**Israel’s Gaza Conflict Live Updates: Teenager Killed in West Bank Raid**

 5 Sep 2024

- Israeli forces shot and killed a 16-year-old Palestinian boy in the Far’a refugee camp. According to Wafa news agency, the soldiers “fired several bullets at the child, abused him, and blocked ambulance crews from reaching him.”

- Hamas accuses Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of obstructing a ceasefire agreement by refusing to withdraw from Gaza’s Philadelphi Corridor.

- Israeli airstrikes on Gaza on Wednesday resulted in the deaths of at least 18 Palestinians.

- Palestinian officials report that 4,000 residents in east Jenin have been displaced at gunpoint, while the UN condemns Israeli forces for employing “war-like tactics” against civilians in the occupied West Bank.

- The conflict has claimed at least 40,861 lives and wounded 94,398 in Gaza. On October 7, Hamas-led attacks resulted in at least 1,139 fatalities in Israel.