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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, on December 10, 2023.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address a joint meeting of Congresson July 24, according to congressional leadership.

All top four leaders —House Speaker Mike Johnson, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — signed on to the letter invitingNetanyahu.

An Israeli official also confirmed Netanyahu will address Congress on July 24.

CNN has reached out to the White House for comment.

President Joe Biden said Thursday that he thinks Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is listening to him, arguing that — in his opinion — Israel has not gone into Rafah “full force,” which the United States has been warning Israel against.

Pressed on whether Netanyahu supports the ceasefire deal currently on the table, Biden said that the Israeli leader“publicly said he is” before adding that “we have to get a ceasefire.”

Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a UN-runschoolsheltering displaced people at the Nuseirat refugee camp in centralGaza on Thursday, June 6.

At least 40 peopledied in the strike on the United Nations-run school in Nuseirat, medical workers at the nearby Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said.

The school was run by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) before it closed at the start of the war. UNRWA’s chief, Philippe Lazzarini, said the school was sheltering 6,000 displaced people when it was hit without prior warning to UNRWA or the people living there.

The Israeli military said the strike was a “precise intelligence-based strike targeting dozens of Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists.”

Here’s the latest headlines:

Israeli forces fatally shot three Palestinians in the occupied West Bankon Thursday, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

The deaths occurred amid reports of clashes between Palestinian militants and Israeli forces in different areas of the West Bank city of Jenin.

The Israeli military, under the direction of the domestic security agency, known as Shin Bet, said they were carrying out an operation in the city to “eliminate terrorists,” according to an Israel Defense Forcesstatement.

The IDF said they had killed militants at “close range” and arrested a “wanted man” in the raid.

Israeli army bulldozers and armored vehicles were seen on the outskirts of Jenin camp, as an Israeli Apache gunship was seen flying overhead “attacking the area” to aid the operation, the IDF said.

In a statement mourning their deaths, Palestinian Islamic Jihad said that three of its members had been killed by Israeli forces on Thursday during the operation in Jenin.

Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) ambulance crews were seen on video recovering the bodies of two dead from the street of Jenin, one who had been fatally shot by Israeli forces while riding on a Vespa scooter.

At least eight people were injured, seven by gunfire and one who was run over by an Israeli militaryvehicle, according to the PRCS.

Since October 7, at least 531 Palestinians, including 132 children, have been killed, and more than 5,200 have been injured across the West Bank and Jerusalem by Israeli forces and Israelisettlers, according to the health ministry.

Palestinians inspect the scene after an Israeli airstrike on a school for displaced people run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza on Thursday, June 6..

The White House is asking Israel for more information on the airstrike on a United Nations-run school in central Gaza that reportedly killed at least 40 people.

The Biden administration does not have “independent verification of what exactly occurred” but it is talking to the Israelis to “try to get a better understanding,” National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby told CNN.

He added that Israel has a “right to go after Hamas” but that “how they do that matters.”

ACNN analysisfound that the airstrike at the UN school was conducted with a US-made weapon.

The Israeli military defended the strike. Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Israeli intelligence believed that Hamas fighters who took part in the October 7 attack were operating from inside three classrooms. Earlier, another Israeli military spokesperson, Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, told journalists the military was not “aware of any civilian casualties.”

CNN cannot independently verify any of those claims from the Israeli military.

Mediators have yet to receive a response from Hamas regarding the latest ceasefire proposal, Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majid Al-Ansari said in a statement on Thursday.

The proposal, detailed by US President Joe Biden in a speech last week in the hopes of fueling progress in the negotiations,includes terms for a ceasefire and a prisoner exchange between Hamas and Israel, and is still under consideration by the group.

Thejoint mediation efforts by Qatar, Egypt, and the United States are ongoing, Al-Ansari added. He urged the public to disregard inaccurate media reports and to rely on reliable official sources, highlighting the sensitivity of the current negotiations.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres speaks at an event in New York on June 5.

The United Nations Secretary-General AntónioGuterres on Thursday condemned a deadly Israeli airstrike on a UN-run school in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in central Gaza.

