Live Updates: Hamas leader says 'close to reaching' Gaza truce deal with Israel

04:32 GMT - Hamas 'close to reaching truce' with Israel

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said his resistance movement was nearing a truce agreement with Israel, according to a statement posted on Telegram.

"We are close to reaching a deal on a truce," Haniyeh said, according to the post.

Negotiators have been working to seal a deal to allow the release of around 240 mostly Israeli hostages seized on October 7, during the deadliest assault on Israel in its history.

Hamas fighters also killed around 1,200 people during their cross-border attack.

04:17 GMT - WHO official says Gaza hospital situation 'catastrophic'

A top World Health Organization official described the hospital situation in Gaza as “catastrophic”, saying most are no longer functioning and what remains will likely be overwhelmed by thousands of births expected in the next month.

The United Nations briefing came hours after a shell struck the second floor of a hospital in northern Gaza, killing 12 people, according to Gaza's Health Ministry and a medical worker.

03:48 GMT — Young Palestinian man succumbs to his wounds from Israeli fire in Jenin

The Palestinian Health Ministry said that a young Palestinian man succumbed to wounds he sustained from Israeli forces two weeks ago in the northern occupied West Bank.

In a statement, the ministry identified the man as Mohammad Owais, 25, who died from critical wounds inflicted by Israeli forces in the city of Jenin.

The latest Palestinian victim brings the death toll in the occupied West Bank since October 7 to 217 in addition to 2,850 injured, according to the Health Ministry.

03:01 GMT - Qatar calls for formation of intl committee to probe Israeli crimes in Gaza

Qatar’s Foreign Ministry called Monday for the formation of an international committee to look into "the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation against civilians in Gaza."

The country’s stance was made in a statement condemning the Israeli bombing of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza which left several Palestinians dead and injured.

The Foreign Ministry considered the bombing of the Indonesian Hospital "an extension of the (Israeli) occupation's approach in targeting hospitals, schools and population centers" across Gaza, which is a "blatant violation" of international law and the Geneva Convention.

02:50 GMT - Jordan’s king, top EU official discuss Israeli onslaught on Gaza

Jordan’s King Abdullah II and European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell held discussions on Israel’s onslaught against Gaza.

King Abdullah met with Borrell in the capital Amman, according to a statement by the Jordanian Royal Court

It said the Jordanian monarch highlighted "the need to work intensively to stop the war on Gaza (and to) end the (Israeli) siege" imposed on the Palestinian enclave.

He also stressed the necessity "to ensure the delivery of food, medicine, water and fuel" for Palestinians in Gaza.

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