Turkey’s leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a phone call with US President Joe Biden says Israel’s killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh “dealt heavy blow to ceasefire” talks, shows Netanyahu government wants “fire in Gaza” to spread regionally.

    Gaza’s civil defence says at least 15 killed in Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians.

    Hezbollah in Lebanon leader Hassan Nasrallah says conflict with Israel enters “new phase” after killings of movement’s commander Fuad Shukr and Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh. Israel’s Netanyahu says country is “at a very high level of readiness for any scenario”.

    Al Jazeera journalists gathered in the Qatar-based media network’s headquarters to condemn Israel’s killing of colleagues Ismail al-Ghoul and Rami al-Rifi in Gaza.

    At least 39,480 people, including 16,314 children, have been killed and 91,128 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 and more than 200 were taken captive.

    Israeli military carries out arrests in Bethlehem, Nablus and Tulkarem

    The Israeli military has arrested three Palestinians from Bethlehem governorate, the Wafa news agency reports.

    Two men were arrested in the town of Doha to the west of the city of Bethlehem, while a third man was arrested from the village of Asakreh to the east, according to Wafa.

    Israeli forces have also arrested three men in the city of Nablus, while a man has been arrested in the city of Tulkarem.

    Palestinian fighters detonate house-borne IED in attack on Israeli forces

    Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) fighters attacked Israeli forces in the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood of Gaza City with mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms, while PIJ detonated a house-borne improvised explosive device (HBIED) that targeted Israeli troops, war monitors report.

    US-based think tanks the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) said Palestinian fighters have now engaged Israeli forces for seven consecutive days in Tal al-Hawas, though Israel has not commented on its operations in the area.

    Israeli forces deployed to the Netzarim Corridor, south of Gaza City, also came under what is now near-daily attacks on Thursday, and Hamas and PIJ fighters fired antitank guided missiles at Israeli armour in Rafah city in the south, the ISW-CTP said in their joint report.