Live Updates: Biden indicates Gaza truce before Ramadan unlikely

Saturday, March 9, 2024

05:00 GMT — Biden says Gaza ceasefire by Ramadan 'looking tough'

US President Joe Biden has said that it would be "tough" to secure a ceasefire in Israel's war on Gaza by the holy month of Ramadan.

"It's looking tough," Biden told reporters when asked if a deal to halt the five-month-old war could be achieved by Ramadan, which is due to start as early as Sunday depending on the sighting of the Moon.

Biden added that "I sure am" worried about the possibility of violence in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem as Ramadan approaches, adding to a similar warning earlier this week.

04:15 GMT — Terror-preacher rabbi incites Jews to commit genocide

A terror-preacher Israeli rabbi has urged the mass killings of women and children in the besieged Gaza and said he considered it a response to the teachings of halakha, or Jewish law.

Eliyahu Mali was seen making the alarming comments in a video that was widely circulated on social media.

Mali heads the extremist Shirat Moshe school in Jaffa in central Israel, where students serve in the army.

03:30 GMT — More children in Gaza die of malnutrition, dehydration

Three more children have died in besieged Gaza from malnutrition and dehydration.

The children died in the Al-Shifa Hospital and the deaths bring the number of children who have died from malnutrition in Gaza to 23 since October 7, according to authorities.

Most of the children died in hospitals in the north which is reeling under a severe siege by Israel.

03:00 GMT — Protestor disrupts Washington mayor's speech

A protestor calling for a ceasefire in Gaza has disrupted Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser's speech during a ceremony for an arts festival.

Running towards the podium as Bowser was delivering remarks at the event for the start of the Artomatic arts festival in the US capital, the protestor chanted "DC artists are against apartheid".

"Here we go," Bowser said when she saw the protestor running towards her. Security stopped the protestor from reaching the mayor.

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