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

26 July 2024 23:34 BST

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

Here are some of the day's key developments:

  • Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least ten Palestinians on Friday evening, according to the Civil Defence

  • Over 180,000 Palestinians have fled Israeli bombardments around Khan Younis in southern Gaza within the past four days, according to the United Nations

  • In its most recent update on the Gaza situation, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees reported that 199 Unrwa staff members have been killed since the war started in October

  • "Come on in, come on in," former US President Donald Trump said to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida earlier on Friday

  • Former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump criticised US Vice President Kamala Harris’s recent comments about the Gaza war, calling them “disrespectful” to Israel, during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Florida

  • Israel is seeking changes to a plan for a Gaza truce and the release of hostages by Hamas, complicating a final deal to halt nine months of combat that have devastated the enclave, according to a Western official, Palestinian and two Egyptian sources told Reuters

  • British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will drop the UK's objection to an arrest warrant being issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying it was a matter for the court

  • The World Health Organisation (WHO) is sending more than one million polio vaccines to Gaza to be administered over the coming weeks to prevent children being infected after the virus was detected in sewage samples, its chief said

  • Israeli forces attacked worshippers attending Friday prayers in East Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque, injuring one man, the Wafa news agency reported

  • Peace Now, an Israeli group advocating for a two-state solution and the end of Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands, reported that Israel has set up at least 25 outposts, "most of them agricultural outposts", in the occupied West Bank since the war in Gaza began

  • The United Nations world heritage organisation, Unesco, has added Saint Hilarion monastery, one of the oldest monasteries in the Middle East, located at the site of Tell Umm Amer in Gaza, to its List of World Heritage in Danger amid the ongoing war in Gaza

  • Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has accused US Vice President Kamala Harris of favouring a Gaza ceasefire deal that would see Israel "surrendering" to Hamas

  • Quoting an Israeli official, the Times of Israel reports that the US is no longer considering sanctioning Israel's far-right ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir.