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

9 October 2024 00:00 BST

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 56 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on the enclave in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 41,965 killed since 7 October, 2023

  • Additionally, 97,590 people have been wounded since the start of the war

  • In September, at least 1,473 people died in Lebanon due to intensified Israeli attacks, according to updated figures from the Lebanese health ministry

  • By 8 October 2024, the death toll had risen to 2,083, including 127 children and 261 women, while 9,869 people had been wounded. These casualties are the result of a year of cross-border exchanges between Israel and Hezbollah

  • The Israeli army fired at least two air strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs on midday on Tuesday, which nearly hit a bridge that leads to Beirut's airport

  • The management of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza reports that Israeli forces have issued a forced removal order of patients and the wounded, demanding everyone be cleared out within 24 hours.

  • Matthew Hollingworth, Lebanon country director for the UN World Food Programme, warned on Tuesday that Lebanon could face the same devastation as Gaza if the conflict is not stopped

  • A World Health Organisation official warned on Tuesday of disease outbreaks in Lebanon due to crowded conditions in displacement shelters and hospital closures as medics have fled Israel's assault

  • CNN reported that US President Joe Biden expressed growing frustration with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as revealed in a new book by veteran journalist Bob Woodward

  • The Washington Post also revealed more details about the growing rift between US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, citing quotes from Woodward's latest book

  • UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres described the ongoing situation in Gaza as a "nightmare" during a recent address to the United Nations, with the war on the besieged enclave entering its second year