Among the dozens who died in the pre-dawn strike, reportedly 14 were children, according to StéphaneDujarric, a spokesperson for the secretary-general.

Guterres “underscores that UN premises are inviolable, including during armed conflict and must be protected by all parties at all times,” Dujarric said.

The Biden administration has spent the last week pushingallies in theMiddle Eastto make specific threats to Hamas, as part of an urgent campaign to prod the group toward accepting the latestIsraeli ceasefire and hostage proposalthat would pause the fighting in Gaza.

US officials have publicly called onthe groupto accept previous ceasefire proposals on the table as Israel and Hamashave engagedin months of back-and-forth negotiations, butthere has never been an all-outpressure campaign marked by specific asks to individual countriesas part ofthe Biden administration’s push.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken hasheld almost a dozen callswith key players inthe region since Fridayandother top State Department officials have been intimately involved in the all-hands on deck effort.

White House Middle East Coordinator Brett McGurk traveled to Egypt this week andCIA Director Bill Burns went toQatarin the hopes ofadding traction to the negotiations.

An initial response from Hamas on Wednesdayto the most recent Israeli proposal, as publicly described by President Joe Biden last week,appeared tosignal that thegaps may still be significant.

Still,the Biden administration believes there isan opportunity to close the deal, one US officialsaid. Another source told CNN Thursday thatEgypt has received encouraging signs from Hamas on the latest proposal, though they declined to detail exactly what those positive indications were.

Hamas is expected to respond to Israel’s proposal in the coming days, sources said.

Read more about the details of the negotiations.

The Israeli military defended its strike of a United Nations school in central Gaza on Thursday, calling it a “precise intelligence-based strike targeting dozens of Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists.” Medical workers said at least 40 people were killed in the strike.

Late Thursday, Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Israeli intelligence believed that Hamas fighters who took part in the October 7 attack were operating from inside three classrooms of the United Nations Relief and Works Agencyfor Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) school in Gaza’s Nuseirat camp.

Hagari said the Israeli military has identified nine alleged Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters targeted in the strike. He said the IDF believes there were “about 30” Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters hiding inside the UN school but did not provide any further evidence or information as to how the IDF has come to this conclusion.

CNN is unable to independently verify the claim or the identities of those killed.

Hagari said Israeli forces, using aerial surveillance over several days, had delayed the strike on the school twice because they had identified civilians in the area.

“We conducted the strike once our intelligence and surveillance indicated there were no women or children inside the Hamas compound inside those classrooms,” Hagari said, accusing Hamas of violating international law.

In addition to the at least 40 peoplewho died in the strike on the UNRWA school,five people were killed in a strike on a residential house also in Nuseirat. Three people were killed in artillery shelling in Deir Al-Balah and four others were killed in artillery shelling in the Al-Maghazi refugee camp.

State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller speaks during a briefing in Washington, DC in 2023.

US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said the United States has not yet received an official response from Hamas about a proposal for a ceasefire and the release of Israel hostages.

President Joe Biden last week laid out a three-phase proposal that would pair a release of hostages with a “full and complete ceasefire,” a plan he said presented the best hope to bring peace to Gaza. The president characterized it as an Israeli proposal.

The United States has been in contact with Israel over a strike on a school in central Gaza that killed at least 40 people including 14 children, according to local authorities.

The school, run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, was housing displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp at the time of the incident, the Gaza government media office said.

Israel has only told the US “essentially what they have said publicly,” according to a State Department spokesperson.

The Israeli military said Thursday that “twenty to thirty Hamas and Islamic Jihad” militants had been sheltering in the school targeted in the overnight strike.

Miller said the Israeli government would release more information about the strike, and that “we expect them to be fully transparent in making that information public.”

Asked if US weapons were used in the strike, Miller said that was a question for the Israeli government. According to a CNN analysis of video from the scene and a review by an explosive weapons expert, US-made munitions were used in the strike.

Miller said the strike on the school did not constitute crossing President Joe Biden’s so-called “red line” for Israel, because the line referred to a “large-scale operation in Rafah,” which the US has not yet seen.

