Evening recap

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Here are the day's key developments:

• The death toll in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the Israeli genocide in October 2023 has risen to 68,872, the Palestinian health ministry said on Tuesday. At least 170,677 others have been wounded.

• Unrwa on Tuesday said that around 75,000 displaced people are sheltering in more than 100 agency buildings in Gaza, most of which are damaged and overcrowded.

• Israeli warplanes on Tuesday bombed Khan Younis as its tanks targeted Gaza, Al-Aqsa Satellite Channel reported. The report said that Israeli forces opened fire on citizens' homes east of Gaza City.

• An Israeli panel approved a bill introducing the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners on Monday, paving the way for its first reading in parliament.⁠

• United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday called for linking Gaza and the West Bank, adding that any force deployed in Gaza must have a UN mandate.

• Israeli officials are reportedly working behind the scenes to rewrite parts of a UN Security Council draft that Washington plans to introduce, a resolution aimed at creating an international stabilisation force for Gaza.

• The World Food Programme (WFP) says it has delivered food parcels to one million people in Gaza, well short of its target of 1.6 million, three weeks after the ceasefire took effect.

• Only seven percent of displaced families in southern Gaza have managed to return home since the ceasefire began, while the vast majority remain trapped in overcrowded shelters.

• The head of the Gaza City Mental Health Hospital team, Abdallah al-Jamal, said on Tuesday that Gaza residents are suffering "a volcano" of psychological trauma from Israel's devastating military campaign, Reuters news agency reported. 

• The NGO Network in Gaza said on Tuesday that the enclave remains under famine conditions and the humanitarian aid that enters "barely covers 30% of the needs", Al Jazeera Arabic reported. 

• The Trump administration is pushing a draft UN Security Council resolution that would establish an International Stabilisation Force (ISF), which allows the US and partner countries to govern Gaza for up to two years, news organisation Axios reported. 

• Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said on Tuesday that Israeli troops are stationed inside Lebanese territory in five strategic locations, adding that Israel is preventing the full deployment of Lebanon's forces along the southern border. 

• Yemen’s Houthi leader, Abdel-Malik al-Houthi, has ordered his forces to prepare for an inevitable confrontation with Israel, accusing Israel of defying the ceasefire and continuing its massacres in Gaza.