Morning papers counted Gaza dead rising through the day from three to four, then six and seven in shelling and gunfire in Khan Younis and Gaza City, pushing the total past 73,000, with Israel claiming the killing of a Hamas finance official in Khan Younis.
By midday attention turned to post-war arrangements, with the Peace Council expected to unveil a $2.45 billion recovery plan, Mladenov outlining a UN plan tying reconstruction to disarmament, and the commander of the planned international stabilization force announcing preparations for multinational deployment.
In the afternoon the lead moved to the West Bank, where a Palestinian was shot dead after a ramming at Beit Ur west of Ramallah that seriously wounded an Israeli later identified as the son of Israel's ambassador to Washington, against a backdrop of settler attacks and olive-harvest restrictions.