Authorities in the enclave warn that the downpour could intensify into a full-blown storm.

Rights groups demand freedom for Abu Safiya, held by Israel without charge and subjected to torture

<article data-history-node-id="433149" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/evening-recap-597" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/evening-recap-597" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Evening recap</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.</p> <p>Here are the day's key developments:</p> <ul> <li> <p>The death toll from Israel's genocidal war on Gaza has risen to 71,266, the Palestinian health ministry reported on Saturday.</p> </li> <li> <p>In the past 48 hours, four people were killed by Israeli fire, while the bodies of 25 others were recovered and taken to hospitals.</p> </li> <li> <p>Since the ceasefire in October, at least 414 people have been killed by Israeli fire, the ministry added.</p> </li> <li> <p>The director of the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza reported that there was a 40-percent drop in births in the strip and a sharp rise in miscarriages compared with last year, blaming malnutrition and restricted medical supplies.</p> </li> <li> <p data-end="405" data-start="136">The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said on Saturday that Israeli attacks on Palestinian journalists have expanded beyond killings, injuries, arrests and restrictions on coverage to include the systematic targeting of their families.</p> </li> <li> <p data-end="1097" data-start="677">The findings, based on documentation by the syndicate’s Freedoms Committee, show that attacks on journalists’ families have become a repeated and organised pattern across 2023, 2024 and 2025.</p> </li> <li> <p data-end="1097" data-start="677">The committee recorded the deaths of about 706 relatives of journalists in the Gaza Strip during that period, stressing that the scale and consistency of the attacks indicate they are not the result of random wartime conditions.</p> </li> <li> <p>Municipalities in northern Gaza say Israeli forces have turned the area into a disaster zone by continuing to block the entry of water, fuel, spare parts and reconstruction materials, deepening the collapse of basic services and the humanitarian crisis.</p> </li> <li> <p data-end="367" data-start="132">France has condemned Israeli gunfire in southern Lebanon that slightly injured a United Nations peacekeeper, describing it as part of a pattern of recent incidents targeting UN forces.</p> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </article>

Reading by Tim Foley:

Among Jews the meaning of the term has evolved – but there is still no consensus. And when people talk past one another there are real-world consequences

The death toll in Gaza has risen to 414 since the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas came into effect on 11 October, according to Gaza's health authorities.

The shocking brutality behind Gaza’s crumbling ceasefire

<article data-history-node-id="433096" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-drone-drops-bomb-adaysseh-town-lebanon-local-media-says" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-drone-drops-bomb-adaysseh-town-lebanon-local-media-says" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli drone drops bomb on Odaisseh town in Lebanon, local media says</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>An Israeli drone on Friday dropped a bomb on the town of Odaisseh in Lebanon, local media reported.&nbsp;</p> <p>Earlier, Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) had reported that Israeli warplanes carried out a series of air strikes targeting the Kfarmilki–Bsaliya valley.</p> <p>"Enemy aircraft are also conducting air raids on the highlands of Hermel," the report by NNA said.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="433098" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-funeral-prayers-held-25-bodies-pulled-rubble-after-israeli-strike" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-funeral-prayers-held-25-bodies-pulled-rubble-after-israeli-strike" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Gaza: Funeral prayers held for 25 Palestinians pulled from rubble after Israeli strike</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Dozens of residents in Gaza held funeral prayers for 25 Palestinians, including children and a journalist, who were pulled from the rubble of a house in Khan Younis bombed by Israel, Palestinian media reported.</p> <p>Arab48 said the prayers were held at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis before the bodies were buried in the city’s cemetery.</p> <p>On Thursday, Gaza’s civil defence agency said the bodies of 25 people, including members of&nbsp;al-Astal family - among them journalist Heba al-Abadla and her mother - were recovered from under the rubble after excavation work lasting several hours.</p> </div> </div> </article>