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Live blog update| Israel's war on Gaza

Evening Recap

Good evening Middle East Eye readers. 

Our live coverage will soon be closing for the day.

Here are the today's main developments: 

- Gaza's death toll has risen to 36,586

- Hundreds of Israelis have stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque ahead of the far-right annual "flag march" through occupied East Jerusalem

- Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said that negotiations with Hamas "will only be conducted under fire" 

- Oxfam has warned that there is roughly one toilet per 4,130 people in Gaza’s al-Mawasi evacuation zone

- Yemen's Houthis targeted three vessels in the Read Sea and Arabian Sea

- "Peace in the Middle East cannot be achieved without the creation of an independent state of Palestine", Putin said while speaking to international journalists 

- A Hezbollah drone attack on the Israeli town of Hurfeish, in the Western Galilee, injured at least 11 people