Palestinian children gather near a refugee camp in northern Gaza, on June 4, to protest Israel’s restrictions on aid entering the strip.

A young Palestinian boy with blond curly hair stood near a shelter west of Gaza City on Tuesday, his black trousers and sandals flecked with dust.

Video obtained by CNN shows the child alongside more than a dozen peers at the displacement shelter, carrying Arabic and English slogans to protest Israel’s siege on the Gaza Strip. Israeli authorities insist there is no limit on aid that can enter Gaza, but the UN has warned that persistent bombardment and reduced land routes have caused “full-blown famine” in the north.

Nadia Al-Sayed, a local aid worker at the demonstration, said Palestinian children deserve “the right to eat, and to demand healthy food and clean drink.” “Children have become malnourished,” she added. More than 3,500 children are at risk of starving to death due to food shortages in Gaza, the Government Media Office there reported on Monday.

“We want our rights,” said Iman, another young child. “We hope that the crossings will be opened, the war will end, and life will return as before.”

The kids held Arabic and English slogans at the demonstration on Tuesday, calling for an end to widespread hunger in northern Gaza.

Newly recruited Houthi fighters watch a recorded message from Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi in Sanaa, Yemen, on January 11.

Houthi leader, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, has vowed to continue attacking Israel and its allies, saying the Yemeni militant group will constantly be developing its military capabilities and will “meet escalation with escalation.”

Iran-backed Houthirebels and Iran-backed militias in Iraq, known as the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, announced joint military operations in statements Thursday.

Al-Houthi also said in a televised speech that the joint operations will lead to a new path of “escalation.”

The Houthi-controlled Yemeni Armed Forces claimed Thursday it carried out two joint military operations using drones with the Iraqimilitiasagainst ships in theIsraeliport of Haifa

The Israel Defense Forces told CNN on Thursday that they are not aware of such an incident.

The Houthis have been attacking US targets and commercial shipping in the Red Sea since Israel launched its invasion of Gaza following Hamas’ October 7attack. There are fears that theattackscould escalate Israel’s war against Hamas into awider regional conflict.

The Houthi attacks have forced some of the world’s biggest shipping and oil companies to suspend transit through one of themost important maritime trade routes, which could potentially cause a shock to the global economy.

Egypt has received encouraging signs from Hamas on the latest ceasefire and hostages draft from Israel – one that US President Joe Biden took the unusual step of publicly detailing last week – a source familiar with the negotiations told CNN.

Hamas is expected to respond to that proposal in the coming days, that source said.

Final push: It came as senior officials from Washington returned to the Middle East this week to bolster discussions on the ceasefire deal. CIA director Bill Burns and White House Middle East Coordinator Brett McGurk traveled to Qatar and Egypt respectively – two key mediators in the discussions.

US officials have remained largely tight-lipped on those trips so far, citing the sensitivity of the ongoing diplomatic work. Western leaders have escalated calls for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages taken by Hamas.

“Positive signals”: The source did not detail Hamas’ reaction to Egyptian officials. Egyptian state-affiliated Al-QaheraNews said the country “received positive signals from the Hamas movement indicating its aspiration for a ceasefire,” citing a senior official source.

Al-QaheraNews, which is owned by a state-affiliated Egyptian media conglomerate, has been used to relay Egypt’s position on the negotiations.

The Israeli government is seeking toextenditscontroversialban on the theAl Jazeera newsnetwork in the country, after acourt upheld the restriction but shortened it by 10 days.

In May, Israel banned theQatari-basednews network from operating in the country for 45 days under asweepingnew wartime law thatallows the government to banforeignmedia organizations it deems “harmful” to thenation’ssecurity.Al Jazeeracondemned the moveas a “dark day for democracy” that sets a concerning precedent.

While the ban is not permanent and only valid during the declared period of war, the Israeli government can continue toextend the closure for additional45-dayperiods.

On Tuesday, a Tel Aviv District Court ruled that the ban could stand but was to be shortened to 35 days, meaning it will expire on Sunday.AlJazeerasaid it was notified by the Israeli Ministry of Communicationson Wednesdaythat it intends to request that the government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approve another 45-day ban.

