Live: Hamas agrees to release 10 Israeli captives

Israeli air strikes have killed at least 27 people across the Gaza Strip since dawn, medical sources in Gaza told Al Jazeera Arabic.

The casualties come amid a renewed wave of attacks as Israel continues its months-long offensive on the besieged enclave.

Emergency workers are still pulling bodies from the rubble in several targeted areas, with the death toll expected to rise.

Abu Obeida, spokesperson for the Qassam Brigades - Hamas’s armed wing - said the group had delivered “an additional blow” with an attack in Beit Hanoon that killed at least five Israeli soldiers. “In an area the [Israeli] occupation thought was safe,” he said, “our fighters struck again.”

He warned that the ongoing battle of attrition, stretching from the north to the south of Gaza, would continue to inflict daily losses on Israeli forces. “Even if it miraculously succeeded recently in freeing its soldiers from hell, it may fail later, leaving us with additional prisoners,” he said in a statement released on Hamas’s Telegram channel.

Abu Obeida also declared that Gaza’s future would not be dictated by outside powers. “The brave resistance fighters and our steadfast people in Gaza are the only ones who can determine the enclave’s future,” he said.

He closed with a direct warning to the Israeli leadership: “The most foolish decision Netanyahu could make would be to keep his forces inside the Gaza Strip.”

 A roadside bomb killed five Israeli soldiers and wounded 14 others in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun overnight, the Israeli military confirmed on Tuesday.

Gaza truce negotiations have resumed in Doha, a source close to the talks told AFP on Tuesday. The latest round of discussions comes amid mounting international pressure to reach a deal that would halt Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza. 

Israeli settlers have once again stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque under the protection of heavily armed occupation forces, according to sources who spoke to Al Jazeera.

Witnesses said settlers performed religious rituals during the incursion, in a repeated provocation at one of Islam’s holiest sites.

Tensions remain high in occupied East Jerusalem, where such raids are frequently backed by Israeli police despite international calls to preserve the status quo.

An Israeli drone strike killed two Palestinians and wounded another after targeting a tent sheltering displaced civilians west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, according to the Nasser Medical Complex, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.

Medical staff said the tent was housing people who had fled earlier bombardments.

A coalition of 48 nations has voiced “deep concern” over Washington’s decision to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), calling out all forms of pressure, threats, or attacks against the court’s judges and staff.

In a joint statement, the group pledged continued backing for the tribunal: “We stand with the court and are determined to continue our full support for it so that it can continue to operate independently and effectively.”

The rebuke follows a move by the Trump administration targeting ICC personnel, singling out four judges it accuses of taking “illegitimate and baseless actions” against the United States and its allies, including Israel.

Israeli warplanes carried out a wave of deadly air raids across the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, hitting residential buildings and shelters housing displaced families.

At least 13 Palestinians were killed in the strikes, among them women and children, according to local health authorities, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. Dozens more were wounded, with varying degrees of injury, as explosions rocked several areas of the besieged enclave.

Al-Shifa Hospital confirmed four fatalities, including a baby, after a home near Carrefour Mall in Gaza City’s Tel al-Hawa district was hit.

Separately, the Baptist Hospital reported that two people were killed and others wounded when an Israeli missile struck the home of Khader al-Jamasi, located next to Al-Ibki Mosque in the eastern Al-Tuffah neighbourhood.

The controversial US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has proposed creating camps called “Humanitarian Transit Areas” in the Gaza Strip to house Palestinians and "deradicalise" them, Reuters reported on Monday.

The proposal is part of an overall strategy to end the control of Hamas over the Palestinian enclave.

Reuters reported that the $2bn plan was submitted to the Trump administration and recently discussed in the White House.

The camps are described as "large-scale" and "voluntary" in the plan, and places that Palestinians can “temporarily reside, deradicalize, re-integrate and prepare to relocate if they wish to do so”.

A slide deck seen by Reuters called for using the sprawling facilities to "gain trust with the local population" and to facilitate US President Donald Trump's "vision for Gaza".

Read more: GHF proposed camps for Palestinians to 'reside, de-radicalise and re-integrate'

A roadside bomb killed five Israeli soldiers and wounded 14 others in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun overnight, the Israeli military confirmed on Tuesday.

