Israel-Hamas war live updates: Hamas officials arrive in Egypt as cease-fire talks advance

What we know

• Hamas officials arrived in Cairo today for talks on a cease-fire and hostage deal, the frameowrk for which Israel agreed to in Paris in late February. An Israeli official told NBC News that there was intense U.S. pressure on all sides to reach an agreement by the start of Ramadan, on March 10.
• Israel has essentially accepted the proposed framework of a Gaza cease-fire if Hamas agrees to release sick, elderly and women hostages, according to a U.S. senior administration official yesterday. The current deal would be more complicated than the earlier cease-fire due to its length, but the six-week deal “has the potential to extend from there.”
• The U.S. completed its first airdrop of humanitarian aid into Gaza yesterday, delivering 66 pallets of food containing 38,000 meals. The Israeli military welcomed the drop, saying it “makes the fighting possible.” Aid organizations criticized the tactic as “absolutely incomprehensible” and “completely insufficient” for the needs of 2.2 million Gazans, many of whom are facing starvation.
• Rescuers continue to recover bodies from Nabulsi roundabout in Gaza City, where more than 100 people were killed after Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd of Palestinians hoping to get food. The IDF has confirmed and denied shooting into the crowd, and blamed most of the deaths on a stampede.
• Aid agencies and health workers said “a large number” of the dead and injured from the aid convoy violence had gunshot wounds.
• Gaza death toll has passsed 30,400, according to the Health Ministry there, amid surging fears of starvation in the north of the territory. More than 70,300 have been injured, and thousands more are missing and presumed dead. Israeli military officials said at least 242