Middle East conflict live updates: Israel escalates strikes on Lebanon; more world leaders warn against Rafah assault

Negotiations to pause the fighting in Gaza and secure the release of Israeli hostages appeared to stall as Netanyahu accused Hamas of making “delusional demands,” with officials involved warning that the two sides are no closer on key details and Israeli media reporting that Netanyahu ordered negotiators not to return to Egypt.

Israelis who were previously held hostage in Gaza and the relatives of those still in captivity traveled to The Hague to file a complaint against Hamas leaders at the International Criminal Court. They said the immediate goal was to have arrest warrants issued against those responsible for the Oct. 7 attack, which ICC signatory nations are obliged to act upon.

Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis is the ninth health-care facility in Gaza that Doctors Without Borders staff and patients have been forced to evacuate under Israeli directives, the organization said, condemning the order issued this week. Intense shelling damaged al-Amal Hospital building in the same city, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said.

National security adviser Jake Sullivan said the United States was pressing Israel on aid access for Gazans, including a shipment of flour that “has not moved the way that we had expected it would move,” following an Axios report that the U.S. aid delivery had been held at an Israeli port for weeks on the order of Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.

At least 28,576 people have been killed and 68,291 injured in Gaza since the war began, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. Israel estimates that about 1,200 people were killed in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack and says at least 233 of its troops have been killed since its offensive in Gaza began.