U.S. senators vote to advance Israel aid bill as campus antiwar protests escalate

Top U.N. officials called for an international investigation into allegations of mass graves at hospitals in Gaza, following reports that hundreds of bodies had been recovered at the Nasser medical complex in Khan Younis.

The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement Tuesday that its forces did not create the graves in Khan Younis. “The claim that the IDF buried Palestinian bodies is baseless and unfounded,” the statement said.

An independent report examining the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, found that Israel has not substantiated claims that significant numbers of the agency’s employees have ties to militant groups.

U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said Tuesday that Hamas “moved the goal posts” on hostage talks after Iran and Israel exchanged attacks. Miller said the militant group’s leaders appear to have made “the determination that they might get the full-scale regional war they were hoping for, and so have not agreed to a very significant proposal that was on the table.”

At least 34,183 people have been killed and 77,143 injured in Gaza since the war began, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants but says the majority of the dead are women and children.

Israel estimates that about 1,200 people were killed in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, including more than 300 soldiers, and says 260 soldiers have been killed since its military operation in Gaza began.