Evening recap

Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

• Gaza's hospitals have received the bodies of 17 Palestinians in the last 72 hours, Wafa news agency is reporting, citing medical sources. It reported that two people had been killed in Israeli attacks, while rescue teams recovered 15 bodies from the rubble.

• This brings the overall number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since October 2023 to 69,483.

• Since the fragile ceasefire was implemented on 11 October 2025, 266 people have been killed in Israeli attacks, 635 wounded and 548 bodies recovered from the rubble.

• The World Health Organization has reported that over 900 patients in Gaza have died while waiting for medical evacuations, which have been stalled by Israeli restrictions.

• Gaza officials say Israel has torn through the so-called ceasefire with relentless attacks, killing hundreds of Palestinians in the month since the agreement was announced.

• Israeli forces have shot and killed a Palestinian teenager during an overnight raid on the Askar refugee camp east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

• The Israeli army said that its soldiers fired at UN Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) peacekeepers from a tank in southern Lebanon due to "poor weather conditions", which meant they mistook the observers for "suspects".

• Israel’s prime minister has doubled down on rejecting Palestinian statehood, moving to calm a revolt inside his own far-right coalition after Washington backed a UN draft that gestures, however cautiously, towards Palestinian independence.

• Palestinian officials have told Haaretz that senior figures in Saudi Arabia have quietly told the Palestinian leadership in recent days that Riyadh will not push ahead with any normalisation process with Israel as long as Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government remains in charge.