A senior Hamas official told Reuters on Saturday that the chief of the group's military wing had died, a day after Israel said that it had carried out airstrikes targeting

Hamas and Hezbollah flags appeared at a Manhattan protest where organizers led chants rejecting Israel's right to exist and calling for its dismantling.

Israel has escalated its Gaza attacks since halting Iran bombing, redirecting its fire back on the ruined Palestinian enclave.

Investigators say Hamas perpetrators deliberately used sexual and gender-based violence as a weapon during the Oct. 7 massacres in southern Israel.

The European Union has reached a unanimous political agreement to issue new sanctions on Hamas leaders and Israeli settlers over violence in the West Bank.

His appearance comes as efforts to advance the phased ceasefire have stalled, without much progress on its key tenets, including demilitarization and reconstruction. The truce envisioned Hamas handing over its weapons, Israeli forces withdrawing and rebuilding destroyed swaths of the coastal enclave after more than two years of war.