Evening Recap

Good evening Middle East readers. 

Our live blog will soon come to an end. Here are today's main developments:

- Palestine's first ever Olympian dies in Gaza from lack of treatment due to Israel's war

- Israeli air strikes in Rafah killed three Palestinians on Friday

- The US will impose sanctions on an Israeli group on Friday for attacking humanitarian aid convoys bound for starving civilians in Gaza

- Israeli jets and artillery struck southern Lebanon on Friday, after dozens of missiles were launched towards northern Israel

- Two hostages killed during Israeli strike on Rafah, Hamas says

- The UN has called for calm in response to Israeli soldiers allegedly attempting to start fires in southern Lebanon 

- EU's chief diplomat expressed his concern over the withholding of funds by the Israeli government to the Palestinian Authority