As it happened Hamas-Israel conflict: Israeli hostages in Gaza threatened as fighting continues; PM ‘remains concerned’ over Australians in Israel

And that is where we will end our live coverage.

Recapping events:

• Israel regained control of its southern border, three days after Hamas terrorists breached Israel’s defences murdering hundreds of citizens and taking dozens, including women, children and the elderly as captives

• Israel’s Air Force pounded what it said were Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, home to 2.3 million people, warning terrorists that they had nowhere to hide
• Hamas threatened to execute hostages for every civilian target that Israel bombed without warning

At least 2000 pro-Palestinian supporters marched through the streets of Melbourne’s CBD on Tuesday night under the watch of dozens of police, as several speakers called out what they termed “Western hypocrisy” over the treatment of Palestinian people by the state of Israel and Palestine’s right to defend itself by “any means necessary”.

The snap after-work rally, organised by the group ‘Free Palestine Melbourne’ attracted young and old - including school children in uniforms - and heard from a number of activists including Jewish woman Dr Jordy Silverstein from a group called ‘Loud Jew collective’.

“I’m the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors raised on stories of suffering genocide, trauma and loss and I refuse to be part of a culture and politics that says that it is okay to perpetrate these harms on another people,” she told the crowd.

Silverstein said that she and “many other Jews” supported the Palestinian people and were outraged by the lighting up of public landmarks like the National Gallery of Victoria

For those of you logging on to catch up with the day’s events, here is a brief recap of where things stand.

• Israel says it has regained control of the Gaza border and is planting mines in areas where Hamas militants toppled the barrier after another night of air raids on the Palestinian enclave in retaliation for the weekend assault.

• Israel has called up an unprecedented 300,000 reservists, is blockading Gaza and may be planning a ground assault. It has launched airstrikes on what it says are Hamas targets.

NSW Police Minister Yasmin Catley says she doesn’t want to see protests “from anyone” but won’t preempt a police decision about another planned pro-Palestinian rally in Sydney this weekend.

Catley defended a police decision to manage Monday night’s protest rather than try to shut it down, and refused to say whether permission should be granted for a second demonstration planned for Sunday afternoon.

“None of us want to see this,” she told 2GB radio.

“I don’t want to see protests on our street at all, from anybody. I don’t think anybody really does.