Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, an outspoken critic of Israel's conduct of the Gaza war, was also due in Cairo Wednesday for talks with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

The KRI Dr. Radjiman Wedyodiningrat arrived at the El Arish port in Egypt on Tuesday carrying humanitarian aid for Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip.  

The army has hinted at what the new tech is being used for, with spokesman Daniel Hagari saying last month that Israel's forces were operating "above and underground simultaneously".

"China follows closely the developments in the Rafah area, opposes and condemns actions that harm civilians and violate international law," a foreign ministry spokesperson said in a statement.

Borrell recalled that US President Joe Biden said last week that Israel's response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack had been "over the top" and US and other Western officials had repeatedly said too many civilians were being killed in Gaza.

Hospital ship KRI Dr. Radjiman Wedyodiningrat transits the Suez Canal on Monday on its journey to deliver humanitarian aid to refugees in the Gaza Strip who are besieged by the Israeli army. 

"It is undeniable that there is a clear risk the exported F-35 parts are used in serious violations of international humanitarian law," the court said.

The Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) has collaborated with the Medical Aid Society in the Gaza Strip to open a door-to-door mobile medical service to serve a minimum of 1,000 Gazan refugees.

AFP journalists and witnesses heard an intense series of strikes and saw smoke billowing above the city, which now hosts more than half of Gaza's total population after they fled bombardment elsewhere on the Strip.

Indonesian hospital ship KRI Dr. Radjiman Wedyodiningrat has entered the Red Sea without incident on its way to the Egyptian port of El Arish to deliver humanitarian aid for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip under attack by Israel.

"With regard specifically to normalisation, the crown prince reiterated Saudi Arabia's strong interest in pursuing that," Blinken told reporters in Doha a day after their meeting in Riyadh. 

Republicans in the House of Representatives scheduled the vote after the Democratic-led Senate released a bipartisan bill Sunday pairing billions of dollars for Israel and Ukraine with some of the strictest immigration curbs in decades.

The sub-contracts for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system will enhance manufacturing capabilities in Saudi Arabia and transfer expertise to strengthen the country’s defence industry, Lockheed said in a statement on Monday. 

The law broadens the enforcement profile of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which has long been used to punish companies that pay bribes and their shadowy agents.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Monday vowed the US would take "all necessary actions" to defend its troops after a deadly drone attack in Jordan by Iran-backed militants, even as President Joe Biden's administration stressed it was not seeking a war with Iran.

Some 114 Palestinians were killed and 249 injured in the past 24 hours, the ministry added.

Kanaani also said the continuation of US strikes on Syria and Iraq as well as the war in Gaza will only intensify a cycle of instability in the region.

Britain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Finland on Saturday joined the United States, Australia and Canada in pausing funding to the aid agency, a critical source of support for people in Gaza, after the allegations by Israel that some of its staff were involved in the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks.

The ICJ on Friday said Israel must prevent genocidal acts in its war with Hamas and allow aid into Gaza, but stopped short of calling for an end to the fighting.

The International Court of Justice said Israel must facilitate "urgently needed" humanitarian aid to the Palestinian territory, which has been under relentless bombardment and siege since the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas.

On the ground in the seaside enclave, Gaza officials said on Thursday that Israeli strikes killed 20 Palestinians queuing for food aid in Gaza City, six people in a house in central Gaza's Al-Nusseirat refugee camp and at least 50 people in the prior 24 hours in Gaza's main southern city Khan Younis, where Israel is currently focusing the brunt of its might.

The failure to ensure that Israel acts in compliance with international law amid the stalled process toward realizing a two-state solution could further plunge the Middle East into a wider open conflict, Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi has warned.

The Houthi attacks since November, which the group says target vessels linked to Israel and are in support of Gaza, have disrupted shipping in the vital route which normally carries around 12 percent of global maritime trade.

The Houthis, who control the most populous parts of Yemen, have said their attacks are in solidarity with Palestinians as Israel strikes Gaza.

The report, citing unnamed Israeli officials, said the deal would take place in multiple stages, the first of which would see the release of women, men over 60 and those in critical medical condition.

Israeli forces and Hamas fighters clashed in several locations, from Jabalia in the north to Khan Younis farther south. 

As the Indonesian Navy's hospital ship sails the seas on a goodwill mission to El Arish, the Defense Minister has said Indonesia is still discussing with Egypt on the possibility of setting up a field hospital to provide health services for Palestinian refugees who had fled the war in Gaza.

The Defense Minister has given a personal send-off to the Indonesian Navy hospital ship, which departed Jakarta on Thursday on a goodwill mission to Egypt with humanitarian aid for Palestinian refugees from Gaza.

The Indonesian Navy's KRI Frans Kaisiepo is en route for home on a 27-day journey after concluding its mission with UNIFIL's Maritime Task Force in the Mediterranean and handing over its duties to KRI Diponegoro.

Nuclear-armed Pakistan and neighbouring Iran are both battling simmering insurgencies along their sparsely populated border regions.