The Israeli military says five soldiers have been killed in an attack in northern Gaza. Health officials in the Palestinian territory say Israeli strikes killed 51 people. The bloodshed came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was visiting the White House on Tuesday for talks with President Donald Trump about a ceasefire plan. There was no announcement of a breakthrough from that meeting. But there were signs of progress toward a deal. The soldiers' deaths could add to pressure on Netanyahu to strike a deal in Israel where polls have shown widespread support for ending the 21-month war.

Gaza's Hamas-run police force said it killed 12 members of an Israeli-backed militia after detaining them early Thursday. Hours earlier, an Israeli- and U.S.-supported aid group said Hamas attacked a bus carrying its Palestinian workers, killing at least five of them. The militia said its fighters had attacked Hamas and killed five militants. It also accused Hamas of detaining and killing humanitarian workers. It was not immediately possible to verify the competing claims or confirm the identity of those killed. The Israeli military circulated the aid group's statement on social media but did not provide its own account of what happened.

Hundreds of Palestinians stormed a United Nations food warehouse in Gaza in a desperate attempt to get something to eat. They shoved and shouted at each other and even ripped off pieces of the building to get inside. Hospital officials said four people died Wednesday in the chaos. The deaths came a day after a crowd was fired upon while overrunning a new aid-distribution site in the Gaza Strip set up by an Israeli and U.S.-backed foundation. Gaza's Health Ministry said the gunfire killed at least one Palestinian, and 48 others were wounded. The Red Cross Field Hospital said the wounded included women and children with gunshot wounds.

Palestinians have chanted against Hamas during anti-war protests in the Gaza Strip. It's a rare show of public anger against the militant group that has long repressed dissent. Hamas is weakened but still rules the territory 17 months into the war with Israel. Protesters say they chanted against Israel, Hamas, the Western-backed Palestinian Authority and Arab mediators. Hamas has violently cracked down on previous protests. The protests came days after Israel's renewed offensive shattered a ceasefire. It also has tightened its blockade on all supplies into Gaza.

Israeli forces have destroyed Gaza's only specialized cancer hospital as ground forces advance deeper into the Gaza Strip. Defense Minister Israel Katz said Friday that operations would continue "with increasing intensity" until Hamas releases its remaining hostages. The hospital in central Gaza had long been inaccessible to Palestinian patients and doctors. The Israeli military said it destroyed the hospital in a strike Friday because it was being used by Hamas militants. The Turkish government, which helped build the hospital, accused Israel of targeting medical facilities in an effort to render Gaza uninhabitable.

Arab leaders have endorsed Egypt's postwar plan for the Gaza Strip that would allow its roughly 2 million Palestinians to remain in the territory. The $53 billion plan's endorsement by Arab leaders at a summit in Cairo amounted to a widespread rejection of Trump's proposal. The summit conclusions were welcomed by Hamas, rejected by Israel and met with a lukewarm response by the Trump administration. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi expressed his appreciation for the consensus among Arab countries in supporting the plan, which he said allows the Palestinian People to remain on their land.

Palestinian health officials say that Israeli strikes have killed 38 people in southern Gaza, including at least 15 members of the same extended family, 13 of them children. In northern Gaza, health officials said Friday that Israeli forces raided Kamal Adwan Hospital, one of the few medical facilities still functioning in the area, where the military has renewed its offensive against Hamas and aid groups are sounding the alarm over dire humanitarian conditions. In Lebanon, rare Israeli strikes on the country's southeast killed three journalists working for news outlets that are considered to be aligned with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and its patron, Iran.

The Israeli military says it has killed Hamas' top leader Yahya Sinwar during a battle in Gaza. Troops appeared to have run across him in a battle on Wednesday, only to discover afterwards that a body in the rubble was the man Israel has hunted for more than a year. Authorities conducted DNA tests on a body to determine if it was him. Sinwar was one of the chief architects of Hamas' attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel has "settled its account" with Sinwar but "war is not yet ended." There was no immediate confirmation from Hamas of Sinwar's death.

Israel has carried out a series of punishing airstrikes in the southern suburbs of Beirut. Strikes have also cut off the main border crossing between Lebanon and Syria for tens of thousands of people fleeing Israeli bombardment. The overnight blasts in Beirut's southern suburbs sent huge plumes of smoke and flames into the night sky and shook buildings kilometers away in the Lebanese capital. Thursday's strike along the Lebanon-Syria border, about 50 kilometers or 30 miles east of Beirut, led to the closure of the road near the busy Masnaa Border Crossing. Israel said it had targeted the crossing because it was being used by Hezbollah to transport military equipment across the border.