Humanitarian workers are among those protected under international law and Israel’s killing of 15 in the besieged enclave amounts to a war crime under the Geneva Conventions.

Israeli media have reported that Egypt submitted a new proposal for a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian resistance groups in Gaza, along with a prisoner exchange.

Israeli public broadcaster KAN reported that Cairo "has put forward a new proposal regarding a ceasefire and prisoner exchange, aiming to bridge the gaps between Israel and Hamas."

It noted that "the new proposal was submitted by Egypt within the past 24 hours to reach a consensus between Israel and Hamas."

While the broadcaster did not mention any terms or details, it, however, said the proposal falls somewhere between the original mediators' — Egypt and Qatar — offer, which included the release of five living prisoners, and Israel’s proposal, which conditioned the release of 11 living prisoners in Gaza.

Egypt has yet to comment on the report. Israel estimates that 59 hostages are still held in Gaza, with at least 22 alive.

The Israeli military's top commander in the occupied West Bank has condemned recent violence by Israeli Zionist settlers against police and "unacceptable" conduct by soldiers, in a video shared by the army.

A military statement said that Major General Avi Bluth addressed a "series of unusual incidents" while visiting Israeli police officers in the occupied West Bank, near the site of a riot involving Zionist settlers earlier this week.

Israeli police said they had arrested 17 suspects over the "violent riot" on Wednesday near the settlement outpost of Givat Habaladim, northeast of the Palestinian city of Ramallah, during which Israeli settlers threw stones at officers and torched a police car.

Bluth "emphasised that these are exceptional incidents that must be addressed with the necessary severity", the military statement said.

The Israeli army has claimed to have intercepted a drone that was fired on Israel from the eastern direction.

An Israeli military statement said its air defences intercepted a drone launched "from the east," without specifying its origin.

No air-raid sirens were activated in Israel, as the drone was downed in the southern part of the country.

While no group claimed responsibility, Israeli media cited military sources as estimating that the launch was likely from Yemen.

Organisers say they will protest against US authority's crack down on pro-Palestine voices, mainly students, to show that they will not be frightened into submission.

Two Microsoft employees have interrupted the company's 50th anniversary celebrations at its Washington headquarters, with one yelling at former company CEOs Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates, and current Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman while they were all on stage.

Vaniya Agrawal, a software engineer in the company’s artificial intelligence division, interrupted the CEOs while they were chatting on stage in Redmond, Washington.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Verge (@verge) "Shame on you all. You’re all hypocrites," she said before another woman immediately began escorting her out.

"Fifty thousand Palestinians in Gaza have been murdered with Microsoft technology. How dare you. Shame on all of you for celebrating on their blood. Cut ties with Israel."

Agrawal also mentioned the No Azure for Apartheid group, started among Microsoft employees to call on the company to end "direct and indirect complicity in Israeli apartheid and genocide."

At least one person in the room booed her, and videos taken from inside the event show Gates chuckling following the interruption, saying, "alright" before returning to the discussion that was under way.