The Israeli Prime Minister's Office released a statement on Sunday's talks between CIA Director Bill Burns, the prime minister of Qatar and intelligence officials from Israel and Egypt.

The meeting was "constructive" but "significant gaps" remain, the statement said, adding that more meetings are expected this coming week.

-ABC News' Jordana Miller

The secretary-general of the United Nations appealed on Sunday for continuing funding for the U.N. aid agency responsible for Gaza.

Nine countries, including the United States, paused their funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees after Israel accused 12 of its employees of being involved in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.

Mark Regev, an Israeli spokesman, told ABC News in a phone interview Sunday that Israel gathered intelligence about the alleged connection to terrorism through videos released by Hamas and others during the Oct. 7 attack and claimed there's "clear unrefutable evidence that U.N. paid staff were involved in crimes against humanity."

About 2 million people in Gaza depend on the agency for daily survival, Secretary-General António Guterres said in a statement Sunday.

According to Guterres, "Of the 12 people implicated, nine were immediately identified and terminated by the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini; one is confirmed dead, and the identity of the two others is being clarified."

"The abhorrent alleged acts of these staff members must have consequences," he said in the statement.

He added, "But the tens of thousands of men and women who work for UNRWA, many in some of the most dangerous situations for humanitarian workers, should not be penalized. The dire needs of the desperate populations they serve must be met."

-ABC News' Matt Gutman, Edward Szekeres and Kevin Shalvey

The number of nations pausing funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East has risen to 9 -- an unprecedented number for a UN agency. This withdrawal of funding comes amid allegations from Israeli officials that some of the agency's staff were involved in the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks.

On Saturday, Britain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Finland joined the U.S., Australia and Canada in pausing funding to UNRWA.

"UNRWA lifesaving assistance is about to end following countries decisions to cut their funding to the Agency. Our humanitarian operation, on which 2 million people depend as a lifeline in Gaza, is collapsing. I am shocked such decisions are taken based on alleged behavior of a few individuals and as the war continues, needs are deepening & famine looms," the commissioner general of UNRWA said in a statement.

"Palestinians in Gaza did not need this additional collective punishment. This stains all of us," the statement said.

-ABC News' Matt Gutman, Dana Savir, Guy Davies

A ruling on Friday from the International Court of Justice stopped short of ordering a ceasefire but ordered Israel to prevent acts of genocide against Palestinians and do more to help civilians.

In response to the ruling, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the war aimed at eliminating Hamas would continue.

-ABC News' Edward Szekeres

Sahar Amer is married with two children, ages 2 and 4, and lives in a camp in Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

"Since the beginning of the war, I have believed that this camp was safe -- a very densely populated area, and my relatives chose me as our home to seek refuge in to escape the bombing," Amer, 28, told ABC News.

"Everything has been difficult to obtain since the beginning of the war: food, water and treatment," Amer said. "But unfortunately, what happened a week ago changed everything. The area became unsafe due to the sudden entry of [Israeli] tanks behind Nasser Hospital, which is only several meters away from us."

"During the Israeli army’s incursion behind the hospital, we lived a very terrifying night due to intense artillery shelling," she said. "I could hear the sounds of bullets flying."

"Then the quadcopter planes started shooting at citizens. One time I was on the roof of the house with my children and we miraculously escaped death," Amer said.

"I did not expect the army to infiltrate in this way," she said, noting that her family "took refuge with us, believing that this area is safe and that the army cannot encircle the camp like this."

One night she headed home and said she found tanks "stationed west of the camp and surround[ing] the place."

"I felt very afraid that the tanks were approaching my house,” she said. “I was hugging my children.”

Amer wanted to leave her house, but couldn’t find a car. So she took her children and they fled on foot.

"When I approached the road, a tank appeared … and prevented us from passing through,” she said. "I returned home crying and afraid that our fate will be death like the residents of other areas. I sent a message to my mother and sister to pray for me to be saved."

"I went out with great difficulty the next day. I left my home crying. I do not want to be displaced -- I want to remain safe in my home." she said. "I hope the war will end -- there is enough death and destruction."

-ABC News’ Ruwaida Amer