- “All rules of war have been broken in Gaza”, with at least eight schools housing displaced Palestinians attacked by Israel in last 10 days, says UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini.
- Al Jazeera’s correspondent reports at least 81 killed in day of attacks targeting homes and UN facilities in Gaza.
- Riyad Mansour, Palestine’s envoy to the UN, tells the UN Security Council that Israel’s war on Gaza is the “most documented genocide in history”.
- Washington’s envoy to the UNSC says there is progress in talks to adopt an immediate ceasefire in Gaza nearly four months after the council demanded one.
- At least 38,794 people have been killed and 89,364 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. The death toll in Israel from the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 is estimated at 1,139, with dozens of people still held captive in Gaza.
- Four children missing following Israeli strike in BureijFour children remain missing and seven people have been injured following an Israeli attack in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, the Wafa news agency reports.Earlier, we reported that at least two Palestinians had been killed following the attack on a house east of Salah al-Din Street in the Deir el-Balah area.The injured, which include children and a woman, have been transferred to al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza.We will bring you further updates on this story when we have them.
- PLO condemns Israel’s ‘massacres’ in Gaza, ‘escalations’ in West BankThe Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has condemned the “massacres” carried out by Israel’s “ongoing genocide” in Gaza and its military escalations in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.The committee, the highest executive body of the PLO, held Israel and its ally, the United States, “responsible for the genocide” in Gaza and escalations in the occupied Palestinian territory.In a meeting held in Ramallah, the committee “affirmed the continued struggle and resistance of the Palestinian people to achieve freedom and independence and obtain all their rights, including refugees’ right of return, the right to self-determination and the establishment of an independent and fully sovereign state with Jerusalem as its capital”.
- Israeli attacks in Gaza since dawn
- At least eight Palestinians were killed in az-Zawayda town in central Deir el-Balah governorate.At least two Palestinians were killed in the Bureij refugee camp, in the Deir el-Balah area, east of Salah al-Din Street.At least five were injured in a residential flat that was targeted in the Nuseirat refugee camp.The Israeli Air Force also targeted agricultural land in the Nuseirat refugee camp.Constant artillery shelling was overheard in the eastern areas of Beit Hanoon town in northern Gaza.
- Israeli army says it killed 2 PIJ fightersThe Israeli army says it killed two fighters belonging to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), including the chief of the group’s naval force in Gaza.The military named him as Anas Murad. The second was Ahmed al-Masri who the military says was associated with the PIJ and participated in the October 7 attack.Along with Hamas and others, PIJ is one of the armed groups that Human Rights Watch listed in a report on Wednesday as perpetrators of the assault against communities in southern Israel
- Ben-Gvir told ministers delaying captive deal could help Trump: ReportIsrael’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has told Israeli cabinet members that reaching a deal now would be a slap in Trump’s face that would benefit Biden politically, according to comments reported in Israeli media outlets Channel 13 and The Times of Israel.
- Ben-Gvir, a far-right member of Netanyahu’s coalition, has long been opposed to reaching a deal to end the war in Gaza [File: Abir Sultan/Pool via Reuters]
- Israeli military kills member of al-Jamaa al-Islamiya in LebanonOur Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues are reporting that the Israeli military has assassinated a member of al-Jamaa al-Islamiya group in a drone strike on a car in the east of Bekaa governorate in Lebanon.We will bring you updates on this story when we have them.Click here to share on social media
- Australia condemns ‘unacceptable deaths of innocent civilians’ in GazaAustralia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong has condemned recent “unacceptable deaths of innocent civilians” in recent Israeli attacks in Gaza.Wong did not specify which attacks she was referring to but said many were “near schools”. The UN says eight schools being used as shelters have been attacked in Gaza in the past 10 days.“Australia has been calling for a ceasefire for eight months,” Wong added in her post on
- If you’re just joining usHere’s what you need to know:
- The Israeli military has carried out more deadly attacks across Gaza in recent hours, killing at least five people in a strike on an apartment in az-Zawayda and two girls in a strike in Gaza City.
- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said Hezbollah, Iran and the Lebanese government do not want “a full-blown war” with Israel, but “there’s a suspicion that some circles in Israel” are trying to achieve that.
- US President Joe Biden has contracted COVID and has travelled to Delaware to isolate, with his sickness coming just days before he is set to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington.
- Brazil’s ambassador to the UN Sergio Franca Danese has called for an end to the flow of weapons used in illegal acts in Gaza.
Israel’s war on Gaza live: At least 81 killed in 24 hours of Israeli raids
