Netanyahu signals openness to Trump's Gaza ceasefire plan: Sources

At least 22 people were injured, including two seriously, after a Houthi drone strike in Eilat, in southern Israel, officials said Wednesday.

Search and rescue teams are working the area where a UAV launched from Yemen came down, according to a statement from the Israel Defense Forces.

Sirens sounded and interception attempts were made before the drone came down, the IDF said.

Five of the injured had “shrapnel injuries” and were transported to Yoseftal Hospital, according to a spokesperson for the MDA, Israel’s national EMS organization said. Others were being treated for injuries at the scene, according to the spokesperson.

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Israel on Wednesday closed the bridge connecting the occupied West Bank to Jordan "until further notice."

A notice posted Tuesday on the Israel Airports Authority's website read: "For public awareness, under the directive of the political echelon, the Allenby crossing will be closed to passenger and cargo traffic starting tomorrow morning until further notice."

The Allenby Bridge, or the King Hussein Bridge as it is known in Jordan, is the only official border crossing between Jordan and the Israeli-occupied West Bank. It is the sole gateway for Palestinians to travel abroad from the West Bank without entering Israel, which has occupied the territory since 1967.

The Jordanian Public Security Directorate also announced the closure, saying in a social media post Tuesday that the bridge was shuttered "to passenger and cargo traffic by the other side until further notice."

The head of the Palestinian Crossing and Borders Authority told WAFA, the official news agency of the Palestinian Authority, that Israel informed them the crossing will be closed in both directions from Wednesday morning until further notice.

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At least 22 people were killed by an Israeli strike on the Firas Market in Gaza City on Wednesday, Gaza's Hamas-run Civil Defence body said.

ABC News verified video footage of bodies being recovered from the rubble of the market, where displaced families had been sheltering in the Souq Firas area, east of Gaza City.

Nine children were among the dead, Civil Defence spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal said.

The Israel Defense Forces did not immediately issue a statement on the strike. 

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In a joint statement released early Wednesday, the foreign ministers of the Group of Seven -- Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the U.K. and U.S. -- sounded the alarm over "the immense suffering of civilians in Gaza."

"We stressed the urgency of alleviating the immense suffering of civilians in Gaza through a flood of humanitarian aid and securing the release of all hostages, and we reiterated our call for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas," the ministers said.

"We unequivocally condemned Hamas, including for its brutal and unjustified terror attacks on Oct. 7, 2023," they added. “We reiterated that Hamas can have no role in Gaza's future and must never again be a threat to Israel."

"We affirmed our readiness to engage with Arab partners on their proposals to chart a way forward on reconstruction in Gaza and build a lasting Israeli-Palestinian peace," the ministers said.

-ABC News' Morgan Winsor