Evening recap
Our live coverage from Gaza will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.
Here are some of the day's key developments:
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Figures released by the Palestinian health ministry on Saturday revealed that the death toll in the besieged enclave had risen to 41,182 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces
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The Palestinian Civil Defence reported that an Israeli strike hit a house in Gaza City on Saturday morning, killing 11 members of the same family
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A spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Defence reported that at least 26 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza today.
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer stressed the urgent "need for a ceasefire deal in the Middle East" while speaking to reporters a day after meeting with US President Joe Biden
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Hundreds of mourners, waving Turkish and Palestinian flags, gathered on Saturday for the funeral of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish-American activist who was killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank
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The UAE's foreign minister and deputy prime minister, Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, announced that the country will not participate in any post-war plans for Gaza unless a Palestinian state is established. He made this statement in a post on his X account
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Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz accused European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell of being anti-Semitic and hostile towards Israel, claiming Borrell consistently pushes for resolutions and sanctions against the country
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Israeli Channel 13 reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to expand military operations on the northern front
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Hezbollah's deputy leader has warned that if Israel launches a full-scale war aimed at returning 100,000 displaced people to their homes near Lebanon's border, it would instead displace "hundreds of thousands" more
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Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, has accused Israel of deliberately starving Palestinians in Gaza