Evening recap

Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

- Wednesday marked one of the bloodiest days in Gaza since Israel resumed its bombardment of the Strip on 18 March. Nearly 100 have been killed since dawn, local reports said. 

- Israel's attacks in Gaza this week send the signal they are not interested in negotiating a ceasefire, Qatar's prime minister told CNN.

- Israel has agreed to resume aid to Gaza, but only through the US-formed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a statement from the organisation said. The first supplies would be distributed before the end of the month.

- China's UN envoy has weighed in on the US-Israeli plan for Gaza's aid distribution, and demanded that Israel "fulfil its obligations as the occupying power under international humanitarian law by immediately lifting the blockade and restoring full access to supplies".

- Around 90 percent of families in Gaza are facing severe water shortages amid widespread destruction of infrastructure, Wafa news agency is reporting citing medical sources.

- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday of standing with Hamas after Macron said Israel's policy in Gaza was "shameful".

- Right-wing European leaders Friedrich Merz and Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday said Netanyahu ought to show restraint in Gaza, but they did not indicate that they would take any measures to hold him accountable.

- A federal judge in Virginia ordered the release of Georgetown University scholar Badar Khan Suri on bail. Suri was taken away by masked men outside his home on 17 March in a suburb of Washington, DC, for his pro-Palestine views.