In a recent talk with the BBC, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Gaza’s two million people are experiencing “severe levels of acute food insecurity.” 

The White House says senior Hamas leader Marwan Issa has been killed in an Israeli air strike. 

Israeli forces conducted an overnight raid on al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, reportedly involving tanks and heavy gunfire at the facility. The IDF did not provide prior public notice of its intention to conduct a new operation at al-Shifa.

President Mahmoud Abbas has designated Mohammad Mustafa as the new prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, responsible for governing parts of the occupied West Bank.

Displaced Palestinians in Gaza are to be moved to “humanitarian islands” in the middle of the strip, ahead of any offensive in Rafah, according to the Israeli military. 

The UN has said that a new land route to deliver food to northern Gaza has been used for the first time in three weeks. Six lorries from the World Food Programme crossed via a gate in the Gaza border fence, the Israeli military said.