Here are Thursday’s updates from Israel, Gaza, the West Bank and the Middle East:

■ Israeli strikes have killed at least 24 Palestinians, including eight children, and wounded at least 38 in separate strikes across Gaza since Wednesday morning, medical officials said.

■ The Israeli military said that the strikes are a response to an Israeli officer being severely wounded in northern Gaza overnight into Wednesday, after armed gunmen opened fire on troops near the Yellow Line delimiting Israeli-controlled Gaza. It said strikes targeted senior Hamas and Islamic Jihad members.

■ About a hundred people are demonstrating in Tel Aviv in “solidarity with the girls and boys of Gaza,” holding photographs of children killed during the war or who have died of hypothermia in recent months, after the cease-fire took effect.

■ Plans are being finalized for direct talks between Iran and the United States in Oman on Friday, a Gulf official told Reuters, saying that talks in Turkey are no longer under consideration. Iran’s ‌semi-official ISNA news agency said earlier that Foreign Minister ‌Abbas Aragchi and U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff would take part in these discussions.

■ U.S. ‍Secretary of State Marco ‌Rubio said ⁠that the venue for ‌talks with Iran was still being ‍worked through, saying Iran’s government had previously agreed ‍to a format for ‌a meeting on Friday in Turkey but appeared to have changed its mind.

■ A senior Iranian official told Reuters that U.S. insistence on “discussing non-nuclear” issues could jeopardize the talks in Oman. The official added that Tehran is “fully ready” to hold talks with the United States, but only on the nuclear issue.

■ Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir said that the military must address nationalist crime committed by Israeli settlers in the West Bank, urging soldiers to “act and not stand idly by.”

■ Israel’s State Prosecutor’s Office charged 12 people, including IDF reservists, with smuggling goods worth millions into Gaza in an affair that led to the arrest of Shin Bet security service chief David Zini’s brother, Bezalel Zini.

■ The Israeli army said that it arrested two Palestinians overnight in a refugee camp near Ramallah in the West Bank.