Evening recap

Evening recap Our live blog will shortly be closing until Wednesday morning. Here are the day's key developments: At least 68,875 people have been killed and 170,679 wounded by Israeli attacks across Gaza since October 2023, the Palestinian health ministry said in a statement on social media on Wednesday. Israel has handed over the bodies of 15 Palestinians, the day after Hamas returned the body of an Israeli-American soldier, according to Al Jazeera, citing health officials at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. Gaza’s health ministry says the bodies handed over by Israel under the ceasefire deal were so badly mutilated they could barely be identified. Israeli forces and settlers carried out 2,350 attacks across the occupied West Bank last month, Wafa news agency reported, citing the Palestinian Authority’s Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission. The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) says its complaint accusing the European Investment Bank (EIB) of complicity in Israeli war crimes has moved to a formal assessment phase within the bank’s complaints mechanism. More than 26,000 people in the United Kingdom have signed a petition calling for the cancellation of Thursday’s football match between British club Aston Villa and Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv. Since the ceasefire took effect on 10 October, Israeli authorities have rejected 23 requests from nine aid agencies to bring in essential shelter materials, such as tents, sealing kits, and blankets, nearly 4,000 pallets in total, to displaced Palestinians in Gaza, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said. Over 9,250 Palestinian prisoners and detainees are being held in Israeli custody as of November, Palestinian prisoners' rights groups are reporting. The United States is set to circulate a draft resolution outlining President Donald Trump’s proposed Gaza peace plan to the ten elected members of the UN Security Council later today, Reuters reported, citing a US official.