Israel-Gaza-Lebanon updates: Iranian president responds to Israel's retaliatory attacks

Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in Doha on Thursday as he neared the end of this week's Middle East peace push.

State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a statement that Blinken discussed "renewed efforts to secure the release of the hostages and end the war in Gaza, as well as ongoing work to provide for security, governance and reconstruction in Gaza after the war."

Blinken and Al Thani also discussed Israel's war with Hezbollah in Lebanon, and "exchanged views on achieving a diplomatic resolution along the Blue Line and making political progress in Lebanon in order to ensure its sovereignty and security."

Blinken is set to travel to the U.K. after concluding his meetings in Qatar.

-ABC News' Anne Flaherty

Hospital officials at Al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza said they received 16 dead bodies and 32 injured people after Israeli strikes on a school-turned-shelter in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza.

The hospital said "most" of the victims were "children and elderly people."

The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement it was targeting "Hamas terrorists who were operating inside a command and control center" inside the school compound.

-ABC News' Dia Ostaaz, Guy Davies and Clark Bentson

Syria's Defense Ministry reported airstrikes in the capital Damascus and at a military site near the western city of Homs on Thursday.

The attacks killed one soldier and injured seven other people, according to the ministry.

Israel -- which has conducted regular strikes inside Syria in recent years -- did not claim the airstrikes. The country generally refuses to confirm or deny responsibility for operations on foreign soil.

-ABC News' Bruno Nota and Guy Davies

Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee alleged on X on Thursday that Hezbollah is using ambulances to transport fighters and weapons.

Any vehicle used for "terrorist" purposes will be subject to "necessary measures," Adraee wrote.

The IDF did not provide any evidence to support the assertion. Medical vehicles, workers and facilities have been repeatedly targeted by Israeli attacks in Lebanon.

-ABC News' Guy Davies