A fresh wave of Israeli strikes overnight has left more than 50 people dead across the Gaza Strip, hospital officials said.

Hamas is expected to release the remaining Israeli hostages held in Gaza and permanently end the war, according to Palestinian officials.

Israel resumed its military offensive in Gaza in March, blaming Hamas for rejecting a new US proposal to extend the ceasefire and free the remaining hostages. Since then, the Israeli military has launched waves of airstrikes on the besieged territory, killing hundreds of Palestinians and forcing many more to evacuate.

Journalists, and journalism, are increasingly a casualty of war,” said Stephanie Savell, director of the Costs of War project. “Democracy and peace require a free press; militarism helps fuel rollbacks to democracy in more ways than one.

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip had little to celebrate on Sunday as they began marking the normally festive Eid al-Fitr holiday with rapidly dwindling food supplies and no end in sight to the Israel-Hamas war that has devastated the territory. Dozens held prayers in the yard of demolished school in the southern town of Khan Younis.

Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter had a tense exchange with Brett McGurk, former President Biden's top Middle East adviser, after Leiter condemned the Biden administration's Gaza policy in a closed-door briefing at the Atlantic Council last week,

Israel hasn't allowed outside journalists independent access to Gaza since it launched its war. That means it's been almost solely Palestinian journalists reporting on a war they're living through.

Palestinians are uniformly horrified at the new bloodshed, which has brought the overall death toll in the territory to more than 50,000, according to the Gazan health ministry. Many Palestinians had only just returned to their homes after months of displacement and now have been forced to flee once more.

TEL AVIV — In the days following the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, hundreds of thousands of Israelis rushed to join the fight against Hamas and allied militants in the Gaza Strip. The enlistment rate soared, according to the Israeli military, with the number of soldiers reporting for duty far surpassing those who were formally called up.