Hamas’s political chief said on Tuesday that the group was considering a proposal to pause the fighting in Gaza and exchange hostages for Palestinian prisoners as Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu again vowed that the war would not end without his country’s “absolute victory”. Efforts to broker a new truce came as the UN warned of the potential « collapse of the humanitarian system » in the territory after a funding row over Palestinian aid agency UNRWA. Follow our liveblog for the latest developments in the Israel-Hamas war.
