Evening recap

Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day’s key developments:

– Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is leaning toward seizing the entirety of Gaza, Israel’s Channel 12 cited an official from his office as saying on Monday. Netanyahu will be convening his cabinet on Tuesday to make a decision on the matter.

– More than 54 percent of Gaza’s 60,199 dead are children, women or elderly, the Gaza Media Office revealed.

– At least 18 former leaders of Israel’s intelligence and security apparatus, including ex-chiefs of Mossad, Shin Bet, the military and police, have jointly urged the government to halt its war on Gaza.

– The Addameer Foundation, a Palestinian NGO, says at least 54 Palestinians are unaccounted for near aid control centres operated by the so called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a US-Israeli backed group that has been condemned for killing Palestinians seeking aid.

– The family of a 10-year-old boy nicknamed Amir who was killed whilst trying to receive aid at a GHF site have yet to receive his body, more than two months after he went missing and a week after a US whistleblower said he saw Israeli forces shoot him dead.

– US Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna’s effort to gather support for recognising a Palestinian state is now being supported by 13 House Democrats.

– US states and cities that boycott Israeli companies will be denied federal aid for natural disaster preparedness, the Trump administration announced.