A "nightmare" has unfolded for more than 200,000 Palestinians who may have been affected by heavy rains in Gaza, where over 40,000 family shelters have been damaged, with a UN official warning that further rainfall could worsen the humanitarian crisis as restrictions on aid supplies hamper relief efforts.

"The tragedy is that this is only the beginning," Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), told Anadolu in Geneva.

An infant reportedly drowned in floodwater, while three children and two women were killed when a sandy hill collapsed onto tents near Al Berka Reservoir, according to OCHA.

Laerke said residents and aid organisations continued searching for possible additional victims.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian discussed regional and global issues, as well as bilateral ties, during a meeting on the sidelines of COP31 in Türkiye's Mediterranean city of Antalya.

Erdogan called for an "immediate end" to the war between Iran and the US, urging that diplomacy be given a chance to usher in a new era of stability.

He also offered continued support for peace efforts alongside "brotherly countries" in the region.

Illegal Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian town of Atara in the occupied West Bank under the protection of the Israeli army, local sources said.

Dozens of settlers attacked several Palestinian homes in Atara and assaulted their residents, leaving several people injured, while also smashing vehicles, the sources told Anadolu.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard said two tankers carrying over four million barrels of oil had caught fire after an "accident" on an “unauthorised route” in the Strait of Hormuz.

They did not specify the nature of the "accident" but said it left the two tankers immobilised after they were hit with a "violent explosion".

Israel’s security cabinet is expected to meet on Sunday amid opposition concerns that Prime Minister Netanyahu could launch a military strike on Iran to place the country under a state of emergency, potentially paving the way for a unity government involving both Netanyahu and Eisenkot. The latter opposes such an arrangement.

The concerns were reinforced by Netanyahu’s remarks to reporters in the Knesset on Wednesday that “forming a unity government is possible, because the people know how to unite in times of hardship.”

Israel’s public broadcaster KAN reported that the security cabinet was expected to convene for the first time since October 5.

An Israeli strike killed six people and wounded around 20 at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, a civil defence official told AFP.

Gaza’s civil defence said the bodies of those killed and "more than" 20 people wounded in the strike had been recovered from a building at the medical complex.

"The death toll from the Israeli strike inside Nasser Medical Complex, west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, has risen to six," civil defence spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal told AFP.

Nasser Hospital confirmed the six deaths in a statement.

President Donald Trump defended the war against Iran at a US Veterans Day commemoration that saw his defence secretary publicly admonished for a lack of decorum.

"The bravery and skill of our amazing American warriors has absolutely been incredible," Trump said in an address at Arlington National Cemetery just outside Washington.

"When this conflict is over, and it will be soon, the entire world will be a much safer and better place, more peaceful place, and a place without the kind of danger that we had to suffer."

Debris from two ballistic missiles intercepted and destroyed after being launched by Yemen's Houthi militia towards Saudi Arabia's Mecca region fell in the area, including in Sabuhah village, Saudi Arabia's civil defence said in a statement.

Israeli forces abducted a resident of a village in southern Syria and later entered another village with military vehicles, Syrian media reported.

Al-Ikhbariya television said Israeli troops abducted the resident in Mazraat al-Fityan in southern Quneitra province.

The channel later reported that Israeli military vehicles entered Al-Samadaniyah al-Sharqiya in central Quneitra.

US Vice President JD Vance is considering holding face-to-face talks with a senior Iranian security official as Washington seeks a way out of the war with Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing US and Middle Eastern officials.

The Journal reported that Vance sent a letter in October to Iran's Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary of the country's Supreme National Security Council, requesting a meeting.

The move carries significant political risks for Vance, who could become the public face of negotiations if they fail to secure an agreement, the report said.