Gaza strip news headlines

The Gaza Health Ministry said 71 people were killed in the Israeli attack on Saturday in the south of the war-stricken enclave.

A key figure in the Hamas-run Gazan government has been killed in an Israeli airstrike.

Abandoned, bullet-ridden apartment buildings have blasted out walls and shattered windows. Bedrooms and kitchens are visible from roads dotted with rubble.

The demonstrations on Sunday came after long-running efforts to broker a truce gained momentum last week when Hamas dropped a key demand for an Israeli commitment to end the war.

Dozens of sick and injured children, including 20 cancer patients, have been evacuated from Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing, the first to leave since Israel launched its offensive in Rafah last month.

The group has new weapons and intelligence capabilities that could help it target more critical positions deeper inside Israel in case of an all-out war, it has warned.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dissolved the influential War Cabinet tasked with steering the war in Gaza.

The 70-year old comedian, who is best known for his sitcom Seinfeld, was on stage at the Qudos Bank Arena on Sunday night when his set was disrupted.

The flow of aid in southern Gaza has drastically declined just as the humanitarian need grows.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that mediators would keep trying to close an elusive cease-fire deal for Gaza.

The four people were rescued in an operation over the weekend that reportedly left over 270 dead.

Thousands are on the brink of famine as the Israeli invasion continues.

Hamas said yesterday that it gave mediators its reply to the US-backed proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, seeking some "amendments" on the deal.

The mining magnate says the plan could ensure the daily delivery of 10,000 metric tonnes of food aid to starving Palestinians.

A deadly raid by Israeli forces freed four hostages over the weekend and killed hundreds of Palestinians.

Israel has vowed to persist with its military operation in Gaza, saying it won't engage in "meaningless" negotiations with Hamas.

Only one member abstained from the vote, which resulted in a call for Hamas and Israel to stop the war.

The director of the UN World Food Program said on Sunday (Monday AEST) the program has “paused” its distribution of humanitarian aid from an American-built pier off Gaza, saying she was “concerned about the safety of our people" after what had been one of the deadliest days of the war there.

The move does not immediately pose a threat to Netanyahu, who still controls a majority coalition in parliament.

The killing of so many Palestinians, including women and children, showed the heavy cost of such operations.

Israel said it rescued four hostages who were kidnapped in the Hamas-led attack on October 7, in the largest such recovery operation since the war began in Gaza.

The attack in central Gaza killed at least 35 people, including women and children, according to local health officials.

The annual march, seen as provocative by Palestinians, could ignite broader unrest, as it did three years ago, when it helped set off an 11-day war in Gaza.

The army said it was a precision strike against Hamas, but local officials said women and children were among the dead.

In a newly published interview, the president also said it was "uncertain" whether Israel had committed war crimes.

The State Library of NSW has issued an apology after a security guard told the student to leave yesterday.

The proposed deal would bring an end to the devastating war that has ground on for months, Biden said.

Red paint and pro-Palestine slogans were sprayed on the buildings, which include the offices of Mark Dreyfus and Bill Shorten.

It's unclear exactly what the image is. A series of tents? Truck beds against a rust orange background? Multi-coloured rectangles?

He also reiterated China's call for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state,

Children dig through rubbish and wrecked buildings for wood or cardboard for their mothers to burn for cooking.

Algeria is circulating a proposed UN Security Council resolution that would demand an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and order Israel to halt its military offensive in the southern city of Rafah immediately.

The repairs will take 'at least over a week' and then the pier will need to be anchored back into the beach in Gaza.

Her demand comes after a strike in a tent camp killed dozens of people, including many women and children.

Israel launched its war in Gaza after Hamas' Oct. 7 attack in which militants stormed into southern Israel, killed some 1200 people — mostly civilians — and abducted about 250.

Israeli shelling and airstrikes pummelled the same area where strikes triggered a deadly fire days earlier in a camp for displaced Palestinians.

Tel Aviv slammed the diplomatic move that will have no immediate impact on its grinding war in Gaza.

The Israeli prime minister has acknowledged a “tragic mistake” had been made after an Israeli strike in the Gaza city of Rafah set fire to a tent camp and killed at least 45 people.

Rocket sirens have sounded across central Israel, including in Tel Aviv, for the first time in months, as Hamas claimed to have fired a barrage of rockets from Gaza.

While Israel is unlikely to comply with any such order, it will ratchet up the pressure on the increasingly isolated country.

The bodies of three more hostages killed on October 7 have been recovered from Gaza, Israel's army said, as the top United Nations court prepares to rule on whether Israel must halt its military operations and withdraw from the enclave.

American comedian Dave Chappelle said a "genocide" is striking the Gaza Strip amid the Israel-Hamas war to cheers during his performance in the United Arab Emirates.

The Israeli government has reversed course hours after it blocked the AP's live video of Gaza and faced mounting criticism for interfering with independent journalism.

It issued a detailed legal report on Monday, which said the panel found "reasonable grounds to believe" that the individuals named in the arrest warrants have committed war crimes or crimes against humanity.

The ICC is seeking arrest warrants for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Pro-Palestine students occupying a Melbourne University building have been ordered to pack up and leave or face possible expulsion, while Queenslanders have been arrested.

Israeli military said its troops in Gaza found the bodies of three Israeli hostages taken by Hamas during its October 7 attack, including German-Israeli Shani Louk.

The US military has finished installing a floating pier off the Gaza Strip with officials poised to begin ferrying badly needed humanitarian aid into the enclave besieged over seven months of intense fighting in the Israel-Hamas war.

Israel's latest actions in Rafah have prompted fresh legal action amid genocide accusations in the UN's highest court.

More than half a million Palestinians have been displaced in recent days by escalating Israeli military operations in southern and northern Gaza, the United Nations says.