Evening update

Good evening Middle East Eye readers.

Our live coverage of the conflict in Gaza will shortly be closing for the evening.

Here are the day's key developments.

At least 63 Palestinians were killed and 112 wounded by Israeli attacks over the past 24 hours, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

That brought the total number of Palestinians killed in Gaza since 7 October to 31,553. At least 73,546 others have been wounded during that time. 

On Saturday, an air strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza killed seven Palestinians, the government media office in Gaza reported. Most were women and children.

Saturday's strike followed Israel's bombardment of the camp on Friday night, when 36 people from the same family were killed and many more wounded, according to Wafa. The majority of those killed were children, with a pregnant woman among the fatalities.

A Palestinian gunman opened fire toward a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on Saturday and was then shot dead by Israeli soldiers there, said Israel’s military. The man opened fire from the Palestinian cemetery in Hebron at the adjacent Jewish settlement, Israel’s public broadcaster Kan reported

According to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa), one in three children under the age of two in northern Gaza is now acutely malnourished.

"Children's malnutrition is spreading fast and reaching unprecedented levels in Gaza. Famine is looming. There is no time to waste," Unrwa said in a social media post on Saturday.

The health ministry in Gaza has in recent weeks recorded at least 27 deaths from malnutrition and dehydration, most of them children.

The news came as American and Jordanian aircraft dropped food supplies in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, US Central Command said in a statement, and followed the arrival in the enclave on Friday of 200 tons of food, the first maritime shipment in a new aid route to the Gaza Strip.

A second vessel filled with food aid was set to depart from Cyprus to Gaza on Saturday, the island's president said.

The head of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency will resume ceasefire talks in Doha on Sunday, according to a source who spoke with Reuters. David Barnea is due to meet with Qatar's prime minister, as well as Egyptian officials.