US President Joe Biden said he has “no confidence in the number that Palestinians are using” for the death toll in the Gaza Strip, whose health ministry says over 6,500 have been killed in Israeli attacks.

Here are the latest updates

• At least 6,546 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, while more than 1,400 people have been killed in Israel since October 7.**
• US President Joe Biden faces backlash for questioning the Gaza death toll and describing the deaths of innocent Palestinians in the besieged enclave as “the price of waging war”.
• The Israeli military ramps up its overnight raids across the occupied West Bank as it presses on with its deadly bombardment of Gaza.
• Russia-led UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip fails shortly after Moscow and Beijing vetoed a resolution put forward by Washington.
• Gaza’s Health Ministry says that a lack of supplies is putting vulnerable patients, including 130 premature babies, at risk.
• A video posted by Al Jazeera Arabic on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, showed Israeli forces arresting a young Palestinian, Mufid al-Abbasi, after storming and searching his house in the Ras al-Amud neighborhood in the town of Silwan in the occupied East Jerusalem.