Live updates on Israel's war against Hamas

The strike hit a crowded area in Gaza City near an area where local police were stationed to guard a bank, said the medics and eyewitnesses.

Gaza's interior ministry said the strike killed two policemen and wounded two others, in a statement on Friday.

The Israeli military confirmed they had conducted a strike in the area, but said they were targeting Hamas fighters.

Despite a de facto ceasefire, living conditions in Gaza Strip remain dire, with humanitarian aid still falling well short of needs.

Although more commercial goods are entering the enclave, high prices are putting them beyond the reach of many residents, deepening the crisis.

Hospitals continue to operate under severe strain, with critical shortages of medicines and equipment reported by local health officials. The World Health Organization also faces restrictions on bringing in supplies, leaving medical facilities lacking essentials such as MRI scanners, ventilators and adequately functioning intensive care units.

Conflict, drought and shrinking aid will keep global hunger at critical levels in 2026, with food insecurity expected to worsen in some of the world's most fragile countries, according to the 2026 Global Report on Food Crises.

The 10th edition of the hunger monitor, published by a coalition of development and humanitarian organisations, said that acute hunger had doubled over the past decade with two famines declared last year for the first time in the report's history - in Gaza and Sudan.

In total, 266 million people in 47 countries and territories faced high levels of acute food insecurity in 2025, while 1.4 million people faced catastrophic conditions in parts of Haiti, Mali, Gaza, South Sudan, Sudan and Yemen.

Israeli troops detained three Palestinians during early-morning raids in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, located north of Jerusalem.

According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, two of those arrested were brothers, with operations carried out across multiple areas, including Asira al-Shamaliya and Karoum Ashour.

Foreign ministers from Pakistan, Egypt, Turkiye, Indonesia, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE condemned the repeated violations of Jerusalem's holy sites, particularly at Al-Aqsa Mosque, by the Israeli settlers and extremist ministers.

The joint statement criticised incursions by Israeli settlers and officials under police protection, calling these actions a breach of international law and a threat to the historic and legal status quo in Jerusalem.

The ministers also condemned expansion of illegal settlements and settler violence in the occupied West Bank, urging international action and reaffirming support for a two-state solution based on pre-1967 borders.

Israeli airstrikes killed at least four Palestinians in Gaza on Thursday, and Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 15-year-old during an army raid in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials said.

One person was killed in a strike in southern Gaza's Khan Younis in which several others were wounded, local medics said.

Three others, including a rescue worker, were killed in a separate strike in Maghazi, a Palestinian refugee camp in the Deir al Balah area in central Gaza, health officials said. Israel's military had no immediate comment on that strike.

"There is no ceasefire, no truce, nothing at all," said Mohammed Baalousha, a relative of one of the victims. "There is no safety in any area."

The Israeli military said that two individuals were killed in separate incidents in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, Al Jazeera reported.

According to a statement posted on X, one case took place in northern Gaza, where troops opened fire on a person described as a “terrorist” who was in the so-called “Yellow Line” zone and allegedly approached Israeli forces in what was deemed an immediate threat.

In another incident in the south, a second individual was shot dead after reportedly crossing the same demarcation line and moving towards Israeli troops in a manner the military also characterised as posing an imminent danger.

The “Yellow Line” refers to the boundary to which Israeli forces pulled back during the initial phase of the Gaza ceasefire that began last October. Despite the truce, fatalities in the territory have continued to be reported almost daily.

Separately, al-Shifa Hospital reported that at least five people, including three children, were killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza late on Wednesday, with the bodies brought to the facility.

Palestinians in one of the only Gaza cities not overrun by Israeli ground forces during the war will vote this weekend in municipal elections that will feature some pro-Hamas candidates, offering a rare barometer of the group's popularity.

The vote in Deir al-Balah is part of Palestinian Authority municipal elections that Palestinians have cast as a display of national unity against a US plan for Gaza that they believe intends to entrench their separation from the occupied West Bank.

It will be Gaza's first vote of any kind since 2006, when Hamas won the PA's legislative elections and later seized control of Gaza following a brief civil war with PA President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party, dominant in the West Bank.

Israeli forces and settlers continue operations and reported incidents across the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera reported citing few incidents highlighted by Wafa news agency.

Settlers entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound under Israeli military protection and carried out Talmudic rituals.

Meanwhile, the evacuated Kadim settlement near Jenin was also entered by settlers with security cover.

Iraeli forces restricted movement for Palestinians east of Qalqilya, conducting patrols in the town of Hableh and nearby villages including Ras Tira and Wadi Arsha. Several roads in occupied East Jerusalem were closed by Israeli forces, further limiting residents’ movement.