Evening Recap

Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day’s key developments:

• Arab foreign ministers presented Egypt’s Gaza reconstruction plan, to US President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, as they agreed to resume consultations on the proposal with him in a meeting in Doha,
• US President Donald Trump said that “no one is expelling anyone from Palestinian territory”, backing off his threats in a previous proposal, where he suggested that Palestinians should be displaced to other states to “re-develop” the Strip. Hamas welcomed Trump’s statements,
• At least six Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli forces who have raided in the city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, according to al-Jazeera Arabic,
• A US judge ordered  that the detained Palestinian Columbia University graduate, Mahmoud Khalil, who was arrested on Saturday night for organising a pro-Palestine protest in campus, would be allowed to have private phone calls with his lawyers. Khalil’s wife issued a statement calling for the “immediate release” of her “kidnapped” husband, while hundreds of protesters demonstrated in front of a court in New York against his detention,
• Hamas has issued a statement saying the group was behind the “operation” in which an Israeli settler was slightly injured in an attack on the Ariel settlement, near the Salfit area, and comes as a response to Israel’s military escalation in the occupied West Bank.
• A Palestinian woman was injured by a sonic grenade, and several Palestinians have suffered from tear gas fired by Israeli forces as settlers raided Joseph’s Tomb, located east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to Wafa news agency. 
• British Prime Minister Keir Starmer denounced Israel’s continuous blockage of aid to Gaza; saying he is “appalled by Israel blocking aid when it is needed at greater volume and speed than it’s ever been needed”.