Israel-Palestine live: Starving children 'crying for milk' inside al-Shifa Hospital
Major communications and internet outages reported across Gaza
A spokesperson for the Palestinian Ministry of Health said a dialysis patient died during Israel's raid of the al-Shifa hospital.
Ashraf al-Qudra warned that several premature babies are at risk of imminent death as there is no electricity to power their incubators.
He added that no food and water remained for the 650 patients and 7,000 people sheltering in the hospital.
Qudra also called out Israel's claim that the hospital stored weapons and described the claim as a "lie" during his press conference.
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The United States has doubled down on claims that Hamas had operated from the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza after Israeli forces raided the medical facility.
Speaking on Thursday, White House spokesperson John Kirby was responding to questions from reporters on the limited evidence provided by Israel to back its claim that Hamas used al-Shifa as a command centre.
"We have our own intelligence that convinces us that Hamas was using al-Shifa as a command and control node and most likely as well as a storage facility," Kirby told reporters.
"They were sheltering themselves in the hospital, using the hospital as a shield against military action, placing the patients and medical staff at greater risk. We are still convinced of the soundness of that intelligence."
Kirby did not confirm whether Israel had shared any intelligence it had gathered from the al Shifa hospital after raiding the facility.
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The Jewish Community Centre in Ljubljana, Slovenia, which hosts one of the oldest Jewish communities in Europe, was defaced with antisemitic graffiti.
The European Jewish Congress posted a picture on Thursday that showed vandals had defaced the doors of the centre with a swastika in Ljubljana.
This latest attack comes as antisemitic incidents continue to rise across Europe, following Hamas's attack on Israel and Israel's subsequent bombardment of Gaza.
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The al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, claimed responsibility for a shooting at the Tunnels checkpoint between Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem on Thursday.
Earlier, Israeli police said they had shot and "neutralised" a suspect in the shooting, as tensions continue to rise in the occupied West Bank.
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The Palestinian Red Crescent said Israeli tanks were laying siege to Gaza's Al-Ahli hospital in a “violent attack” on Thursday, after a surgeon confirmed the hospital is no longer able to provide surgeries.
“Teams are unable to move and reach those who are injured,” the PRCS said on X, formerly Twitter.
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The director of al-Shifa Hospital has given the latest update from inside the besieged medical facility in Gaza.
The hospital, the largest medical complex in the Palestinian territory, was raided by Israeli troops early on Wednesday.
As of Thursday 15:30 GMT, tanks are still encircling the hospital while bulldozers raze sections of it and troops raid different wards.
Dr Muhammad Abu Salmiya, speaking to Al Jazeera Arabic, gave the following updates:
Starving children are "crying for milk" after food and water run out.
The hospital is plunged into darkness and electricity is cut off.
Soldiers destroy expensive medical equipment, worth up to $2m.
Soldiers separated men and women, interrogating doctors and displaced men.
Over 7,000 civilians inside are waiting for their death.
Three premature babies have died so far, after being taken out of incubators due to power outages.
A Palestinian woman gave birth two days ago.
The al Ahli Hospital in Gaza is no longer able to provide surgeries as fuel shortages and weeks of Israeli bombardment begin to take its toll on Gaza’s services.
British-Palestinian surgeon Ghasan Abu Sitteh took to social media to confirm the situation in al Ahli hospital in Gaza.
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The head of the UN Palestinian refugee agency said on Thursday he believed there was a deliberate attempt to "strangle" its humanitarian work in Gaza, warning that the agency may have to entirely suspend its operations due to a lack of fuel.
"I do believe there is a deliberate attempt to strangle our operation and paralyse the operation," Unrwa commissioner-general Philippe Lazzarini told journalists in Geneva, calling it "outrageous"to force people to beg for fuel.
He added that the agency, which supports more than 800,000 displaced people in Gaza, was at risk of suspending its operations entirely.
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The Palestinian Red Crescent (PRC) said on Thursday that Israeli tanks are surrounding the al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza and “violent attacks are under way”.
The PRC said that its teams are unable to move or reach those wounded.
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Students in London are marching towards the office of Rushanara Ali, a Labour member of parliament for the Bethnal Green area.
The march comes after Ali voted against a ceasefire on Wednesday, saying “I want to see a ceasefire and I have been clear about this, but the reality is that this motion does not secure a ceasefire and would not lead towards one, which the people of Gaza urgently need,” she said in a statement.
The protesters carried Palestinian flags and chanted “Free Free Palestine, Israel is a terror state.”
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NetBlocks, a digital monitor, said on Thursday that live metrics in Gaza show that the besieged enclave is now in the midst of a major internet outage as generator fuel supplies and backups have officially run out.
“Telecom services including landline, cellular and wifi are likely to be unavailable to most residents at the present time,” they said.
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The United Nations agency Unrwa said on Thursday that sewage is flowing in the streets of Rafah, as all sewage pumps have run out of fuel.
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Human Rights Watch said on Thursday that images released by Israel showing weapons it says its soldiers found inside Gaza's biggest hospital are not sufficient to justify revoking the hospital's status as protected by the laws of war.
"Hospitals have special protections under international humanitarian law. Doctors, nurses, ambulances and other hospital staff must be permitted to do their work and patients must be protected," Human Rights Watch UN director Louis Charbonneau told Reuters.
"Hospitals only lose those protections if it can be shown that harmful acts have been carried out from the premises. The Israeli government hasn’t provided any evidence of that."
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Gaza’s two main telecommunications companies, Paltel and Jawwal, said that all telecoms services in the Gaza Strip have gone out of service as all energy services have been depleted.
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The United Nations agency Unrwa said that 103 of its staff have been killed by Israeli air strikes since the start of the war on 7 October.
“This marks the highest number of our employees killed in the history of the United Nations,” it said in a statement on Thursday.