Evening recap

Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

• Gaza hospital officials say at least 91 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes since dawn. According to the sources, 76 of the victims were in Gaza City, where bombardment has been heaviest.

• Two new deaths have been recorded as a result of starvation and malnutrition in Gaza. This brings the total number of famine-related deaths to 442, including 147 children.

• Approximately 270,000 residents of Gaza City have been forced to leave their homes under the pressure of Israeli bombardment since the launch of a deadly operation in mid-August, the Gaza government media office reported. 

• Gaza’s Health Ministry has condemned Israel’s attempts to forcibly expel Palestinians from Gaza City, warning that hundreds of thousands remain trapped under siege.

• Israel destroyed 75 percent of central wells in the besieged enclave, the Gaza municipality spokesperson Asim al-Nabih told Al Jazeera.

• Children in Gaza are "bearing the heaviest burden", the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) said in a statement following the looting of four trucks on 18 September. 

• Lebanese media say one person has been killed in an Israeli air strike that targeted a car in the Khardali area. The country’s official National News Agency identified the victim as a resident of Kfar Kila, a municipality in southern Lebanon.

• Portugal will formally recognise a Palestinian state on Sunday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Friday. The declaration comes ahead of next week’s High-Level Conference.

• Qatar has conditioned its return to mediation on the hostage deal on receiving an Israeli apology for a deadly attack in Doha, according to two sources who spoke to Israeli journalist Barak Ravid.

• Germany’s culture minister has criticised threats by European countries to boycott next year’s Eurovision if Israel is allowed to take part, calling the move an attempt to politicise a cultural event.