Evening recap

Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day’s key developments:

• Hamas condemned the Israeli military’s “systematic destruction” of Gaza City amid intensified assaults over the past week on the eastern and southern neighbourhoods of Gaza City, particularly Zeitoun.

• An 18-year-old Palestinian teenager was shot to death by Israeli forces in the al-Mughayyir village north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.

• The Palestinian health ministry said on Saturday that 61,897 people have been killed and 155,660 wounded since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza.

• A young Palestinian woman flown from Gaza to an Italian hospital in a severely emaciated state for treatment has died, the hospital said Saturday.

• France’s foreign ministry has called on Israel to drop a plan to build thousands of new illegal settlements in the West Bank, calling the project “a serious violation of international law”.

• The US State Department said on Saturday that it will halt all visitor visas for people from Gaza.

• Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, whose country currently holds the EU presidency, has said she is considering sanctions and other forms of pressure against Israel over its actions in Gaza and the West Bank.

• The death toll from Israeli-imposed starvation in the Gaza Strip has risen to 251, including 108 children, according to the Palestinian health officials.