Israel said it had launched a “precise strike” against Hamas militants operating from two school compounds in northern Gaza, as the family of a slain American lashes out at Israel.

The White House is pushing back on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s stance of keeping Israeli troops along the Philadelphi corridor -- a narrow strip of land on the Gaza side of the Gaza-Egypt border -- saying the prime minister originally agreed to removing troops in the Israel-approved framework that was announced in May.