Israeli airstrikes killed at least 46 people in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, including 11 at a makeshift cafeteria in an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone, medics said. In Lebanon, warplanes struck Beirut's southern suburbs and killed 18 people elsewhere in the country on Tuesday.

A US deadline for Israel to improve getting humanitarian aid into Gaza has expired, with the Biden administration assessing that Israel is not blocking aid and so is not violating US law governing foreign military assistance.

Officials say Israel has taken some steps to meet a US demand for more supplies to enter Gaza, but aid agencies say conditions have actually worsened.

Israel rejected on Wednesday accusations made by eight international aid groups, including Oxfam and Save the Children, that Israel had failed to meet U.S. demands to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza.

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday named Mike Huckabee as his nominee for U.S. ambassador to Israel. Huckabee is a staunch defender of Israel, and his intended nomination comes as Trump has promised to align U.

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he has nominated former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee to be the United States ambassador to Israel. Huckabee, a two-time Republican presidential candidate and a fervent supporter of Israel,