JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday instructed a senior delegation to depart to the Qatari capital Doha to continue advancing a deal with Hamas to release the Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip.

A statement from the Prime Minister's Office said the directive followed a situation assessment Netanyahu held Saturday evening with Defense Minister Israel Katz and U.S. negotiators from "both the outgoing and incoming administrations." (Israel-Gaza-Talks)

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KHARTOUM -- The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) on Saturday recaptured Wad Madani, the capital city of Gezira State in central Sudan, from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the office of the SAF spokesperson said in a statement.

"The command of the SAF congratulates our honorable people on the entry of our forces into Wad Madani this Saturday morning, where they are currently engaged in cleaning up pockets of resistance by the rebels inside the city," the statement said. (Sudan-Army-Victory)

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GAZA -- At least 20 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded on Saturday in Israeli airstrikes on various areas of the Gaza Strip.

Eight Palestinians, including two children and two women, were killed, and more than 30 people, including 19 children, were wounded in an Israeli bombing on a school housing displaced people in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal told Xinhua. (Gaza-Israel-Deaths)

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SANAA -- Yemen's Houthi group said in a statement Saturday night that it had launched a new missile and drone attack against the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier in the northern Red Sea in the past 24 hours, claiming the attack lasted nine hours.

"This is the fifth time we targeted the aircraft carrier since its arrival in the Red Sea," Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said in the statement aired by the Houthi-run al-Masirah TV. (Yemen-Houthis-US-Attack) Enditem

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