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<article data-history-node-id="432100" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/tens-thousands-paris-rally-gaza-solidarity-day" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/tens-thousands-paris-rally-gaza-solidarity-day" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Tens of thousands in Paris rally for Gaza on solidarity day</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="96" data-start="0">Paris saw a massive show of support for Palestine on Saturday as tens of thousands of people filled the streets to mark the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.</p> <p data-end="572" data-start="289">Organisers estimated the crowd at roughly 50,000. Marchers carried Palestinian flags and held banners reading “Palestine, we will not be silent” and “Stop the genocide”, while chants of “Gaza, Gaza, Paris is with you” and “From Paris to Gaza, the resistance” echoed through the city.</p> <p data-end="724" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="574">The demonstration added to growing public anger in Europe over Israel’s assault on Gaza and the staggering scale of Palestinian suffering under siege.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="432099" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-withdraw-tubas-after-days-long-assault" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-withdraw-tubas-after-days-long-assault" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli forces withdraw from Tubas after days-long assault</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><article data-scroll-anchor="true" data-testid="conversation-turn-54" data-turn="assistant" data-turn-id="request-WEB:cf6912b1-155b-4126-b68c-c737f76e11e9-75" dir="auto" tabindex="-1"> <p data-end="341" data-start="99">Israel’s army and Shin Bet have pulled out of Tubas after four days of raids across the occupied West Bank’s northeastern governorate, leaving behind mass arrests, injuries and widespread damage, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.</p> <p data-end="555" data-start="343">Wafa reported that Israeli forces withdrew tonight from Tubas, as well as from Aqaba to the north and Tayasir to the east. Troops had already pulled back from Tammun and the Far’a refugee camp the previous night.</p> <p data-end="746" data-start="557">Kamal Bani ‘Awda, director of the Palestinian Prisoners Club in Tubas, said Israeli forces detained or subjected roughly 200 Palestinians to field interrogations, with ten still in custody.</p> <p data-end="926" data-start="748">Nidal ‘Awda, who oversees regional ambulance services, said 204 people needed medical treatment after assaults by Israeli troops. Sixty-nine of them were transferred to hospital.</p> <p data-end="1163" data-start="928">Israel claimed the raid was a “large-scale counter-terror operation”, saying its troops combed hundreds of buildings in Tammun and the al-Faraa camp and detained ten men it labelled “terrorists”. Dozens more were taken for questioning.</p> </article> </div> </div> </article>

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<article data-history-node-id="432085" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/two-children-killed-israeli-gunfire-khan-younis" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/two-children-killed-israeli-gunfire-khan-younis" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Two children killed by Israeli gunfire in Khan Younis </span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Wafa news agency reported that two brothers, both children, were killed on Saturday morning by Israeli gunfire in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.</p> <p>Israeli forces' artillery shelling targeted several areas east of Khan Yunis, alongside continued air strikes on the city of Rafah and gunfire from Israeli naval forces toward the Rafah shoreline.</p> <p>With the killing of the two children, the toll of Palestinians killed since the ceasefire agreement went into effect on 11 October 11 has risen to 354. At least&nbsp;896 have been wounded during that time, while 605 bodies have been recovered from under the rubble.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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<article data-history-node-id="432080" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/80-palestinian-fighters-besieged-israeli-controlled-eastern-rafah-report" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/80-palestinian-fighters-besieged-israeli-controlled-eastern-rafah-report" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Up to 80 Palestinian fighters besieged in Israeli-controlled eastern Rafah: Report</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Between 60 - 80 living Palestinian fighters remain in tunnels in parts of eastern Rafah under Israeli control, Al Jazeera Mubasher reported on Friday, citing Palestinian sources.&nbsp;</p> <p>Rafah is located in Gaza's southernmost tip.&nbsp;</p> <p>Factions in Gaza have said that communication with those fighters has been cut off for months. They also have no access to food or water sources.&nbsp;</p> <p>Israeli forces say they have already killed 30 Palestinian fighters in the area, and warn that the rest must surrender themselves to be imprisoned in Israel, Al Jazeera Mubasher reported.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

Human rights organizations call the killing of two unarmed Palestinians in Jenin by Israeli soldiers an “extrajudicial execution.”

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The Hamas Movement has warned that the Israeli targeting and arresting of resistance fighters trapped inside Rafah’s tunnels risk undermining the ceasefire agreement.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) warned on Friday that the West Bank is approaching a large-scale explosion, saying a third intifada is now “closer than ever.”

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Save the Children have issued a report on Palestinian children in Israeli military detention