US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Hamas on Tuesday to accept a plan for an "immediate ceasefire" with Israel as mediators met for a third day in Cairo in efforts to end almost five months of fighting. As famine threatens Gazans – and the World Health Organization warned that child malnutrition in northern Gaza had become “particularly extreme” – US and Jordanian planes again airdropped food aid into the besieged territory of 2.4 million people in a joint operation with Egypt and France. Read our liveblog to see how all the day's events unfolded.
