Evening recap

Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day’s key developments:

- Two Palestinian boys have been shot dead by Israeli forces in Beit Amr, north of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank. Local media have identified them as Mohammed Abu Ayyash and Bilal Baha’a Bouran.

- Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque near the occupied West Bank city of Salfit on Thursday, in the latest attack amid a wave of escalating violence against Palestinians.

- The Israeli army carried out a drone strike targeting a minivan in Toul, a village in the Nabatieh district in Lebanon, wounding one person and leaving unexploded ordnance around the area. Overnight, Israeli forces struck a restaurant in the town of Tayr Filsey in the Sour district, along the Litani River.

- Israel has confirmed receipt of a casket from Gaza that belongs to a deceased Israeli captive. The casket was delivered by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that although he appreciated US President Donald Trump’s letter to President Isaac Herzog urging a pardon, he would not accept it if it required admitting guilt in the corruption case against him.