Evening recap

Our liveblog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

- Israeli air strikes killed at least two Palestinians in the centre of Khan Younis in southern Gaza in the early hours of Saturday morning, local time, according to Al Jazeera. There are also a number of injuries at the scene. The area is meant to be part of a so-called "safe zone" for forcibly displaced Palestinians, per Israeli "evacuation" orders. 

- A senior health official in Gaza has told Aljazeera that of the 38 public and private medical facilities in Gaza, only 17 remain somewhat functional. 

- Israeli forces ordered people inside al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza on Friday to evacuate the facility or be bombed, Aljazeera reported. Israeli air strikes had earlier damaged the hospital’s emergency department, injuring two of the 96 people sheltering in the facility.

- Israel on Friday defended its raid on a northern Gaza hospital last week while the United Nations human rights chief called the justification unsubstantiated, and the World Health Organisation urged Israel to release the Kamal Adwan Hospital chief medic from detention. The deputy US ambassador to the UN said Washington is collecting information on Dr. Hussam Abu Safiyeh. 

- The Israeli army has issued a forced evacuation order for Palestinians in the Bureij neighbourhood, following a rocket which it said was fired from central Gaza. “Terrorist organisations are once again firing rockets from this area that has been warned several times in the past. For your own safety, move immediately to the humanitarian zone,” the Israeli army’s Arabic language spokesperson Avichay Adraee said in a post on X. 

- A senior Hamas official on Friday confirmed that ceasefire talks have indeed resumed in Doha, Qatar, and that the group is serious about reaching a deal as soon as possible. 

- The White House on Friday insisted that despite repeated Israeli assertions about degrading Hamas capabilities over the last 15 months of the war on Gaza, the group "still exists as a viable threat".

- Palestinian Islamic Jihad issued a statement on Friday demanding that the now month-long raids by the US-trained Palestinian Authority forces in the Jenin camp of the West Bank cease immediately. At least eight Palestinians have been killed in Jenin over the past month.