Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza
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Evening recap

24 May 2025 23:56 BST

Our live coverage from Gaza will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are some of the day's key developments:

  • The number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since October 2023 has risen to 53,901, the Palestinian health ministry said on Saturday. At least 122,593 have been wounded since the war began, it added.

  • Since dawn on Saturday, 52 people have been confirmed killed in the enclave.

  • A Palestinian paediatrician received the charred bodies of nine of her children while on duty at the hospital after an Israeli strike hit her home in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

  • Authorities in Gaza say at least 300 pregnant women have suffered miscarriages as extreme hunger grips the besieged enclave.

  • The World Food Programme has warned that more than 70,000 children in Gaza are suffering from severe malnutrition, as Israel continues to block the vast majority of aid convoys.

  • Hamas has said that testimonies from Palestinian detainees and Israeli soldiers in a news report by the Associated Press documented “heinous crimes committed by” Israel. 

  • Ireland’s Foreign Minister Simon Harris has sharply condemned Israel’s actions in Gaza, stating that “it’s clear war crimes are taking place.”

  • Around 20 journalists' associations in France, including those affiliated with France 24, Le Monde, and Radio France Internationale, have called on Paris to evacuate journalists in Gaza working for French outlets. 

  • Israeli settlers have damaged water pipes supplying Palestinian families in the al-Auja waterfall area, north of Jericho in the occupied West Bank.