Six die of starvation in Gaza in past 24 hours
According to the Health Ministry in the enclave, six Palestinians have died of starvation in the past 24 hours.
While Israel's far-right minister of national security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, caused outrage as he led a group of over a thousand supporters to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem where he admitted praying at the site which is holy to Muslims, flouting rules forbidding Jews to pray there.
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