Evening Recap

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 68 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks on the enclave in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 40,602 since 7 October
An Israeli strike on a residential building near Gaza City's al-Amal Hotel killed eight Palestinians, including a child
Israel's latest incursion in the West Bank has killed at least 17 Palestinians, the Wafa news agency said, citing medical sources
Some relatives of Israeli captives still held in Gaza have broken through the border fence and entered the Palestinian enclave from the Israeli town of Nir Am
The Israeli army says that they killed Osama Gadallah, a Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) intelligence officer, in a drone strike on southern Gaza's Rafah on Wednesday
The Israeli army blew up a house in Al-Manshiya neighbourhood, inside Nur Shams camp, causing a fire which spread to nearby houses
In a televised statement by the foreign office, Germany expressed concerns over increasing violence, high number of civilians killed and the “extent of rights violations” in the occupied West Bank during ongoing raids by Israel’s military
The Israeli military and Hamas have agreed to three separate, zoned, three-day pauses in fighting in the Gaza Strip to allow for the vaccination of some 640,000 children against polio
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Thursday he has asked EU members to consider imposing sanctions on two Israeli ministers for "hate messages" against Palestinians
Israel told the US that an initial review found that shots were fired at a clearly marked World Food Programme (WFP) vehicle in the Gaza Strip after a "communication error" between Israeli military units