Evening recap

Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

• A senior Hamas official has said that a new round of negotiations on the Gaza ceasefire started in Doha on Tuesday, while an Israeli delegation has also arrived in the Qatari capital. The US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to join Egyptian and Qatari mediators,
• Israeli media said Israel aims to implement the plan proposed by  Witkoff and extend the ceasefire for 60 days,
• The Yemen’s Houthis said the group will restart their attacks immediately on any ship with links to Israel sailing through the Red Sea, after Israel had passed a deadline of four days set by the group calling for a lift of the Gaza aid blockade or resumption of naval attacks,
• Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said his country will never bring the war to an end unless Hamas is completely disarmed, describing Hamas’s military position in Gaza as “unacceptable”,
• The White House said the Trump administration will not tolerate individuals who are supporting “terrorists”, accusing Palestinian Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil, who was recently detained, of distributing pro-Hamas documents,
• Five Lebanese captives, who were been detained by Israel, have been released and arrived in their homeland on Tuesday, according to Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency,
• The United States announced it is mediating talks between Lebanon and Israel to resolve outstanding disputes, including the release of Lebanese detainees and land border disputes,
• Senior Labour MP Emily Thornberry has called upon British ministers to take action after Israeli deputy minister Sharren Haskel secretly filmed their private conversation without her "knowledge or consent", and shared it online,
• An Israeli air strike carried out in southern Lebanon has killed Hezbollah’s chief of its southern aerial defence unit, Hassan Abbas Izz al-Din.