Live updates: Middle East crisis

Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for Israel to deepen the fighting in Gaza, after Hamas signalled its rejection of the most recent ceasefire proposal.

"The time has come to open the gates of hell on Hamas, to deepen the fighting until the full conquest of the Gaza Strip," Smotrich said, following an announcement by the Palestinian militant group that it would not accept a "partial" ceasefire

Hamas's chief negotiator declared on Thursday that the Palestinian group would not accept any "partial" ceasefire deal in Gaza, signalling rejection of Israel's latest proposal.

"Partial agreements are used by (Israeli Prime Minister) Benjamin Netanyahu as a cover for his political agenda... we will not be complicit in this policy," Khalil al-Hayya said in a televised statement, adding that the group "seeks a comprehensive agreement... in return for stopping the war".

A Palestinian has been wounded when a group of Israeli settlers opened fire in Khirbet al-Rakeez, in the Masafer Yatta area, in the occupied West Bank, reported Al Jazeera.

Local Palestinian news outlets posted videos of the aftermath of the attack, in which the victim can be seen lying on the ground.

Reports say Israeli settlers attacked farmers in the area under the protection of Israeli forces.

Settler violence and the Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes in Masafer Yatta have been the object of the Oscar-winning documentary, No Other Land.

Four civilians have been killed and many wounded when Israel bombed a home in Jabalia, northern Gaza, reported Al Jazeera.

In a separate incident, one person was killed by Israeli gunfire in the Qizan Raswan area, south of Khan Younis, in the south.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday that one of its bases in Gaza was damaged by an explosive, in the second such incident in three weeks.

The ICRC said on X that it was "outraged that on 16 April an ICRC premises in Gaza was struck and damaged by an explosive". It did not say who carried out the attack. A tank shell struck another of the organisation's premises in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory on March 24.

Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani said on Thursday that Israel had failed to respect January's ceasefire agreement in Gaza, as he met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

"As you know, we reached an agreement months ago, but unfortunately Israel did not abide by this agreement," said the ruler of Qatar, a key mediator of the deal.

The humanitarian aid system in Gaza is "facing total collapse" due to Israel's blockade on aid supplies since March 2, the heads of 12 major aid organisations warned on Thursday, urging Israel to let them to "do our jobs".

"This is one of the worst humanitarian failures of our generation," the chief executives of 12 NGOs, including Oxfam and Save the Children, wrote in a statement.

Medical sources in Gaza said that at least 27 people were killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza today, marking a particularly bloody day for the northern Strip.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday told Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani that it was important for Moscow to discuss the Israel-Palestine conflict and the future of Syria during the Qatari ruler's visit to Moscow.

Following Wednesday’s official visit to Malaysia by Chinese President Xi Jinping, the two countries have released a joint statement calling on Israel and Hamas to “continuously and effectively implement the Gaza ceasefire agreement”, reported Al Jazeera.