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Live updates: Israeli forces storm Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis

CGTN

- The Israel Defense Forces said on Thursday that it is carrying out a "precise and limited mission" in Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, following intelligence that hostages were held there.

- Israel said on Thursday that it did not receive any new proposals from Hamas for the ceasefire and hostage-release deal at the Cairo meeting attended by Qatari, Egyptian, and U.S. negotiators.

- Mediators in Egypt were hoping to secure a ceasefire that would see more hostages released in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, as Israel prepares for a full-scale ground incursion into the Gaza Strip's crowded far-southern city of Rafah.

- The World Health Organization on Wednesday warned of an "unfathomable catastrophe" that the potential expansion of Israeli ground assault could cause in Rafah.

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