Israel has claimed thatAlJazeera“harms Israeli security” and has a “close connection” with the militant group Hamas. AlJazeera, one of the only networks to have a live, consistent presence from within the blockaded Gaza strip, has denied Israel’s claims, calling theallegations “dangerous and ridiculous.” At least six of its staff members have been killed in Gaza since the war began.

Palestinians inspect damage after an Israeli airstrike on a United Nations-run school in Deir El-Balah, Gaza, on June 6.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza said Thursday was “another horrific day” after dozens of people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school in central Gaza.

The school, in the Nuseirat refugee camp, was run by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) before it closed at the start of the war.

UNRWA’S chief, Philippe Lazzarini, said the school was sheltering 6,000 displaced people when it was hit without prior warning to UNRWA or the people living there.

The Israeli military confirmed it carried out the airstrike on Nuseirat, which it said targeted a Hamas compound operating inside the school. Israeli military spokesperson Lt. Col. Peter Lerner later told journalists the military was not “aware of any civilian casualties.”

Supporters and families of hostages held by Hamas attend a demonstration in Tel Aviv, Israel, on June 3.

A campaign group for relatives of the hostages held in Gaza has expressed “strong support” for the call from the United States and 16 other nations urging Israel and Hamas to “close” the hostage deal.

The signatories have called the ceasefire and hostage proposal “the necessary starting point” for ending the war in Gaza, urging Hamas to “close this agreement” spearheaded by Israel.

Israel has yet to officially respond to the joint statement, with the prime minister’s spokesperson David Mencer telling journalists Thursday that Israel does not comment “on the everyday movements and the everyday discussions during these negotiations.”

US President Joe Biden last week outlined what he said was a three-phase proposal to end the conflict in Gaza. But both Hamas and Israel are yet to back it.

Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Khiam near the border with Israel on May 29.

Israel and the Lebanese Iran-backed Islamist group Hezbollah are ramping up cross-border attacks after months of low-intensity fighting, prompting the Israeli military to warn this week that it is prepared to launch a large-scale attack on its northern border.

With both sides trading fire for more than eight months, experts say Israel feels it can no longer ignore its northern front or delay taking action there.

The conflict between Israel and Hezbollah has been gradually intensifying since October 8, said Heiko Wimmen, project director for Iraq, Syria and Lebanon at the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based think tank. It’s a “slow-motion escalation” that “inches upwards,” he said.

Israel and Hezbollah have also been striking much deeper into each other’s territory than they were at the beginning of the war, when fighting was confined to a roughly4-kilometer (2.5-mile) radiusof the border on either side.

A full-blown war appears to have become more likely – even if both sides have no desire for one, analysts believe.

Read more of what we know here.

Palestinians inspect damage after an Israeli airstrike on a United Nations-run school in Deir El-Balah, Gaza, on June 6.

​At least 40 peopledied in the strike on the UNRWA school in Nuseirat, medical workers at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital said.

The figure revises down the earlier total of 45 after the hospital clarified there were two incidents in Nuseirat – the strike on a hospital, and another on a residential house in which five people were killed.

The hospital, the main one still operating in the area, said 52 people killed in Israeli strikes were brought to its facility on Thursday.

Israel has admitted carrying out the strike, saying it was targeting “20 to 30 Hamas and Islamic Jihad” militants at the site.

In an update on Thursday, the IDF said its troops “troops are continuing operational activities in the areas of eastern Bureij and eastern Deir al Balah” where “troops located underground terror tunnel shafts and additional weapons”.

Palestinian mourners gather near the bodies of victims killed in an Israeli attack in Gaza, on June 5.

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More than one million people, half of Gaza’s population, is “expected to face death and starvation” by mid-July, a United Nations report has warned, citing earlier analysis from March.

The report added that this is “likely to continue, especially in light of expanding military operations in Rafah.”

“In the absence of a cessation of hostilities and increased access, the impact on mortality and the lives of Palestinians now, and in future generations, will increase markedly with every day, even if famine is avoided in the near term,” the UN said.

