23:55 An Israeli airstrike against a school in Gaza City sheltering displaced civilians kills 20 and injures 30 just five hours after three airstrikes against Al-Shifaa Medical Complex in Gaza City killed at least 15 and injured tens of others.
Meanwhile, bodies of dead Palestinians were scattered along the Al-Rasheed Road, which connects the north and south of the strip, after Israeli warplanes targeted Palestinian civilians fleeing the fierce bombardment of their homes in the north.
23:50 Israeli warplanes targeted and killed a group of Palestinian civilians - mostly women and children - who were fleeing on Al-Rasheed Road from the north of the Gaza Strip to the south of the strip as Israel continued its relentless airstrikes in various parts of the north and ground operations.
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23:20 Seventeen injured Palestinians were transported into Egypt on Friday through the Rafah crossing for treatment, while the Israeli ongoing onslaught impeded the arrival of 11 others.
23:10 According to Al Arabiya, Hamas Elite Forces are engaged in battles with the Israeli army in Zikim military base in south Israel after Palestinian fighters infiltrated the base on Friday evening in the hours after Israel carried out two new massacres against Palestinian civilians at a hospital and a school in north Gaza.
22:20 Al-Qassam Brigades announced that it has launched a series of rocket attacks on Tel Aviv in retaliation for the Israeli targeting of civilians in Gaza.
21:45 An Israeli airstrike on the Osama bin Zaid School in the Al-Saftawi neighbourhood in north Gaza City killed at least 20 and wounded 30 in the second massacre against civilians in less than five hours on Friday.
Al Jazeera cameras caught tens of civilians and emergency medical personnel scrambling to rescue victims - mostly women and children - immediately after the strike.
The strike against the school in Al-Saftawi came less than five hours after Israeli airstrikes killed 15 and injured 65 in the immediate vicinity of Al-Shifaa Medical Complex in Gaza City.
21:30 The foreign ministers of five Arab states - Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Jordan, and Egypt - in addition to Palestinian officials will meet with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Saturday in Amman, Jordan on Saturday.
20:30 In defiance, the director of Al-Shifaa Medical Complex stressed the medical staff would not leave the injured behind after Israel carried out airstrikes in the immediate vicinity of the hospital in Gaza City killing at least 15 and wounding at least 65 others in the early hours of Friday evening.
"The hospital is suffering from overcrowding of the wounded,” MD Mohamed Abu Salmiya told Al-Arabiya, stressing that medical staff are working under "terrible psychological pressure."
Abu Salmiya said that most of the medications used in surgical operations are out of stock while a loss of all electricity due to dwindling fuel is threatening the lives of the injured.
"Gaza’s hospitals cannot handle this huge number of injured," he noted.
“There are wounded people who were killed due to the lack of places to treat them,” he added.
Since the start of the war on 7 October, Abu Salmiya rejected repeated Israeli orders to evacuate the hospital.
More than 40,000 Palestinian civilians are sheltering from Israeli bombing in the north of the Gaza Strip inside and around the hospital.
An ambulance attacked in the strike on Al-Shifaa
20:00 Shortly after the deadly Israeli strike on the Al-Shifaa, the spokesperson for the World Health Organization (WHO) told Sky News Arabia that hospitals in Gaza must not be subjected to strikes.
The spokesperson added that only three hospitals in the south of Gaza maintain the capability of carrying out surgical operations.
Meanwhile, the head of the WHO called for the protection of patients and medical staff in the aftermath of the strike against ambulances at the Al-Shifaa.
19:45 The death toll from the Israeli airstrike in the immediate vicinity of the Al-Shifaa Medical Complex in Gaza City hospitals has risen to 15 and the wounded to 65.
The director-general of hospitals in the Gaza Strip had told Al Jazeera the Israeli airstrikes targeted ambulances that were leaving Al-Shifaa to transport wounded to the Rafah border crossing in order to be received by Egypt for treatment.
40,000 Palestinian civilians are seeking shelter from Israeli bombing in the north of the Gaza Strip inside and around the hospital, according to local sources.
Photos and videos of the scene have shown dozens of bloodied bodies lying on the ground as civilians and paramedics scramble to save those wounded.
