Live blog update| Israel's war on Gaza
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Evening recap

16 July 2024 23:51 BST

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

Here are some of the day's key developments:

  • At least 38,713 Palestinians have been killed and 89,166 wounded in Israel's military offensive on Gaza since 7 October, the Palestinian health ministry said in a statement on Tuesday

  • Muhammad Abdullah Mishmish, the programme director at Sawt al-Awsa Radio, has been reported dead by Gaza’s Government Media Office, as Israel's onslaught on the besiged Strip continues. Mishmish is now the 160th journalist to have lost their life in Israel's war on Gaza

  • The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa) said at least 539 displaced Palestinians have been killed in its facilities in Gaza since 7 October

  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a halt to the recording of security consultations and cabinet discussions held in the underground operations centre of military headquarters, according to Haaretz 

  • Three far-right groups that have been preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza have raised over $200,000 in donations from Israel and the US, the AP and Israeli investigative site Shomrim have found in an examination of crowdfunding websites and other public records

  • China on Tuesday expressed willingness to facilitate "reconciliation" between rival Palestinian factions, after Fatah said its officials would meet in Beijing this month with Hamas counterparts

  • US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has told two top Israeli officials of the "unacceptably high" civilian casualties in Israel's bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip, his spokesman said

  • At least 23 Palestinians were killed and 73 were wounded in an Israeli air strike on a school in central Gaza on Tuesday, the Palestinian health ministry said