Five more children are among dozens of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on central and southern Gaza over the past 24 hours.
Israel’s military has warned that cross-border fire from Hezbollah into Israel could trigger a wider conflagration with “devastating consequences for Lebanon and the entire region”.
The United Nations has welcomed an Israeli army move to “pause” fighting near a key route in southern Gaza for 11 hours each day for aid deliveries but urges more “concrete measures” to unblock the faltering humanitarian response.
An Israeli soldier has been killed after a booby-trapped building blew up in southern Gaza, a day after 10 others died in attacks.
At least 37,337 people have been killed and 85,299 injured in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from the Hamas-led attacks stands at 1,139 with dozens of people still held captive in Gaza.
