Middle East conflict live updates: ICJ to rule on Israel’s Rafah assault

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will soon address a joint session of Congress. “This will be a timely, and I think a very strong show of support,” Johnson said at an event at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, without providing further details.

A U.S. military official said three service members on the U.S.-built pier aid operation had suffered noncombat injuries offshore. One was taken to a hospital in Israel while the others returned to duty, Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, the deputy commander of U.S. Central Command, told reporters.

An Israeli airstrike hit a school classroom in Gaza City early Thursday, killing at least 10 people, including two children and an infant, according to a spokesperson for the civil defense emergency services in Gaza.

Israel’s war cabinet has instructed negotiators to resume talks on a deal to release hostages held in Gaza, Netanyahu’s office said early Thursday. The statement came hours after the families of five female Israeli soldiers released footage of their capture by Hamas on Oct. 7, in the hope it would push authorities to restart stalled negotiations.

At least 35,800 people have been killed and 80,200 injured in Gaza since the war began, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants but says the majority of the dead are women and children.

Israel estimates that about 1,200 people were killed in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, including more than 300 soldiers, and says 282 soldiers have been killed since the launch of its military operation in Gaza.