Middle East crisis live: Israel continues attacks on Gaza despite global outcry over the killing of six journalists

Medical officials report at least 34 people were killed on Monday, with more than 15 people killed waiting for aidFormer US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said now is not the time to recognise a Palestinian state.Blinken, who served under president Joe Biden from 2021 to 2025, argued in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal that the focus should be on the release of Israeli hostages, bringing humanitarian aid into Gaza and the withdrawal of the IDF from the Palestinian territory.Palestinians reported the heaviest bombardments in weeks on Monday in areas east of Gaza City, just hours after Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he expected to complete a new expanded offensive in the territory “fairly quickly”.The EU condemned the killing of five Al Jazeera journalists in an Israeli airstrike outside Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City, including Al Jazeera correspondent Anas Al Sharif. “We take note of the Israeli allegation that the group was Hamas terrorists, but there is a need in these cases to provide clear evidence, in the respect of rule of law, to avoid targeting of journalists,” foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said in a statement on X. The EU joins the UN, Reporters Without Borders, the Foreign Press Association and a host of other organisations in denouncing the attack.Palestinians in Gaza gathered on Monday for the funeral of the five Al Jazeera staff members and a sixth reporter killed in an Israeli strike. Dozens stood amid bombed-out buildings in the courtyard of Al-Shifa hospital to pay their respects to Anas al-Sharif, a prominent Al Jazeera correspondent aged 28, and four of his colleagues, killed on Sunday.Video footage appears to show the moment a Palestinian activist was killed as an Israeli settler fired toward him during a confrontation with unarmed Palestinians in the occupied West Bank last month. The video released Sunday by B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, shows Israeli settler Yinon Levi firing a gun toward the person filming. The footage cuts but the camera keeps rolling as the person moans in pain. Continue reading...

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