Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering a plan to annex territories in Gaza, two sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the U.K. will recognize Palestine as a state at the U.N. General Assembly in September unless Israel takes several steps to work towards peace in Gaza.

There are 50 hostages remaining in captivity in Gaza, including 20 who are believed to be alive and 30 presumed dead. Qatari and Egyptian mediators are continuing to look for a way forward, and Trump’s envoy STEVE WITKOFF is meeting senior Israeli officials RON DERMER and TZACHI HANEGBI in Washington later this week to discuss the road ahead.

The UK says it would take the step at a UN meeting in September - but Israeli PM Netanyahu accuses Starmer of "rewarding Hamas".

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip,” the leading international authority on food crises said in a new alert Tuesday, predicting “widespread death” without immediate action.

The Palestinian death toll in Gaza passed 60,000 on Tuesday. The world’s leading authority on food crises said the “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out” in the territory of over 2 million people as starvation deaths rise.

Hayya, said on Sunday ceasefire negotiations with Israel were "meaningless under continued blockade and starvation". "The immediate and dignified delivery of food and medicine to our people is the only serious and genuine indication of whether continuing the negotiations is worthwhile,