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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:

  • At least 58 Palestinians have been killed by Israel in Gaza since dawn, Al Jazeera reported on Friday.

  • The number of people killed in the US-led attack on the Ras Issa facility has climbed to at least 80, with at least 171 others wounded, reported the Yemen News Agency.

  • The Palestinian group Hamas has on Friday condemned the missile attacks by the US on Yemen’s Ras Isa port, which resulted in the killing of at least 38 people and the injury of more than 100.

  •  The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) has said that 420,000 Palestinians have been newly displaced in Gaza since 18 March - when Israel violated a ceasefire agreement and resumed its deadly war. 

  • The World Food Programme has sounded the alarm over Gaza’s deepening hunger crisis, warning that hundreds of thousands are on the brink of starvation.

  • Turkey’s parliament speaker, Numan Kurtulmus, denounced Israel’s war on Gaza on Friday, describing it as “a genocide unlike anything modern times have seen”.

  • A senior Hezbollah figure has made it clear the group will not consider handing over its weapons to the Lebanese army unless Israel halts its military assault and pulls back from the country’s south.

  • In a post on X, the British consulate in Jerusalem said on Friday that officials from several European countries, including Belgium, France, Spain and Germany, have all expressed “support with Palestinian community members” following the attacks by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.

  • Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said on Friday that no ceasefire deal will be reached with Hamas and no humanitarian aid will be allowed into Gaza until the Palestinian group is defeated.