The White House has not received Hamas' response to the peace plan they put out on Monday, press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Thursday. They still “expect” Hamas to accept the plan, Leavitt said. “The President made it very clear he wants to hear back from them very soon,” Leavitt said.

Several vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla, a humanitarian convoy sailing towards Gaza, have been intercepted and boarded by Israeli forces during the night as they attempted to push through the nav...

The death toll in Gaza has risen, with Israeli bombardment killing at least 73 people since dawn, most of them in Gaza City, medical sources told Al Jazeera.

“This is the last opportunity for Gaza residents who wish to do so to move south,” Defense Minister Israel Katz wrote on X.

“All this brings no benefit to the Palestinian people,” she told reporters Thursday. “On the other hand, I understand that it will bring a lot of problems to Italian citizens.”

Egypt has said it is working to convince Hamas to accept Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza.

Local health authorities said that at least 17 people across Gaza had been killed by the military on Wednesday, most of them in Gaza City.