The UN report highlighted that urgent assistance to prevent “devastating hunger crises” is necessary, not just in Gaza, but also Sudan, Haiti, Mali and South Sudan, which are experiencing “catastrophic conditions.”

This post has been updated to note the WFP was citing analysis from March.

An Israeli soldier was killed in what the Israeli military described as a failed Hamas infiltration attempt into Israel early Thursday.

Zeed Mazarib, 34 was killed thwarting the attempt, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told CNN Thursday.

Such incidents have been rare since the October 7 attacks, which saw Hamas fighters swarm over the border and attack Israeli communities.

While the IDF said that the militants had not crossed the border fence from Gaza into Israel, the armed wing of Hamas on Thursday claimed its militants had managed to enter Israel.

The IDF said Thursday it had killed three militants who had approached the border fence between Israel and Gaza and fired at Israeli soldiers. The militants were killed in Gaza, 300 metres away from the border fence, the IDF told CNN. The whereabouts of a fourth militant who participated in the attempt were unknown, the IDF told CNN.

The militants were carrying RPGs and assault rifles and had moved towards the fence east of Rafah in an attempt to cross the border into Israel, the IDF said.

The group did not provide further information on the infiltration or details on the alleged attack on Israeli military infrastructure. It also did not provide evidence for its claims.

The Israeli military says that 20 to 30 militants had been sheltering in the Nuseirat school targeted in an overnight strike.

At least 45 people were killed in the airstrike on the UN-run school in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, a spokesman for Gaza’s Ministry of Health told CNN.

The school was housing displaced persons at the time of the strike, the Gaza government media office said. At least nine women and 14 children were among the victims, according to records from Al-Aqsa Hospital.

Israeli military spokesperson Lt. Col. Peter Lerner told journalists Thursday the military was not “aware of any civilian casualties.”

Those killed included militants who were involved in the October 7 attacks, Lerner added. The spokesperson said the IDF would make public the names of the militants killed once they were confirmed.

The spokesperson did not provide evidence for his claims.

Palestinians inspect damage after an Israeli airstrike on a United Nations-run school in Deir El-Balah, Gaza, on June 6.

At least 45 people were killed during an Israeli airstrike on a United Nations-run school in central Gaza, Gaza’s Ministry of Health said. The school, run by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), has been housing displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp.

Meanwhile, the United States and 16 other countries whosecitizenswere taken hostage by Hamas are set to release a joint statement Thursday calling onIsraelandHamasto agree on the most recent ceasefire proposal.

Below are the latest developments…

Eyewitnesses have described chaos and horror when an Israeli strike hit a United Nations-run school in central Gaza overnight.

The strike on the facility, which was housing displaced Palestinians in the Nuseirat refugee camp,killed at least 45 people, Palestinian authorities said.

A man named Jaber Abu Daher said one of his relatives was killed in the strike.

A child named Mohammad Farajallah told CNN two of his brothers were killed.

Mohammed adds: “I wish I died instead, there is no hope in this life at all.”

Smoke billows near tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in Rafah, Gaza, on June 4.

No sick or wounded people have been able to leave the Gaza Strip since Israel’s occupation of the Rafah crossing, Gaza’s Hamas-controlled health ministry said Thursday.

There are 25,000 people who need to travel outside the Gaza strip for treatment, according to the ministry, which added that only 4,895 wounded or sick were able to travel for treatment when the Rafah crossing was open.

On May 7, Israel seized the Gazan side of the crossing, as part of its military operation in Rafah, near the Egyptian border.

Palestinians inspect damage after an Israeli airstrike on a United Nations-run school in Deir El-Balah, Gaza, on June 6.

US-made munitions were used in a deadly Israeli airstrike on a United Nations-run school in central Gaza on Thursday where Palestinians were sheltering, a CNN analysis of video from the scene and review by an explosive weapons experthasfound.

At least 45 people died in strike on the school in the Nuseirat refugee camp, a spokesperson for Gaza’s Ministry of Health told CNN.

CNN identified fragments of at least two US-made GBU-39 small diameter bombs (SDB) in video filmed at the scene by a journalist working for CNN.

