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Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza

Evening recap

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

Here are some of the day's key developments:

  • At least 40,405 people have been killed and another 93,468 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October

  • Israeli forces have detained at least 35 Palestinians, including children and former prisoners, from across the occupied West Bank in last two days, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) and the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said in a statement

  • Talks over a possible Gaza ceasefire deal have ended without agreement in Cairo, with Israel not agreeing to several comprises presented by mediators, two Egyptian security sources said, Reuters reported

  • The Egyptian Foreign Ministry has warned against the dangers of opening a new war front in Lebanon

  • Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised address that all Hezbollah drones were successfully launched and entered Israeli airspace

  • The Israeli military said that its fighter jets had conducted more attacks against Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon hours after it announced its preemptive strike

  • Israel provided the US with "considerable" advance notice of its pre-dawn preemptive strike on Hezbollah’s rocket and missile launchers, according to a report by The Time of Israel

  • A US official speaking to the New York Times said American drones and aircraft provided some of the surveillance imagery used to target Hezbollah launchers

  • Air France, the UAE's Etihad Airways and Greece's Aegean Airlines have announced the cancellations of flights to and from Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv

  • Israel’s cabinet has approved a $923m expansion in the 2024 state budget to support evacuees until the end of the year, according to the finance ministry