The announcement came one day after another aid agency, World Central Kitchen, said three of its workers were killed in an Israeli strike.

The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees blamed Israel for failing to ensure safe conditions for delivering relief supplies from the Kerem Shalom crossing.

Security concerns have prompted the U.N. agency providing aid to Palestinians to suspend deliveries through the main crossing between Israel and Gaza, officials announced Sunday.

President-elect Donald J. Trump said in a social media post on Monday that the hostages must be released before his inauguration in January.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Monday there would be "hell to pay" in the Middle East if hostages held in the Gaza Strip were not released prior to his Jan. 20 inauguration. During their deadly 2023 attack on Israel,

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said there would be "hell to pay" in the Middle East if hostages held in the Gaza Strip were not released prior to his Jan. 20 inauguration. "Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America,