Here is a summary of today's events:
The Israeli police and internal security service said Thursday they arrested four suspects for “terrorist” acts against Palestinians during a deadly settler attack last week on an occupied West Bank village.
More than 40,265 Palestinians have been killed and 93,144 have been injured in Israeli military offensive on Gaza since Oct. 7, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
Rights groups on Thursday expressed renewed concerns about the humanitarian situation in Gaza after Israel’s latest evacuation orders in parts of the overcrowded central city of Deir al-Balah.
A Greek-flagged oil tanker carrying 150,000 tonnes of crude that was evacuated by its crew after being attacked in the Red Sea now poses an environmental hazard, the EU’s Red Sea naval mission “Aspides” said on Thursday.
In the central Gaza town of Deir Al-Balah, which houses around 1 million residents and displaced Palestinians, according to the municipal council, residents said tanks advanced further from the east and blocked some roads connecting the city with the nearby Khan Younis in the south.
Hezbollah has provided a glimpse of its secret tunnels housing weapons - a move experts say is a warning to Israel as the underground facilities could prove vital to the group should wider war erupt.
In a hospital in the northern Gaza camp of Jabalia, health officials said they were forced to suspend several services in the facility, except for lifesaving treatment, after they ran out of fuel.
Israeli forces have pressed deeper into areas of the central and southern Gaza Strip as they battled Hamas fighters, while Palestinian health officials said on Thursday that Israeli strikes had killed at least 27 people across the enclave.
Later on Thursday, five Palestinians were killed and several wounded in an Israeli airstrike that hit people near a square in Khan Younis, health officials said.
The armed wing of Hamas said fighters ambushed an Israeli force in Rafah, killing and wounding several of them.
