The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip said Wednesday that 2,799 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel resumed its offensive in mid-March, bringing the total number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces to 52,928 since the war began on Oct. 7, 2023.

Talks between Hamas and the U.S. administration on a ceasefire in Gaza and the entry of humanitarian aid to the besieged enclave are underway, a senior Palestinian official familiar with the discussions told Reuters on Sunday.

The U.S. and Hamas are again at the negotiating table to iron out a ceasefire agreement for the conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, which controls the territory. A senior Palestinian official told Reuters that facilitating aid into Gaza is also being discussed.

Israel carried out the latest strikes on the day Palestinians commemorate the "Nakba", or catastrophe, when hundreds of thousands of people fled or were forced to flee their hometowns and villages during the 1948 Middle East war that gave birth to the state of Israel.

Israeli military strikes killed at least 60 people in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, medics said, as the United States and Arab mediators pushed for a ceasefire.

Palestinian rescuers reported 94 people killed Thursday in Israeli strikes on blockaded Gaza, where a US-backed organisation said it intends to begin distributing aid by the end of the month.In the occupied West Bank,

For Mr Alexander, his family and the many Israelis who have been campaigning for the hostages in Gaza, his release brought relief and joy. For Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, it was a moment of diplomatic embarrassment.

Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed at least 70 people, medical sources told Al Jazeera, as indirect ceasefire talks continue in Qatar. At least 50 people were killed in Israeli attacks on northern Gaza, including in Jabalia refugee camp, since the early hours of Wednesday, according to medical sources.

Hamas releases Edan Alexander, the last living American hostage in Gaza, ahead of President Trump’s Middle East trip