Evening recap

Our live coverage from Gaza will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are some of the day's key developments:

• The number of Palestinians killed by Israel's war on Gaza has climbed to 38,098, the Palestinian health ministry said on Saturday

• The Gaza government's media office announced the killing of five Palestinian journalists in the past 24 hours

• Gaza's health ministry warned in a statement that the lack of fuel is still affected the work of the remaining functional hospitals in the besieged Palestinian enclave, particularly their use of generators, oxygen stations and refrigerators for storing medicines

• The AP reports that Hamas has given initial approval for a US-backed ceasefire deal in Gaza, dropping a key demand that Israel commits to a permanent ceasefire

• CIA Director William Burns is expected to meet with his counterparts from Israel, Egypt, and Qatar ahead of renewed talks on the release of captives and a ceasefire in Gaza

• Israel has made new demands that are likely to prolong ceasefire talks, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported, citing an unnamed foreign source

• The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, said that children in Gaza are spending six to eight hours a day searching for food and water, carrying heavy weights and walking long distance

• Sixteen Palestinians, primarily women and children, lost their lives when Israeli aircraft targeted a central Gaza school, where displaced individuals had sought refuge, as reported by the Palestinian news agency Wafa

• According to footage from a Yesh Din investigation, around 20 settlers threw stones at homes in the village of Madama, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, and set an olive trees on fire