Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza
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Evening Recap

26 August 2024 23:34 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 40,435 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on the enclave since 7 October, 30 of them in the last 24 hours

  • Five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike on the Nur Shams refugee camp in the West Bank on Monday, the Palestinian health ministry said in a statement

  • Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has said that if he could, he would build a synagogue on the Al-Asqa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem

  • The UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) said that only three out of 18 of central Gaza's Deir al-Balah water wells are functioning, leading to an 85 percent water shortfall

  • The first batch of polio vaccines has arrived in the Gaza Strip, weeks after alarms were raised over the first confirmed case of the disease in the enclave in the past 25 years

  • White House national security spokesperson John Kirby announced on Monday that negotiations underway in Cairo to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza will continue for the next few days as parties try to overcome differences

  • The Israeli military said that its fighter jets had conducted more attacks against Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon hours after it announced it

  • Palestinian journalist Ali Nayef Ta’ima was killed on Monday in Gaza, according to the Government Media Office, bringing the total number of journalists killed since 7 October to 171

  • Israeli settlers shot dead one Palestinian and wounded three others in the occupied West Bank's Bethlehem, the Palestinian health ministry said early on Tuesday local time