Middle East crisis live: Biden adviser flies in amid

US adviser Amos Hochstein heading to Israel to help defuse tensions along ‘Blue Line’ between Israel and Lebanon, says White House official

Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Deir al-Balah for Al Jazeera, says that overnight Israeli attacks took place across the Gaza Strip.

He writes for the news network that the attack “includes heavy strikes on central and eastern parts of Rafah. Israeli forces also continued systematically demolishing homes in the east … these areas are completely razed, with no remaining residential buildings and no agricultural land left.”