Evening recap

Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

• The Israeli military killed three Palestinians in the Shujaiya neighbourhood east of Gaza City on Sunday morning, according to local medical sources.

• Israel's security cabinet has approved a new proposal by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Defence Minister Israel Katz to recognise 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank. 

• Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has proposed creating a “detention facility surrounded by crocodiles” to hold Palestinian prisoners, Israeli media reported on Sunday.

• Israeli strikes in south Lebanon on Sunday killed one person and wounded another, the Lebanese health ministry said, as Israel's military claimed it targeted Hezbollah members.

• WHO chief said 100,000 children in Gaza are projected to suffer acute malnutrition through April.

• The Israeli Supreme Court has decided to set 4 January as the final deadline for Israel to respond to a petition by the Foreign Press Association for media access to Gaza.

• Israeli forces arrested five Palestinians, injured multiple others across the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reported.