The Israeli military confirmed it carried out Thursday’s airstrike, which it said targeted a Hamas compound operating inside the school, adding “many measures were taken in order to minimize the danger of damaging the uninvolved,” including aerial surveillance and “additional precise intelligence.”

CNN has reached out to the Pentagon and the State Department for comment.

US munitions again used: This incident is the second time in two weeks that CNN has been able to verify the use of US-manufactured munitions in deadly Israeli attacks on displaced Palestinians.

At least 45 people were killed and more than 200 others injured on May 26 after a fire broke out following an IDF strike ona displacement camp in Rafah, most of them women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry and Palestinian medics.

The United Statesand16othercountrieswhosecitizenswere taken hostage by Hamas on October 7 are set to release a joint statement Thursday calling onIsraelandHamasto come to agree the most recent ceasefire proposal, according to aUSofficial, the latest move in the Biden administration’s push to bring to an end the Israel-Hamas war.

“It is time for the war to end,” the statement, shared with CNN, says. The joint message also points to the proposal that President Joe Biden publicly outlined in a speech last week as “the necessary starting point” for bringing the Gaza conflict to a close.

The United States, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Thailand,andthe United Kingdom signed the joint statement.

The statement marks one more example of the Biden administration’s ongoing pressure campaign to push HamasandIsrael to get to a “yes” on a ceasefire agreement.

But the chances of a quick agreement seem slim. Hamas said the latest offer fell short of its demands while Israel has said it will not halt fighting until the militant group is destroyed.

An Israeli reserve soldier was killed in a Hezbollah strike on a Druze Arab village in northern Israel on Wednesday.

Refael Kauders, 39, served as a religious affairs coordinator in the Alon Brigade, the Israeli military said. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) added that another reserve soldier was seriously injured in the attack.

At least nine other people were injured in the attack, Israel’s Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency service said, including a woman suffering abdominal and chest injuries whose condition was described as moderate to serious.

The Israeli military says Hezbollah militants in Lebanon launched at least two explosive UAVs in the attack, with a witness telling Israel’s Channel 11 the second self-detonating drone exploded as emergency responders arrived on the scene.

According to the Israeli military, Wednesday saw approximately 30 rockets and drones launched from Lebanon towards Israel. Israeli fighter jets also targeted Hezbollah positions, the military said.

Tensions along the border have escalated, with theIsraeli military warning it was prepared to launch a large-scale attack in the north to deter Iran-backed Hezbollah.

Mourners gather next to the bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes during their funeralatAl-Aqsahospitalin DeirAl-Balah, Gaza, on June 5.

A Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) nurse working at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza has described scenes of pandemonium amid an escalating Israeli offensive in the area.

The hospital in the city of Deir al-Balah, which is operating at three times its clinical capacity, has received more than 300 wounded patients and 70 bodies since Tuesday.

Among them are the victims of the Israeli airstrikeona United Nations-run schoolincentral Gaza, which was housing thousands of displaced people.

MSF nurse Karin Huster said there had been an “insane escalation of hostilities” across the Gaza Strip in the past 48 hours.

“We have seen hospitals being bombed. We have seen refugee camps being bombed. We have seen humanitarian warehouses being bombed. The situation is apocalyptic,” she said.

She added: “It’s just an emotionally overwhelming situation, and it’s difficult.”

Hamas said a peace proposal it received to end the conflict in Gazadoes not match with the proposal presentedby US President Joe Biden in a speechlast week.

On Monday, a spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Biden only presented a “partial” outline of theceasefiredeal that has been offered by Israel to Hamas.

Hamas said in the document that “there is no meaning to any agreement that does not explicitly stipulate a permanentceasefire” or “allows the occupation forces to remain on our land.”

CNN has not seen the text of the latest proposal reportedly shared with Hamas.

Biden unveiled last Friday what he said was a three-phase Israeli proposal to end the conflict in Gaza that would pair a release of hostages with a “full and completeceasefire,” and Israel withdrawing from “all populated areas of Gaza.”

Netanyahu has since repeatedly stressed that the conditions for endingthe country’s war in Gazahave not changed, including the destruction of Hamas and the return of all hostages.

