Updates: Hamas-Israel ceasefire holds

Quoting the child, Chan said: “Children here never get to grow up,” adding that he broke down in tears as soon as he heard the remark.

“I couldn’t endure it,” the actor said, recalling the moment. “There was no expression on his face. He was already used to death.”

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he would have a phone call with US President Donald Trump on Monday to discuss peace efforts between Ukraine and Russia as well as issues surrounding Gaza.

Speaking to reporters in Istanbul on Friday, Erdogan also said Turkiye's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will attend a meeting of the "Coalition of the Willing", a group of nations backing Ukraine, in Paris in coming days.

Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Qatar, Turkiye, and the United Arab Emirates have expressed grave concern over the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, citing severe weather conditions, restricted humanitarian access, and acute shortages of life-saving supplies.

In a joint statement, the foreign ministers of the Muslim countries said that heavy rainfall, storms, and unstable winter weather have worsened already fragile conditions in Gaza, while delays in the entry of essential materials have hampered efforts to restore basic services and establish temporary housing.

They warned that nearly 1.9 million displaced people are living in inadequate shelters, facing flooded camps, damaged tents, collapsing buildings, and exposure to cold temperatures.

They demanded that Israel ensure the UN and international NGOs are able to operate in Gaza and the West Bank in a sustained, predictable, and unrestricted manner, given their integral role in the humanitarian response in the Strip.

"Any attempt to impede their ability to operate is unacceptable," the foreign ministers added. 

Israel on Thursday said 37 humanitarian agencies supplying aid in Gaza had not met a deadline to meet "security and transparency standards", and would be banned from the territory, despite an international outcry.

The international NGOs, which had been ordered to disclose detailed information on their Palestinian staff, will now be required to cease operations by March 1.

The United Nations has warned that this will exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory.

Several NGOS have said the requirements contravene international humanitarian law or endanger their independence.

Another Palestinian from the city of Rahat, imprisoned in an Israeli jail for more than a year, was killed on Thursday, Wafa News Agency reported.

Hassan Issa al-Qashaleh, jailed for more than 13 months, died earlier today at Beersheba prison. He had been scheduled for release in six months.

Palestinian prisoner groups say more than 100 detainees have died in Israeli custody or shortly after being transferred to hospitals since the war began.

Israel said it holds the remains of 94 detainees, 83 of them since the start of the war.

The Israeli military said its forces killed a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank in the early hours on Thursday as they opened fire on people who were allegedly throwing stones at soldiers, Wafa News Agency reported.

Two other people were hit on a main road near the village of Luban al-Sharqiya in Nablus, the military statement added.

Palestinian authorities in the West Bank said a 26-year-old man they named as Khattab Al Sarhan was killed and another person wounded.

Israeli forces had closed the main entrance to the village of Luban al-Sharqiya, in Nablus, and blocked several secondary roads on Wednesday, the Palestinian Authority's official news agency Wafa reported.

Thousands joined a New Year’s Day rally for Gaza in Istanbul, waving Palestinian and Turkish flags and calling for an end to the violence in the war-torn territory.

Demonstrators gathered in freezing temperatures under cloudless blue skies to march to the city’s Galata Bridge for a rally under the slogan: "We won’t remain silent, we won’t forget Palestine," an AFP reporter at the scene said.

Police sources and Anadolou state news agency said some 500,000 people had joined the march at which there were speeches and a performance by Lebanese-born singer Maher Zain of his song "Free Palestine".

"We are praying that 2026 will bring goodness for our entire nation and for the oppressed Palestinians," said Erdogan, who chairs the board of the Ilim Yayma Foundation, an educational charity that was one of the organisers of the march.

Israel said that 37 international NGOs operating in Gaza had not complied with a deadline to meet "security and transparency standards," in particular disclosing information on their Palestinian staff, and that it "will enforce" a ban on their activities.

The groups will now be required to cease their operations by March 1, which the United Nations has warned will exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory.

"Organisations that have failed to meet required security and transparency standards will have their licenses suspended," the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism said in a statement on Thursday.

"The primary failure identified was the refusal to provide complete and verifiable information regarding their employees, a critical requirement designed to prevent the infiltration of terrorist operatives into humanitarian structures," the ministry said.

In March, Israel gave a ten-month deadline to NGOs to comply with the new rules, which demand the "full disclosure of personnel, funding sources, and operational structures."

Palestinian Vice President Hussein Al Sheikh met Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan on Wednesday, where they discussed developments in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

During the meeting, they discussed difficult humanitarian conditions facing the population in Gaza, and the Israeli escalation in the West Bank and its continued violations of the ceasefire, the Saudi Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

They emphasised the importance of allowing humanitarian assistance to enter without obstacles, the release of Palestinian Authority funds, the protection of the Palestinian banking system, commitment to the implementation of President Donald Trump’s comprehensive peace plan, and the Kingdom’s support for the reform programme launched by President Mahmoud Abbas.