U.S. envoy Tom Barrack has called Lebanon "a failed state" in remarks underscoring Washington's frustration with what he called Beirut's "paralyzed government."

Speaking at the Manama Dialogue summit in Bahrain during a panel on "U.S. Policy in the Levant," Barrack pointedly said Lebanon is the only state in the region "not jumping in line" with the new Middle East realignments.

Satellite imagery suggests mass killings are likely continuing in and around Sudan's El-Fasher, Yale researchers said, as Germany's top diplomat on Saturday described the situation there as "apocalyptic".

Israel's military said Saturday that three bodies it received from Gaza via the Red Cross the previous night were not hostages held in the Palestinian territory.

The Israeli military told AFP that a forensic analysis revealed the bodies were not those of any of the 11 deceased captives still to be handed over as part of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal.

Jordan and Germany said on Saturday that an international force expected to support a future Palestinian police in Gaza under U.S. President Donald Trump's post-war governance plan should have a U.N. mandate.

Israel has returned the bodies of 30 more Palestinians to Gaza as part of an ongoing exchange deal under a U.S.-brokered ceasefire plan, a hospital told AFP on Friday.

The Israeli military said its top lawyer resigned on Friday during an investigation into a leaked video appearing to show soldiers severely abusing a Palestinian detainee.

Israel's national security minister on Friday posted a video of himself standing over a row of Palestinian prisoners lying prone with their hands tied, in which he calls for the "death penalty for terrorists".

In footage shared on his personal Telegram channel, Itamar Ben Gvir addresses the camera while pointing at a dozen detainees face down in front of an Israeli flag.

Humanitarian workers are being increasingly targeted in Gaza and in Sudan, where five Red Crescent volunteers were killed this week, the International Committee of the Red Cross's director-general Pierre Krahenbuhl told AFP Friday.

Pretoria on Friday criticized a U.S. decision to prioritize white South Africans as refugees accepted into the country, saying it was based on "widely discredited" claims of their persecution.

Turkey will on Monday host a meeting of foreign ministers from Muslim countries to discuss a U.S. peace plan for Gaza, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said.