The chief executive of one of the world’s top consulting firms apologized to staff and admitted “process failures” in the company’s decision to help design and run a controversial Israel-backed group that supplanted the work of the United Nations to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip, according to an email obtained by The Washington Post.

The incident happened as Israel and Hamas traded blame for the faltering mediation bid to secure a temporary ceasefire.

Israel's military announced on Friday that four soldiers were killed in Gaza while operating in the Khan Yunis area, raising the total military death toll in the territory to 429 since October 2023. Military spokesman Effie Defrin said an explosive device detonated inside a Hamas compound,

The Madleen, part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, left Sicily last week with a cargo of relief supplies "to break Israel's blockade on Gaza"

A U.S. and Israeli-backed humanitarian aid effort for Gaza says it's started distributing desperately needed food. The U.N. calls it a "distraction from what is actually needed."

Israel’s military said it fired warning shots at Palestinians who strayed from a route. Dozens more were injured in the shooting in Rafah, health officials and the Red Cross said.

At least 26 Palestinians were killed and at least 175 were wounded while they were on their way to retrieve food in the Gaza Strip, according to health officials and witnesses.

The former religious freedom commissioner and Trump faith adviser steps in after the first weeks of food distributions.