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Live blog update| Israel's war on Gaza

Evening recap

Our liveblog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

- Medical personnel in Gaza have told Al Jazeera that there are now at least 90 known dead since dawn on Thursday as a result of Israeli attacks on the enclave. That raises the total number of known deaths in Gaza to well past 45,600. 

- Al Jazeera's correspondent in Gaza, citing the Gaza civil defence spokesperson, says first responders no longer have the capacity to respond to emergencies because of the scale and scope of the Israeli attacks.

Israel ignored pleas from the World Health Organization (WHO) to stop attacking medical facilities in northern Gaza, with a medical worker telling Middle East Eye on Thursday that heavy shelling and gunfire from unmanned quadcopters was taking place in the direction of the war-battered Indonesian Hospital.

According to Israeli news outlet Channel 12, an Israeli negotiation team is headed to Doha, Qatar, on Friday to resume Gaza ceasefire talks. Channel 12 cited recent "progress" in the discussions, which was conveyed by an Israeli official.

The Times of Israel on Thursday said extremist Israeli settlers who have been trying to cross into Gaza have become a distraction for Israeli troops in northern Gaza. "Over the past day, IDF surveillance soldiers have reportedly been forced to deprioritize their efforts to track potential terror operatives in Gaza in order to thwart attempts by far-right Israeli extremists who have been trying to cross Israel’s border with the Strip to establish settlements there," the Times of Israel reported. 

The Palestinian human rights non-profit organisation Al-Haq has published a new report pointing out how "evacuation orders" and alleged "safe zones" determined by Israel are only furthering the act of genocide across Gaza. Al-Haq pointed to "mass atrocities... taking place amidst regular evacuation orders instructing the entire population of the North to move south immediately so [Israel] can resettle the area."

- Eight members of the Israeli Knesset have signed a letter demanding a more intensified siege on northern Gaza, as they also pointed out that Israel has not achieved any military victories in the enclave.