Evening recap

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

Here are some of the day's key developments:

- Israeli army says two Hezbollah operatives killed in southern Lebanon, and Hezbollah confirms and names the fighters as Muhammad Hassan Farhat and Ali Mustafa Amr.

- Turkey has issued an advisory warning against travelling to Lebanon, and has advised all its citizens there to leave amid rising tensions in the region.

- Iran’s President Pezeshkian says the assassination of  Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh was “the big mistake" of the Israelis, which will not go unanswered.

- Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi concluded a rare visit to Iran to “deliver a message from His Majesty King Abdullah II to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on the situation in the region and bilateral relations”.

- The Israeli Channel 12 reported that prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided not to seek normalisation with Saudi Arabia before the upcoming US presidential elections in November.

- Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan described Israel’s blockage of humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza enclave as crimes against humanity and the “first phase of the genocide,” during his visit to the Egyptian al-Arish port and the Egyptian Rafah border with Gaza.

- The Palestinian Civil Defence has reported recovering at least 30 bodies from al-Nasr and Hassan Salama schools following Israeli strikes.

- The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Tel Aviv is experiencing heavy disruptions to GPS apps, likely as part of Israel's preparation for a potential attack from Iran.

-An Israeli military court has extended the detentions of five reserve soldiers suspected of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee, according to the Times of Israel.