An Israeli drone strike killed five people in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, the Palestinian press agency Wafa and Palestinian sources reported, while the Israeli military said it struck a "terrorist cell" in the Tulkarem region.

France on Friday urged its nationals visiting Iran to leave immediately, after Tehran accused Israel of killing Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on its soil, sparking regional tensions.

"Due to the increased risk of a military escalation in the region, visiting French nationals still in Iran are invited to leave as soon as possible," the foreign ministry said.

Two days after the assassination of Hezbollah’s top military commander Fouad Shukur and Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed international mediators that “Israel has become readier to engage in a deal over Gaza,” a media report said.

“Bring me the other party so that I talk to them over the deal!” the pro-Hezbollah al-Akhbar newspaper quoted Netanyahu as saying.

Truce negotiations between Israel and Hamas are expected to resume soon despite the assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Iran, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation reported on Friday.

“Haniyeh’s assassination will contribute to pushing forward the negotiations over an agreement in Gaza,” the Israeli corporation quoted unnamed sources as saying.

Turkey's communications authority blocked access to the social media platform Instagram on Friday, the latest instance of a clampdown on websites in the country.

The Information and Communication Technologies Authority, which regulates the internet, announced the decision early Friday but did not provide a reason.

The Israeli military's attack on an aid convoy in Gaza in April that killed seven people was the result of serious failures of defense procedures, mistaken identification and errors in decision-making, according to an Australian investigation that was made public Friday.

Australia initiated the investigation to examine Tel Aviv's response to the widely condemned Israeli Defense Forces' drone strikes on three World Central Kitchen vehicles on April 1. Australian Zomi Frankcom, three of her aid worker colleagues and three British personal security staff died in the attack.

Explosions in secretive underground nuclear facilities. Cyber attacks. Top scientists poisoned. Natural gas pipelines sabotaged. All these and more have been blamed on Israel in its shadow war with Iran.

And the latest accusation, that Israel is behind the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, only expands that list.

The leader of Yemen’s Houthi rebels said Thursday that efforts were underway to militarily respond to Israel following the killings of senior Hamas and Hezbollah leaders that have raised the prospect of war in the region.

The leader of the militant group, Abdul-Malek al-Houthi, said in a televised speech that “there must be a military response to the serious crimes and the significant escalation by the Israeli enemy.” “Efforts are underway to respond,” he added.

U.S. President Joe Biden has told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Washington is committed to defending Israel's security "against all threats from Iran," the White House said, after the assassination of a top Hamas leader in Tehran.

Biden, who was joined on the call by Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, also emphasized the "ongoing efforts to de-escalate broader tensions in the region," the White House said Thursday in a statement.

Mourners arrived at a Qatari mosque on Friday to farewell Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh after his killing in Tehran, an attack blamed on Israel that deepened fears of wider war.

Haniyeh, the Palestinian armed group's political chief, played a key role in mediated talks aiming to end nearly 10 months of war between his Islamist movement and Israel in Gaza.