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A school in Gaza sheltering displaced Palestinians was hit by an Israeli strike early Thursday, killing more than 30 people, including 23 women and children, according to local health officials in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory. Hugo Bachega, Middle East correspondent for BBC News, joined CBS News to talk about the situation.

An Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza killed more than 30 people, according to local health officials in the Hamas-run territory. Israel's military says Hamas forces were operating there, but so far, there is limited evidence of that.

A gunman Wednesday exchanged gunfire with Lebanese soldiers outside the U.S. Embassy near Beirut. The attacker, a Syrian national, was shot and has been hospitalized, the Lebanese military said. No soldiers were wounded. The attempted attack comes amid heightened tensions between Israel and Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. Imtiaz Tyab has more.

The Jerusalem Day march was taking place as tensions over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza remain high.

STORY: Doctor Sireen Al-Attar, obstetrician Doctor Medhat Saidam, plastic surgeon Doctor Hammam Alloh, kidney specialist They are among at least 490 Gazan healthcare workers killed since the war between Israel and Hamas broke out on October 7, according to Gaza’s health ministry. Fifty-five of these healthcare workers were specialists, part of a vanguard improving public health for Gaza’s fast-growing population. A network of knowledge that it will take Gaza years to recover died with them. Reuters could not independently verify the circumstances of their deaths. Even before the war, the health service in Gaza was fraught with difficulties. Israel had imposed a blockade on the Palestinian enclave after Hamas seized control there in 2007. But the health sector was making advances in some fields, thanks to investment and support from abroad and the persistence of doctors like Al-Attar, Saidam and Alloh. They wanted to create a healthcare system for a future Palestinian state. Then came the war. Dr Sireen Al-Attar was killed in an Israeli airstrike days after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, according to Gaza’s health ministry. She was sheltering at her parents’ home in Bureij, a refugee camp, with her three children. In 2008, she’d won Gaza’s only scholarship for specialty training in obstetrics and gynecology – in Amman, Jordan. Over the following years in Gaza, she passed on the skills she had learned. Dr Deborah Harrington is a British obstetrician who helped instruct Al-Attar and others. “She was really passionate about improving outcomes for women and their babies. She was passionate about teaching and she wanted to do something a little bit different, in that she wanted to bring the multidisciplinary team, she wanted to involve midwives and doctors together to make a better experience for women, to make safer and better outcomes for them.” The killing of even one doctor like Al-Attar could cripple the services they led where specialists were few, doctors and experts say. Specialist doctors were part of a strategic effort by Hamas to build a self-sufficient health system for Gaza, the enclave’s first health minister told Reuters. Hamas and its allies have long argued that Israel has a goal of destroying its health system, an allegation Israel’s military denies. Reuters found that seven of the 55 specialists were killed in hospitals. Twenty-three died while away from work. Israel’s military did not comment on the deaths of the doctors named in this story. But it said in a statement to Reuters that the Israel Defense Forces had “overwhelming and irrefutable” evidence that Hamas made military use of hospitals and medical infrastructure. Reuters was unable to independently verify those competing claims. Kidney specialist Dr Hammam Alloh is another case in point. The day Hamas attacked Israel last October, he contacted Dr Tarek Loubani, who is based in Canada and medical director of The Glia Project, which makes medical devices for conflict zones. Alloh recalled how in Gaza’s 2014 war, patients had died because hospitals couldn’t obtain dialyzers. “He knew that the work we did with Glia (Project), was to make devices in nearly impossible situations. We have been doing this for several years and so he instantly recognized that his patients on dialysis were going to need equipment, a lot of it." But they could do little to help. And five weeks later, Alloh was killed in an airstrike on his in-laws’ house near Al Shifa Hospital, his sister and four colleagues told Reuters. He was one of just three kidney specialists. Another has left Gaza, leaving only one. In mid-October, the body of plastic surgeon Medhat Saidam, who had three daughters and a son, was pulled from the rubble of his home in Gaza City after an Israeli airstrike, his colleague Hasan Eljaish said. Saidam specialized in burns, limb reconstruction and cleft palate. He was like a big brother or a father to all his colleagues, whom he mentored in burn management at Al Shifa hospital, Eljaish said. “Becoming a plastic surgeon does not happen overnight, that someone can become capable of doing such work. This takes years. I believe that finding a replacement for Saidam in terms of his value and abilities, it will take years. It will take years – no less than ten to fifteen years to get someone with such experience." Gaza had only five practicing plastic surgeons with the same experience and training, Eljaish said. Another, Ahmad al-Maqadma, was killed in April in an Israeli raid on Al Shifa hospital, friends and colleagues said, so now there are three.

The Israeli military reported that four more hostages are dead and that their bodies are still being held by Hamas. It comes amid increasing pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a cease-fire deal. Imtiaz Tyab reports from Tel Aviv.

The three-phase plan would stop the fighting, release all hostages and help civilians caught in the middle of the war.

