Live blog update| Israel's war on Gaza
This is an entry from: Gaza live: Concerns about all-out regional war rise following Golan Heights deadly attack

Evening recap

22 July 2024 23:53 BST

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

Here are some of the day's key developments:

  • At least 39,006 people have been killed and 89,818 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, the enclave's health ministry says

  • The Gaza health ministry reports that at least 70 bodies have arrived at the Nasser medical complex since this morning after Israeli forces resumed their attacks on Khan Younis

  • Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (Unrwa), said that Israeli forces shot at a UN convoy heading towards Gaza City on Sunday

  • Lazzarini posted photos on X showing the aftermath of a visit to the agency's headquarters in Gaza City. A week ago, Unrwa announced that its headquarters had been "flattened and turned into a battlefield"

  • The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) said that "one Palestinian child was killed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, every two days since October 2023"

  • Israel's parliament has passed three bills, in their first readings, to close the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) and designate it a "terrorist organisation"

  • The UN's Palestinian refugee agency (Unwra) stated on X that Israel's new evacuation orders, issued earlier today, will cause "more suffering and displacement" for the already exhausted population of the Gaza Strip

  • The Israeli army struck a tent sheltering journalists in Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, in central Gaza, killing one journalist and wounding several others

  • The Israeli army has admitted that a Palestinian man with Down syndrome who died after being attacked and injured by an army dog was abandoned by its soldiers

  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has requested an in-person meeting with former President Donald Trump during his visit to the US this week, according to a report from Politico on Monday, citing sources familiar with the matter

  • The Palestinian Olympic Committee has urged the exclusion of Israel from the games in an open letter to IOC President Thomas Bach