Of the injured, two soldiers remain in serious condition.

At least 888 Israeli troops have been killed since 7 October 2023.

Good morning Middle East Eye readers, 

Here are some of the latest updates from the Israeli war on Gaza, now in its 640th day: 

• Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Monday that 105 people were killed and 356 wounded in the past 24 hours. The total Palestinian death toll since the war began has reached 57,523, with 136,617 injured.

• The Israeli army confirmed on Tuesday that five soldiers died and 14 were wounded during clashes with Palestinian resitance forces in northern Gaza. Earlier reports had stated five dead and 10 injured.

• Late on Monday, Palestinian fighters detonated an explosive device targeting an Israeli armoured vehicle. They later fired an anti-tank missile at a military robot carrying ammunition.

• A proposal by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, reviewed by Reuters, suggested constructing "Humanitarian Transit Areas" inside or outside Gaza. The plan aims to "replace Hamas' control over the population in Gaza".

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US President Donald Trump on Monday that he had nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize. Netanyahu handed Trump a nomination letter during their White House meeting.

Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

- US President Donald Trump hosted a dinner at the White House on Monday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's third visit to Washington in six months. 

- Netanyahu told the US president he has nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize for his negotiation efforts with Iran and on Gaza.

- Trump and Netanyahu revealed that there are talks with neighbouring countries to resettle Palestinians from Gaza, but did not reveal details. 

- On the long-held US policy of a two-state solution, Trump said he doesn't know what to think and deferred to Netanyahu, who said that while Palestinians can govern themselves, they will never be given control over security. 

- Trump confirmed that US-Iran talks have been "scheduled" and negotiations are back on after the US bombed Iran's three nuclear facilities two weeks ago. 

- Israel and Hamas did not achieve a breakthrough in their latest round of indirect talks in Doha for a Gaza ceasefire, a Palestinian official told AFP on Monday. 

- The Quds News Network reported that at least 16 Israeli soldiers were wounded and later evacuated by a medical helicopter from Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza, after an ambush by Palestinian fighters. 

- The World Health Organisation is due to deliver medical supplies to Gaza on Tuesday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Monday. The supplies will not contain food items.

US President Donald Trump has confirmed that US-Iran nuclear talks are back on the schedule, with a meeting set to take place in Oslo, Norway in the coming days.

The move follows a so-called "12-day war" between Israel and Iran, during which Trump bombed Iran's three nuclear sites - something no other US president had agreed to do before. 

"They want to talk," Trump told reporters at a Monday dinner he hosted for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House.

"I would love to - at the right time - take those sanctions off," Trump said, referencing his similar move in regards to Syria.

"I'd like to see Iran build itself back up in a peaceful manner, and not going around, saying 'Death to America, Death to Israel' as they were doing. You know, they were the bully of the Middle East, and now they're not the bully anymore," he said. 

US President Donald Trump, while hosting a dinner for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, told reporters that Israel's neighbours may be willing to take Palestinians relocated from Gaza. 

"We've had great cooperation from... surrounding countries, great cooperation from every single one of them. So something good will happen," Trump said.

"It's called free choice," Netanyahu said.

"You know, if people want to stay, they can stay, but if they want to leave, they should be able to leave," he added. "It shouldn't be a prison. It should be an open place and give people a free choice. We're working with the United States very closely about finding countries that will... give Palestinians a better future."

Scholars and human rights groups have long described Gaza as an "open air prison" due to the air, land, and sea blockade Israel has imposed there since Hamas was elected in the 2006 legislative elections. 

Steve Witkoff, US President Donald Trump's Special Envoy for Peace Missions, told reporters on Monday that there is an "opportunity to finally get a peace deal" in Gaza, but gave no timeline. 

Hamas officials had earlier confirmed that ceasefire talks wrapped up with no breakthrough. 

Witkoff spoke at the White House dinner for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

When asked about the potential for a two-state solution, Trump said he doesn't know, and deferred to Netanyahu.

Netanyahu said that while Palestinians must govern themselves, only Israel can control security. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has gifted US President Donald Trump a copy of the letter he sent to the Nobel committee, nominating him for the Peace Prize for his negotiation efforts with Iran and in Gaza.

The two leaders were having dinner at the White House on Monday evening, local time in Washington.