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

23 July 2024 23:52 BST

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

Here are some of the day's key developments:

  • More than 39,090 people have been killed and 90,147 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, the enclave's health ministry says

  • Nine Palestinians, including four children, have been killed in the Israeli incursion on Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza

  • The Gaza government's media office has said that over 16,000 children have been killed in Israel's war on the encalve, while 10,000 others remain missing

  • Several Palestinian factions, including Hamas and rival Fatah, have signed the Beijing Declaration in China on Tuesday, essentially agreeing to end their divisions and strengthen Palestinian unity, according to Chinese state media

  • The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday there was a high risk of the polio virus spreading across Gaza and beyond its borders due to the dire health and sanitation situation in the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave

  • Quoting two Israeli officials, Axios says that the US, Israel and the UAE held a secret meeting in Abu Dhabi last Thursday to discuss day-after plans for Gaza

  • Israeli Education Minister Yoav Kisch told the heads of local authorities that students from northern kibbutzim will not be able to return to their schools in September and will remain in schools in other areas of Israel

  • The Israeli government allocated millions of dollars in 2023 to securing illegal West Bank settler outposts, the anti-settlement watchdog Peace Now has revealed

  • Amnesty International said the US is “on notice of the Israeli government's unlawful use of US-origin weapons, including in war crimes, and will be complicit in further violations committed with these weapons”

  • Palestinian-American Representative Rashida Tlaib called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's upcoming speech to Congress "a celebration of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians"