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Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza

Evening recap

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

Here are some of the day's key developments:

  • At least 40,334 people have been killed and another 93,356 wounded by Israeli forces since 7 Octover, Gaza's Health Ministry said on Saturday

  • Medical sources confirmed to Al Jazeera Arabic that Israeli raids on various areas in the central and southern Gaza Strip today resulted in the deaths of at least 71 Palestinians

  • At least 100,000 people have been displaced from Deir el-Balah in two days, following Israel's latest evacuation orders for the central city, according to the Deir el-Balah municipality

  • Gaza's health ministry has warned of an "unprecedented crisis in medicine and medical supplies", reporting on Telegram that 60 percent of essential medicines and 83 percent of medical consumables have run out in the ministry's warehouses

  • A Hamas source told the Lebanese news outlet Al-Mayadeen that the Cairo talks did not achieve clear progress, as Israel demands on maintaining a presence along the Egyptian-Gaza border during the first phase of the deal

  • There are an estimated 19,000 unaccompanied children in Gaza as a result of the ongoing Israeli aggression in the enclave, a Unicef spokesperson said on Saturday

  • The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, has called on a panel of pre-trial judges to “urgently render its decisions” on arrest warrants he requested in May for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar

  • Israeli forces have issued evacuation orders over the last month at an "unprecedented pace", with 13 issued since 22 July,  according to a report by AP news agency

  • The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organisation in the United States, demands that the administration of US President Joe Biden condemn the recent burning of Quran copies and destruction of mosques by Israeli soldiers in Gaza