TEL AVIV — Mossad and local authorities in Cyprus thwarted an "Iranian terrorist infrastructure" that had planned to carry out attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets in Cyprus, according to a statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office.

The statement said that "considerable information was obtained" regarding a potential threat in Cyprus, where Israel says many of its citizens decamped after Hamas' Oct. 7 attack. Netanyahu's office did not provide additional details on the threat.

A senior Cyprus official declined to comment to Reuters on the matter, citing policy on issues concerning national security.

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., the lead Democratic negotiator on a high-priority Ukraine and Israel aid package, said Sunday that the White House will get more involved in negotiations this week.

In an interview on “Meet the Press,” Murphy said: “I think the White House is going to get more engaged this week.”

“Of course, when you’re talking about something as complicated as border security, you need the White House engaged, because you need to know whether they’re gonna sign the bill, and you need to understand how the changes you’re making are going to be implemented at the border. So they are, and they will get more engaged,” Murphy said.

He stressed that “we are not going to put Donald Trump’s immigration policies into statute” as he spoke about the battle over the border provisions of the aid bill, which failed to pass the Senate last week.

In a 49-51 vote along party lines, the Senate failed to advance Biden’s national security package on foreign aid to Israel and Ukraine. Republicans were displeased that the bill lacked the immigration policy changes that they had demanded as a condition for their support.

Murphy said there are too many people crossing the southern border, but a resolution is possible if Republicans can get onboard with letting people into the country “who are legitimately fleeing terror and torture and violence.”

Asked by host Kristen Welker if an additional $60 billion in Ukraine aid could change the outcome of its war with Russia, Murphy said he believes it would.

“Because at the very same time that we are making a renewed commitment to Ukraine, Russia’s ability to continue to fight this war is in jeopardy,” he said. “Russia is going to have a hard time coming up with resources necessary to keep this fight going. ... In the end, will there likely have to be a negotiated solution? Absolutely. But if we cut off Ukraine now, the outcome is certain.”

A spokesperson for Hamas said today that the group will only release hostages through exchange agreements, as was the case when more than 100 hostages were freed in a temporary truce agreed upon last month.

Israel cannot have its hostages without abiding by "the conditions of resistance," Hamas' spokesperson said.

An estimated 137 people are still being held hostage in Gaza, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office. During the weeklong truce deal, Hamas released 81 Israelis and 24 foreign nationals in exchange for the release of 240 imprisoned Palestinians.

Israeli officials withdrew from hostage negotiation talks in Doha, Qatar, earlier this month at the behest of Netanyahu, alleging that Hamas did not live up to its end of the bargain. Hamas blamed Israel for the breakdown in negotiations.

The Jordanian field hospital in Khan Younis was damaged after it was struck by a missile, the Gaza Health Ministry said today.

NBC News could not independently verify this report. No injuries or deaths have been reported.

The attack comes as Israel says it has stepped up fighting in Gaza's south, with an intensified campaign in the second largest city.

The field hospital is one of two such facilities established by the Jordanian government in November in response to the ongoing bombardment of Gaza.

Twelve-year-old Do’a Atef spends her days knocking on doors begging for food, or gathering firewood from a dusty hill near a refugee camp outside Rafah, in southern Gaza, to cook the few tomatoes and peppers given to her by strangers.

Do’a told NBC News that she was displaced from her home in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, along with her parents and seven siblings, and they are now sleeping in tents. They are so thirsty, “we drink dirty water,” she said. “My siblings are crying all day.”

They couldn’t find flour, they were cold, there was no bathroom for them to use, no diapers for her baby brother, and no milk to give him. Two months ago, Do’a said, she used to read in school and play with her friends. “Now, all we do is bring firewood and walk barefoot.”

Do’a’s situation underscores a bleak reality for many in Gaza, as the Israeli military’s ground invasion and aerial bombardment continues, displacing an estimated 1.9 million Palestinians into shrinking “humanitarian zones,” mostly in southern Gaza. A dire food and water shortage is putting many at risk of infection and death, according to humanitarian aid groups that stressed difficulties in delivering aid due to the intensity of hostilities.

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Workers for the United Nations Refugee and Works Agency “take their children to work so they know they are safe, or can die together,” the organization said on X yesterday.

It added that the situation in the strip was reaching a “point of no return.”

So far, 133 UNRWA workers have been killed in bombardments on the besieged strip alongside their families, it said.

Twenty Israeli hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza have been killed, according to an update from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office.

The statement said the number of hostages held in Gaza is 137, including those who were captured before Oct. 7.

Hamas is still in possession of the bodies of the hostages who were killed, the statement said.

A rapid food security assessment conducted in Gaza by the World Food Programme during the brief truce between Hamas and Israel found severe hunger in 36% of households and moderate hunger in 52%, according to a flash update from the U.N. on Saturday.

91% of households go to bed hungry, according to the assessment, which sampled 399 households in Gaza. 63% of respondents reported enduring entire days without food.

The food scarcity situation is worse in the north than in the south, according to the update. Aid is concentrated in the south of the strip, where it is received through the border with Egypt at the Rafah crossing.

Shortages of cooking gas have prompted the use of firewood and the burning of waste for cooking, raising the risk of respiratory illnesses, the update said.

Gaza's society is on the "brink of full-blown collapse," the statement said, with U.N. vehicles being stoned and looted amid massive shortages in supplies and the inability of humanitarian aid agencies to deliver timely, sufficient assistance.

People mourn as they collect the bodies of those killed in a bombing today in Khan Younis in southern Gaza.