Evening recap

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

Here are some of the day's key developments:

• Since 7 October Israel has killed at least 40,476 Palestinians, with more than 93,647 wounded and an estimated 10,000 missing, likely dead and buried under rubble

• Israeli forces have killed at least 41 Palestinians and wounded 113 others in the past 24 hours, according to the Palestinian health ministry

• Saudi Arabia has condemned Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's call to build a synagogue in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem

• Hamas has condemned Israel's decision to organise tours to Al-Aqsa Mosque, calling it a "dangerous escalation" and warning that it could ignite a religious war in the region

• European Union Foreign Minister Josep Borrell plans to request that member states adopt a joint resolution to impose sanctions on Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir

• The Biden administration has issued its strongest criticism yet of far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, accusing him of “sowing chaos” and “undermining Israel’s security”

• Chief rabbi of France Haim Korsia justified Israeli actions in Gaza during a French television interview and urged Israel to "finish the job"

• The European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell called for a three-day humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip to enable polio vaccinations

• The Israeli authorities are withholding 552 bodies of Palestinians according to detainee rights group Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS)

• Moody’s has issued a warning that a full-scale military conflict involving Hezbollah or Iran could have severe "credit consequences" for Israel

• Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers in al-Maniya village, southeast of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported