Here is a summary of today's events
The UN human rights office said it has recorded 613 killings in Gaza near humanitarian convoys, as Palestinians are attempting to receive aid from GHF distribution points.
The U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said 509 of 613 people killed at aid points were near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation – a US and Israeli-backed group running food distribution centres - distribution points. The GHF dismissed these numbers as coming “directly from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry” and were being used to “falsely smear” its effort.
The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders Friday in northeast Khan Younis and urged Palestinians to move west ahead of planned military operations against Hamas in the area. The new evacuation zones pushed Palestinians into increasingly smaller spaces by the coast.
The UN reliefs and works agency, UNRWA, has said it has has 6,000 trucks with soon-to-expire food and medical supplies stuck in Jordan and Egypt awaiting Israeli permission for transit into Gaza.
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud said on Friday when asked about the possibility of normalising ties with Israel that the kingdom’s current priority is reaching a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
The United Nations atomic agency is pulling its inspectors out of Iran over safety concerns, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz on Friday said the army had a plan to prevent Iran from threatening Israel again after the arch-foes fought a 12-day war last month.
FlyDubai became the first international carrier to land at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Airport on Friday at the end of a 20-day suspension of flights that was imposed due to Israeli attacks on Iran, the official IRNA news agency reported.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation – a US and Israeli-backed group running food distribution centres - told Reuters on Friday that “the most deadly attacks on aid sites have been linked to U.N. convoys,” and said the U.N. and humanitarian groups should work “collaboratively” with the GHF to “maximise the amount of aid being securely delivered into Gaza”. The U.N. in Geneva was immediately available for comment.
It comes after an influx of patients wounded at non-United Nations food distribution sites run by the GHF. The U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said 509 of 613 people killed at aid points were near GHF distribution points.
The GHF dismissed these numbers as coming “directly from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry” and were being used to “falsely smear” its effort.
The GHF has previously said it has delivered more than 60 million meals to hungry Palestinians in five weeks “safely and without interference”, while other humanitarian groups had “nearly all of their aid looted.”
