A United Nations team says “a large number” of Palestinian civilians seeking food aid have been shot in the Gaza Strip, after Israeli military forces opened fire on an aid convoy in the besieged enclave.

Leaders at an African Union summit have condemned Israel’s offensive in Gaza, calling for its immediate end.

Hamas says Israeli forces’ siege of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza and the deployment of snipers around the health facility constitute a war crime.

Hezbollah says US air strikes in Iraq and Syria would further destabilize the region and it’s a flagrant violation of the sovereignty of the two countries.

Hamas has strongly condemned US strikes against a number of sites in Iraq and Syria, saying Washington is pouring "oil on the fire" in the region.

Nasser Kan'ani has called on the international community to condemn Israel’s assassination of Palestinian patients in a hospital in West Bank, stressing that that world should not remain silent in the face of this “terrorist act” and “barbaric behavior”.

Hamas has condemned the Israeli regime’s “threats” against UNRWA to stop the UN body from operating in Gaza after the war, urging the world body and other international organizations not to “cave in to the threats and blackmail.”