The US has been talking with Hamas through an American intermediary in Doha this week in hopes of brokering an Israel-Gaza ceasefire agreement, according to a source familiar with the matter, as US officials say President Donald Trump is growing increasingly frustrated with Israel’s handling of the conflict.

Two of northern Gaza’s last functioning hospitals have been encircled by Israeli troops, preventing anyone from leaving or entering the facilities.

Israel lets limited aid into Gaza, easing its blockade as Netanyahu says his allies can't tolerate "images of mass famine" in the war-torn Palestinian territory.

Britain suspended trade negotiations and the E.U. pledged to review ties as Israel’s siege of Gaza tested the limits of some of its closest European partners.

Kerem Shalom is a solely commercial goods junction with Israel in southern Gaza. There are two other border crossings from and into the Gaza Strip - the Rafah crossing is the southernmost post of exit from Gaza and borders Egypt's Sinai peninsula, and Erez, a crossing for people into Israel in northern Gaza.

Israel launched an extensive ground operation in Gaza Sunday in addition to an intense air campaign that health officials in the territory say killed over 100 people overnight and shuttered the last functioning hospital in the enclave’s north.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the NATO leaders are appeasing Hamas and are inviting more attacks akin to October 7. The U.N. warned Tuesday that Israel's continued blockade of Gaza could cause the deaths of 14,000 babies in the next 48 hours.

Tom Fletcher, the UN's humanitarian chief, tells the BBC five aid trucks allowed into Gaza yesterday have not yet reached people.