The US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation did not distribute any aid yesterday as it presses Israel to boost civilian safety beyond the perimeter of its distribution sites, a day after dozens of Palestinians seeking aid were killed.

Israel's military said it was ready to "protect" the country's maritime space on Tuesday, after a boat organised by an international activist coalition set sail for Gaza aiming to deliver aid.

At least 27 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded by Israeli fire near a food distribution site in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday, local health authorities said, in the third day of chaos and bloodshed to affect the aid operation.

Gaza rescuers said Israeli gunfire killed at least 31 Palestinians near a US-backed aid distribution site yesterday, shortly after Washington rejected Hamas’s response to a ceasefire proposal as “totally unacceptable”.

Hamas said its response was positive while emphasising the need for a permanent ceasefire

Israeli strikes killed at least 60 people in Gaza yesterday as Tel Aviv warned of annihilating Hamas if it does not accept a hostage deal in Gaza.

"Gaza is the hungriest place on Earth," said a spokesman for the UN humanitarian agency OCHA

The White House said on Thursday that Israel has agreed to the US ceasefire proposal

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli attacks killed 44 people yesterday, including 23 in an attack on a home in the centre of the Palestinian territory.

The White House said Thursday that Israel had accepted US President Donald Trump's proposal for a Gaza ceasefire, while discussions were "continuing" with Hamas

The party published a map showing the 22 sites spread across the territory

Israel yesterday said its military killed Mohammed Sinwar, Hamas’s presumed Gaza leader as military offensive in the tiny Palestinian territory killed dozens more.

Mohammad Sinwar was elevated to the top ranks of Hamas last year

Hamas has agreed to a proposal by US special envoy Steve Witkoff for a Gaza ceasefire, a Palestinian official close to the group told Reuters yesterday, paving the way for a possible end to the war.

Rescuers in Gaza said an Israeli strike on a family's home in the territory's north killed 19 people on Monday

Civil defence crews in Gaza City retrieved 13 martyrs and 21 injured from inside Fahmi Al-Jarjawi School

Rescuers in Gaza said 23 people were killed and several more wounded in Israeli air strikes across the Palestinian territory yesterday.

"I cry at night when my baby cries and her stomach aches from hunger."

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli strikes killed at least 15 people yesterday across the Palestinian territory, where Israel has ramped up its military offensive in recent days.

Another two people were killed in a strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in the centre of the territory