Welcome to our latest live coverage of Israel’s war in Gaza and the wider Middle East crisis.

Israeli airstrikes have hit several sites in southern Syria on Sunday morning, injuring a soldier, Syrian state media reported, according to the Associated Press.

State news agency Sana, citing an unnamed military official, said air defences shot down some of the missiles, which came from the direction of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The strikes led to “material losses” and the injuring of a soldier, the statement said.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said Israeli strikes also hit two military sites in the Qalamoun mountains northeast of Damascus, an area where the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has operations. One of the targets was a weapons shipment, the observatory said.

Here are some of the other latest developments:

• Israeli negotiators are expected to arrive in Qatar on Sunday amid intense new efforts to bring the war in Gaza to at least a temporary halt. The talks between the Mossad head David Barnea, Qatar’s prime minister and Egyptian officials will focus on remaining gaps between Israel and Hamas including over prisoner releases and humanitarian aid, a source told Reuters.

• Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, is expected to travel to Israel today for meetings with Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, according to reports.

• The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency said on Sunday it has received a report of an incident 85 nautical miles (157 km or 98 miles) east of Yemen’s Aden, an area where Houthi militant groups often target ships they say are linked to Israel or the US. The US military’s Central Command, meanwhile, said its forces successfully destroyed drones in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen.

• The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa) said on Saturday that “one in three children under two years of age are now acutely malnourished in northern Gaza” in a social media post on X. “Children’s malnutrition is spreading fast and reaching unprecedented levels in Gaza. Famine is looming. There is no time to waste,” it added, sharing a press release on the situation by Unicef. The health ministry in Gaza has in recent weeks recorded at least 27 deaths from malnutrition and dehydration, most of them children.

• A second cargo of food aid was ready to depart by sea from Cyprus to Gaza on Saturday, the island’s president said. World Central Kitchen later said rough weather made it hard to predict when the vessel, the Jennifer, carrying 240 tonnes of food, would set sail.

• At least seven Palestinians were killed in attacks on Nuseirat camp on Saturday morning, reported Al Jazeera.

• At least 63 Palestinians were killed and 112 injured in Israeli strikes in the past 24 hours, according to the latest figures from Gaza’s health ministry.

• A Palestinian gunman opened fire toward a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on Saturday and was then shot dead by Israeli soldiers there, Israel’s military said. The man opened fire from the Palestinian cemetery in Hebron at the adjacent Jewish settlement, Israel’s public broadcaster Kan reported. There was no immediate comment from Palestinian officials.

• Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels discussed “expanding confrontations and encircling” Israel in a meeting in Lebanon with Hamas and other Palestinian factions, a Houthi official told AFP on Saturday. Representatives from Hamas, the Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine met last week with the Houthis in Beirut, the official said on condition of anonymity.

• Belgian prime minister Alexander De Croo warned Israel on Saturday against using hunger as a “weapon of war” in the Gaza Strip, reported Politico. Separately, in a post on X, the Belgian prime minister said his country “continues to support Unrwa” and described it as the “backbone of aid to the people in Gaza”.