Good afternoon. In a rare Oval Office address the US president, Joe Biden, has urged Americans to support tens of billions of dollars of funding for Israel and Ukraine. He said he would send an urgent funding request to Congress, which is expected to be roughly $100bn over the next year.
Uncertainty around the number of people killed in the blast at the Al-Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza continues, with a leaked US intelligence document estimating there were probably 100 to 300 people killed. The document stressed the assessment may evolve, according to excerpts seen by several media outlets on Thursday. The number is lower than the 471 deaths that health authorities in the Hamas-ruled enclave originally described.
