Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza
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Evening recap

21 August 2024 00:02 BST

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

Here are some of the day's key developments:

  • Gaza's health ministry said that 40,173 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October in Israeli attacks on the enclave. Additionally, 92,857 were wounded since the start of the war

  • Medical sources confirmed to Al Jazeera that at least 52 Palestinians were killed on Monday due to Israeli bombardment across Gaza

  • Hamas will not engage with the latest US ceasefire proposal due to its deviation from President Joe Biden’s deal outline announced in May, sources close to the Palestinian movement told Middle East Eye

  • The Israeli military recovered the bodies of six captives from Gaza during an overnight operation on Tuesday. Hamas had previously announced the deaths of five captives, saying that they were killed following Israeli strikes

  • At least 12 people were killed in an Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza, the enclave's civil defence said in an update on Tuesday

  • A UN official reports that death appears to be the “only certainty” for the 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, who have no way to escape Israeli attacks. The official recounts the growing desperation across the territory

  • The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, also known as 7amleh, has released a report on the digital security situation for Palestinians aged 15 to 30 in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem

  • Outgoing Israeli ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan has expressed that the United Nations headquarters in New York is "unnecessary" and should be "closed and wiped off the face of the earth"

  • Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that the "time has come" to end Israel's assault on Gaza, warning of the potential for a spreading regional war otherwise.