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Gaza City: The Gaza Ministry of Energy says its sole power plant runs out of fuel, shuts down due to Israeli blockade.
That will leave only generators to power the territory.
The blackouts come as Israel has decided to block fuel shipments into the Gaza Strip as part of what the Israeli government has called a “complete siege” on the territory run by the Hamas militant group.
And this is where we will end our live coverage.
To recap events:
The UN says nine of its workers have died in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip since Saturday, the day when Hamas launched its surprise attack on Israel.
“The protection of civilians is paramount, including in times of conflict,” Juliette Touma from the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said.
“They should be protected in accordance with the laws of war.”
The UNRWA said 175,500 people were sheltering in its 88 schools and that two had been affected by airstrikes.
Two people were critically injured and 14 others were also hurt by nearby airstrikes.
The King of Jordan says there will be no security or stability in the region unless Palestine achieves a sovereign state alongside Israel.
Jordan shares a border with Israel and until 1994 had been at war with the Jewish state since its post-war creation.
King Abdullah told his deputies that a two-state solution was the only option.
“The dangerous escalation and acts of violence and aggression currently taking place in the Palestinian Territories are proof that confirms, once again, that our region will never be secure nor stable without achieving just and comprehensive peace on the basis of the two-state solution, in order for the Palestinian people to gain their independent and sovereign state on the June 4th, 1967 lines, with East Jerusalem as its capital, and so that the cycles of killing—whose ultimate victims are innocent civilians—end,” he said.
The Palestinian death toll has reached 1055 since Saturday, the local health ministry said.
“1055 citizens were martyred and 5184 other citizens were injured with various injuries,” it wrote on social media.
Singapore/Jakarta: Indonesian President Joko Widodo has called for the “root cause” of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to be addressed, as hardline Islamic groups took to the street outside the United States embassy in Jakarta declaring they were ready to fight in the Middle East.
Like neighbouring Malaysia, Indonesia has historically been a vocal advocate of the Palestinian cause and does not have formal diplomatic relations with Israel.
In the wake of Hamas’ terrorist attack on southern Israel, and the bombardment unleashed on the blockaded Gaza Strip in response, Widodo has pleaded for an immediate cessation of violence, concerned it could spiral into a greater humanitarian crisis. But he has also reiterated the need for a long-elusive two-state solution in the Middle East.
Read more: ‘We hear the call of jihad’: Indonesian hardliners take pro-Palestinian message to US embassy
Photojournalist Wolter Peeters has sent in more vivid images from tonight’s emotionally charged vigil held in support of Israel in Dover Heights.
The international community should continue providing financial aid to the Palestinian people and institutions, Norway’s Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt told Reuters on Wednesday.
“As chair of the international donor group [to the Palestinians] AHLC, Norway encourages the international community to continue its financial assistance to the Palestinian people,” Huitfeldt said in a statement.
Also speaking in Brussels at the NATO defence ministers meeting was US Secretary of Defence Llyod Austin. He said that Israel had a “bedrock right” to defend itself and that US support was “ironclad”.
Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant will brief the ministers when they meet on Thursday.
Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky has urged leaders to visit Israel, saying the symbolism is important to a country in the early days of war.
“I remember the first days of our full-scale war [against Russia], it began with terrorist attacks,” he told reporters after speaking at the meeting of NATO defence ministers in Brussels.
“So many deaths - and it was very important not to be alone - very important.
“It can help to save your nation ... so my recommendation to the leaders is to go to Israel, to support the people.
“I’m not speaking about any institutions, just to support people who have been under terrorist attacks, people who are dying now.
“Unity is more important.”
The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) has posted a video on social media showing what it says is the destruction of the Islamic University in Gaza that was being used by Hamas to train fighters and produce weapons.
“Fighter jets recently attacked the Islamic University, which serves as an important centre of political and military power for the terrorist organisation Hamas in the Gaza Strip and a training institution for the development and production of weapons,” Daniel Hagari, IDF spokesman wrote, according to a translation.
“The IDF continues with extensive waves of attacks in the Gaza Strip at this time as well.”