Closing summary
We are now closing the live blog. Here is a round-up of today’s events.
Israel has said it will deliver its response to international mediators by Friday over a new Gaza ceasefire plan accepted by Hamas amid mounting pressure for a ceasefire in a war that has claimed more than 62,000 Palestinian lives.
Israel is demanding the release of all 50 hostages held in Gaza, Israeli public broadcaster Kan cited the prime minister’s office as saying on Tuesday.
Qatar has expressed guarded optimism for the new ceasefire proposal, noting it was ‘almost identical’ to an earlier version agreed to by Israel, reports AFP. foreign ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari said on Tuesday that Hamas had given a “very positive response”.
A ship loaded with 1,200 tons of food supplies for Gaza is approaching the Israeli port of Ashdod. It’s expected to dock on Tuesday as part of renewed efforts to alleviate the worsening humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian territory. Cypriot Foreign Ministry said Tuesday’s mission is led by the United Nations but is a coordinated effort — once offloaded at Ashdod, UN aid employees would arrange for the aid to be trucked to storage areas and food stations operated by the World Central Kitchen.
Israel is not letting enough supplies into the Gaza Strip to avert widespread starvation, the United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday, Reuters reports. “In the past few weeks, Israeli authorities have only allowed aid to enter in quantities that remain far below what would be required to avert widespread starvation,” UN human rights office spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan told a Geneva press briefing.
Gaza’s health ministry said that 62,064 Palestinians have been killed in the 22-month war in Gaza. Sixty Palestinians were killed and 343 others injured in the past 24 hours, it added, with two of the dead recovered. The ministry added that it recorded “three adult deaths due to starvation and malnutrition in the past 24 hours”, bringing the “total number of victims of famine and malnutrition” to 266, including 112 children.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticised his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese calling him a “weak politician” on Tuesday, amid an ongoing row between the two countries after Canberra declared it would recognise a Palestinian state.
The UN’s human rights office on Tuesday condemned a far-right Israeli minister for taunting a Palestinian prisoner in his cell and sharing the footage online, Reuters reports. National security minister Itamar Ben Gvir published a video on Friday last week showing him confronting Marwan Barghouti, the most high-profile Palestinian detainee in Israeli custody.
The UN security council has begun debating a resolution drafted by France to extend the UN peacekeeping force in south Lebanon for a year with the ultimate aim to withdraw it, AFP reports.
At least one humanitarian worker, on average, has been killed, injured, kidnapped, or detained every single day for the past 25 years and “65% of aid workers killed in 2025 were in Gaza”,Save the Children said to mark World Humanitarian Day.
Kate Forbes, president of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, called on “states, parties to conflict and global leaders to take immediate concrete steps to protect those who risk everything to save lives”. They called attacks on humanitarian personnel a “grave betrayal of humanity”.
To mark World Humanitarian Day, Kate Forbes, president of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, called on “states, parties to conflict and global leaders to take immediate concrete steps to protect those who risk everything to save lives”.
They said:
In 2025 alone, 18 staff and volunteers of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement were killed while carrying out their lifesaving work in Gaza, in Sudan, in South Sudan, in Iran, in Ethiopia and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Many others have been killed off duty – in their homes, with their families or simply going about daily life. Others have been injured, arbitrarily detained or kidnapped.
Deliberately targeting humanitarian organisations through false and harmful information adds to the threats faced by aid workers, notably by portraying them as legitimate targets.
They added:
The rules of war are clear: humanitarian personnel must be respected and protected. Every attack is a grave betrayal of humanity, and the rules designed to protect them and the communities they serve. Each killing sends a dangerous message that their lives were expendable. They were not.
We call on all states, parties to conflict and global leaders to take immediate concrete steps to protect those who risk everything to save lives. When humanitarian workers are protected, so is our shared humanity.
