Evening recap

Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

- Medical personnel in Gaza have told local media that 100 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes since dawn on Tuesday. 

- Israel appears to have intensified its air strikes on parts of Gaza overnight Tuesday into Wednesday with bombs targeting the al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza as well as al-Mawasi in the south. 

- Health officials in the Strip have warned of an "alarming" rise in meningitis cases, and the inability to treat them.

- US President Donald Trump's special envoy for peace missions said that he is hopeful for an agreement to a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza by the end of the week. Trump met Netanyahu for a second time in less than 24 hours on Tuesday, but that meeting was closed to the press.

- The number of Palestinians held in Israeli custody has soared to around 10,800 - the highest recorded number of detainees since the Second Intifada in 2000-05, Palestinian prisoners' advocacy groups have said.

- Israeli media reported that an Israeli attack near Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli killed Hamas's planning department chief, Mahran Mustafa Baajour.