Evening Recap

Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day’s key developments:

- The US gathered intelligence last year about Israeli officials discussing how their soldiers had sent Palestinians into Gaza tunnels potentially lined with explosives, in order to use them as human shields, two former US officials familiar with the matter told Reuters.

- Israeli President Isaac Herzog received a letter from US President Donald Trump urging him to consider granting a pardon to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the president’s office said on Wednesday.

- The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) said that one month into the ceasefire, more than 16,500 people still require urgent specialised medical care outside Gaza.

- Israel has said it has opened the Zikim crossing into northern Gaza to allow the entry of humanitarian aid supplied by the United Nations and other international organisations.

- Israeli forces have sealed gates shut to a number of Palestinian homes near the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, the Wafa news agency reported, in a bid to halt movement and prevent families from leaving or returning to their homes