19:40 The head of the World Health Organization has called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza after the deadly Israeli airstrikes on the Al-Shifaa Medical Complex in Gaza City as the humanitarian situation in the strip worsens by the minute.
"Utterly shocked by reports of attacks on ambulances evacuating patients close to Al-Shifa hospital in #Gaza, leading to deaths, injuries and damage," wrote Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on his X account.
"We reiterate: patients, health workers, facilities, and ambulances must be protected at all times. Always."
19:10 The Republican-controlled House of Representatives approved a partisan $14.5 billion military aid package for Israel, but without humanitarian assistance for Gaza.
Anti-war activists demonstrate in the Hart Senate Office Building on Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. AP
19:15 France will host an international humanitarian conference for the civilian population in Gaza on 9 November, France 24 reported citing three diplomatic sources.
The conference will work on mobilizing funds, re-establishing the supply of water, fuel, and electricity as well as providing emergency assistance for the wounded in Gaza through the possible use of "maritime corridors", two of the diplomats said.
The Palestinian Authority would be present, but Israel was not set to be invited, the diplomats noted.
18:45 Israel has expelled thousands of Gaza Palestinian workers in Israel whom the Israeli authorities have interned since the outbreak of the war on Gaza on 7 October.
"For 25 days we've been in prison and today they brought us here," Nidal Abed, an expelled Palestinian worker, told AFP.
18,000 Gaza Palestinians were working with permits in Israel at the time of the start of the war.
Their permits were rescinded on 10 October.
Some of the Palestinian workers who were expelled through the Karm Salem border crossing with Gaza said they did not know if their families were alive or if their houses still stand.
"We had no idea what was happening in Gaza, or what the situation is."
None carried belongings other than the clothes they wore.
18:15 Palestinian media reported that 15 civilians were killed in the Israeli airstrike on the gates of Al-Shifaa Medical Complex in the early hours of the evening on Friday.
Earlier, Al Jazeera reported that Israeli airstrikes targeted a convoy of ambulances carrying wounded out of Al-Shifaa hospital on their way to the Rafah border crossing to receive treatment in Egypt.
18:00 UN buildings in Gaza are no longer safe, a UN official warned Friday, with more than 50 buildings "impacted" by the conflict, including five "direct hits".
With hundreds of thousands of Palestinians sheltering in UN facilities, mostly schools, "we cannot even provide them safety under a UN flag," said Thomas White, an official with the body's Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA.
Speaking in a video address from the besieged territory, White said at least 38 people had died in UN facilities.
Separate reports say at least 72 UNRWA staff have been killed in Israel's indiscriminate bombing of schools, hospitals, and places of worship.
Some 600,000 people in Gaza have been sheltering in UN buildings since Israel declared war on 7 October.
"These are people seeking shelter under a UN flag seeking protection under international humanitarian law," White said.
17:30 Al Jazeera reported an Israeli airstrike in the vicinity of the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.
Earlier on Friday, the Washington Post quoted hospital director Atef Al-Kahlout as saying: "The hospital's main generator has already run out of fuel and a secondary one can only meet a third of the hospital's needs."
He added that the undersupplied hospital is currently treating more than 300 wounded patients, roughly twice its capacity.
The hospital has come under increased pressure following deadly Israeli airstrikes earlier this week on the nearby Jabalia refugee camp with the hospital receiving scores of new patients in the aftermath of the massacre.
17:00 Tens killed and injured in Israeli airstrikes against ambulances carrying wounded out of Al-Shifaa hospital toward Rafah crossing, Al Jazeera reported.
The director-general of hospitals in the Gaza Strip told Al Jazeera the Israeli airstrikes targeted ambulances that were leaving Al-Shifaa Medical Complex to transport wounded to the Rafah border crossing in order to be received by Egypt for treatment.
Al Jazeera reporters on the scene captured images of tens of emergency medical personnel and civilians rushing to rescue those injured in these strikes.
16:40 Israel launches airstrikes against the vicinity of Al-Quds in the southwest of Gaza City and against the gates of Al-Shifaa Medical Complex in Al-Rimal in Gaza City.
Al-Jazeera reports tens of civilians were killed and injured.
16:30 Agence France-Presse's Gaza City bureau was significantly damaged by a strike on the building, according to a staff member who visited Friday as the Israeli military relentlessly pounds the territory.
The unmanned AFP camera broadcasting live 24/7 captured the moment of the strike, a few minutes before midday (1000 GMT) on Thursday.
AFP is the only one of the world's three major international news agencies currently operating a live video feed from Gaza City, which has not been interrupted despite the damage.
16:20 Nasrallah urges Arab and Islamic nations to sever diplomatic relations and halt the supply of oil and gas to Israel.
The Secretary General of Lebanese Hezbollah, added the developments on the Lebanese front depend on Israel's actions, and "all possibilities remain open". "We are not intimidated by the presence of American fleets in the Mediterranean," he further added.
16:00 Two Gaza-bound aid planes from Russia landed at Egypt’s Al-Arish International Airport on Friday, according to a statement by the Russian Embassy in Egypt.
The shipment, provided by Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations (EMERCOM), includes 28 tons of medicines, hemostatics, and medical dressing supplies.
This is the second contribution from Russia since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza on 7 October.
15:50 Nasrallah says that "the current level of confrontation on the Lebanese front is not sufficient, and the escalation on the Lebanese front is a calculated risk.
"The Lebanese front attracts one-third of Israel's ground forces and half of its naval forces."
15:15 In a long-anticipated speech, Hezbollah's Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah, emphasized that the "Al-Aqsa Flood" battle has expanded across multiple fronts, noting that "it was necessary for a major event to re-present the Palestinian issue at the international level."
Since the Israeli war on Gaza began, Hezbollah's charismatic leader has been noticeably quiet.
He further added that "thousands of Palestinian prisoners have been in occupation prisons for many years without anyone doing anything." The Palestinians "have a very hard life'' and have "suffered for decades", he said in a televised address
Nasrallah added the 7 October operation was a 100% Palestinian decision and that it unveiled the vulnerability and weakness of Israel, likening it to a spider's web, highlighting that Israel had not achieved any military victory in a month of attacks on Gaza.
14:55 Fifteen injured Palestinians entered Egypt through the Rafah border crossing on Friday, an Egyptian government official told CNN.
They will be transferred to hospitals across the country for treatment, the official added.
By a CNN count, this brings the total number of wounded Palestinians who have been transferred to Egypt for treatment to 63.
14:35 The Al-Qassam Brigades released a video depicting intense clashes with occupation forces on the streets of Beit Hanoun and the destruction of several Israeli military vehicles.
14:25 The spokesperson of the Palestinian Ministry of Health issued a statement indicating that a convoy of wounded individuals will commence its movement at 4pm, heading towards the coastal Rashid Road in the southern part of Gaza.
He emphasized that the International Red Cross is entrusted with the responsibility for their protection.
14:02 Standing alongside Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Tel Aviv, Blinken said that Washington stood by Israel.
“We stand strongly for the proposition that Israel has not only the right but the obligation to defend itself and to do everything possible to make sure that this, 7 October, can never happen again,” Blinken said.
“How Israel does this matters. And it is very important that when it comes to the protection of civilians who are caught in the crossfire, that everything is done to protect them,” he said.
13:45 Following a meeting with the US Secretary of State, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said there is no decision to allow fuel into Gaza.
13:29 Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that 9 Palestinians were killed by Israeli occupation bullets in the West Bank, bringing the number of martyrs to 143 since 7 October.
Four men and a 17-year-old were shot dead in Jenin. A sixth person was transferred to hospital with what health officials described as a serious abdominal injury.
Several Israeli occupation military vehicles entered the Jenin refugee camp on Thursday evening, with sounds of gunshots being fired and piles of rubble strewn around the ground, military bulldozers have been tearing up infrastructure.
In separate attacks overnight, four other Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces, in Hebron, Qalandiya, and in Nablus, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
13:17 Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, saying “crimes against humanity” are being committed in the strip.
“There is no concept that could explain or excuse the brutality that we have witnessed since 7 October,” Erdogan said during a summit of Turkic States in the Kazakh capital Astana.
13:10 In one of the strongest criticisms of Israel from a European leader, Ireland's Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said Israel's war on Gaza also looked like it was turning into "revenge".
12:55 The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that the death toll of Palestinians killed by Israel since 7 October has reached 9,227, including 3,826 children and 2,405 women, while the number of injured has increased to 23,516.
12:50 The United Nations launched an emergency aid appeal seeking $1.2 billion to help some 2.7 million people in Gaza and the West Bank.
"The cost of meeting the needs of 2.7 million people - that is the entire population of Gaza and 500,000 people in the occupied West Bank - is estimated to be $1.2 billion," the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.
12:24 The situation in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is "alarming and urgent", UN human rights office spokeswoman Elizabeth Throssell told a briefing in Geneva, noting, in particular, the violence carried out by the terrorist Israeli settlers against the Palestinian population.
12:17 The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a coalition of Iraqi militias, announced Friday that it will launch a more “intense and expansive” phase of operations against U.S. bases in the region starting next week.
It said the escalation is “in support of our people in Palestine and to avenge the martyrs” in the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza.
11:35 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is now holding a private meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, at the Kirya in Tel Aviv. They will also meet with the members of the War Cabinet.
11:30 The Egyptian Red Crescent (ERC) announced on Friday the delivery of the tenth batch of urgent humanitarian aid to the Palestinian Red Crescent in Gaza through the Rafah Crossing border.
According to the ERC, the aid consisted of 102 trucks carrying food, water, relief supplies, medicines, and medical equipment.
10:15 At least 21 people were injured at Gaza City's Al-Quds Hospital following Israeli airstrikes on the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said Friday.
It follows two straight days of Israeli airstrikes near the GAZA's second-largest hospital, where up to 14,000 displaced people are sheltering.
A video posted by the Red Crescent shows shattered glass on the ground as health workers carried children and medics tended to a woman with a leg injury.
10:05 Israel says it’s on “very high alert” along the country’s northern border with Lebanon.
We’re expecting a big speech this afternoon from Hezbollah’s leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
10:04 The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on Friday that nearly 50 of its buildings and assets across Gaza have been impacted, with some being “directly hit” by Israeli strikes.
“This includes UN schools and buildings being used as shelters, where UNRWA is currently hosting around 700,000 people,” UNRWA said in a post on social media.
Israeli strikes killed people sheltering at schools in refugee camps, a UN aid agency said Thursday. And Gaza's hospitals said they are struggling to treat patients as fuel and other critical supplies dwindle.
The agency has received “extraordinary, difficult news” about three. of our schools, sheltering about 20,000 people, in the refugee camps of Jabalia and Al Shati, which is sometimes referred to as Beach camp, been hit, said Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner general of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
"This reportedly has led to the deaths of more than 20 people in Jabalia, and also one person at the Beach camp," Lazzarini told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.
The UNRWA later said in a statement that four of its shelters were damaged by Thursday's bombardment: the two mentioned by Lazzarini, and two other schools-turned-shelters further south in the Al-Bureij refugee camp.
9:48 The Israeli occupation military announced that four of its soldiers were killed on Friday morning.
It brings the official death toll among Israeli soldiers fighting in Gaza to 23.
9:40 The Israeli army continues raiding various areas of Gaza City, saying that its warplanes, artillery, and navy had struck Gaza overnight, killing several resistance fighters including Mustafa Dalul, a Hamas commander it said had directed fighting in Gaza. There was no immediate confirmation from Hamas.
In one Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, a journalist working for the official Palestine TV and at least nine of his immediate family were killed in their house.
9:37 Palestinian medical sources said on Friday that eight Palestinians were killed in separate incidents in the West Bank overnight. One of them died of wounds from a previous incident.
9:23 Al-Qassam Brigades said they surprised a "Zionist force" in the Al-Amiriya area, northwest of Beit Lahia, and eliminated 4 soldiers from zero range.
9:00 US Drones are flying over Gaza to aid in captives' recovery, officials told the New York Times.
The American military has been sending weapons and advisers to Israel, but the flights suggest a more active American role.
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