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Evening recap
18 May 2025 23:41 BST
Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.
Here are the day's key developments:
- Israel announced a large-scale ground invasion across Gaza, deepening fears of further mass civilian casualties in the battered territory.
- The Israeli military issued forced displacement orders to Palestinian civilians in central-eastern Gaza.
- The death toll in Gaza since dawn on Sunday rose to at least 144, according to medical authorities.
- Israel will allow a "basic amount" of humanitarian aid into Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu's office said.
- The chief of Unrwa, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said a "gruesome milestone" has been reached as the death toll of Unrwa workers killed in Gaza passed 300.
- Israeli authorities forced a Palestinian man to demolish his own home in the Shu'fat refugee camp, north of occupied East Jerusalem.