Evening recap

Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

- The Red Cross has handed over the bodies of two Israeli captives to the Israeli army and Shin Bet, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office has confirmed.

- A Red Cross spokesperson said that Israel must allow access to all Palestinian prisoners in its custody, Al Jazeera reported. Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz has officially barred the International Committee of the Red Cross from visiting Palestinians held under Israel’s so-called “unlawful combatants” law, a legal category that does not exist under international law

- The Washington Post on Thursday said it has obtained a classified US government report that points to "many hundreds" of Israeli human rights violations in Gaza, but that the backlog of these incidents is so great that it would take the State Department “multiple years” to review each one.

- A French team of military and civilian personnel has been sent to Israel to help plan Gaza's post-ceasefire phase, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot has announced.

- Israeli forces have shot dead a 14-year-old Palestinian boy in the town of Silwad in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, local reports said. The victim has been identified as Yamen Samed Hammad. 

- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticised Germany over what he said was its ignorance of Israel's genocide, famine and attacks in Gaza, at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Ankara.

- The Lebanese health ministry said on Thursday that three people have been wounded after Israeli air strikes targeted Shaba'a in southern Lebanon. Just hours prior, a municipal worker was shot to death by Israeli soldiers who stormed a local government building in Blida.