Evening recap

Hello MEE readers. Wednesday marked a day filled with Israeli bombings across the Gaza Strip, including an air strike that hit a school in the Nuseirat refugee camp.

That bombing has killed at least 17 people, including six staffers with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) — this is the highest death toll for UN workers in a single incident during this war.

Hamas has said that it is ready to implement an "immediate" ceasefire agreement with Israel based on a previous US proposal, but added that it would agree to such an agreement without any new conditions.

Negotiations have been taking place for months over a ceasefire agreement, however, so far a truce has failed to emerge.

Here's what else happened today during Israel's ongoing war on Gaza:

One current and one former US official told MEE that Washington has stepped in behind the scenes to help repatriate the remains of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, the 26-year-old pro-Palestinian activist and dual national killed by Israeli fire at a protest in the occupied West Bank.
Two US lawmakers are calling for Washington to launch an independent probe into Eygi's killing.
An Israeli strike on the Nasr neighbourhood in western Gaza City has killed at least three people and injured seven others.
At least two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli bombing in Tulkarm, in the occupied West Bank.
An Israeli strike has killed at least four Palestinians, including a woman and a child, in the Tuffah neighbourhood in Gaza City.
An Israeli drone targeted a motorcycle and killed two people in southern Lebanon. Israeli forces also attacked the southern Lebanese twn of Khiam with white phosphorous munitions.
Unrwa said that nearly 530,000 children in Gaza have been vaccinated against polio.
An Israeli strike on the Abu Chalouf family home in al-Mawasi, southern Gaza killed four people and injured 15 others.