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Evening recap
17 May 2025 23:45 BST
Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.
Here are the day's key developments:
- More than 200 Palestinians were killed in Gaza over the past 48 hours, Gaza's Government Media Office said.
- An Israeli attack on homes and tents in Mawasi, west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, killed 25 Palestinians.
- Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said that Hamas had returned to discussions in Doha after Israel launched a deadly military offensive on Gaza.
- Israel's national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, called for seizing and occupying Gaza.
- Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank.
- An estimated 600,000 people marched through central London to Downing Street on Saturday to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the Nakba.