Evening recap

Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day’s key developments: 

• At least 57 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza, where seven more hospitals and health facilities were forced shut in recent days because of heavy bombardment. 

• US President Donald Trump said that he will not allow Israel to annex the occupied West Bank.

• Hamas said that its “weapons cannot be touched” and that resistance was a national and moral responsibility that derives its legitimacy from the Palestinian people.

• The Israeli military said that it had detected a missile launched from Yemen, which it said was intercepted.

• 178 House Democrats, including all those in leadership positions, signed a letter warning the Israeli government against annexing Palestinian territory in the occupied West Bank or Gaza. 

• At least eight people were killed and 142 others wounded in an attack by Israel on Yemen, officials of the Houthi movement said. 

• Spain cancelled a major defence deal with Israel for supplying advanced aerial technology for its Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets.

• Microsoft cut off the Israeli military’s Unit 8200’s access to some technology over reports that it was storing mass surveillance data of Palestinians in its Azure cloud platform.

• Physicians for Human Rights Israel said that Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, who has been detained by Israel for nine months without judicial process, has been subjected to violence.