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Israeli airstrikes killed five people in Gaza and three in the West Bank on Friday, despite a fragile ceasefire brokered by the United States.
Meanwhile, thousands of sailors remain stranded in the Persian Gulf by the Iran war, while Iran is touting an energy deal with Russia and the U.S. has imposed restrictions on a major Egyptian bank for its ties with Iran.
Two brothers and another relative died in a strike on the family's home outside Khan Younis, officials at Nasser Hospital said. Israel's military said it was not aware of a strike in Khan Younis.
Two separate Israeli strikes killed one person each in Gaza City on Friday, according to health officials at Shifa hospital. Israel's military confirmed it struck two separate areas in the city, without elaborating.
The five deaths are the latest in Gaza since an October ceasefire deal. While the heaviest fighting has subsided, Israeli forces have carried out repeated airstrikes, killing at least 1,303 Palestinians, according to health officials in Gaza.
Israel's military also said it killed three Palestinians in an airstrike in the West Bank city of Jenin on Friday, describing one of the dead as a Hamas operative and the two others as accomplices.
The military identified one of the targets as Qais Bitawi who was alleged to be "involved in advancing significant terrorist activity." The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed Bitawi had been killed, along with two others. Hamas condemned the strike as a "heinous crime."
Violence has escalated in the West Bank, where at least 87 Palestinians have been killed in attacks by Israeli settlers and soldiers this year, according to Palestinian officials. Three Israelis have been killed by Palestinians in 2026.
Also on Friday, the United Kingdom warned against any attempt by Israel to remove British officials from the Gaza ceasefire coordination center.
The U.K. government said any move to remove its officials would "undermine shared efforts" to implement the 20-point Gaza peace plan. The comments came in response to reports that Israel is considering expelling officials from Britain and other European nations from the monitoring center.
Israel has already removed two Dutch diplomats from the ceasefire center. The country said Thursday that the decision was in response to a Dutch ban on the trade of Israeli products from the occupied West Bank and other " anti-Israel measures."