White House envoy Steve Witkoff said in a statement on Saturday that Hamas' response to his ceasefire and hostage deal proposal is "totally unacceptable and only takes us backward." Why it matters: Hamas didn't accept Witkoff's proposal as a basis for negotiations and demanded numerous changes that brought the negotiations once again to a deadlock.

At least 31 people have been killed and more than a hundred injured in an incident at an aid distribution centre, the Hamas-run health ministry says.

A senior Hamas official tells The Associated Press that "there some notes and amendments to some points, especially on the U.S. guarantees, the timing of hostage release, the delivery of aid and the ...