A ship with a cargo of 2.6 million gallons of fuel bound for Gaza set off from Iraq's Al-Faw port, Ghassan Thuwini, director of the media office in the Iraqi Red Crescent Society, told NBC News today.

Thuwini added that the ship would travel through the Suez Canal in Egypt for 10 or 11 days before it enters the strip via the Rafah border with Egypt.

Two men hurriedly wheel a metal gurney, covered in the blood of a victim of a recent Israeli bombardment, past a crowd of onlookers at the E.U. hospital in Khan Younis today.

TEL AVIV- Sirens sounded in Tel Aviv today as Hamas militants launched what they called "a missile barrage" toward the city from Gaza.

There were no casualties or damage following the rocket strikes, Israeli police said on X, minutes after the IDF announced sirens went off in central Israel.

As many as 19 prison guards have been questioned about a "violent incident" at a "prison in the south of the country," a spokesperson for the Israel Police said yesterday.

At the end of their interrogation, they "were released under restrictive conditions," the spokesperson said.

In a separate post on X, the force said that a "group of female and male prison guards" were suspected of abusing a "terrorist" to death in the Ketziot prison. It added that the 38-year-old "was tried and imprisoned for attempted murder of Jews."

In a joint statement last month, advocacy groups, the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Commission and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club accused Israel of a “new assassination crime.”

A new vote on a U.N. resolution calling for enhanced humanitarian aid into Gaza and a cessation of hostilities is set to take place today, after being pushed back from Monday to Tuesday to yesterday amid diplomatic wrangling over the text.

The U.S. has been struggling to change the language calling for a cessation of hostilities and has also balked at a call for the establishment of United Nations mechanisms in Gaza to inspect aid trucks instead of Israel.

Humanitarian organizations have said Israeli checks have slowed down deliveries of aid in the strip amid rapidly rising levels of hunger and the collapse of medical facilities.

The U.S. has become increasingly isolated on the world stage in its rejection of a cease-fire in Gaza. The use of its veto power on a Security Council resolution calling for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” was met with widespread criticism.

Images released by the Israeli army today show soldiers during ground operations at an undisclosed location in the Gaza Strip.

There will be no more negotiations over prisoner exchange deals unless Israel halts the fighting, Hamas said today, adding that this had been agreed to by the Palestinian leadership.

“There is a Palestinian national decision that there should be no talk about prisoners or exchange deals except after a comprehensive cessation of aggression,” the group said in a statement on its Telegram channel.

While Hamas has been the de facto governing body in the Gaza Strip since 2007, when it ousted the Palestinian Authority from power, other smaller groups also operate there.

A series of Israeli airstrikes hit near a hospital in Rafah near Gaza's southern border with Egypt and smoke started to rise from the building, as British broadcaster Sky News filmed nearby.

First people huddled for cover, a father putting his arms around his crying children behind a car. Screams of desperation pierce the air amid the sound of sirens in the distance. As the injured are carried away, a mother searches for her son.

Then the scale of the devastation becomes clear. From under the mountains of rubble, the body of a dead child is found. Another body lies nearby, his face covered.

An estimated 20,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war Oct. 7, the Hamas media office said in a statement yesterday.

The toll includes 8,000 children and more than 6,000 women, the statement said, adding that an estimated 6,700 people were missing.