Evening recap

Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

- Gaza health officials said Israel killed 41 people since dawn on Wednesday. Most were killed in air strikes, but 18 of them were shot dead while waiting for food aid. 

- Far-right Israeli Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich said that the war on Gaza has now cost Israel 300 billion shekels, the equivalent of $87.5bn.

- The United Nations World Food Programme chief Cindy McCain said the world cannot just continue to carry out food airdrops into Gaza given the scale of hunger, citing half a million Palestinians being starved.

- Thirty-five independent UN human rights experts have called for the “immediate dismantling” of the US-founded Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GFH) and holding it and its executives accountable.

- A new poll released by the Israel Democracy Institute shows 79 percent of Jews in Israel are not troubled by the war on Gaza, whereas 86 percent of “Arab” respondents are somewhat or very troubled. 

- Hezbollah said it would treat Beirut's decision a day earlier to disarm it "as if it did not exist".