Yemen's Houthis said they targeted a military site in Israel and attacked two US destroyers in the Red Sea, shortly after Israel's army said it intercepted a drone launched from the east.

The group "carried out a military operation targeting an Israeli military target in the occupied area of Yaffa (Tel Aviv) using a 'Yaffa' drone," Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said in a video statement.

The Houthis also targeted "two US destroyers with several cruise missiles and drones" in the Red Sea, he added.

Illegal Israeli settlers assaulted and wounded four Palestinians in a village in the city of al Khalil in the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement that its teams transferred four wounded Palestinians to a hospital after Israeli settlers assaulted them in the village of Umm al-Khair, Masafer Yatta, south of al Khalil.

Witnesses said that the settlers used sticks and batons to attack the Palestinians.

Harvard University reported that in the past three days, the US government revoked the student visas of three current students and two recent graduates.

The Harvard International Office discovered the revocations during a routine records review and has since referred the affected individuals to legal assistance. It recently emerged that the Trump administration has a policy of revoking student visas but not informing the students, who would then be able to challenge the decision.

Israel's ambassador to Ethiopia Avraham Neguise was expelled from a conference on the Rwandan genocide organised by the African Union in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.

A Foreign Ministry statement said that Neguise was thrown out after member states refused to participate alongside him in the conference.

President Donald Trump said that the United States "controlling and owning" besieged Gaza would be a good thing, again floating a proposal that he put forward multiple times during the opening weeks of his administration.

"Having a force like the United States there, controlling and owning the Gaza Strip, would be a good thing," Trump told reporters at the White House after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Trump said work was ongoing to free hostages held by Hamas, but said securing the release of all the hostages was "a long process."

Asked if he would deliver on his promise during his campaign for president to end the war in Gaza, Trump said: "I'd like to see the war stop, and I think the war will stop at some point, that won't be in the too-distant future."