Evening recap
Evening recap
Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.
Here are the day's key developments:
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The Palestinian Civil Defence said it had recovered the bodies of nine Palestinians killed after Israel targeted a bus on Friday night.
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The death toll from Israel's two-year onslaught in Gaza has risen to 68,116, with 170,200 others wounded.
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The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Saturday that it had received 15 remains from the Red Cross that had been held in Israeli custody.
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The government media office in Gaza said in a press statement that Israel committed 47 breaches of the truce deal since it came into effect last week.
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The Israeli prime minister’s office says Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered that the Rafah crossing remain closed “until further notice”.
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Hamas said on Saturday that Rafah's continued closure by Israel in defiance of the ceasefire agreement will delay handing over of the captives remains.
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Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem says the group has no intention of directly taking up an administrative role in governing Gaza.
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UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher inspected a wastewater treatment plant in northern Gaza City that stopped operating as a result of the genocide.
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US envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff expressed that Donald Trump felt "Israelis were getting a little bit out of control" after their assasination attempt on Hamas leadership in Qatar.
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Organisers of the Jewish International Film Festival say they have been forced to postpone the event after every cinema in the Swedish city of Malmo declined to screen its films, citing security concerns.
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The Israeli army says the International Committee of the Red Cross has taken custody of two coffins containing the bodies of Israeli captives in Gaza and is now transporting them to Israeli forces for the handover.