Evening recap

Our liveblog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

- Arab leaders meeting in Cairo have adopted an Egyptian plan for the governance and reconstruction of Gaza to counter the widely condemned displacement proposal presented by US President Donald Trump. The proposal includes a $53bn reconstruction plan for Gaza, and involves the Palestinian Authority (PA) overseeing the process through a Gaza Administration Committee for the first six months, followed by the PA's full return to Gaza.

- Hamas has made it clear that it will not participate in any administrative structure governing post-war Gaza unless it is built on national consensus. Any future governance must be shaped by Palestinians alone, the group said, rejecting outside interference.

- After Israel's foreign minister insisted on the total demilitarisation of Gaza before moving to the second phase of the ceasefire deal, Hamas leader Sami Abu Zuhri dismissed the demand as unacceptable. "Any talk about the resistance’s weapons is nonsense. The resistance’s weapons are a red line for Hamas and all resistance factions," Abu Zuhri told AFP news agency.

- Syria's Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Tuesday made his first public statements on the Palestinian cause, saying the displacement of Palestinians from Gaza would be a "test of Arab unity," and "a stain on humanity."

- Israeli forces say they killed a Hamas commander, Aysar al-Saadi, in the West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday, as they pushed ahead with a weeks-long operation against groups in the area that has sent tens of thousands of Palestinians fleeing their homes, the Reuters news agency reported.

- A long-awaited investigation by Israel's internal law enforcement agency, the Shin Bet, found on Tuesday that both political and intelligence failures led to the Hamas attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, including a lack of coordination between the Israeli military and the Shin Bet itself, Haaretz reported. The Shin Bet largely blames the attacks on the government's policy of maintaining "quiet" in Gaza, as well as what it describes as the transfer of Qatari funds to Hamas's military wing, the Qassam Brigades, in order to build up its ranks.

- The US State Department said on Tuesday that it was re-designating Yemen's Houthis, known formally as Ansar Allah, as a "foreign terrorist organisation".

- US President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to slash the federal funding of colleges that allow what he called "illegal protests" - a reference to the pro-Palestine university encampments and similar movements that swept across the US last year.