Evening recap

Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

- Israeli air strikes across Gaza have killed at least 40 people in Gaza since dawn on Wednesday.

- The Qassam Brigades released a video showing Israeli captive Omri Miran walking through dark tunnels and later lighting a candle to mark his second birthday in captivity. Miran urges US President Donald Trump to force Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept a negotiated deal that returns the captives home. 

- The foreign ministers of the UK, France, and Germany have released a joint statement urging “Israel to immediately re-start a rapid and unimpeded flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza”.

- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has called on the "sons of bitches" Hamas to release the remaining captives in Gaza, saying it has given Israel an excuse to continue slaughtering Palestinians. In response, every Palestinian faction in Gaza slammed the statement.

- Israeli forces shot and killed a 12 year-old boy during a raid in al-Yamoun town, west of Jenin, according to Wafa news agency.

- Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said on Wednesday that he'd met with "senior Republican Party officials" at US President Donald Trump's Florida home, the Mar-a-Lago estate. "They expressed support for my very clear position on how to act in Gaza and that the food and aid depots should be bombed," Ben Gvir wrote on X. 

- Video shared on Wednesday by a local digital news outlet in Dearborn, Michigan showed men in FBI-emblazoned vests breaking down the door of a home where pro-Palestine student protesters live.