Evening recap

Good evening, Middle East Eye readers.

Our live coverage of Israel's war on Gaza will shortly be closing for the evening.

Here are the day's main developments:

• The Palestinian health ministry on Saturday confirmed that Israeli forces had killed at least 34,654 in Gaza and wounded 77,908 Palestinians since it began its offensive on 7 October. The ministry added that Israeli forces had killed 32 people and injured 41 people in the last 24 hours. 
   
• Israeli forces killed five Palestinians in an overnight raid in a village near the city of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, which cited Palestinian security sources.
   
• Hamas negotiators began intensified talks on Saturday on a possible Gaza truce that would see the return to Israel of some hostages, a Hamas official told Reuters, with the CIA director present in Cairo.
   
• A senior Hamas official on Saturday said the group would not accept a truce that did not completely end the Gaza war, accusing Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu of "personally hindering" a deal.
   
• The Palestinian health ministry on Saturday called for an international probe into the death of a prominent doctor in Israeli detention. Earlier this week, the Palestinian Prisoners' Society said Adnan al-Bursh, a Palestinian surgeon and professor of orthopaedic medicine, was killed by torture while in Israeli detention after he was detained from a Gaza hospital earlier this year.  
   
• Qatar could close the political office of Hamas as part of a broader review of its role as a mediator in the Israeli war on Gaza, an official familiar with the Qatari government's reassessment said. 
   
• A prominent British-Palestinian surgeon who worked in Gaza during the first few weeks of Israel's war on the besieged enclave says he was barred from entering France for a speaking engagement at the French Senate on Saturday morning. Writing on X, Ghassan Abu Sitta said French authorities had told him that Germany had banned him from entering Europe for one year after German police barred him from entering the country earlier this month. 
   
• Israeli forces detained the Greek consul's guard at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in occupied East Jerusalem, according to Al Jazeera. The arrest came as thousands gathered in the Jerusalem church during the Holy Fire ceremony. 
   
• Thousands of Israelis protested on Saturday, demanding that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accept a ceasefire agreement with Hamas that would see the remaining Israeli hostages brought home from Gaza.