Evening recap

Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

- The director of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza has issued an urgent warning about what he described as a "new virus" spreading in the enclave, saying the symptoms include a high body temperature, joint pain, a runny nose, and a cough accompanied by bouts of diarrhea lasting more than a week.

- More food aid is reaching Gaza, but it remains far from enough to avert widespread starvation, the World Food Programme (WFP) told Reuters. This comes as 317 Palestinians have now died from malnutrition. 

- Hamas official Basem Naim blasted Bahrain's credentialing of a new Israeli ambassador in Manama, saying it goes against what nearly 60 Muslim-majority nations agreed to do at this week's Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit, which is to isolate Israel from the community of nations. 

- Students from Gaza, 52 of them, will arrive in Ireland this week to begin scholarships granted by education institutions, the Irish Foreign Minister Simon Harris has said.

- The Lebanese army said that two military personnel were killed and two others wounded when an Israeli drone crashed and then exploded in the Ras al-Naqoura area of southern Lebanon.

- Yemen's Houthis denied Israeli media claims that an Israeli air strike targeted a meeting of senior officials in the capital Sanaa, the Yemen News Agency Saba reported.