Foreign ministers at the G20 group of nations meeting in Brazil have broadly backed a two-state solution to the conflict in the Middle East, Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira said.
There was "virtual unanimity for the two-state solution as the only possible solution for the conflict" between Israel and the Palestinians, he told journalists in Rio de Janeiro.
Earlier, European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said every speaker who addressed the Israel-Hamas war, called for a two-state solution, which envisages an independent, democratic Palestinian state existing alongside Israel.
"Everybody here, everybody. I haven't heard anyone against it. There was a strong request for a two-state solution," he told reporters. "It is consensus among us," he added.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who leads a far-right coalition government, has bluntly rejected Palestinian statehood.
In January, he told US President Joe Biden he would not compromise on full Israeli security control over the entire area west of the Jordan River.
UNRWA at 'breaking point,' chief says
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) warned on Thursday that it had reached "breaking point" as fighting in Gaza continues.
"It is with profound regret that I must now inform you that UNRWA has reached a breaking point, with Israel's repeated calls to dismantle it and the freezing of funding by donors at a time of unprecedented humanitarian needs in Gaza," UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said.
"The agency's ability to fulfill the mandate given through General Assembly resolution 302 is now seriously threatened," he added.
Lazzarini said more medical personnel, UN staff, journalists and children had been killed in four months of fighting than in any other conflict.
"Over 150 UNRWA premises have been hit by bombardment or shelling, killing over 390 people, and injuring over 13,000. Many reports of UN premises being used by Hamas combatants or by the Israeli army are circulating on social media," he said. "The last remaining hospitals are collapsing, and doctors amputate children's limbs without anesthetic, which puts pain at a new level for children, their parents, and medical personnel. According to UN experts, famine is imminent."
Israeli forces withdraw from Gaza's Nasser hospital: Palestinian health authorities
Israeli troops have withdrawn from Gaza's Nasser hospital, the Hamas-run Health Ministry in the territory said.
There was no immediate confirmation from the Israel Defense Forces.
Israeli soldiers raided the hospital in Khan Younis, the main medical complex in the southern Gaza Strip, last week. The facility stopped functioning after a siege that lasted several days.
The World Health Organization said it was seeking to evacuate more patients from the hospital after successfully transferring 50 patients on Wednesday.
"The WHO will continue to try evacuation of those critically ill and critically wounded patients from the Nasser hospital to other hospitals in the south, including the field hospitals that have been established in Rafah," Ayadil Saparbekov, WHO Health Emergencies Team Lead in the Palestinian territories, said Thursday.
"However it's a very difficult and high risk mission."
The Health Ministry in Gaza said 110 patients were still waiting to be evacuated.
Israel says Hamas, which is considered a terrorist organization by Israel, the US, Germany, and others, uses hospitals for cover.
Hamas has denied the allegations, saying Israel is using the claims as a pretext to destroy Gaza's health care system.
Several die in Israeli strikes on Rafah as Gaza death toll rises
Israeli airstrikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah have destroyed a mosque and several homes, with several people killed and injured, according to authorities and witnesses.
Some 1.4 million Palestinians are estimated to have sought shelter in the city on the Egyptian border, which was declared a "safe zone" by Israel in the first weeks of its war on Hamas.
Residents told Reuters news agency the bombing overnight to Thursday was the heaviest since an Israeli raid on the city 10 days ago in which two Israeli hostages were freed and scores of civilians were killed.
Reuters reported seeing at least seven corpses in body bags outside a morgue in the city.
The attacks come as Israel threatens to launch a ground offensive in the city in its bid to root out militants from Hamas, which carried out deadly attacks in the south of Israel on October 7, when around 1,200 were killed.
The Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza now says that at least 29,410 people have been killed in the Palestinian territory since the Israeli military operation in October began.
Suspected Houthi attack sets ship ablaze: UK maritime security agency
A suspected missile attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels has caused a fire on board a ship transiting the Gulf of Aden, according to the British military's United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center.
"A vessel was attacked by two missiles, resulting in a fire onboard," the center said, adding that "coalition forces are responding."
The ship has so far not been named.
Yemeni Houthis have been carrying out attacks on ships in the region in what they say are acts of solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip amid Israel's offensive there against the Islamist-militant group Hamas.
The ship attack comes as as Israel intercepted what appeared to be another Houthi attack near the port city of Eilat.
