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The army said it was a precision strike against Hamas, but local officials said women and children were among the dead.

In a newly published interview, the president also said it was "uncertain" whether Israel had committed war crimes.

The proposed deal would bring an end to the devastating war that has ground on for months, Biden said.

It's unclear exactly what the image is. A series of tents? Truck beds against a rust orange background? Multi-coloured rectangles?

He also reiterated China's call for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state,

Children dig through rubbish and wrecked buildings for wood or cardboard for their mothers to burn for cooking.

Algeria is circulating a proposed UN Security Council resolution that would demand an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and order Israel to halt its military offensive in the southern city of Rafah immediately.

The repairs will take 'at least over a week' and then the pier will need to be anchored back into the beach in Gaza.

Her demand comes after a strike in a tent camp killed dozens of people, including many women and children.

Israel launched its war in Gaza after Hamas' Oct. 7 attack in which militants stormed into southern Israel, killed some 1200 people — mostly civilians — and abducted about 250.

Israeli shelling and airstrikes pummelled the same area where strikes triggered a deadly fire days earlier in a camp for displaced Palestinians.

Tel Aviv slammed the diplomatic move that will have no immediate impact on its grinding war in Gaza.

The Israeli prime minister has acknowledged a “tragic mistake” had been made after an Israeli strike in the Gaza city of Rafah set fire to a tent camp and killed at least 45 people.

Police are yet to make any arrests over the matter, and have called for public assistance as their investigation continues.

Rocket sirens have sounded across central Israel, including in Tel Aviv, for the first time in months, as Hamas claimed to have fired a barrage of rockets from Gaza.

While Israel is unlikely to comply with any such order, it will ratchet up the pressure on the increasingly isolated country.

The bodies of three more hostages killed on October 7 have been recovered from Gaza, Israel's army said, as the top United Nations court prepares to rule on whether Israel must halt its military operations and withdraw from the enclave.

American comedian Dave Chappelle said a "genocide" is striking the Gaza Strip amid the Israel-Hamas war to cheers during his performance in the United Arab Emirates.

A group representing the families of hostages held in Gaza has released new video footage showing Hamas' capture of five female Israeli soldiers near the Gaza border on October 7.

The Israeli government has reversed course hours after it blocked the AP's live video of Gaza and faced mounting criticism for interfering with independent journalism.

The ICC is seeking arrest warrants for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Pro-Palestine students occupying a Melbourne University building have been ordered to pack up and leave or face possible expulsion, while Queenslanders have been arrested.

Israel's latest actions in Rafah have prompted fresh legal action amid genocide accusations in the UN's highest court.

Pro-Palestinian protestors at UQ have occupied a campus building as the wave of university protests continues around the country.

More than half a million Palestinians have been displaced in recent days by escalating Israeli military operations in southern and northern Gaza, the United Nations says.

Dozens of students filed from the crowd of graduates, including some carrying a Palestinian flag.

Ruby Chen’s son, Itay, was killed in the Hamas attack on October 7.

Israeli forces were battling Palestinian militants across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, including in parts of the devastated north that the military said it had cleared months ago, where Hamas has exploited a security vacuum to regroup.

The vote, which passed 143-9 with 25 abstentions, also called on the UN's Security Council to "favourably reconsider" Palestine's request to become the 194th member of the international body.

Heavy fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants on the outskirts of Rafah has left crucial nearby aid crossings inaccessible and forced more than 110,000 people to flee north, UN officials said.

The United States warned on Thursday that Israel will be dealing a strategic victory to Hamas if it carries out plans for an all-out assault on Rafah, the militants' last major stronghold in Gaza.

US President Joe Biden has said he won't supply offensive weapons that Israel could use to launch an all-out assault on Rafah – the last major Hamas stronghold in Gaza – over concern for the well-being of the more than 1 million civilians sheltering there.

The UN say no humanitarian aid has yet entered and there is no one to receive it on the Palestinian side after workers fled during Israel's military incursion in the area.

Israel said the peace deal did not meet its "core demands", but a glimmer of hope remains of at least a pause in the fighting.

With the eyes of the world turning to the Met Gala, anti-war protestors took the opportunity to march on the venue calling for an end to the Gaza conflict.

Multiple protesters were reportedly cuffed by police, who rigged steel barricades around the A-list event.

Israeli leaders have approved a military operation into the Gaza Strip city of Rafah, just hours after Hamas said it had accepted a ceasefire plan.

It's believed to be the first time Israel has ever shuttered a foreign news outlet, although its government has taken action against individual reporters in the past.

A delegation of the Palestinian militant group Hamas was in Cairo on Saturday as Egyptian state media reported “noticeable progress” in ongoing cease-fire talks

Dror Or, a 49-year-old held captive in Gaza, has died, the Hostages Families Forum said on Friday.

The cease-fire efforts appear to have reached a critical stage, with mediators reporting signs of compromise.

Tensions have been building for days as demonstrators refuse to remove campus encampments and administrators turn to police to clear them by force.

Violence between rival groups, as well as clashes with police, have led to turmoil around the US.

Israel's foreign minister slammed the 'hate-filled, antisemitic' decision, yet said relations between the two nations would remain warm.

Duelling groups of protesters clashed on Wednesday at the University of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and using sticks to beat one another.

Police officers carrying zip ties and riot shields stormed a Columbia University building being occupied by pro-Palestinian protesters.

Netanyahu said Israel would enter Rafah to destroy Hamas' battalions there regardless of whether a truce-for-hostages deal was struck or not.

Antony Blinken said Hamas had been presented with an "extraordinarily generous" offer by Israel that he hoped the group would accept.

Details of the deaths emerged as a multi-billion dollar military aid package for Israel was approved by the US House of Representatives.

Israel's war against the Islamic militant group Hamas has led to a dramatic escalation of tensions in the Middle East.