Evening Recap

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 40,878 Palestinians in Gaza since war began on 7 October, the Palestinian health ministry said on Thursday
Medical sources told Al Jazeera Arabic that at least 15 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes across various areas of the Gaza Strip since dawn on Thursday
Israel's ongoing war on Gaza is projected to leave at least 625,000 students without access to education
August saw the highest number of rockets fired from Lebanon amid the ongoing war, the Israeli Shin Bet security agency claimed on Thursday
Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant stated that the military's ongoing major assault in the occupied West Bank, which has resulted in at least 39 Palestinian deaths, is part of a strategy he referred to as “mowing the lawn”
A deadly Israeli airstrike in Gaza City targeted a group of people near a school in the Zeitoun neighborhood
Armed Israeli settlers have raided several homes in the village of Bireen, southeast of Hebron in the occupied West Bank
Israeli forces say they have killed six fighters from Islamic Jihad in the town of Tubas and in a nearby refugee camp in the occupied West Bank in a drone strike
Hamas's lead negotiator Khalil al-Hayya called on the US to press Israel for a truce in Gaza on Thursday, accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of blocking a ceasefire