Evening recap

Good evening Middle East Eye readers,

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

Here are some of the day's key developments:

At least 45,206 Palestinians have been killed and 107,512 injured in Israel’s war on Gaza since 7 October 2023, the Gaza Health Ministry said in a statement
It added that 77 people were killed and 174 injured in the past 24 hours of Israeli attacks
The Civil Defence in Gaza has reported that 12 Palestinians, the majority of them children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a home in Jabalia al-Nazla, in the northern Gaza Strip
The Palestinian Football Association has reported that at least 644 athletes, including nearly 400 football players have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since October 2023
Israeli air strikes on Friday claimed the lives of at least 25 Palestinians in various areas of Gaza, according to medical sources cited by Reuters
An Israeli soldier visiting Sri Lanka had to flee the country after a pro-Palestinian organisation identified him, Channel 12 reported
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly planning to skip next month’s events in Poland marking the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation, fearing potential arrest, Polish news outlet Rzeczpospolita reported
Saudi Arabia expressed its support for the United Nations' decision to adopt a resolution calling for an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Israel’s responsibility to ensure humanitarian aid reaches the occupied Palestinian territories through UN agencies
Germany has described a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report on Israel committing "acts of genocide" in Gaza as "shocking" and has urged Israel to address the grave allegations
Unicef has condemned the dire conditions faced by children in Gaza, describing them as "cold, sick and traumatised", with 96 percent of women and children unable to meet basic nutritional needs