Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 17 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and destroyed bulldozers and other heavy equipment that had been supplied by mediators to clear rubble. Separate strikes killed two people in Lebanon.

Lebanese Islamist group Jamaa Islamiya announced the death of Hussein Atwi, calling him 'an academic leader' and saying an Israeli drone strike had 'targeted his car as he was travelling to his workplace in Beirut.

An Israeli air strike on a school sheltering displaced families in Gaza killed 10 people on Wednesday, an attack that Israel said targeted militants operating from within the complex. Since a January ceasefire collapsed on March 18,