Evening recap

Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

- Late on Thursday evening, local time, Gaza's al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat said it had so far received one dead and 30 wounded after Israeli forces opened fire on aid seekers on Salah al-Din Street in central Gaza. 

- By midday Thursday, local time, Gaza's Civil Defence said that 56 people had already been killed by Israeli gunfire that day.

- At least 549 Palestinians have been killed and 4,066 people injured while seeking aid at distribution points run by the US-Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) since it began operating four weeks ago, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.

- Israeli forces detained 23 Palestinians during overnight raids Wednesday into Thursday across several areas of the occupied West Bank, including Nablus, Qalqilya and Hebron, Wafa news agency reported, citing security and local sources.

- Pope Leo said that conflicts in the Middle East were raging with an unprecedented "diabolical intensity" and appealed for greater respect for international law, in comments to Catholic bishops and aid agencies operating in the region.

- Israeli Hayom reported that a phone call between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump, which occurred right after US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities last week, included an agreement between them on winding down the war in Gaza. However, the conditions would have to include the normalisation of relations between Israel and two key regional players: Saudi Arabia and Syria.