Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza
This is an entry from: Gaza live: Fresh Israeli order forces over 170,000 Palestinians to leave their homes

Evening recap

6 August 2024 23:55 BST

Our live coverage from Gaza will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are some of the day's key developments:

  • Israeli forces have killed at least 30 Palestinians and wounded 66 others in the past 24 hours, according to the Palestinian health ministry. This brings the death toll since 7 October to 39,653, with more than 91,535 wounded and an estimated 10,000 missing, likely dead and buried under rubble.

    Health officials report that around 70 percent of the victims are children and women.

  • Hamas announces Yahya Sinwar as head of the movement

  • Meta Platforms META.O apologised on Tuesday for erroneously removing Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's social media posts in which he expressed condolences to a Hamas official about the assassination of the group's leader Ismail Haniyeh

  • The Gaza Strip must be transferred to the control of legitimate Palestinian authorities, and Israeli plans for temporary control of the enclave are unacceptable, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Russia's RIA news agency in remarks published on Tuesday

  • An Israeli air strike in the southern Lebanese town of Maifadoun killed at least four people on Tuesday, according to the Lebanese health ministry

  • Iran has yet to make any arrests linked to the suspected Israeli killing of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, the Iranian judiciary said Tuesday

  • Dozens of ultra-Orthodox Jewish demonstrators have broken into an Israeli army base in Tel Aviv to protest the conscription of members of the community

  • The Government Media Office in Gaza has announced that the number of journalists killed by Israel has risen to 166 since the start of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip