Evening recap

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

Here are some of the day's key developments:

• The Israeli army issued new evacuation orders for displaced Palestinians north of Khan Younis and east of Deir al-Balah and has once again reduced the size of the so-called "humanitarian zone"

• In its latest update on Gaza, the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that over 170,000 Palestinians living in sites, shelters and centres for displaced people have been impacted by an evacuation order issued by Israel earlier today

• Washington has condemned armed Israeli settler attacks on the occupied West Bank town of Jit overnight, which killed at least one Palestinian

• Unicef and the WHO are calling for a humanitarian pause for seven days in Gaza to launch two rounds of a polio vaccination campaign at the end of August in the beseiged strip

• The Palestinian health ministry said in a statement on Friday that it has detected the first confirmed case of polio in the Gaza Strip in the city of Deir al-Balah, a 10-month-old baby who had not received any polio vaccination dose

• United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday urged parties in the Gaza conflict to provide concrete assurances for humanitarian pauses to allow a polio vaccination campaign, reported Reuters

• Ravina Shamdasani, the spokesperson for the UN rights office, condemned the attack in Jit, an occupied West Bank village, calling it "horrific"

• The Israeli Haaretz newspaper, citing a senior security official, reports that the investigation into the settlers' attack on the village of Jit in the occupied West Bank revealed that soldiers arrived shortly after the incident but did not arrest the perpetrators