EU leaders agreed at a summit on Thursday to call for the establishment of "humanitarian corridors and pauses" to get urgently-needed aid into Gaza. The news came after Hamas on Thursday released a list of almost 7,000 names of Gazans it said had been killed in Israeli strikes after the US president cast doubt on its toll figures. Read our blog to see how the day's events unfolded. All times are Paris time (GMT+2).
- The Israeli army said it sent tanks, troops and armoured bulldozers into the Gaza Strip in a "targeted raid" overnight that destroyed multiple sites before withdrawing from the Hamas-controlled territory.
- Lebanese state media said Israel conducted air strikes and drone attacks early Thursday in southern Lebanon, near the tense Israel-Lebanon border where Israeli forces and Lebanese Hezbollah militants have exchanged fire over the past two weeks.
- EU leaders agreed at a summit on Thursday to call for the establishment of "humanitarian corridors and pauses" to get urgently-needed aid into Gaza.
- Hamas on Thursday released a list of almost 7,000 names of Gazans it said had been killed in Israeli strikes after US President Joe Biden cast doubt on its toll figures.
- The death toll in Gaza rose to at least 7,028, including 2,913 children, the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said Thursday. The Israeli military updated the number of people confirmed taken hostage by Hamas on October 7 to 224. The official number of people killed in the Hamas attack has not been revised since Saturday; it remains at 1,400.
