Evening recap

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

Here are some of the day's key developments:

• Israel's military offensive in Gaza has killed at least 40,939 Palestinians since 7 October, the Palestinian health ministry said on Saturday
• At least 94,616 others had been wounded during that time, the ministry added
• The Palestinian health ministry has reported that 61 Palestinians have been killed and another 162 injured by Israeli forces in the last 48 hours
• Palestinian medical sources informed Al Jazeera Arabic that at least 31 Palestinians had been killed in Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip since dawn today, with 22 of those fatalities occurring in the central and southern parts of the Strip
• The governor of Nablus has said that the autopsy of the American-Turkish activist shot by Israeli forces has revealed she was shot by an Israeli sniper
• The former head of Israel’s security agency, Shin Bet, has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of exaggerating the importance of maintaining control of the Philadelphi Corridor, the buffer zone between Gaza and Egypt
• Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged Islamic nations on Saturday to unite against "the growing threat of expansionism" from Israel
• The heads of American and British foreign intelligence agencies say they are "working tirelessly" towards a ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza
• Israeli forces have demolished 45 agricultural buildings and homes in the Taybeh area, northwest of Hebron, Wafa news agency is reporting, citing local sources
• The Palestinian Prisoner's Society has said that the Israeli authorities are "deliberately" leaking images and footage of the torture of Palestinian detainees. The rights group said in a statement that this was “part of the competition between the ministers of the current government over who tortures and kills Palestinians more"
• The family of an American woman who was shot and killed by Israeli forces while protesting in the occupied West Bank has called for an independent investigation. They stated that an Israeli-led probe would be insufficient and biased