Issued on: 25/10/2023 – 07:00Modified: 25/10/2023 – 07:31

• French President Emmanuel Macron heads to Egypt later Wednesday after his visit to Jordan, where he met King Abdullah in Amman. Macron’s whistlestop Middle East tour included a one-day visit to Israel, where he met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah.
• Three people were killed and several others wounded in an Israeli attack near the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, Palestinian media reported Wednesday.
• Israeli fighter jets on Tuesday struck military infrastructure in Syria in response to fire directed at Israel, the IDF said Wednesday.
• Nearly 600,000 internally displaced Gazans are sheltering in 150 UN facilities in the enclave, according to the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA. Israeli operations have impacted at least 40 UNRWA installations, said the UN. 
• Hamas has so far released four hostages. Israel has not freed Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the hostage releases, which was an initial Hamas pre-condition.
• The death toll in Gaza rose to 6,546, including 2,704 children, the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said Wednesday. The Israeli military put the number of people taken hostage by Hamas on October 7 at 222. The official number of people killed in the Hamas attack has not been revised since Saturday; it remains at 1,400.

If the live blog does not immediately appear, please refresh the page.

Key developments of Tuesday, October 24:

French President Emmanuel Macron affirmed his support for Palestinian civil society during a visit to Ramallah in the West Bank, where he held talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Earlier Tuesday, Macron met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and assured the Israeli people of France’s “solidarity” with Israel. He also called for “a decisive relaunch of the Palestinian peace process” and proposed extending the coalition against Islamic State (IS) group campaign to fight Hamas.

Eight humanitarian trucks entered the Gaza Strip from Egypt on Tuesday evening. It was the fourth humanitarian convoy to arrive in the Palestinian enclave since Saturday.

One of two elderly Israeli hostages released from Hamas captivity told reporters she was beaten as she was taken to Gaza on October 7, but was then treated well and given medical attention during her two-week captivity. 

Hamas has so far released four hostages. Israel has not freed Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the hostage releases, which was an initial Hamas pre-condition. 

(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)

• Israel-Hamas war
• Israel
• Gaza Strip
• Emmanuel Macron
• Benjamin Netanyahu