Overnight Israeli attack on apartment in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza has killed several Palestinian civilians, including children, and injured many others, Gaza’s civil defence agency reports.

    A Palestinian man was killed and about a dozen injured by armed Israeli settlers who attacked Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, burning cars and destroying property.

    Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari says talks between mediators to help end the war in Gaza will resume on Friday.

    Gaza ceasefire mediators from Qatar, Egypt and the United States concluded a “constructive” day of discussions on Thursday and talks will continue today, a US official told the Reuters news agency.

    At least 40,005 people have been killed and 92,401 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.

    International community must sanction Israel over state’s role in settler violence: Expert

    More from humanitarian law expert Itay Epshtain on official state involvement in Israeli settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied territory:

    In a series of posts on social media, the special adviser to the Norwegian Refugee Council said that Israeli “settler violence is aided and supported” by institutions of the Israeli state, including ministries and regional and local councils involved in the illegal settlements.

    “Settler violence against Palestinians is attributable to the State of Israel and its central and local government,” Epshtain said.

    The international community can, and must, employ “lawful countermeasures” to compel Israel to abide by international law, which is being “seriously and systematically breached through settler violence”, he said.

    “The adequate response to the upsurge of settler violence, including the deadly incident tonight, is to subject Israeli ministries and the ministers who head them, and local government and heads of regional and local settlement councils to financial restrictions and travel bans,” Epshtain said.

    The International Court of Justice affirmed in July that Israel’s military presence in the occupied Palestinian territory is unlawful, he said, and all illegal Israeli settlements must be immediately dismantled, and settlers must withdraw from Palestinian land.

    “The organs of government that allow for continued Israeli presence, and the violence it brings with it, are an affront to international law and must be met with political resolve to impose sanctions,” he added.

    Israeli military carries out arrests in Tulkarem, Ramallah

    Clashes erupted in Tulkarem after the Israeli military stormed the occupied West Bank city, according to local media reports.

    Israeli forces have now withdrawn from the area after an hours-long raid, arresting and taking a Palestinian man with them.

    The Israeli military has also arrested a man and his sister after storming their home in the village of Beitin, northeast of Ramallah.

    US tells Israel to protect Palestinians after deadly Israeli settler attacks in West Bank

    The US has condemned as “unacceptable” deadly rampage attacks on a Palestinian village and town by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, saying its key ally Israel must protect Palestinian “communities from harm”.

    “Attacks by violent settlers against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank are unacceptable and must stop,” a US National Security Council spokesperson said in a statement.

    “Israeli authorities must take measures to protect all communities from harm, this includes intervening to stop such violence and holding all perpetrators of such violence to account,” the spokesperson said.

    The Palestinian Health Ministry said a 23-year-old Palestinian man – identified as Mahmoud Abdel Qader Sadda – was killed in the settler violence and another Palestinian suffered critical gunshot wounds to the chest in the attack on the village of Jit, located east of Qalqilya city.

    Dozens of masked Israeli settlers, some armed, hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails as they stormed the Palestinian village, setting fire to several cars and destroying property.