Evening recap

Our live coverage from Gaza will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are some of the day's key developments:

• Gaza death toll rises to 38,193, additionally, 87,903 people have been wounded since the start of the war

• The Guardian reports that the new Labour government is expected to drop a challenge recently submitted to the International Criminal Court questioning the court's request for an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

• Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Monday that a ceasefire and a prisoner swap deal under discussion to end the war in Gaza would constitute a defeat for Israel and he wants no part of it

• Medical sources have told Al Jazeera that 436 cancer patients have died due to the siege on the Gaza Strip and the lack of treatment since the start of the war

• The head of Israel's biggest opposition party said on Monday he would lend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu his support in parliament to keep him in office if members of the ruling coalition quit over a ceasefire deal

• Hamas accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of obstructing ceasefire negotiations during ongoing discussions aimed at ending the conflict in Gaza

• France “strongly condemns” Israel’s recognition of five new settlements which would see thousands of new homes being built in the occupied West Bank. Israel also declared thousands of hectares of land in the Jordan Valley as state land

• Canada has called on Israel to reconsider its approval of new settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, arguing that the decision violates international law

• According to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa), at least 196 of its workers have been killed by Israel since the start of war