Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza
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Evening recap

14 January 2025 23:45 GMT

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Here are the day's key developments:

- Medical sources in Gaza have told Aljazeera that 63 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air raids on multiple areas in Gaza since dawn on Tuesday. This raises the death toll in Gaza to well past 45,700. 

- The White House's readout of the Tuesday call between US President Joe Biden and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said the two leaders plan to "remain in close coordination directly and through their teams over the coming hours" toward a Gaza ceasefire, suggesting that an announcement may indeed be imminent. 

- A Hamas official said on Tuesday that the group had not yet issued a formal response to the ceasefire deal because Israel has not supplied the maps showing precisely where its troops will withdraw from in Gaza, the Reuters news agency reported. 

- Israeli news site Ynet reported on Tuesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told families of the Gaza captives that the incoming administration of US President-elect Donald Trump "will change the rules, and every violation will be met with a harsh response". 

- Speaking at The Atlantic Council in Washington in his final days as the US top diplomat, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Washington envisioned a reformed Palestinian Authority leading Gaza and inviting international partners to help establish and run an interim administration for the enclave. A security force would be formed from forces from partner nations and vetted Palestinian personnel, Blinken said during his speech, which was interrupted by a protester who accused him of supporting genocide by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza, which Israel denies.

- US Senator Peter Welch shared a letter on X on Tuesday, signed by eight other Democratic lawmakers from both chambers of Congress, demanding answers from the Biden administration on Israel's killing of Turkish-American activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi last year. "Detailed statements of international, Israeli, and Palestinian eyewitnesses, as well as a Washington Post inquiry that included interviewing 13 eyewitnesses and reviewing more than 50 videos and photographs, describe a significantly different sequence of events" than the Israelis, the letter said.

- The International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan has called on judges to reject Israeli objections to arrest warrants issued to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant over war crimes committed in Gaza. Khan submitted his formal response to an appeal by Israel over the Hague-based court's jurisdiction after judges issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant.