Israel-Palestine live: Biden urges Egypt, Qatar to press Hamas for hostage deal

Israeli forces are "tightening… [the] siege of the al-Shifa Hospital" by detaining people in the Human Resources Department, a section of the hospital that is not equipped for healthcare, according to Gaza's health ministry.

The ministry called on the international community to "intervene to save their lives".

The hospital has been under siege since 18 March when Israeli forces stormed the compound in Gaza City. An estimated 30,000 people including displaced civilians, wounded patients and medical staff were sheltering there.

The US Treasury Department has announced sanctions against finance and trade facilitators for Yemen's Houthi rebels, the Lebanese group Hezbollah and Iran's Quds Force.

The sanctions target six entities, one individual and two tankers that are based or registered in Liberia, India, Vietnam, Lebanon, and Kuwait, and that have engaged in facilitating commodity shipments and financial transactions, the US Treasury Department said in a statement.

Dozens of Palestinians formed human chains in Ramallah to protest Israel's ongoing assault on Gaza.

Protesters gathered in Al-Manara square and held aloft pictures of Palestinians killed and detained by Israeli forces. The demonstrators then marched towards the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to condemn the organisation's failure to protect Palestinian detainees.

The ICRC is the body responsible for ensuring that detainees are treated in accordance with international law and standards.

The Israeli military have confirmed targeting sites in northeast Lebanon on Tuesday.

They said that the air strikes were in response to a rocket attack on one of its bases near the Lebanese border, and targeted  “a military compound used by Hezbollah’s aerial unit”. 

The attack is the furthest bombardment yet from Israel's southern border with Lebanon where Hezbollah has been exchanging fire with Israel since October.

Jordanian security forces violently dispersed thousands of pro-Palestine protesters who were rallying outside the Israeli embassy in Amman.

The security forces fired tear gas at demonstrators who had gathered for a second day to demand the Jordanian government end its peace agreement with Israel.

UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, told the global body's Human Rights Council that she had found "reasonable grounds" to believe that Israel has committed several acts of genocide in its war on Gaza and called for it to be placed under an arms embargo. 

The UN expert submitted a report to the council on Tuesday, which detailed how Israel has violated three of the five acts listed under the UN Genocide Convention.

"The overwhelming nature and scale of Israel's assault on Gaza and the destructive conditions of life it has inflicted reveal an intent to physically destroy Palestinians as a group," the report said.

Israel, which did not attend the session, rejected her findings.

Around 5,881 Palestinian students have been killed and 9,899 injured since 7 October, Gaza's Ministry of Education said on Tuesday.

According to the ministry, over 5,826 students killed and 9,570 injured in Gaza, while in the West Bank, 55 students have been killed and 329 injured.

The ministry added that 264 teachers and school administrators have been killed and 960 injured in Gaza, while 286 government schools and 65 Unrwa schools have been targeted by Israeli air strikes, leaving 111 of them severely damaged and 40 destroyed.

The UN Palestinian refugee agency (Unrwa) has sufficient funds to keep its operations going until the end of May, the agency's head said on Tuesday.

The agency had previously said that it is at "breaking point" following funding suspensions after Israel alleged that 12 of its employees were involved in the Hamas-led attacks on 7 October.

“What I can say today is that we can run our operation until the end of May, whereas a month ago I had just the visibility for the next week or two weeks,” Unrwa Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini told the Reuters news agency in Geneva.

“But that shows also how bad the financial situation of the organisation is.”

Two suspected Israeli air strikes have hit the northeast Lebanese towns of Ras Baabelk and Hemel on Tuesday, Lebanese media have reported.

Footage circulated online showed smoke rising from the targeted site.

Thirty Palestinians have been detained by Israeli forces in mass arrests across the West Bank, according to the Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS).

According to PPS, most of the arrests took place in Jalazone camp, north of Ramallah, while other detentions were conducted in governorates of Hebron, Tulkarm, Nablus, Jenin, and Tubas.

The group added that detainees were severely beaten, and their families threatened.

The detentions bring the total number of Palestinians arrested in the West Bank since October 7  to 7,800.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has announced the closure of al-Amal hospital in southern Gaza, which had been besieged by Israeli forces since Sunday.

On Monday, 27 staff, six patients and the bodies of two people were transferred to Khan Younis. According PRCS, they were trapped in ambulances for 20 hours.

The society expressed its "profound regret" at the hospital's closure, citing the failure of the international community "to provide the necessary protection for its teams, patients, and IDPs (internally displaced persons)."

"The hospital suffered the same fate as the PRCS’s Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City, which was taken out of service several months ago," PRCS posted on X.

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh met with Iranian officials in Tehran on Tuesday in his second visit to the Iranian capital since 7 October.  

During a press conference in which he spoke alongside Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, Haniyeh praised the "legendary resistance" of Palestinians and said that international support for Israel is waning.

Haniyeh also commended Iran for “standing at the forefront of supporting the cause and nation of Palestine”.

Gaza's health ministry said the Palestinian death toll from Israel's war on Gaza has reached 32,414, with 81 being killed in the last 24 hours.

Additionally, 74,787 have been wounded since the start of the war.

Majed al-Ansari, a spokesperson for Qatar’s foreign ministry, told reporters that truce talks were still ongoing in Doha, rejecting Israeli claims that the UN Security Council's passing of a ceasefire resolution had "an immediate impact" on the negotiations.

Quoting private sources, Arabi21 says that the US oppose the release of Palestinian prisoner Marwan Barghouti from Israeli custody, in response to Israel's request to keep him behind bars.

Barghouti, a prominent member of Fatah and regarded as a leading Palestinian political figure, has been imprisoned since 2002. Hamas reportedly want him freed as part of a hostage exchange deal with Israel.

Arabi21 says that American and Israeli refusal to release him stems from the physical assaults he has been subjected to by Israeli prison guards lately, which they say have put his life at risk.

The outlet says that the Palestinian Authority would also prefer for Barghouti to remain in prison, as President Mahmoud Abbas worries his release might cause divisions within Fatah and threaten his authority.