UN envoy Mladenov briefed the Security Council on Gaza, warning of a deep crisis and presenting the first detailed international plan to disarm fighters and rebuild the territory.
Politicians across Germany's political spectrum, including Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservatives, the AfD and the Left party, are calling for the EU to sanction Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir over his remarks about killing people in Gaza.
Jared Kushner, a senior adviser to US President Donald Trump, held a rare direct meeting with a Hamas leader to try to revive a stalled Gaza peace plan, a week after Israel rejected it.
Two US human rights groups, DAWN and the Taxpayer Alliance Against Genocide, are suing the Trump administration over sanctions it placed on the International Criminal Court, the world's top war-crimes tribunal.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected a US-brokered Gaza peace plan, even though Hamas, the group that controls Gaza and has fought Israel there, already agreed to it.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video statement that Israeli troops will not leave Gaza until Hamas gives up its weapons entirely, rejecting the terms of a Gaza ceasefire and disarmament deal that US President Donald Trump announced only days earlier.
More than two dozen Palestinians killed in Gaza and over 125 Israeli incursions into Lebanese airspace this weekend test a disarmament framework announced just days earlier.
Hamas said Friday it agreed to a US-brokered plan under which it would disarm and Israeli troops would withdraw from Gaza.
Hamas has confirmed it agreed to a deal, announced by US President Donald Trump, in which it will give up its weapons in exchange for Israel gradually pulling its troops out of Gaza.