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Live blog update| Israel's war on Gaza

Evening recap

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

Here are some of the day's key developments:

  • Gaza's health ministry said that 40,738 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks on the enclave since 7 October, 47 of them in the past 24 hours. Additionally, 94,154 were wounded since the start of the war.

  • Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid called on the head of Israel's labour federation Histadrut to announce a general strike in response to the death of six captives in the Gaza Strip

  • Israeli police are clashing with protesters on the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv as they try to clear the road, with some officers reportedly throwing stun grenades at demonstrators

  • Over 200 medical teams are dispatched in 28 UN-run health facilities to vaccinate children against polio in the Gaza Strip, the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, says

  • The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that over 72,000 children were vaccinated on the first day of the emergency polio vaccination campaign in the central governorate of the Strip

  • Three Israeli police officers were killed on Sunday morning near Hebron in the occupied West Bank by a former member of the Palestinian Authority (PA) Presidential Guard

  • According to the Israeli army, the suspect's vehicle followed the car carrying the three officers. After the shooting, the officers lost control of their vehicle, with one officer killed at the scene and two declared dead en route to the hospital

  • Former US President Donald Trump posted on social media on Sunday that the current crises over captives in Israel is "happening only because Comrade Kamala Harris is weak and ineffective and has no idea what she's doing"

  • Senior Hamas political leader Khalil al-Hiya told Al Jazeera that there will be no agreement on the release of captives or a ceasefire unless Israeli forces withdraw from the Gaza-Egyptian border and the so-called Netzarim corridors that bisects the Gaza Strip in two