Updates: Hamas-Israel ceasefire holds

Israel’s Supreme Court decided in a ruling that a government ban on 37 foreign NGOs working in Gaza and the occupied West Bank will be frozen until it reaches a final decision.

"Without taking any position, a temporary interim order is hereby issued," the court said in a ruling responding to a petition from the NGOs, including Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and Oxfam, seeking to reverse the ban after Israel’s government revoked their status in Israel.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar met the Foreign Minister of the State of Palestine, Dr Varsen Aghabekian Shahin, on the sidelines of the OIC Executive Committee meeting in Jeddah.

DPM reaffirmed Pakistan’s unwavering solidarity with the Palestinian people and strongly condemned Israeli military assault in the Gaza Strip and illegal actions in the Occupied West Bank.

Both leaders also discussed the humanitarian situation in Gaza, emphasising the need for unhindered humanitarian access and urgent reconstruction efforts.

Americans for the first time sympathise more with Palestinians than Israelis in their conflict, according to a Gallup poll released Friday, after the devastating Gaza war.

Overall, 41% of Americans sympathise more with the Palestinians and 36% sided with Israel, the poll said, with the rest undecided or saying they favoured both or neither.

The gap is not statistically significant, but it marks the first time since Gallup asked the question more than two decades ago that Israel was not on top.

It also marks a sharp difference from just a year ago, when Israel led in sympathies 46% to 33%.

Israeli attacks killed five people in Gaza on Thursday, the territory's health officials said, and the Israeli military said it killed a fighter who posed a threat to its forces in the south of the enclave.

Medics said an Israeli airstrike against a group of Palestinians in Gaza City's Tuffah neighbourhood in northern Gaza killed two people and wounded several others.

Five people were killed and several others injured, some critically, in Israeli drone strikes on two police checkpoints in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis and in the Abu Hujair area northwest of the Bureij refugee camp later in the day, medics said.

The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the reports.

Separately, the Israeli military said forces operating in the southern Gaza Strip killed a fighter who posed an imminent threat to them after he crossed into an area still occupied by Israel inside the enclave.

It described the incident as a violation of the US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that began last October.

An Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip, the territory's health officials said, and the Israeli military said it killed a man who posed a threat to its forces in the south of the enclave.

Medics said an Israeli airstrike against a group of Palestinians in Gaza City's Tuffah neighbourhood killed two people and wounded several others. The Israeli military didn't immediately comment on the report.

Airline KLM said that it is temporarily suspending flights between Amsterdam and Tel Aviv as of March 1, according to a company statement on Wednesday.

KLM, the Dutch arm of airline group Air France KLM, said it was not "commercially or operationally feasible" for the airline to operate flights to Tel Aviv.

A record 129 journalists and media workers were killed worldwide in 2025, said the Committee to Protect Journalists on Wednesday, blaming Israel for two-thirds of the deaths.

Over three-quarters of all the fatalities in 2025 were in conflict settings, the CPJ said in its report.

More than 60% of the 86 members of the press killed by Israeli fire in 2025 were Palestinians reporting from Gaza, it added.

The Israeli military maintains that it never deliberately targets journalists.

"Journalists are being killed in record numbers at a time when access to information is more important than ever," CPJ CEO Jodie Ginsberg said in a statement.

"We are all at risk when journalists are killed for reporting the news."