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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has disbanded the country's war cabinet, an Israeli official says, just over a week after opposition leader Benny Gantz withdrew from the body.

The US-backed Gaza ceasefire proposal doesn't meet Hamas' demands for an end to the war, a senior official has told CNN. Osama Hamdan also said that "no one has an idea" how many of the hostages held in the enclave are alive.

Israel launched strikes on Al-Mawasi in southern Gaza early Thursday, bombarding an area it had previously designated as a "safe zone" by land, sea and air, according to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA.

The UN Security Council adopted a resolution proposed by the United States for a permanent ceasefire and release of the hostages in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called on Benny Gantz to change his mind after the key war carbinet member resigned from government over the handling of the war in Gaza.

Key Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz quit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government Sunday. Meanwhile, the death toll from Israel's hostage rescue in central Gaza keeps rising. Follow for live updates.

The Israeli military says it rescued four hostages from central Gaza on Saturday. Palestinians report scenes of horror on the ground, and Gaza hospital officials say more than 200 people were killed.

Dozens of people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a United Nations-run school in central Gaza, authorities said, in an attack that CNN analysis found was conducted with a US-made weapon.

Tensions are ramping up at the Israel-Lebanon border, with Hezbollah claiming responsibility for a Wednesday evening attack in northern Israel that left multiple people injured.

President Joe Biden has laid out a three-phase proposal to end the conflict in Gaza, as global condemnation of Israel's offensive in Rafah grows.

The war in Gaza will likely continue until at least the end of the year, an Israeli official warned.

The Israeli military says it established "operational control" over the Philadelphi Corridor, a 14-kilometer (8.7 miles) strip of land along the border between Gaza and Egypt.

Global condemnation is mounting over Israel's airstrike on a camp for displaced people in Rafah that killed at least 45 people, many of whom were women and children.

At least 45 people were killed in Israeli strikes on a camp for displaced people in Rafah, the Gaza health ministry said Sunday. Israel claimed it killed two senior Hamas officials.

At least 35 people were killed in Israeli strikes on a camp for displaced people in Rafah, the Gaza health ministry said Sunday. Israel claimed it struck a Hamas compound in the area.

The United Nations' top court has ordered Israel to immediately halt its controversial military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, further increasing international pressure on Israel over its war against Hamas.

Spain, Norway and Ireland announced plans to formally recognize a Palestinian state, in a move that is likely to bolster the global Palestinian cause but strain relations with Israel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted the charges brought by the International Criminal Court against himself and Israel's defense minister as "beyond outrageous" in an interview Tuesday with CNN's Jake Tapper.

The Biden administration denounced efforts by the International Criminal Court to seek arrest warrants for top Israeli officials and Hamas leaders, saying the court's efforts put the terrorist organization and a top US ally on equivalent footing.

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi has died in a helicopter crash, the government has confirmed. Follow for live updates.

A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi crashed while he was visiting a northern region in the country Sunday, according to the Iranian state news agency IRNA.

An Israeli airstrike on a refugee camp in central Gaza has killed at least 35 people, including seven children, according to hospital officials. Meanwhile, Israeli war cabinet divisions are spilling into the open.

Gaza faces a "dire" food situation as barely more than 300 aid trucks have entered the strip since Israel began its offensive in Rafah, a UN agency said in a report published Friday. Follow live updates.

The Israeli military said Friday it recovered the bodies of three hostages — Shani Louk, Amit Bouskila, and Itshak Gelernter — in the Gaza Strip.

Amid signs that Israel may launch a full-scale incursion in Rafah, aid agencies are warning any escalation in the southern Gaza city risks exacerbating the already deteriorating humanitarian situation.

The Biden administration has assessed that Israel has amassed enough troops on the edge of Rafah to move forward with a full-scale incursion in the coming days, but senior US officials are currently unsure if Israel has made a final decision to ca..