Palestine’s UN envoy Riyad Mansour tells emergency meeting of the UN Security Council (UNSC) that “Israel does not care about your condemnations” over the mass killing of civilians and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.

    The UN’s humanitarian agency tells UNSC that the recent attack on a Gaza City school, which killed at least 100 people, was “far from an isolated incident” and Israeli strikes on schools “occurring with increasing frequency”.

    Israel’s military orders Palestinians to immediately leave more areas of war-battered Khan Younis as it prepares to “act forcefully”.

    The US approved more than $20bn in new weapons sales to Israel despite calls to stop arms deliveries amid the huge Palestinian civilian death toll due to Israel’s war on Gaza.

    At least 39,929 people have been killed and 92,240 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.

    Latest Israeli strikes on Gaza Strip kill at least 16

    Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that at least 16 people have been reported killed in predawn Israeli attacks that targeted central and northern Gaza.

    We reported earlier that two people had been killed in Israeli artillery shelling of an apartment building in northern Beit Lahiya city and three people were killed and several injured in an Israeli attack on a house in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza.

    Strikes in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City have also been reported.

    We will bring you more on these attacks as information emerges.

    At least 2,650 Palestinians from Gaza remain in Israeli custody: Rights group

    More from Al Mezan:

    The Palestinian group estimated that approximately 2,650 Palestinians taken from the Gaza Strip after October 7 are currently in Israeli custody. They include 12 children and two women.

    Among them, approximately 300 are facing trials, Al Mezan said, while 2,350 are classified as “unlawful combatants” without a defined detention period or specific charges.

    The facilities they are being held in include,

•     Ketziot Prison in al-Naqab
•     Shikma Prison in Ashkelon
•     Ofer Prison
•     Ofer Military Camp
•     Nafha Prison
•     Sde Teiman Camp
•     Kishon Prison in Al-Jalama
•     The Al-Moskobiya and Petah Tikva detention centres

    Palestinian rights group calls for closure of ‘Israeli torture camps’

    The Al Mezan Center for Human Rights has called for accountability for Israeli abuses against Palestinian detainees, saying recent testimony and evidence from Israeli detention centres “reveal a level of violence that resounds with the atrocities documented in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib”.

    Citing lawyers, Al Mezan said Palestinian prisoners and detainees are enduring severe physical and psychological torture in Israeli facilities.

    This includes “being hung in stress positions, beaten with hammers, having their nails pulled out with wire-cutting pliers, attacked by dogs, and beaten with soldiers’ fists, feet, and rifle butts,” Al Mezan said.

    Detainees “have been exposed naked to the scorching sun while standing on sharp gravel stones, subjected to verbal abuse, and threatened with rape, death, and bombing, along with threats against their families”. They have also been “deprived of food, water, sleep, and access to sanitation for extended periods, all while facing extremely harsh living conditions,” Al Mezan said.

    The torture has resulted in several deaths but there is no definitive record of the total number of Palestinian who have died in Israeli custody, Al Mezan said.

    The Palestinian Prisoners Club has disclosed the full identities of 22 Palestinians who have died as a result of torture or medical negligence since October 7, while the Israeli rights group B’Tselem said that at least 60 Palestinians, including 48 from the Gaza Strip, have died behind bars since the war began.