Evening recap

Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning. 

Here are the day's key developments:

- US contractors at a Gaza aid centre interrogated a source of Middle East Eye journalist Mohamed Salama seeking information about his identity and whereabouts before he was killed, MEE can exclusively reveal.

- Fourteen of the 15 United Nations Security Council members - four permanent ones and 10 that rotate - are demanding a ceasefire and that aid be let into Gaza, calling the situation a "famine". The United States was the only holdout.

- Hamas said it welcomed the statement and added that "the continued obstruction of binding resolutions by the US makes it complicit in the crimes committed against the Palestinian people".

- Israel announced it will establish two additional humanitarian aid distribution centres in the southern Gaza Strip to serve Palestinians forcibly displaced by its planned military takeover of Gaza City.

- At least 80 Palestinians have been injured in an ongoing Israeli military raid on Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

- Israel carried out another round of air strikes on the Damascus countryside on Wednesday, targeting what it says are military sites in the areas of al-Kiswah and Tal el-Manea, south of the capital.