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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:

  • Israel's war on Gaza has killed at least 41,118 Palestinians since 7 October 2023, the Palestinian health ministry said on Thursday. The ministry also reported that more than 95,125 people in the enclave have been wounded since the conflict began

  • An Israeli air strike on a UN school in central Gaza on Wednesday night has killed at least 18 people, included six UN agency for Palestinian refugee (Unrwa) workers

  • The Turkish foreign ministry said the body of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a dual US-Turkish citizen killed by Israeli soldiers during a peaceful demonstration in the occupied West Bank last week, will arrive in Turkey on Friday

  • Josep Borrell, the EU's foreign policy chief, has expressed "outrage" at an Israeli attack on a school in central Gaza which killed 18 people, including six UN workers

  • Gaza's economy has shrunk to less than a sixth of its pre-war size, while unemployment in the occupied West Bank has nearly tripled, according to a UN report published on Thursday

  • The UN Trade and Development Agency (UNCTAD) has warned of severe economic devastation in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, following Israel’s military actions

  • Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported that at least three people, including a child, were killed in an Israeli drone strike in the village of Kafr Jouz, located in southern Lebanon's Nabatieh region

  • On Thursday The New York Times, citing US officials, reported that Israel conducted a commando raid in Syria on Sunday, targeting and destroying a Hezbollah missile production facility

  • The British newspaper The Jewish Chronicle is investigating allegations against one of its freelance writers, Elon Perry, who is accused of fabricating information about the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza