Ahram Online provides updates as events are developing on the ground.
00:20 Russia proposed a draft United Nations Security Council resolution on the Israel-Hamas conflict that calls for a humanitarian ceasefire and condemns violence against civilians and all acts of terrorism, according to a draft text seen by Reuters.
The draft resolution also calls for the release of hostages, humanitarian aid access and the safe evacuation of civilians in need. The text was given to the 15-member council during a closed-door meeting on the conflict on Friday, diplomats said.
23:18 US President Joe Biden said the situation in Gaza is a top priority for him: "It's also a priority for me to urgently address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. At my direction our teams are working in the region, including communicating directly with the governments of Israel, Egypt, Jordan and other Arab nations and the United Nations to surge support."
23:05 Over 1,900 Palestinians were killed in Gaza, including 614 children, in addition to 6,388 wounded, the Health ministry announced.
22:50 Medicine sans Frontier announce that Israeli forces have now postponed the demand to evacuate Al Awda Hospital in the Gaza Strip until 6am. "The evacuation of patients remains complicated," MSF said on their X account.
22:35 UN chief Antonio Guterres appealed for the protection of basic human rights as the Israeli war on Gaza spiraled, stressing that "even wars have rules" and warning against using hostages as human shields.
"The situation in Gaza has reached a dangerous new low," Guterres said ahead of a Security Council meeting on the volatile situation.
"We need immediate humanitarian access throughout Gaza, so that we can get fuel, food and water to everyone in need," he said, adding that the blockaded enclave's health system was on the brink of collapse.
22:00 Sirens sound in Tel Aviv as Al-Qassam Brigades say they are attacking the city in retaliation of targeting civilians and forcing them to leave their homes.
21:40 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to destroy Hamas as the army prepares for an expected ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu delivered the threat in a nationally televised address late Friday
21:05 "Israel has given Al Awda Hospital just two hours to evacuate. Our staff are still treating patients. We unequivocally condemn this action, the continued indiscriminate bloodshed and attacks on health care in Gaza," Medicine sans Frontier said in a statement on their X account.
"We are trying to protect our staff and patients," the statement added.
20:40 The Israel army says it is carrying out “widespread” airstrikes against many Hamas sites across the Gaza Strip.
The IDF says it will provide further details on the strikes soon.
20:20 The Government Media Office in Gaza has reported that 70 Palestinians lost their lives, with over 200 sustaining injuries due to an Israeli forces airstrike on a convoy of displaced individuals within the Gaza Strip.
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior in Gaza conveyed to Al Jazeera, "There is no sanctuary here, evident from the assault by the occupation on vehicles transporting displaced civilians."
19:50 The Israeli military has announced that an Israeli drone is currently striking Hezbollah targets in Lebanon.
19:30 Israeli ground forces made raids into Gaza over the past 24 hours ahead of an expected ground offensive on the densely populated Palestinian territory, the military said.
19:00 Egypt warned against the Israeli army's demand for the residents of Gaza and representatives of the United Nations and international organizations in the region to leave their homes within 24 hours and head south.
Egypt emphasized that this action constitutes a grave violation of international humanitarian law and will expose the lives of over a million Palestinian citizens and their families to the risks of remaining in the open without shelter, in the face of dire humanitarian and security conditions.
18:50 Journalists wounded in Israel shelling of south Lebanon, AFP reported. Al-Jazeera reports that one journalist has been killed and two other wounded after an Israeli attack.
18:30 The Israeli army Arabic language spokesperson Avichay Adraee says Palestinians have until 8 p.m. to move south of Wadi Gaza, indicating that the army is gearing for a massive operation in the northern Gaza Strip.
18:00 The U.N. Security Council is set to meet behind closed doors Friday afternoon to discuss the Israel-Hamas war as Palestinians stream out of northern Gaza on orders from the Israeli military.
Friday’s council meeting was scheduled before the evacuation order was issued and added still more urgency to the discussion. The U.N. has said the order affects 1.1 million people, about half Gaza’s population, and could turn an already dire humanitarian crisis into a calamity.
17:30 Israel shelled a border region in southern Lebanon, two Lebanese security sources said, after a blast occurred on the border fence, according to the Israeli army.
One of the security sources said the shelling followed an infiltration attempt from the Lebanese side of the border, while the Israeli army said it was responding to a blast that caused "light damage" to the border barrier.
17:05 Thousands of Palestinians are fleeing to southern Gaza after a warning by the Israeli army, whose forces have been shelling the blockaded enclave, an AFP correspondent said.
People living in the northern part of the Gaza Strip left in cars, motorbikes, trucks and by foot, while Hamas rulers said in a statement that "our Palestinian people" rejected Israel's evacuation order.
17:00 The Egyptian Red Crescent receives a Turkish aid plane at Al-Arish Airport in preparation for sending it to the Gaza Strip
16:45 1,843 Palestinians have been killed and 6,638 other wounded after Israeli attacks on Gaza and the West Bank, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
16:30 Martin Griffiths, the United Nations undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, publicly criticized Israel’s evacuation order, suggesting that it was completely unviable.
“How are 1.1 million people supposed to move across a densely populated warzone in less than 24 hours?” he wrote on the platform X, formerly known as Twitter, on Friday. “The noose around the civilian population in Gaza is tightening.”
16:00 The Palestinian Health Ministry said that 44 Palestinians have been killed in West Bank since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, with nine Palestinians killed today.
15:30 Israel beef up security on the Lebanon border. Footage from Al-Arabiya TV shows armoured vehicles and tanks on the frontier.
15:00 Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas warned against a "second Nakba" catastrophe facing Palestinians after the Israeli army ordered more than one million people to evacuate north Gaza.
Abbas "completely rejects the displacement of our people from the Gaza Strip, because it will be tantamount to a second Nakba for our people," he said, according to a statement published by the official Palestinian news agency Wafa.
14:30 More than 1,300 people have been killed in Israel, the Israeli occupation army said, raising an earlier toll by 100.
Over 3,200 other people had been wounded, the Israeli army said on X, formerly Twitter, while families of 120 hostages have been contacted since attack at dawn on Saturday that spiralled into all-out war.
13:50 Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement said it would be "fully prepared" to join Hamas in the war against Israel when the time is right.
"We are fully prepared, and when the time comes for action, we will take it," Hezbollah deputy chief Naim Qassem told a pro-Palestinian rally in Beirut's southern suburbs.
13:40 The UNRWA says in a statement that the Israeli call to move more than 1 million civilians living in northern Gaza within 24 hours is “horrendous,” and it will only lead to “unprecedented levels of misery and further push people in Gaza into abyss.”
“The scale and speed of the unfolding humanitarian crisis is bone-chilling. Gaza is fast becoming a hell hole and is on the brink of collapse,” the statement read.
13:30 Israeli tanks and military vehicles were seen moving in southern Israel ahead of an expected ground invasion into Gaza: Reuters on X.
13:15 The Palestinian Red Crescent appealed to the international community to “intervene immediately” to prevent a “humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip.”
“We are unable to evacuate patients and wounded from our hospitals, and there is no safe place in the sector,” the group said in a statement.
Palestinians with their belongings flee to safer areas in Gaza City after Israeli air strikes, on October 13, 2023. AFP
13:00 Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades says they launched rockets from Gaza towards the Ben Gurion International Airport.
12:30 Iran urges US to 'control' Israel to avert regional war. The United States must rein in Israel to avert a regional spillover of the war with Hamas, Iran's top diplomat said Friday during his visit to Beirut, adding Tehran was seeking to safeguard Lebanon's security.
"If the Americans want to prevent the war in the region from developing, they must control Israel," Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said. "One of the goals of our trip is to stress on Lebanon's security," he added.
Iran's foreign minister said on Thursday opening a "new front" against Israel would depend on Israel's actions in Gaza.
11:15 Hamas calls on Palestinians in Gaza to stay in their homes despite evacuation orders.
The Hamas Authority for Refugee Affairs told residents of the north of the territory to “remain steadfast in your homes and to stand firm in the face of this disgusting psychological war waged by the occupation.”
11:00 Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades announced the killing of 13 captives, including foreigners, in the intense Israeli bombing on the North and Gaza governorates during the past 24 hours. Six were killed in the North governorate, while seven were killed in the Gaza governorate across three locations "that were affected by the barbaric enemy bombing," they added.
10:35 Israeli occupation forces arrested 42 Palestinians in the West Bank, most of them from Hamas, last night, Palestinian Prisoners' Club said on Friday.
10:30 US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv to meet with senior government leaders and see firsthand some of the US weapons and security assistance that Washington rapidly delivered to Israel.
10:13 World Health Organization calls for the immediate opening of a humanitarian corridor to ensure that there are no obstacles to the entry of health and humanitarian supplies
10:00 Israeli media: 10,000 Israelis evacuated from towns around Gaza to Eilat
9:40 The United Nations announced its agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) is moving operations and foreign staff to southern Gaza, following an Israel army evacuation order condemned by the global body.
"UNRWA relocated its central operations centre and international staff to the south to continue its humanitarian operations and support to its staff and Palestine Refugees in Gaza," the agency wrote on Twitter, rebranded X.
9:30 UN urges Israel to call off northern Gaza evacuation order. It urged Israel to rescind its call for 1.1 million residents of northern Gaza to relocate to the south of the territory within 24 hours.
"The United Nations considers it impossible for such a movement to take place without devastating humanitarian consequences," Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN secretary-general, said on Thursday.
9:00 Israel’s military delivered sweeping evacuation orders for almost half of Gaza’s 2.3 million people Friday ahead of a feared ground invasion, UN officials said.
The order sent panic through civilians and aid workers already struggling under Israeli airstrikes and a blockade.
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