Multiple Israeli strikes on residential buildings in Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood kill at least 35 Palestinians and wound a further 55 while 80 people remain missing under the rubble.

      Shujayea attack witnesses say Israeli bombing was “a massacre with the full meaning of the word” as an overwhelmed hospital appeals for blood donations to treat dozens of badly injured survivors.

      Israeli forces have carried out a major raid on the Balata refugee camp and nearby Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

      Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 50,810 Palestinians are confirmed dead and 115,688 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. The Government Media Office updated its death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.

      At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attacks and more than 200 were taken captive.

      JD Vance meets with freed captives, families of captives still held

      The US vice president met with several former captives and the families of captives still being held in Gaza at the White House on Wednesday.

      Vance told those present that the Trump administration remains “hopeful” about the chances of Israel and Hamas reaching a deal to secure the release of the 59 remaining captives, according to a readout from the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.

      “President Trump is committed to reuniting the remaining hostages with their families, something that should have happened long before his return to office,” Vance said of the visit on X.

      Palestinian journalist arrested as Israeli forces raid Old City in Nablus: Reports

      Well-known reporter Samer Khuwaira was taken from his home in the occupied West Bank’s Nablus in the early hours of this morning, as Israel’s military carries out a major incursion and home expulsions in the nearby Balata refugee camp.

      Israeli forces have also stormed the Old City in central Nablus, as military vehicles have deployed in front of the Ajaj Mosque and ground forces have been stationed around the Great Salah al-Din Mosque, according to reports.

      A Palestinian home in the Old City’s Aqaba neighbourhood has also been raided, according to local media sources.

      Last month, Israeli forces searched several mosques in the Old City and left them in what was described as a “ransacked” state by the official Palestinian news agency, Wafa.

      Israeli police arrest 7 demonstrators protesting war on Gaza

      Israeli police have arrested seven demonstrators protesting Israel’s war on Gaza near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem, The Times of Israel reports.

      Several dozen antiwar protesters gathered in Jerusalem’s Paris Square holding signs and banners demanding an end to Israel’s offensive on the Palestinian enclave and calling on Israelis to refuse military service.

      In one clip, a protester wearing a Pikachu costume can be seen holding a banner reading “stop the massacre” before a plainclothes police officer tears it away.

      Gaza hospital director should be ‘revered’ not detained by Israeli military: UN envoy

      Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur on Palestine, has drawn attention to the fate of the former director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, who was detained without charge by Israeli forces in December.

      As the Kamal Adwan Hospital was destroyed in Israel attacks late last year, Hussam Abu Safia remained at his post and with patients until he was taken to Israel’s notorious Sde Teiman military detention camp in Israel’s Negev Desert.

      Not charged with any crime, the doctor was later transferred to Ofer Prison, located near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

      “This Doctor should have been safe by now, under protected status, and [revered] by international leaders as an icon of Ethics,” Albanese wrote on social media.

      “Instead he is still a hostage of Israel, which has abducted him without ever charging him,” she said.

      Abu Safia’s lawyers told Al Jazeera in February that their client was been tortured and treated brutally in Israeli military prison.