- Israel announced on Friday that it would allow "temporary" aid deliveries into famine-threatened northern Gaza, hours after the United States warned of a sharp shift in its policy over Israel's war against Hamas militants. 

- A senior Hamas leader said on Thursday that Egypt had put forward a ceasefire proposal to end the conflict in Gaza, but that it did not include anything new.

- The Hamas leader said a new round of talks may be held before Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan, in Cairo next week between the mediating parties and the Israelis.

- World Central Kitchen (WCK), a non-profit aid organization, on Thursday called for an independent investigation into the killing of seven members in an Israeli aerial strike in central Gaza as Israel called the attack tragic and unintentional.