Evening recap

Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

• Israel has killed at least 62,622 Palestinians and wounded more than 157,673 in Gaza, since October 2023, according to Palestinian health officials.

• In the past 24 hours alone, hospitals in the besieged enclave received the bodies of 61 people and treated 308 wounded Palestinians.

• Among them were 16 killed and 111 injured while trying to obtain aid, officials said.

• These deaths bring the total number of Palestinians killed by Israeli fire while seeking food through Israel and the US-backed GHF distribution system established at the end of May, to 2,076, with more than 15,308 wounded.

• Turkish First Lady Emine Erdogan has called on US First Lady Melania Trump to write to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, urging him to take action regarding the humanitarian situation in Gaza.

• The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate says journalist Khaled al Madhoun has been killed by Israeli forces in northern Gaza. His death adds to the growing toll of media workers targeted during Israel’s ongoing genocide on the Strip.

• The Government Media Office in Gaza says the number of journalists killed by Israeli forces has risen to 240, following the death of reporter Khaled Mohammed al-Madhoun.