Evening recap

Our liveblog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning. 

Here are the day's key developments:

-The number of known dead in Gaza is closing in on 44,000 people, the health ministry says. In Lebanon, officials there have put the number of known dead at nearly 3,500. Both tallies began in October 2023. 

-Israel carried out several airstrikes on northern Gaza as well as the centre of the strip just after midnight local time on Saturday, Aljazeera's correspondents there have reported. The bombing raid targeted Jabalia and Beit Lahia in the north, which has been under a crippling siege for more than a month. Israel also struck areas near Nuseirat refugee camp, in the center of Gaza. 

-The US Agency for International Development (USAID) announced on Friday the provision of $230m for "recovery and development programs" in the West Bank and Gaza. The press release noted that this follows the $2.1bn in humanitarian assistance provided since 7 October 2023 when the war on Gaza broke out.

-The EU's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has said that he has proposed to EU member states the banning of imports from illegal Israel settlements and the suspension of political dialogue with Israel, citing the country's many violations of international law in Gaza and Lebanon. The Foreign Affairs Council will discusses the proposed measures next week.

-Unifil, the UN's peacekeeping force in Lebanon, said on Friday that a 155mm live artillery shell hit its sector west headquarters in Chama but that it did not detonate. Unifil did not say which side the shell may have come from.

-The French foreign ministry says that Paris has demanded "accountability from the Israeli authorities" following the Israeli demolition of the French-financed Al-Bustan Association centre in the Silwan neighbourhood of East Jerusalem. The centre is supported and funded by the French foreign ministry and 21 French local authorities.