STORY: Thousands of people expressed their support for Israel Sunday in New York.. .while thousands of others backed the Palestinians in Karachi. In Israel, An aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed on Sunday that it had accepted a framework deal for winding down the Gaza war now being advanced by U.S. President Joe Biden. In an interview with Britain's Sunday Times Netanyahu’s chief foreign policy advisor Ophir Falk said Biden's proposal was "a deal we agreed to — it's not a good deal but we dearly want the hostages released, all of them." :: May 31, 2024 :: May 8, 2024 Biden said the first phase entails a truce and the return of some hostages held by Hamas, after which the sides would negotiate on an open-ended cessation of hostilities for a second phase in which remaining live captives would go free. Israel's defense minister Yoav Gallant said on Sunday that Israel would not accept Hamas continuing to rule Gaza at any stage during the process to wind down the war, and that it was examining alternatives to the Islamist group. :: File Hamas has provisionally welcomed the Biden initiative, though a senior official from the group, Sami Abu Zuhri, said on Sunday that "Hamas is too big to be bypassed or sidelined by Netanyahu or Biden." White House national security spokesperson John Kirby told ABC News Sunday that if Hamas agrees to the deal to end the Gaza war, the U.S. expects Israel to also accept the plan. :: October 7, 2023 The war began October 7th when Hamas fighters stormed across the border fence into Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking more than 250 hostages, according to Israeli tallies. :: May 8, 2024 In the ensuing Israeli assault that has laid waste to much of the impoverished and besieged coastal enclave, more than 36,000 Palestinians have been killed, Gaza medical officials say. Israel says 290 of its troops have died in the fighting.

The White House says the U.S. expects Israel to accept a cease-fire deal if Hamas agrees. However, Netanyahu is facing pushback from his coalition.

Activists marched on Saturday in Lima to the Israeli embassy in protest over the war in the Gaza Strip. (AP video shot by Cesar Barreto)

STORY: As smoke rose over Gaza’s skyline… :: File :: Jabalia, Gaza :: May 31, 2024 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday there would not be a permanent ceasefire there until Hamas is destroyed. His office called the idea quote, “a non-starter.” :: May 31, 2024 U.S. PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: “It's time to begin this new stage…” The day before, U.S. President Joe Biden said Israel proposed a deal involving an initial six-week ceasefire. It would include a partial Israeli military withdrawal and the release of some hostages while negotiating “a permanent end to hostilities.” BIDEN: “It's time for this war to end, for the day after to begin.” :: File :: GPO Netanyahu’s comments have raised questions over the details of the plan and its timing. Hamas has cautiously welcomed talks on a deal. Biden had signalled that Hamas would not stay in power in Gaza, without elaborating. But the Iranian-backed Islamist group has not indicated it might step aside or disarm voluntarily. :: Tel Aviv, Israel In Tel Aviv, protesters rallied, calling for the release of Israeli hostages in the Palestinian enclave. :: File And opposition leader Yair Lapid said his party would support the agreement. That means it would likely pass in parliament, though Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir threatened on Saturday to bring down the coalition government if Netanyahu enters a Gaza deal that would entail ending the war without the elimination of Hamas. :: May 31, 2024 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke by phone with top officials from the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Egypt regarding the proposal, a State Department spokesperson said on Saturday. Ceasefire talks have stumbled for months over a clash in core positions. :: October 7, 2023 The war began on Oct. 7 when Hamas-led Palestinian fighters rampaged into southern Israel from Gaza, killing more than 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and seizing more than 250 as hostages, according to Israeli tallies. :: Rafah, Gaza Israel's ground and air campaign in Gaza has left the territory in ruins, led to widespread starvation, and killed more than 36,000 people, according to Palestinian health authorities.

STORY: :: Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters march in Paris :: Paris, France :: June 1, 2024 About 15,000 protesters joined a march, under pouring rain, from the Place de la Republique towards Gambetta square in eastern Paris. Pro-Palestinian marches have been held in Paris for several days, since an Israeli offensive in Rafah led to casualties and displaced more than a million Palestinians who had been sheltering there. Israel said on Saturday that the Gaza war would not end as long as Hamas retains power, raising questions of timing and interpretation over a truce offer that U.S. President Joe Biden has advanced and the Palestinian militants have cautiously welcomed.

Patients lying shackled and blindfolded on more than a dozen beds inside a white tent in the desert. Surgeries performed without adequate painkillers. Doctors who remain anonymous. These are some of the conditions at Israel's only hospital dedicated to treating Palestinians detained by the military in the Gaza Strip, three people who have worked there told The Associated Press, confirming similar accounts from human rights groups. Eight months into the Israel-Hamas war, accusations of inhumane treatment at the Sde Teiman military field hospital are on the rise, and the Israeli government is under growing pressure to shut it down. The military denies the allegations of inhumane treatment and says all detainees needing medical attention receive it.

STORY: “"It's time for this war to end” U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday said Israel has proposed a new Gaza ceasefire in exchange for the release of hostages. “Hamas needs to take the deal. For months, people all over the world have called for a cease-fire. Now it's time to raise your voices and demand that Hamas come to the table, agree to this deal, and end this war that they began.” The new proposal Biden laid out is made up of three phases. First: a six week ceasefire, in which Israeli forces would withdraw from Gaza - and hostages would be exchanged for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. Palestinian civilians would return to Gaza and 600 trucks would bring humanitarian aid into Gaza each day. Second: negotiations for a permanent end to hostilities. And the third phase: a major reconstruction plan for Gaza. While pressing Hamas, the president also called on those in Israel who were pushing for an "indefinite" war to change their minds. "I know there are those in Israel who will not agree with this plan. And will call for the war to continue indefinitely. [FLASH] Well, I've urged leadership in Israel to stand behind this deal, despite whatever pressure comes.” Talks between the two sides - mediated by Egypt, Qatar and others - have repeatedly stalled, with both sides blaming the other for the lack of progress.