A Palestinian girl watches over a UN-school housing displaced people that was hit by Israeli bombardment in Nuseirat, Gaza, on June 6.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says its school in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Central Gaza was “possibly hit several times” by Israeli strikes overnight into Thursday.

UNRWA Communications Director told CNN it was not able to confirm Israeli reports that Hamas operatives had been using the school as a compound.

Touma added that more than 170 UNRWA building had been hit since October 7 and “resulted in the killing of over 450 displaced people in those facilities.”

Dozens killed: The school was housing displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp when it was hit by an Israeli strike overnight into Thursday, the Gaza government media office said.

At least 45 people were killed in the airstrikes, according to local authorities.

The Israeli military confirmed it carried out the airstrike, which it said targeted a Hamas compound operating inside the school. CNN cannot independently verify the claims.

Palestinians inspect a damaged school following an Israeli airstrike in Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza, on June 06.

The death toll from an Israeli airstrike on a United Nations-run school in central Gaza has risen to 45, a spokesperson for Gaza’s Ministry of Health told CNN.

The school, run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees(UNRWA), was housing displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp at the time of the strike, the Gaza government media office said earlier.

The Israeli military confirmed it carried out the airstrike, which it said targeted a Hamas compound operating inside the school.

An Israeli airstrikehas killed dozens of people at a United Nations-run school in a central Gaza refugee camp,according to hospital authorities in the strip and the Gaza government media office.

The school, run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees(UNRWA), was housing displaced people in Nuseirat at the time of the strike, the Gaza government media office said.

Authorities at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said at least 39 people were killed and dozens of others injured, with authorities fearing the number could rise as victims are still being brought to the hospital.

Here’s what else is making headlines:

Israeli Defence MinisterYoavGallantspeaks during a press conference at Israel's Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv, Israel on December 18.

Palestinians gather to receivefoodcooked by a charity kitchen in Rafah, in southernGaza, on May 8.

Nine out of 10 children in Gaza are suffering from severe food poverty, unable to access enough food groups to sustain optimal growth and development, according to a new report from the United Nations’ children’s agency.

Fighting across the strip has “destroyed farmland, left livestock starving, decimated the fishing fleet, and damaged food processing and warehouse facilities,” the report found.

These factors, combined with the shuttered routes of global aid that normally would supply the strip, have “deprived millions,” it said.

UNICEF said five rounds of data collected between December 2023 and April 2024 have “consistently found” that nine out of 10 children are surviving on two or fewer food groups per day.

Worldwide problem: The report, which looks at child food poverty globally, found one in four children worldwide live in severe food poverty in early childhood, amounting to 181 million children under 5 years old.

This makes them up to 50% more likely to experience wasting, a life-threatening form of malnutrition, the report says.

“Children living in severe food poverty are children living on the brink. Right now, that is the reality for millions of young children, and this can have an irreversible negative impact on their survival, growth and brain development,” said UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell.

Palestinians react at a UN-school housing displacing people that was hit during Israeli bombardment in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, on June 6.

Dozens of people havebeen killed inan overnight Israeli airstrikeona United Nations-run school in a refugee camp in central Gaza,according to hospital authorities in the strip and the government media office.

The school, run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees(UNRWA), was housing displaced people in Nuseirat at the time of the strike, the Gaza government media office said.

Authorities at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said Thursday at least 39 people were killed and dozens of others injured, with authorities fearing the number could rise as victims are still being brought to the hospital.

The Israeli military confirmed it carried out the airstrike, which it said targeted a Hamas compound operating inside the school.

According to a CNN stringer in the area, the school was hit by at least three missiles that penetrated the three-story building. The school was believed to be housing approximately 20,000 displaced people who had taken shelter in the school, its yard, and the surrounding area,according to the stringer.

Gaza authorities said the dead and injured continue to be brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, which is operating at three times its clinical capacity, “signaling a real disaster that will lead to a greater increase in the number of martyrs,” the Gaza media office said.

CNN has reached out to UNRWA for comment.

