By Lyndal Rowlands and Alastair McCready

      UN’s Antonio Guterres has told the UN Security Council: “Nothing can justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people”.

      Medical sources have told Al Jazeera that “at least 40” Palestinians were killed in Khan Younis over the day while Israeli bombings are preventing the recovery of “dozens” more bodies.

      The Israeli military has ordered almost 90,000 residents and 425,000 displaced people to leave a 4sq km (1.4sq miles) residential area in Khan Younis, UNOCHA says.

      Israel’s military announced its deadliest single day for troops since the Gaza ground invasion began, with 24 Israeli soldiers killed.

      At least 25,490 people have been killed and 63,000 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The revised death toll in Israel from the October 7 Hamas attacks stands at 1,139.

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    It’s just after 7am (05:00 GMT) in the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel.

    Here are the main developments overnight:

      Israeli forces have ordered over 500,000 people to leave Khan Younis in southern Gaza, says UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

      The Council on American-Islamic Relations condemns Israeli “murder” of Palestinian with a group waving a white flag in Gaza’s Khan Younis.

      UK foreign secretary David Cameron will “progress sustainable Gaza ceasefire”, Foreign Office says as he departs for Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Qatar and Turkey.

      “We remain clear about not encroaching on [Gaza’s] territory,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says as the Israeli military says it is attempting to create a new “buffer zone”.

    NZ’s maritime union opposes country’s involvement in Red Sea

    The Maritime Union of New Zealand has issued a statement opposing New Zealand’s military involvement in the Red Sea, on the grounds of maritime security.

    “The Red Sea maritime conflict [has] one solution,” said Maritime Union of New Zealand National Secretary Craig Harrison, “an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and negotiation of a political solution for Palestine”.

    New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon yesterday said sending six troops to the Red Sea was “a continuation of New Zealand’s long history of defending freedom of navigation both in the Middle East and closer to home”.

    But Harrison said the government should look “a bit closer to home”, naming other issues of more concern to New Zealand seafarers.

    “Military involvement by the United States and a small group of Western countries in the Red Sea area could result in more violence and instability”, he said.

    While his union was “extremely concerned about the danger all seafarers are facing in the Red Sea” Harrison said that, pending a ceasefire in Gaza, “avoiding the area” was “the only option”.