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

8 August 2024 23:50 BST

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

Here are some of the day's key developments:

  • Gaza's health ministry said that the Palestinian death toll of Israel's war on Gaza has risen to 39,699, with 22 people killed in the past 24 hours. At least 91,722 people have also been wounded since the start of the war

  • At least 56 people have been killed and dozens injured in Israeli strikes across Gaza since morning, Al Jazeera reported

  • Nagasaki's mayor said on Thursday it was "unfortunate" that US and British ambassadors have refused to attend a ceremony marking the 1945 atomic bombing of the Japanese city because Israel was snubbed

  • Israel's Foreign Minister Israel Katz said on Thursday the diplomatic status of Norwegian envoys to the Palestinian Authority would be revoked over Oslo's "anti-Israel behaviour" since the Gaza war began in October

  • Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said that Israel's decision to revoke the diplomatic status of Oslo's envoys to the Palestinian Authority was an "extreme action" that would "have consequences"

  • The EU's top diplomat Josep Borrell said he "strongly condemns" the Israeli government's decision to revoke the diplomatic status of Norwegian diplomats dealing with the Palestinian Authority

  • The Breaking Defense website quoted the commander of the US Fifth Fleet, stating that the Houthi group in Yemen now has a more powerful military arsenal than it did a decade ago

  • Hamas political bureau member Izzat al-Rishq condemned Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's call to starve two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, labelling it as "an actual adoption of a policy of genocide"