Evening recap

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

Here are some of the day's key developments:

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
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
A spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Defence reported that at least 26 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza today.
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
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
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
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
Israeli Channel 13 reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to expand military operations on the northern front
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
Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, has accused Israel of deliberately starving Palestinians in Gaza