Hamas has rejected a 60-day Gaza ceasefire proposal, a senior official in Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office told reporters Saturday.

Balah, in central Gaza, after Israeli airstrikes pounded the area starting late Friday, officials in al-Aqsa Martyr's Hospital said.

Israeli forces kill 27 Palestinians, injure 180 others while waiting for humanitarian aid near center in southern Gaza - Anadolu Ajansı

Hospital officials say Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 28 Palestinians in Gaza, including four children.

Cash is the lifeblood of the Gaza Strip’s shattered economy, and like all other necessities in this war-torn territory -- food, fuel, medicine -- it is in extremely short supply.

There are no bans or restrictions on baby formula or baby food to enter into the Gaza Strip, the Defense Ministry's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said in a Saturday post on X/Twitter regarding previous reports of a ban against baby food going into Gaza.

While UN and European officials hope that a cease-fire deal would help ease suffering among the Strip’s population, Israelis worry that as in the

A proposal seen by Reuters and bearing the name of a controversial U.S.-backed aid group described a plan to build large-scale camps called “Humanitarian Transit Areas” inside - and possibly outside - Gaza to house the Palestinian population,

The announcement came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepared to leave Washington after meetings with President Trump, apparently without finalizing a temporary ceasefire advocated by the White House.

Hamas and Israel on Saturday accused the other of blocking attempts to strike a Gaza ceasefire agreement, nearly a week into indirect talks between the two sides to halt 21 months of bitter fighting in the Palestinian territory.