Middle East conflict

Patients were evacuated from Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, also known as the Baptist Hospital, in Gaza City after an Israeli airstrike hit the facility on Sunday. The civil defence agency in Gaza said the strike came just minutes after the Israeli army issued a warning to evacuate the building. The blast reportedly destroyed the surgery unit and an oxygen generation station for the intensive care units. There were no immediate reports of casualties.

A group of eight Israeli lawmakers from both governing and opposition parties in the Knesset have called on Australian MPs to reject the country's longstanding two-state solution on Israel and Palestine. The letter, distributed at an event hosted at Parliament House in February, was handed to Queensland LNP backbencher Andrew Wallace by unidentified individuals.

Three empty buses exploded in Bat Yam, a city on the southern edge of Tel Aviv, in what Israeli police are calling a "suspected terror attack." The explosions, which occurred on Thursday night, resulted in no casualties, but authorities say two additional explosive devices failed to detonate.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to make Hamas "pay the full price" after the militant group failed to return the body of Shiri Bibas during a highly anticipated hostage handover on Thursday. The latest development in the already fragile ceasefire negotiations has sparked outrage in Israel and further deepened tensions in the region.