Evening recap

Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

• The the death toll from Israel's genocide on Gaza since October 2023 has risen to 68,858 Palestinians, with a further 170,664 wounded, the Palestinian health ministry said.

• Gaza’s Government Media Office (GMO) says Israel continues to choke the flow of aid into the besieged enclave, accusing it of breaching the ceasefire agreement.

• Since the truce took effect on 10 October, an average of just 145 commercial and aid trucks have entered Gaza daily, only 24 percent of the 600 trucks agreed upon in the deal.

• Sani Ibrahim Azar, head of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, has condemned Israel for committing genocide in Gaza during a Reformation Day service at Jerusalem’s Church of the Redeemer.

• The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) has condemned an alarming surge in Israeli settler attacks targeting Palestinian olive farmers across the occupied West Bank.

• Hamas has reaffirmed its commitment to completing all remaining terms of the ceasefire agreement, the group said in a statement following a meeting between its Gaza leader Khalil al-Hayya and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in Istanbul.

• Israeli occupation soldiers in the West Bank prevented Palestinian farmers from harvesting their olive trees, before being filmed stealing olives from the same groves.

• Jordan and Germany said on Saturday that an international force touted to support a future Palestinian police in Gaza under US President Donald Trump's post-war governance plan should have a United Nations mandate.

• The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said it was ready to recover the bodies of captives within the Israeli-controlled "Yellow Line" zone in the Gaza Strip "simultaneously". 

• Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi has warned that Tehran “is ready for any scenario against Israel and prepared for any aggression on its part,” in comments to Al Jazeera.