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

3 August 2024 23:55 BST

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

Here are some of the day's key developments:

  • The Palestinian health ministry reported that Israeli attacks in Gaza have killed 39,550 Palestinians and injured 91,280 since the conflict began on 7 October 2023

  • Israeli raids on Hamama School in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City resulted in 17 fatalities and at least 70 people wounded

  • Israel announced on Saturday that it had killed a Hamas commander in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm, as the Israeli army continues its siege on the city

  • Iran has arrested dozens of people in the wake of the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in the capital, Tehran, earlier this week

  • Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed by a "short-range projectile" that was fired from outside his residence in Tehran

  • Holding Palestinian flags and placards, tens of thousands of people attended a pro-Palestine march in central London to oppose Britain's continued support for Israel's war on Gaza

  • On Friday, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, a leading contender to be Kamala Harris' running mate, attempted to downplay his involvement in a recently resurfaced college op-ed, in which he said he was a former Israeli army volunteer and suggested that Palestinians are too focused on conflict to pursue peace with Israel

  • The UK and Canadian governments have issued a warning for its citizens in Lebanon, advising them to leave the country immediately due to escalating tensions and the potential for a broader regional conflict between Israel and Hezbollah

  • The Israeli negotiating delegation has returned from Cairo following a disagreement with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over a potential ceasefire with Hamas, according to the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth

  • A senior official in the Biden administration told the Israeli daily Haaretz on Saturday that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is ungrateful toward the United States and overlooks the substantial aid it has provided to Israel over the past 10 months of conflict

  • Jewish settlers have set fire to agricultural land near the town of Surif and thrown rocks at the Palestinian village of Al-Mughayyir in the occupied West Bank, reported the Palestinian news agency Wafa

  • Israel's Channel 12 News reported on Saturday that during a conversation between President Joe Biden and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, Biden reportedly said, "Stop bullshitting me" after Netanyahu claimed that negotiations in Israel were "progressing" and that "a delegation will depart"

  • The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) said “thousands of breastfeeding and pregnant women in the Gaza Strip are facing hunger and malnutrition of their children"