Hamas official Izzat al-Rishq has said the group had accepted a mediator-backed ceasefire proposal in August—accusing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of blocking progress—in response to U.S. President Donald Trump 's demand it return all Israeli hostages.

Israel attacked what it said was a Hamas base hidden in a Gaza camp for displaced Palestinians, an incident likely to stoke international concern for civilians caught up in the almost year-long war.

Hamas says it is ready to accept a comprehensive Gaza ceasefire but Israel continues its offensive to seize Gaza City.

Health officials say Israel's growing offensive has killed at least 287 Gazans since international scholars, including Holocaust experts, called the war genocidal.

A senior European Union official said on Thursday that Israel's operations in Gaza constitute genocide, the first member of the bloc's commission to make that charge. "The genocide in Gaza exposes Europe's failure to act and speak with one voice,

A suspected attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels targeted a ship in the Red Sea on Thursday, officials said, as the militants increase their missile fire targeting Israel. The attack off the coast of Hodeida follows an Israeli strike last week that killed the rebels' prime minister along with several officials.

An attack that killed Houthi government officials shows how Israel has ramped up its intelligence on the rebel group—and its readiness to strike early and hard.