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Families of those missing and taken hostage by Hamas during the October 7 attack marched from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on Friday, demanding that that the government guarantee hostages are returned safely.

A United Nations official has confirmed that the actual number of casualties in Israel’s war on Gaza is “likely much higher” than the last reported figure of over 11,000 deaths due to a lack of updates following the collapse of communication networks in the besieged territory.

Palestinian group, Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip, has announced the start of military the operation Al-Aqsa Flood against Israel. Thousands of rockets have been fired from the blockaded enclave towards the occupied territories as far away as Tel Aviv, killing over 1,200 Israelis, including both military and settlers. More than 11,500 Palestinians have been so far killed in an exchange of fire between the two sides.

Ukraine has received fewer artillery rounds since Israel launched its military operation against the Gaza Strip, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. He added that competition for munitions between countries has intensified, particularly for 155mm shells.

Israeli military and leadership are locked in a debate “at the highest levels” about what next steps to take in the Gaza Strip, sources familiar with the discussion have stated.

The head of gynecology  and maternity department at Al-Tahrir Hospital in Khan Younis, situated in the south of the Gaza Strip, says tens of thousands of pregnant women are dicing with death in Gaza amidst severe shortages of medicine and medical equipment due to Israeli strikes.

The chief commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami, says the Israeli war on infants in Gaza signals a collapse of the regime.

A member of Hamas's political bureau said the news published by Reuters claiming that the Iranian supreme leader has announced that Iran will not enter into a war for Hamas is false and pure slander.

US President Joe Biden says he has made it clear to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that occupying the Gaza Strip would be “a big mistake” and that the two-state solution is the only way to bring an end to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

More than two dozen Democratic members of the US Congress have signed a letter, urging the administration of President Joe Biden to agree to a ceasefire and an end to Israel's attack against Gaza. A growing number of Democrats now support a complete halt to the fighting between Israel and Palestinian armed groups.

The United Nations Security Council has adopted a resolution calling for a series of humanitarian pauses in the besieged Gaza strip to allow for aid delivery and medical evacuations.

American public support for Israel's war in Gaza has reached a new low, with a fresh survey showing that less than a third of respondents support the war, and the majority of those polled think that Israel should call for a ceasefire to the conflict.

At least 200 medical workers have been killed in the Gaza Strip since October 7, the Al Jazeera television has reported, citing the Palestinian enclave’s authorities.

Palestinian group, Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip, has announced the start of military the operation Al-Aqsa Flood against Israel. Thousands of rockets have been fired from the blockaded enclave towards the occupied territories as far away as Tel Aviv, killing over 1,200 Israelis, including both military and settlers. More than 11,500 Palestinians have been so far killed in an exchange of fire between the two sides.

The Iranian foreign minister says Gaza-based Palestinian groups are ready to stop retaliatory attacks against Israel and do something regarding the civilian hostages being held in the Gaza Strip if the Israeli regime stops the genocide in enclave.

It would be a big mistake to perceive the restraint of Iran and other countries on the issue of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict as "the green light" to any action in the Gaza Strip, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has stated in an interview with RT.

US military aid to Israel extends well beyond Iron Dome interceptors and precision missiles for warplanes, according to a Pentagon document reported by Bloomberg. More than 11,500 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s relentless attacks on Gaza since October 7.

The representative of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas in Iran, Khaled al-Qaddoumi, has praised the Islamic Republic of Iran’s efforts to stop the unraveling humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, but has voiced disappointment with the recent summit meeting of the Islamic and Arab states in Riyadh over Palestine.

US President Joe Biden has expressed confidence that an agreement to free the hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip will soon be completed amid the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza.

Palestinian movement Hamas is ready to release all women, children and foreign citizens it is currently holding hostage if Israel releases women and children from its prisons and a ceasefire agreement is reached, a high-ranking member and spokesman of the group has said.

Leader of Yemen's Ansar Allah movement (Houthis) Abdul-Malik al-Houthi has vowed to continue attacking Israeli targets, including Israeli ships in the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandab Strait.

The leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Islamic Jihad has stressed the group may keep Israeli captives it took in an operation in early October until circumstances improve for a prisoner exchange deal with Tel Aviv.

Palestinian group, Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip, has announced the start of military the operation Al-Aqsa Flood against Israel. Thousands of rockets have been fired from the blockaded enclave towards the occupied territories as far away as Tel Aviv, killing over 1,200 Israelis, including both military and settlers. More than 11,500 Palestinians have been so far killed in an exchange of fire between the two sides.

Human Rights Watch has called for Israel’s “repeated, apparently unlawful attacks on medical facilities, personnel, and transport” in the Gaza Strip to be investigated as war crimes. Hospitals in the Gaza Strip desperately need medicines, medical equipment and fuel for power generators.

A group of Palestinians living in the US and the occupied Palestinian territories filed a lawsuit against the administration of US President Joe Biden, seeking to halt further diplomatic and military support to Israel. The lawsuit accuses Washington of failing to "prevent an unfolding genocide" against the Palestinian people amid Israel's assault on Gaza.