Live updates: Middle East crisis

International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan urged ICC members as well as non-members to cooperate with the arrest warrants the court issued earlier on Thursday against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas leader Mohammed Deif, Khan said in a statement on Thursday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office on Thursday rejected the International Criminal Court's decision to issue arrest warrants against him and his former defence chief, describing them as "anti-Semitic".

"Israel rejects with disgust the absurd and false actions leveled against it by ICC," his office said in a statement, adding Israel won't "give in to pressure" in the defence of its citizens.

Netherlands is prepared to act upon ICC arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Dutch news agency ANP reports quoting country’s foreign minister.

Meanwhile President Isaac Herzog dubs the decision to arrest Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant “an absurd decision”. 

The International Criminal Court in The Hague said on Thursday that it had issued warrants for the arrest of Hamas leader Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri (also known as Mohammed Deif) and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and its former defence minister Yoav Gallant.

A man was killed when a rocket struck the northern Israeli town of Nahariya on Thursday, Israel's MDA medical service said.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesperson Omer Dostri has confirmed to AFP news agency that the Israeli prime minister will meet US envoy Amos Hochstein at 12:30pm local time (10:30GMT) for talks on a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah, reported Al Jazeera.

Israeli strikes killed 71 pro-Iran fighters in the Syrian city of Palmyra, with more than a third of them identified as fighters from Iraq and Lebanon, a monitor said Thursday.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said those killed in Wednesday's strikes included 45 fighters from pro-Iran Syrian groups, 26 foreign fighters, most of them from the Iraqi Al-Nujaba movement, and four from Lebanon's Hezbollah armed group.

Gaza's civil defence agency said Thursday 22 people were killed in an Israeli strike on Gaza City, while medical sources reported dozens of deaths in another overnight air raid.