Israel-Hamas War: What happened on day 277?

A man and a woman were killed after projectiles were fired from Lebanon to the Golan Heights.

Dozens of Palestinians were killed and injured on Tuesday by an Israeli airstrike that hit tents housing displaced families outside a school in Abassan in the southern Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Red Crescent said.

An alleged Israeli strike hit a vehicle in Syrian territory on the Damascus-Beirut highway, killing one of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's former bodyguards.

The IDF successfully intercepted most of the launches that had been fired at Israel's North from southern Lebanon on Tuesday and struck a building in which were Hezbollah terrorists. 

Gaza ceasefire negotiations will resume in Doha on Wednesday then return to Cairo on Thursday after talks on Tuesday between Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and US Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns, Egypt's state-affiliated Al-Qahera News TV said.

An Egyptian security delegation will head to Qatar's capital on Wednesday "on a mission to bring viewpoints closer between Hamas and Israel in order to reach a truce agreement as soon as possible," Al-Qahera News quoted a senior source as saying.

"There is an agreement over many points," the senior source said, adding the negotiations will be back in Cairo on Thursday.

Egypt and Qatar have been spearheading mediation in the nine-month-old war between Israel and Hamas in hopes of ending the fighting and securing the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held in Israel.

CIA Director William Burns testifies before a House Intelligence Committee hearing on ''worldwide threats to U.S. security'', on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 9, 2023. (credit: REUTERS/KEN CEDENO/FILE PHOTO)

Heading to Doha

Senior US officials were in the region to push for a ceasefire after Hamas made concessions last week, but the Palestinian militant group said a new Israeli assault on Gaza on Monday threatened truce talks at a crucial moment, and it urged mediators to rein in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"President Sisi affirmed the Egyptian position rejecting the continuation of military operations in the Gaza Strip," the presidency said in a statement after his meeting with Burns in Cairo.

Sisi also stressed the need to take "serious and effective steps" to prevent the expansion of the Gaza conflict in the wider region, the presidency added.

Lebanon's Hezbollah published an almost 10-minute video on Tuesday showing footage of 17 military sites in the Golan Heights, which it said had been gathered by the armed group's surveillance aircraft.

The video is the second episode in a series intended to show how far Hezbollah's surveillance of Israel has reached as tensions mount over Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza and over frequent exchanges of fire across Lebanon's border with Israel.

The Iran-aligned group published a more than nine-minute video in June of what it said was surveillance footage of locations in Israel, including the city of Haifa's airport and sea ports.

"Publishing this video sends a clear message to the enemy and its army," said Hezbollah media relations officer Muhammad Afif.

"The importance stems from demonstrating our technical and technological capabilities in the field of surveillance and obtaining necessary information we need in times of war," Afif added.

Screenshot of a Hezbollah drone video showing the northern city of Haifa, Israel (credit: SCREENSHOT/X)

Hezbollah taunts Israel

Lebanese pro-Iranian television channel Al Mayadeen said in June, after the first video was published, that unmanned aircraft had bypassed Israel's defense systems and returned to Lebanon without being detected or shot down.

Hezbollah has sent both surveillance and attack drones into Israel since the start of the Israel-Hamas war last October and has said the drone launches are in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

The conflict between Hezbollah and Israel has been gradually intensifying for months, raising fears of a full-scale war, which both sides say they wish to avoid, and diplomats are working to prevent it.

The United States and France are working on a negotiated settlement to the hostilities along Lebanon's southern border with Israel.

IDF nears end of second invasion of Shejaiya, Gaza, prepared to reinvade to prevent Hamas reconstitution, focusing on tunnels and intelligence gathering.

In its responses to the IDF's evacuation orders for areas within the Gaza Strip, Hamas has revealed a major weakness.

Hezbollah published on Tuesday another document of the UAV that penetrated Israel, this time with images in the skies of the Golan Heights.

New footage of Hamas hostage Daniela Gilboa was published on Tuesday morning, with the permission of Gilboa's family, Israeli state Broadcaster KAN reported.