The United Nations’ top court issued a legal opinion Wednesday stating that Israel, as an occupying power, is obligated to work with UN agencies to facilitate humanitarian aid in Gaza, a rebuke of the blockade it imposed on the Palestinian enclave earlier this year.

The US vice-president's visit comes after a flare-up of violence between Israel and Hamas that threatened to derail the 12-day-old truce.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance arrived in Israel on Tuesday to shore up the fragile U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza, following a burst of deadly violence and questions over the plan for long-term peace...

Israel has killed 87 Gazans, and injured 311, since the ceasefire went into place more than 10 days ago, local health officials said on Tuesday, most of them in the weekend’s escalation.

Israel identified the remains of the two deceased hostages that Hamas returned from Gaza Tuesday as Aryeh Zalmanovich, 85, and Tamir Adar, 38, both residents of Kibbutz Nir Oz.

Vice President JD Vance said on Wednesday that a flurry of recent visits to Israel by top American officials was intended to oversee the fragile cease-fire deal in Gaza and not to “monitor a toddler.”

The IDF urged the Israeli public on Tuesday evening to "act with sensitivity and wait for the official identification, which will first be provided to the families of the hostages".