Evening recap

Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day’s key developments:

• The London Metropolitan Police used batons to disperse peaceful protestors and arrested dozens of demonstrators calling on the UK government to reverse its decision to designate Palestine Action as a terrorist group. 

• “The Voice of Hind Rajab” won the Silver Lion grand jury prize at the Venice Film Festival.  

• Save the Children says that on average at least one Palestinian child has been killed every hour in Gaza during nearly 23 months of war.

• At least 67 people have been killed by Israel since the early hours of this morning, according to Al Jazeera, citing sources at local hospitals.

• One of defence company Elbit Systems’ plants in the UK city of Bristol has reportedly been closed in the wake of a Palestine Action campaign, according to The Guardian.

• Six Palestinians, including a child, died in the past 24 hours from starvation and malnutrition in the Gaza Strip, Wafa news agency reported, citing medical sources.

• The United States has placed three leading Palestinian rights organisations – Al-Haq, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), and Al Mezan – on its sanctions list. 

• The Israeli military has destroyed more than seventy percent of the buildings in Gaza City, according to Al Jazeera, citing local reports.