Hamas fighters battle invading Israeli troops in parts of bombarded Gaza as Palestinian death toll surges above 9,000 and Arab leaders ramp up pressure on Israel and its ally US to end war — now in its 28th day.
4:14 GMT — Four patients have died after the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital, the only hospital for cancer patients in Gaza, fell out of service.
"Four cancer patients lost their lives today as a result of the Turkish Friendship Hospital stopping and being completely out of service due to the crisis of running out of fuel," the hospital's director, Subhi Skaik, told Anadolu news agency.
"The deaths occurred due to the lack of necessary medical capabilities," he added.
3:33 GMT — US flying drones over Gaza in search of detainees
The United States has been flying surveillance drones over Gaza in search of detainees taken by Hamas when the Palestinian resistance group launched an unprecedented blitz on Israel on October 7, according to two US officials.
The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the US was flying intelligence gathering drones over Gaza to assist with hostage location efforts. One of the officials said they had been carrying out the drone flights for over a week.
US officials have said 10 Americans who remain unaccounted for may be among the more than 200 people seized and taken into Gaza, where they are believed to be held in Hamas' extensive tunnel network.
2:50 GMT - Israeli troops kill two Palestinians in West Bank
Two people have been killed during an Israeli military incursion into the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, as fighting there continues alongside the conflict in Gaza.
The latest deaths in the West Bank come in addition to three Palestinians killed by Israeli troops on Thursday and an Israeli killed in a Palestinian shooting attack, according to first responders.
2:00 GMT - Israel used disproportionate force against Palestinians in West Bank: UN report
UN chief Antonio Guterres has said in a new report that Israel used disproportionate force against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and that in some cases killings "appeared to amount to extrajudicial executions."
In the report, Guterres said Israeli forces have escalated the use of deadly force in recent years across the occupied West Bank, while attacks by Palestinians also rose.
He said Israeli forces killed 304 Palestinians, including 61 boys and 2 girls, in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem during the two-year period ending May 31.
2:30 GMT - Israel stops paying tax revenues to Palestinian Authority
Israel will stop providing funding to the Palestinian Authority [PA] earmarked for Gaza and will bar Palestinians in Gaza from working in Israel, the country said in a statement.
The decision by Israel's Security Cabinet would punish the cash-strapped PA for continuing salaries. "Israel is severing off all contact with Gaza," the statement read.
Under interim peace accords from the 1990s, Israel collects tax funds on behalf of Palestinians and transfers the money to the PA each month.
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