Evening recap

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Here are the day's key developments:

• The death toll from Israel's genocidal war on Gaza has risen to 71,266, the Palestinian health ministry reported on Saturday.

• In the past 48 hours, four people were killed by Israeli fire, while the bodies of 25 others were recovered and taken to hospitals.

• Since the ceasefire in October, at least 414 people have been killed by Israeli fire, the ministry added.

• The director of the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza reported that there was a 40-percent drop in births in the strip and a sharp rise in miscarriages compared with last year, blaming malnutrition and restricted medical supplies.

• The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said on Saturday that Israeli attacks on Palestinian journalists have expanded beyond killings, injuries, arrests and restrictions on coverage to include the systematic targeting of their families.

• The findings, based on documentation by the syndicate’s Freedoms Committee, show that attacks on journalists’ families have become a repeated and organised pattern across 2023, 2024 and 2025.

• The committee recorded the deaths of about 706 relatives of journalists in the Gaza Strip during that period, stressing that the scale and consistency of the attacks indicate they are not the result of random wartime conditions.

• Municipalities in northern Gaza say Israeli forces have turned the area into a disaster zone by continuing to block the entry of water, fuel, spare parts and reconstruction materials, deepening the collapse of basic services and the humanitarian crisis.

• France has condemned Israeli gunfire in southern Lebanon that slightly injured a United Nations peacekeeper, describing it as part of a pattern of recent incidents targeting UN forces.