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

18 July 2024 23:49 BST

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

Here are some of the day's key developments:

  • Israeli forces bombarded the Gaza Strip's historic refugee camps in central Gaza and struck Gaza City in the north on Thursday, killing at least 21 people

  • At least two people have been killed and eight wounded in an Israeli strike on an Unrwa school in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood, according to several reports

  • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a surprise visit to Israeli troops in the area around Rafah, in southern Gaza

  • A report by a Dutch activist group has found that Palestinians in Gaza are "drowning" in human waste, after the months-long Israeli assault on the strip has brought the waste collection system to collapse

  • The UN's agency for Palestinian refugees has said that only 10 out of 26 of its health facilities remain operational

  • Amnesty International has released a report documenting cases of torture of 27 Palestinian former detainees, including a 14-year-old boy

  • Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has approved the first raft of draft orders which will be issued on Sunday to around 1,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews, aged 18-26