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Live Blog Update| Israel's war on Gaza
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Evening recap

Our liveblog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

- Hamas has said that 600 Palestinians have now been killed in Gaza since Tuesday, when Israel resumed its war on the Strip. 

The Israeli military has begun a ground offensive into  a neighbourhood in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip. This comes as the military also confirms it is continuing its incursions into the north and central areas of the Strip late on Thursday. 

- In a statement issued in the early hours of Friday, Hamas said the "massacres" Israel is carrying out in Gaza are a responsibility for the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic States (OIC) to step up and stop.

The Canadian government on Thursday announced the allocation of nearly $70 million dollars (or $100 million Canadian) for humanitarian efforts in the West Bank and Gaza via international institutions like the UN, World Bank, and Red Cross. 

- Hamas' armed wing says it fired rockets at Tel Aviv in response to "the Zionist massacres against civilians" in Gaza. The Israeli military said it intercepted one projectile and two others fell in an open area.

- Three ballistic missiles fired by the Houthis in Yemen were intercepted by Israel's defence system on Thursday.