Live updates on Israel's war against Hamas

Israeli forces stopped several Palestinian students at a checkpoint, preventing them from reaching their schools between the Al-Sawahra Al-Gharbiya and Al-Sawahra Al-Sharqiya neighborhoods east of occupied East Jerusalem, Wafa news agency reported.

The Jerusalem Governorate said the children, ages 7 to 15, were halted at Al-Shayah Checkpoint because their names were reportedly not on the list.

Local residents have called on human rights groups to urge Israeli authorities to reopen the crossing so the students can attend classes with their peers in Al-Sawahra Al-Sharqiya.

The United Nations children's agency Unicef said it was "outraged" after two truck drivers it contracted to deliver clean water to families in the Gaza Strip were killed by Israeli fire.

The UN agency said in a statement that the incident occurred during routine water trucking on Friday morning at the Mansoura water filling point in northern Gaza, which supplies Gaza City.

Two others were injured in the attack.

Unicef said it had suspended activities at the site and called on Israeli authorities to investigate, stressing that humanitarian workers, civilians and vital water infrastructure must be protected under international humanitarian law.

Israel's embassy in Washington didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

An average of at least 47 women and girls were killed each day during the war in Gaza, according to figures published by UN Women on Friday, and the agency warned that deaths have continued six months into a fragile ceasefire.

More than 38,000 women and girls were killed in Gaza between October 2023 and December 2025, according to the report by UN Women, an agency that focuses on gender equality.

"Women and girls accounted for a proportion of deaths far higher than those observed in previous conflicts in Gaza," Sofia Calltorp, the agency's humanitarian action head, told reporters in Geneva.

"They were individuals with lives and with dreams," she added.

UN children's agency Unicef said on Friday that children continued to be killed and injured at an alarming rate in Gaza, with at least 214 reported dead in the last six months.

Around one million women and girls are displaced in Gaza, UN Women said.

"Extensive damage to infrastructure has made it almost impossible for women and girls in Gaza to access their basic needs like healthcare," said Calltorp.

At least 72,345 Palestinians have been killed and 172,250 injured in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 2023, Al Jazeera reported.

Since a US-brokered ceasefire took effect last October, at least 766 Palestinians have been killed and 2,147 wounded.

Eight Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza over the past 24 hours, in the latest violation of a "ceasefire" agreement, Al Jazeera quoted the Palestinian Health Ministry on Wednesday.

At least 29 people were also wounded in the attacks,

According to the ministry, the death toll from Israeli attacks since October 7, 2023, has risen to 72,344, while 172,242 people have been wounded and many remain under the rubble.

Since the "ceasefire" deal was agreed last October, 765 Palestinians have been killed and 2,140 wounded by Israeli attacks across Gaza.

Gaza's civil defence agency said that a toddler was among 10 people killed in separate Israeli strikes in the northern part of the Palestinian territory.

Violence continues despite a ceasefire in the Gaza war that came into effect on October 10, with both Israel and Hamas regularly accusing each other of violations.

Mahmoud Bassal, spokesman for the civil defence agency, which operates as a rescue service under Hamas authority, said "four people were killed, including a child and several others were injured... in a strike targeting a police vehicle" in Gaza City.

He identified the child as three-year-old Yahya al-Mallahi.

Israeli fire killed at least six Palestinians, including two children, in separate incidents across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, local health officials said, in the latest violence to undermine a US-brokered ceasefire agreement.

Four people, including a young child, were killed in a strike that targeted a police vehicle in Gaza City, the Hamas-run Interior Ministry said. A police officer was among the dead, while nine bystanders were wounded, some critically, it said.

In the north of the enclave, near Jabalia, Israeli fire killed three-year-old Yahya Al‑Malahi, health authorities and his family said.

In northern Gaza, Israel's military said it killed a man who had approached the armistice line with Hamas.

Health authorities confirmed a man had been killed in the area, without providing details.

New York police detained around 50 people taking part in a rally Monday by a Jewish organisation that promotes Palestinian rights, an AFP correspondent saw.

Gathering under the banner of the group Jewish Voice for Peace, the detainees were part of a group of about 200 protesters who blocked a major avenue in Manhattan for just under an hour to protest US military support for Israel.

They had gathered near the offices of Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and his colleague Kirsten Gillibrand, whom they accuse of voting against a measure aimed at blocking US arms sales to Israel.

An Israeli air strike has killed at least three Palestinians in Gaza as mediators met leaders from Hamas in an effort to shore ⁠up a US-brokered “ceasefire” deal.

Medics said the attack hit a group of men outside a school in Deir eal-Balah in central Gaza.

“This isn’t a truce, it’s a trap for our young men. Every day there are martyrs, every single day. How long can this continue?” said Umm Hussam Abu el-Rous, a ‌female relative of one of the victims.

“Isn’t it unjust that a three-year-old child is afraid of seeing his [dead] father? He says, 'My father went to bring me something from the shop,'” she added.

More than 750 Palestinians have been killed since the deal was implemented.

Police in London said they had arrested more than 500 pro-Palestinian protesters at a demonstration in support of the banned group Palestine Action on Saturday.

Officers carried away activists to cheers and clapping from other demonstrators who gathered for the sit-down demonstration in the capital's Trafalgar Square.

The protesters held placards in support of the banned group Palestine Action, making them liable for arrest.

London's Metropolitan Police said on social media platform X just before midnight that they had arrested 523 people aged between 18 and 87.