Evening recap

Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

- At least 100 Palestinians have been killed by Israel in Gaza since dawn on Wednesday.

- Israel bombed the Amr Ibn Al-Aas School, which currently shelters forcibly displaced Palestinians in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City. At least five people are declared dead.

- The spokesperson for the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, vowed that there would be more "funerals and corpses of enemy soldiers" to come. Abu Obeida praised the Tuesday ambushes that killed seven Israeli soldiers and wounded some 15 others.

- 62 percent of Israelis want their government to strike a deal with Hamas to secure the release of captives held in Gaza, and to end war in the enclave, according to a poll by Walla, an online media company owned by the Jerusalem Post.