Evening recap

Evening recap

Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

  • The General Assembly voted Friday to back the "New York Declaration", which seeks to breathe new life into the two-state solution between Israel and Palestine.

  • Hamas said on Friday that its chief negotiator in Gaza truce talks, Khalil al-Hayya, survived an Israeli strike on Doha earlier this week. 

  • British, French and German foreign ministers condemned Israel's 9 September air strikes on Doha, saying that the bombing, which targeted Hamas leadership, violated Qatar's sovereignty and risked further escalation.

  • More than a million Palestinians remain in Gaza City and the north, rejecting forced displacement to the south, where Israel has said there will be no return, the Government Media Office said on Friday.

  • Israeli attacks killed at least 59 Palestinians across Gaza since dawn on Friday, including 42 in Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera reported, citing medical sources.

  • A former Israeli army commander, Herzi Halevi, has confirmed that more than 200,000 Palestinians have been killed or injured in the war in Gaza - an estimate close to the figures provided by Gaza’s health ministry, The Guardian reported.

  • The Israeli military began a crackdown on the city of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank earlier today, with reports of mass arrests and kidnappings.

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