Middle East conflict live updates: Netanyahu rejects international pressure on peace plan, Palestinian state

At Nasser Hospital, three patients in intensive care died from lack of oxygen during a total power outage Thursday, the Gaza Health Ministry said, a day after the facility was raided by the Israel Defense Forces. Hazem Bahlool, a doctor at the hospital, confirmed the deaths and said the facility had been without water or electricity for more than three hours.

Footage and satellite imagery obtained by The Post show that Egypt is clearing off and building a wall around a plot of land along its border with the Gaza Strip, amid fears of an Israeli offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. That plan is straining Israel’s most important alliances, including its 40-year peace accord with Egypt.

The Israeli Air Force said it attacked three Hezbollah sites in Lebanon, a day after its most forceful attack on Lebanon since the start of the war in Gaza.

A U.S. Coast Guard ship on Jan. 28 intercepted an Iranian weapons shipment intended for the Houthi militant group in Yemen that has been attacking ships in the Red Sea, U.S. Central Command said Thursday. Explosives and drones were among the more than 200 packages seized.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken called for an investigation into reports that U.S. citizens have been killed in violence in the West Bank. At least two Americans, Mohammad Ahmad Alkhdour and Tawfic Abdel Jabbar, have been killed there in the past month.

At least 28,663 people have been killed and 68,395 injured in Gaza since the war began, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. Israel estimates about 1,200 people were killed in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack and says at least 234 of its troops have been killed since its offensive in Gaza began.