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

2 August 2025 23:34 BST

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

Here are some of the day's key developments:

  • A 17-year-old Palestinian child has died of malnutrition, Wafa news agency reported, citing medical sources.

  • Aircraft from Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Germany, and France airdropped 90 packages of humanitarian aid packages in the northern and southern Gaza Strip in the last few hours, according to the Israeli military.

  • President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy told families of captives being held by Hamas on Saturday that he was working with the Israeli government on a plan that would effectively end the war in Gaza.

  • Just 73 aid trucks entered Gaza on Friday, Gaza's government media office said, adding that most of their contents were looted before they could be distributed.

  • The amount of aid entering Gaza remains "very insufficient" despite a limited improvement, the German government said.

  • Hamas has denied a claim by the United States special envoy to the Middle East that it was preparing to disarm in exchange for an end to the war in Gaza.

  • Israeli attacks have killed 36 and wounded more than 100 across Gaza today, Al Jazeera reported.

  • Hospitals in Gaza have recorded seven deaths, including a child, as a result of Israeli-imposed starvation in the last 24 hours.

  • Israeli settlers have established a new illegal outpost near the village of Kisan, east of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency reported.