Evening recap

As Israel's campaign in southern Gaza has seen intense shelling in Khan Younis and Rafah, despite Israel shifting to a lower intensity phase of the war, the besieged enclave remains in an internet blackout that has not reached a week.

Outside of Gaza, the situation in the Red Sea is only getting worse. Houthi attacks on US ships are continuing, with the group saying they had a direct hit on an American vessel today.

US President Joe Biden was asked about whether Washington's strategy of conducting air strikes in Yemen was working. He responded: "Well when you say working, are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they going to continue? Yes."

Here is what else you need to know today:

• A more than two-day long Israeli raid on Tulkarm is continuing to go on, with the latest death toll now standing at eight since the raid began.

• A group of House Democrats have drafted a letter calling for the resignation of Brett McGurk, a senior Middle East Adviser at the White House, according to the Huffington Post.

• Stuart Seldowitz, the former Obama official who was arrested last year for aggravated harassment and stalking a halal food cart vendor in New York, has walked away with a deal that would drop the charges against him if he takes an anti-bias counselling programme.

• Mexico and Chile are referring Israel’s war in Gaza to the International Criminal Court and calling on the court to probe war crimes in the enclave.

• 800,000 Palestinians are food insecure and do not have clean water, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society.