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Live blog update| Israel's war on Gaza

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 at least 50 Palestinians and wounded 54 more in the past 24 hours, according to the Palestinian health ministry. This brings the Palestinian death toll since 7 October to 38,345, with more than 88,295 wounded and an estimated 10,000 missing, likely dead and buried under rubble

  • Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Wednesday urged the West to reject "double standards" regarding the war on Gaza as he joined Nato leaders in supporting Ukraine

  • Israeli forces withdrew from Gaza City's Shujaiya neighbourhood on Wednesday, leaving behind a trail of death and destruction

  • Israel and Hamas are open that neither of them governs Gaza after the war ends, according to Washington Post columnist David Ignatius. Hamas sources denied Ignatius's claims, saying that no agreement had been reached on post-war governance in Gaza 

  • Unrwa has documented "utterly appalling conditions" as a consequence of the siege in one school-turned-shelter for displaced people in the Gaza Strip

  • Israel's Mossad chief David Barnea has endorsed a key demand by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the ongoing Gaza ceasefire negotiations, according to the Israeli daily Haaretz

  • G7 foreign ministers have denounced Israel's decision to expand illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, describing the move as "counterproductive to the cause of peace"

  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded that Israel maintain control over key Palestinian territories along the Gaza border with Egypt