Israel-Palestine live: Israel and Palestinians agree to truce, hostage deal

Israeli air strikes and shelling targeted Palestinians in several different areas overnight across the Gaza Strip. 

In the Rafah area of southern Gaza, an air strike left scores of displaced Palestinians dead and wounded according to the Wafa news agency. 

In north Gaza, at least 18 civilians were killed by an Israeli air strike on residential buildings in Jabalia refugee camp. 

In a separate Israeli attack on Jabalia, an air strike killed three other civilians in the Falouja neighbourhood, Wafa reported. 

Israeli shelling was also reported around Gaza City, including in the Sheikh Radwan, Tuffah and Shujaiya neighbourhoods. 

Israel's Ministry of Interior has revoked the blue-coloured identification cards of two Palestinians who have recently been arrested in Jerusalem, according to a report from the Palestinian news outlet Quds.

Majed al-Jubeh and Rashid al-Rishq's blue ID cards are a type of identification given to Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem. Palestinians from the rest of the occupied West Bank and Gaza are given green-coloured ID cards.

These ID cards affect many aspects of Palestinian life, including freedom of movement.

Quds reported last month that Jubeh was arrested by Israeli forces.

The Israeli military said on Friday morning that its forces located the body of one of its soldiers, 19-year-old Noa Marciano, who had been held captive by Hamas in Gaza.

According to a statement by the Israeli military spokesperson's unit, Marciano's body was located in a building near al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza.

Israeli forces withdrew from the West Bank city of Jenin on Friday morning, after launching an intense overnight raid that killed at least three Palestinians, according to several Palestinian news reports.

Palestinian media outlets reported that the raid lasted 10 hours, in which Israel's military stormed the city from multiple sides with soldiers, vehicles, and bulldozers, and demanded that Ibn Sina Hospital be evacuated.

In addition to the three Palestinians killed, at least nine others have been wounded.

The number of Palestinians killed in the Israeli bombing of a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip has risen to 18, according to Al Jazeera Arabic. Among those killed are women and children.

The Los Angeles Times is prohibiting staff from covering Israel's war in Gaza for at least three months if they signed an open letter that criticised western media coverage of the war, according to a report by Semafor.

After the report was released, one of the newspaper's reporters, Suhauna Hussain, confirmed that several staff members had been taken off coverage and said the move by the company "removes a great many Muslim journalists and most [if] not all Palestinians at the LA Times from coverage".

According to Hussain, nearly three dozen staffers at the LA Times signed the open letter that condemned Israel's bombing of Gaza, which has killed more than 11,000 Palestinians and scores of journalists in the enclave.

More than 1,200 journalists and writers have signed the letter since it was released.

The University of Florida's chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) has filed a lawsuit against the state university system's order to deactivate the student group.

The lawsuit is seeking an injunction to block the deactivation order from going into effect, saying the decision by the state and Governor Ron DeSantis is a violation of the constitutional rights to free speech and association.

“As students on a public college campus, we have every right to engage in human rights advocacy and promote public awareness and activism for a just and reasonable solution to the Palestine-Israel conflict,” the University of Florida’s SJP chapter said in a statement.

“We know we have First Amendment rights in school and we’re bringing this lawsuit to make sure the government doesn’t silence us or others like us.”

You can read the full complaint here.

Multiple Palestinians were killed in the early hours of Friday morning in Jenin, as Israeli forces intensified a raid on the occupied West Bank city.

Al Jazeera Arabic reported that at least two Palestinians were killed during an Israeli bombardment of Jenin, while Palestinian news outlets reported that at least two more were killed, and several others wounded, as Israeli forces stormed the Ibn Sina Hospital in the city.

Israel's military forced medical teams to evacuate the hospital, according to the reports. Israeli forces had previously stormed the vicinity of the Jenin Government Hospital, where they fired tear gas in the area.

The Palestinian news agency Wafa also reported that an Israeli drone strike on Jenin injured several Palestinians.

A group of former world leaders, including high-ranking UN officials and former heads of state, has penned an open letter to US President Joe Biden telling him that Israel’s military assault on Gaza is threatening American "credibility and interests across the world".

“Israeli policies of expanding illegal settlements in the West Bank, and normalising relations with Arab countries while bypassing the Palestinians, have not made Israelis safe. Successive US governments have been complicit in these failures,” said the group, known as the Elders.

The Elders said that the Israel-Palestine conflict "must be resolved, permanently, through negotiation".

The group was founded by Nelson Mandela and is currently headed by Mary Robinson, a former UN high commissioner for human rights.

Syria's military said it shot down Israeli missiles fired from the occupied Golan Heights towards the surroundings of Damascus in the early hours of Friday.

Most of the Israeli missiles were intercepted but some caused material damage, the army said in a statement.

The Israeli military declined a request for comment from Reuters.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel's attempts to minimise casualties in Gaza were "not successful".

In an interview with CBS News, Netanyahu was asked about Israel's killing of thousands of Palestinians as it retaliates for the 7 October attack by Hamas.

"The other thing that I can say is that we'll try to finish that job with minimal civilian casualties. That's what we're trying to do: minimal civilian casualties. But unfortunately, we're not successful," Netanyahu said, also adding that he blamed Hamas for the large number of civilian deaths in Gaza.

"Any civilian death is a tragedy. And we shouldn't have any because we're doing everything we can to get the civilians out of harm's way, while Hamas is doing everything to keep them in harm's way."

At least 11,500 Palestinians, more than 4,700 of them children, have been killed in Israel's bombardment and ground invasion of Gaza, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

Israel's military operation has targeted schools, hospitals, residential neighbourhoods and ambulances.

The weeks-long military campaign comes in response to the attack by Hamas, which Israel says killed 1,200 people. Hamas also took about 240 people as hostages, according to Israel.

Israeli forces have launched another overnight raid on the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, leaving multiple people injured after storming the city from multiple directions.

According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, Israeli forces accompanied by bulldozers entered Jenin and its camp, located in the northern West Bank, on Thursday night and sealed off all its entrances.

The raid led to confrontations between Palestinians in the city, and Wafa reported that Israel's military deployed snipers on the roofs of residential buildings. At least two Palestinians were injured.

Wafa reported that there was a power outage in several neighbourhoods in Jenin, and Palestinian media outlets were reporting that an explosion also occurred there, though the cause of the blast was unclear.

Israeli forces also stormed the vicinity of Jenin Governmental Hospital and fired tear gas bombs in the area.

Jordan's foreign minister said that Amman will not sign a deal to provide energy to Israel in exchange for water that was planned to be ratified last month, citing Israel's ongoing military assault on Gaza.

"We had a regional dialogue about regional projects. I think that all of this ... the war [has] proved, will not proceed," Ayman Safadi said in an interview with Al Jazeera on Thursday.

Safadi said all of Jordan's efforts were focused on ending what he described as the "retaliatory barbarism carried out by Israel" in Gaza.

He added that Amman would never enter into a dialogue about who runs Gaza after the war, considering such a move to be a potential green light to Israel to do whatever it wants.

"If the international community wants to talk about this, it must stop the war now," he said.