Pictures of the week: Latest on Palestine-Israel conflict

At least 20,258 people have been killed due to Israeli strikes in Gaza since October 7, according to the health ministry in Gaza on Saturday. The latest toll includes 201 fatalities in the past 24 hours, the ministry said, adding that most of the dead are women and children.

The UN Security Council on Friday passed a key resolution, emphasizing the immediate acceleration of aid deliveries to the distressed civilians in Gaza, but without the original call for an "urgent suspension of hostilities" between Israel and Hamas.

In a recent press statement, the Gaza-ruling Palestinian faction at war with the Israeli army said the resolution "failed to match" the catastrophic condition in Gaza resulting from Israeli military actions in the region, Xinhua reports.

Hamas expressed disappointment at the UN Security Council Resolution and accused the U.S. administration of watering down the resolution, allowing Israel to continue what it described as a campaign of destruction, violence and terrorism in Gaza, according to a statement.

According to a food security analysis released on Thursday, more than half a million people are facing catastrophic hunger conditions in Gaza.

The analysis, issued by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification and including data from the World Food Programme, the Food and Agricultural Organization and many other UN agencies, as well as international nongovernmental organizations, also confirmed that the entire population of Gaza of roughly 2.2 million people are in crisis or worse levels of acute food insecurity.

Two Hezbollah fighters were killed and three civilians injured in border conflicts between the Lebanese Shiite armed group and Israeli forces on Friday, according to Xinhua, citing Lebanese military sources.

The clashes between south Lebanon-based military groups and the Israeli army have killed 172 on the Lebanese side, including 32 civilians, according to Lebanese security sources.

The Israel Defense Forces said it has uncovered the largest underground Hamas tunnel system in Gaza to date. The system splits into branches of tunnels, spans over more than 4 kilometers and reaches 400 meters from the Erez crossing, a passageway between Gaza and Israel.

Ismail Haniyeh, chairman of Hamas's political bureau, traveled from Qatar's Doha to Egypt's Cairo for talks focusing on developments in Gaza and efforts to reach another truce in the enclave and a hostage swap.

Before his departure, Haniyeh held a meeting with Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, during which the Hamas leader voiced his movement's readiness for a lasting truce in Gaza but made clear that Hamas would not negotiate while being attacked by Israel.

The World Health Organization said on Thursday that northern Gaza has been left without a functional hospital.

The Al-Ahli Arab Hospital's operating theaters are no longer functioning due to the depletion, or complete absence, of specialists, power, fuel, water, food and medical supplies, Tedros wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

"That has left north Gaza with no functional hospital. Only four hospitals operate at a minimum level, providing very limited care," he added.

(With input from agencies)