Live updates on Israel's war against Hamas

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, asked in an interview with CNBC on Wednesday about Hamas disarming, said decisions about what kind of action will be taken and when would be made with the Board of Peace, which US President Donald Trump set up last year to oversee a phased ceasefire.

Israel's hardline finance minister announced on Wednesday a major expansion by more than 2,000 homes of three Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank that Palestinians hope will be part of a future independent state.

Most nations consider Israeli settlements there to be illegal under international law and a major obstacle to a two-state solution for long-term peace.

Bezalel Smotrich, who holds authority over parts of Israel's civilian administration in the occupied West Bank, said a planning committee approved the construction of 2,162 new Jewish homes.

They include 1,006 units in a new settlement near Jerusalem, 922 near the Palestinian city of Nablus and 234 near Hebron.

"We are continuing to build the Land of Israel in practice," said Smotrich, an ultranationalist sanctioned by Britain, France and others who accuse him of inciting violence against Palestinians.

Israeli fire killed at least three Palestinians in separate incidents across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Gaza health officials said.

Medics said at least one person was killed and four were wounded when an Israeli airstrike hit a vehicle east of Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. The blast left the vehicle a mangled skeleton.

Another strike earlier in the day killed one person and wounded another in the nearby Zawayda town, they added, while Israeli gunfire killed one man in northwest Khan Younis, south of the enclave.

A Hamas delegation is due to meet with mediators in Egypt on Wednesday to discuss ways of advancing the fragile Gaza ceasefire, officials from the Palestinian Islamist movement told AFP.

"Egypt has invited Hamas and other factions to participate in talks with mediators on Wednesday... which will also include Qatari and Turkish officials," a Hamas official said, declining to be identified as he was not authorised to speak publicly on the matter.

The official said the Hamas delegation, headed by chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya, as well as representatives from other Palestinian factions, was expected to arrive in Cairo starting Tuesday for the talks to be held in the Mediterranean town of El-Alamein.

"Hamas believes a breakthrough and progress are possible if Israel does not create new obstacles and if there is a genuine Israeli will to reach a solution," the official added.

"The resistance factions will not accept disarmament under conditions imposed by the occupation," a second Hamas official told AFP.

Two people have been killed in an Israeli Apache helicopter attack on a fishing port west of Gaza City, Al Jazeera reported, citing the Wafa news agency.

Wafa said the death toll from the attack had risen to two, while several others were wounded.

Several more people were wounded in Israeli attacks across Gaza on Sunday.

A bomb dropped by a quadcopter drone hit a group of people in the Zeitoun neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, injuring several.

Israeli forces also shelled the area around Al-Hatabiya Street in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip.

A provision in a bill before the United States Congress could bring the American and Israeli militaries into much closer cooperation on weapons research, production and technology, Al Jazeera reported.

The proposal, titled the "United States-Israel Defence Technology Cooperation Initiative", appears as Section 224 of the House Armed Services Committee's version of the fiscal year 2027 National Defence Authorisation Act.

The NDAA is the annual US defence policy bill used to set military policy and authorise defence programmes and spending levels.

The measure remains at an early stage, but if enacted, it could mark a significant shift in one of the world’s closest military relationships.

The provision could move the US-Israel relationship beyond a partnership largely centred on American military aid towards deeper integration between the two countries’ defence industries.

The Palestinian resistance group has criticised US President Donald Trump's so-called Board of Peace for remaining silent on Israeli plans to seize control of about 70% of Gaza, Al Jazeera reported.

The spokesperson for the Hamas movement, Hazem Qasim, said the plan violates the ceasefire agreement as Israel continues to work on plans to displace Palestinians from the territory.

Qasim warned that turning a blind eye to these aggressive statements and failing to condemn Israel's expansionist policies raises serious questions about the sponsoring parties' commitments.

Earlier this year, Trump named high-level members to join the body to oversee Gaza's post-war transition, including controversial figures like Tony Blair and Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Israel has raised objections too, even though critics warn the US-led body sidelines Palestinian voices.

The Palestinian news agency, Wafa reported on Friday that three people were killed early this morning in an Israeli attack on the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis.

An Israeli drone targeted the victims in the Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis area, according to Wafa, leaving three dead and others injured.

Separate Israeli shelling also injured Palestinians in the same area, Wafa reported.

In the north of the Strip, five people were injured in an Israel attack on Yarmouk Street in Gaza City, according to the report.