Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza
This is an entry from: Gaza live: Fresh Israeli order forces over 170,000 Palestinians to leave their homes

Evening recap

15 August 2024 23:56 BST

Our live coverage from Gaza will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are some of the day's key developments:

  • Israeli forces have killed at least 40 Palestinians and wounded 107 others in the past 24 hours, according to the Palestinian health ministry. This brings the death toll since 7 October to 40,005, with more than 92,401 wounded and an estimated 10,000 missing, likely dead and buried under rubble

  • Israel has failed to eliminate Hamas or destroy its tunnels in Gaza and has nothing more to achieve military in the strip, senior US officials reportedly told the New York Times

  • US President Joe Biden will publicly blame Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if Israel rejects a Gaza ceasefire proposal set to be discussed in the upcoming talks later on Thursday, according to senior Haaretz analyst Amos Harel

  • Hamas has issued a statement criticising the Palestinian Authority (PA), after PA forces detonated an explosive before it hit Israeli troops in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank

  • The president of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, announced during an address to the Turkish parliament that he has decided to visit Gaza

  • Jordan called on the European Union on Thursday to take "practical deterrent steps" against Israel over its continued aggression on the Gaza Strip and its violation of the rights of the Palestinian people

  • The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that a Palestinian was critically injured by settler gunfire in the town of Jit, near Qalqilya, in the northern occupied West Bank

  • The Israeli government is advancing a plan to legalise 35 percent of Israeli outposts in Area C of the occupied West Bank, according to a new report by the Israeli human rights organisation, Bimkom