10.29pm BST

We're going to wrap our coverage for the day, with key developments below:

• Gaza Ministry of Health says 296 have been killed in Gaza (including 71 children) and more than 2,200 wounded, as the second night of Israel's ground offensive begins. One Israeli soldier has been killed in the fighting

• UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will be heading to the Middle East on Saturday, "to help mediate the conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas," a UN official said at the emergency session on Gaza on Friday. US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power reiterated Obama's earlier plea for a return to the 2012 ceasefire

• UN aid agencies have have stepped up emergency aid to Gaza, where the ground assault has worsened preexisting water shortages and sewage contamination. This comes as UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said the number of displaced Gazans has almost doubled in the past 24 hours

• Hamas is facing increasing pressure to accept an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Abbas held talks with representatives of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad; he later flew to Istanbul to meet with Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

• Binyamin Netanyahu has told the Israeli army to prepare for the possibility of a significantly wider ground operation