AnIsraeli soldier carries an injured comrade after projectiles were fired fromLebanontowardsIsrael, in Hurfeish,Israel, on Wednesday, June 5.

Hezbollah militants in Lebanon launched at least two explosive UAVs in an attack on Hurfeish, a Druze Arab village, in northern Israel on Wednesday evening, the Israeli military said.

Nine people were treated for shrapnel injuries sustained in the drone strikes, according to the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, including a woman suffering abdominal and chest injuries, whose condition was described as moderate to serious.

The Israeli army has not commented on the identity of the injured, but the Reuters news agency reported that soldiers were among those wounded. Video obtained by the agency showed an ambulance moving several injured soldiers from the scene.

In one clip, a paramedic can be seen carrying a uniformed Israeli soldier on his back toward an ambulance. The soldier is conscious with his head raised and does not appear to be badly injured.

An eyewitness told Israel’s Channel 11 that the second self-detonating drone exploded as emergency responders arrived on the scene to treat patients injured in the first drone strike.

Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the attack which comes amid an escalation of tensions along the Israel-Lebanon border.

According to the Israeli military, Wednesday saw approximately 30 rockets and drones launched from Lebanon towards Israel. Israeli fighter jets also targeted Hezbollah positions, the military said.

“The [Israeli] strikes included terrorist infrastructure in Naqoura and Matmoura, Hezbollah military structures in Ayta ash Shab, and a Hezbollah observation post in Khiam,” the military added.

Tensions ramp up:Iran-backed-Hezbollah hasincreased attackson Israel’s border in recent months, saying they are in protest at Israel’s war in Gaza. Just this week, cross-border attacks from Lebanon led to large fires in northern Israel that triggered evacuations.

Tamar Michaelis contributed reporting to this post.

Smoke billows following Israeli bombardment in Khiam, Lebanon, on June 5.

The United States remains “incredibly concerned” about the risk of escalation on the Israel-Lebanon border, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said Wednesday.

Tensions on the borderhave been rising. Cross-border attacks from Lebanon led to large fires blazing through Israel’s northern region this week, and the Israeli military warned it was prepared to launch a large-scale attack in the north to deter the Iran-backed Islamist group Hezbollah.

A firefighter puts out flames after rockets launched from Lebanon landed on the outskirts of Kiryat Shmona, Israel, on June 4.

Miller reiterated Wednesday that “it is an untenable situation for Israel right now” as tens of thousands of Israelis cannot return to their homes in the north due to “constant Hezbollah shelling and drone attacks.”

Miller claimed the Israeli government has privately maintained to the US that “their preferred solution to this conflict is a diplomatic one.”

He added that “one of the reasons we think a ceasefire in Gaza is so important is because that ceasefire would unlock the potential for us to actually achieve lasting calm in the north.”

The gunman who allegedly targeted the US Embassy in Beirut on Wednesday morning was wearing “what appeared to be ISIS insignia,” according to a State Department spokesperson.

Miller said that one member of the embassy’s local guard force was “seriously injured” in the incident.

“We achieved full accountability of all official US citizens and locally employed staff, and the embassy closed today following the incident but plans to be open for business-as-usual tomorrow,” Miller said.

Meanwhile, the Lebanese army said its forces had arrested five suspects in connection with the shooting.

The arrests came after raids on several houses in Majdal Anjar and Swairi in eastern Lebanon near the Syrian border, the army said.

The five suspects are a Lebanese national, a Syrian national, and three family members of the alleged gunman.

Israel’s Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant said Wednesday the country’s military offensive in Gaza would not be halted for any resumption of ceasefire and hostage release talks with Hamas.

Gallant made the comments after conducting a flight in an Israeli air force F-15 fighter jet over Gaza and Israel’s northern border with Lebanon to “observe all the combat theaters of the IDF.”

Egyptian, Qatari and American officials were expected to meet in Doha from Wednesday to revive Gaza truce negotiations, according to US and Egyptian officials.

The meetings come after US President Joe Biden on Friday laid out a three-phase proposal— a plan characterized as an Israeli plan — that would pair a release of hostages with a “full and complete ceasefire” in Gaza.