by Israel after penning a letter of support for Palestinian protests

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🔴Update: Israeli forces removed the head-covering of MEE correspondent Latifeh Abdellatif while she was filming the detention of a young boy in occupied East Jerusalem

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🔴 Update:

- Two foreign workers from Thailand were killed by rockets fired from the besieged Gaza Strip

- Seven others were wounded in the attack

More:
ow.ly/yXe230rI6ah
🔴Update: The Egyptian presidency said it would allocate $500m to the Gaza strip.

The funds would be aimed towards Gaza's rebuilding effort

More:
ow.ly/yXe230rI6ah
📹: MEE is broadcasting live from the Israeli city of Haifa and Beit El in the occupied West Bank

Find the links to the live streams here:
ow.ly/yXe230rI6ah
11 of the over 60 children killed by Israeli air strikes in Gaza over the last week were receiving counselling for trauma by the Norwegian Refugee Council

📸: AFP

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🔴Update:

- A Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli forces cracking down on demonstrations near Beit El checkpoint in the occupied West Bank

- Two Israeli soldiers were injured near the entrance of al-Bireh city

More:
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🔴Update: Israeli police officers have attacked Palestinian protesters in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah

📸: AFP

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🔴Update: A Palestinian man who was killed after he was shot in the chest with live ammunition by Israeli forces has been named as 25-year-old Muhammad Ishaq Hamid

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