On average, the number of children being killed every day in the enclave ‘is well over 100’, a Doctors Without Borders doctor warns.

      At least 22 Palestinians killed after Israeli attacks targeted a house in Khan Younis overnight.

      Israeli forces raiding locations across the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem with reports of fierce Palestinian resistance.

      At least 22,722 people killed and 58,166 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The revised death toll from the October 7 attack on Israel stands at 1,139.

    US senators say ‘arbitrary’ Israeli inspections slowing aid delivery

    Two US senators have said that the delivery of much-needed humanitarian assistance into Gaza is being stymied by an arbitrary Israeli inspections regime.

    Democratic Senators Chris Van Hollen and Jeff Merkley visited the border between Egypt and Gaza on Saturday, where a warehouse is full of vital supplies rejected by Israeli authorities, including water testing equipment and medical goods.

    “The warehouse was a testament to the arbitrariness” of the process, Van Hollen said.

    “What struck me yesterday was the miles of backed-up trucks. We couldn’t count, but there were hundreds,” Merkley told a group of reporters in Cairo.

    Palestinians injured in Israeli raid near Tulkarem

    The Wafa news agency reports that four people were injured in the occupied West Bank town of Zeita, near Tulkarem.

    The injuries were caused by live ammunition and shrapnel during fighting that out between Israeli soldiers and local Palestinian youth.

    “Medical sources reported that two individuals with shrapnel injuries to the face and leg were transported to nearby Attil Governmental Hospital, while two others with injuries from live ammunition to the leg were transferred to Thabit Thabit Governmental Hospital in Tulkarm for medical treatment,” Wafa reports.

    Blinken says Gaza conflict needs to be contained

    Middle Eastern nations need to use their influence over regional actors to ensure the Gaza conflict is contained and to prevent “an endless cycle of violence”, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said.

    Blinken spoke late in the day after meeting the leaders of Turkey and Greece at the start of a week-long trip.

    Blinken, who will also visit Arab states, Israel and the occupied West Bank, said if efforts to settle the crisis failed, the outcome would be “lives of insecurity and conflict for people in the region”.

    ‘War on Gaza has not gone so well for Israel’: Analyst

    Giorgio Cafiero, CEO of Gulf State Analytics in Washington, DC, says that Israeli military and leadership are eager to send a message to the public about winning “this war on Gaza and to try and boost morale among Israelis”.

    “The truth, however, is that this three-month war on Gaza has not gone so well for Israel,” he told Al Jazeera. “There’s been a rather high Israeli death count and the resistance in Gaza remains rather strong.”

    “This idea that Israel is going to quickly decapitate Hamas – well, that hasn’t played out the way the Israelis wanted it to. The stopwatch is running out in terms of how much longer Israel can continue to wage this high-intensity military campaign in Gaza,” he said.

    Cafiero said that Israel is trying to shape a narrative about how its war in Gaza has been successful.