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

The al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza is no longer able to provide surgery as fuel shortages and weeks of Israeli bombardment begin to take its toll on Gaza’s services. 

British-Palestinian surgeon Ghasan Abu Sittah took to social media to confirm the situation in al-Ahli hospital in Gaza. 

The head of the UN Palestinian refugee agency said on Thursday he believed there was a deliberate attempt to "strangle" its humanitarian work in Gaza, warning that the agency may have to entirely suspend its operations due to a lack of fuel.

"I do believe there is a deliberate attempt to strangle our operation and paralyse the operation," Unrwa commissioner-general Philippe Lazzarini told journalists in Geneva, calling it "outrageous"to force people to beg for fuel.

He added that the agency, which supports more than 800,000 displaced people in Gaza, was at risk of suspending its operations entirely.
 

The Palestinian Red Crescent (PRC) said on Thursday that Israeli tanks are surrounding the al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza and “violent attacks are under way”.

The PRC said that its teams are unable to move or reach those wounded.

Students in London are marching towards the office of Rushanara Ali, a Labour member of parliament for the Bethnal Green area. 

The march comes after Ali voted against a ceasefire on Wednesday, saying “I want to see a ceasefire and I have been clear about this, but the reality is that this motion does not secure a ceasefire and would not lead towards one, which the people of Gaza urgently need,” she said in a statement.

The protesters carried Palestinian flags and chanted “Free Free Palestine, Israel is a terror state.”
 

NetBlocks, a digital monitor, said on Thursday that live metrics in Gaza show that the besieged enclave is now in the midst of a major internet outage as generator fuel supplies and backups have officially run out. 

“Telecom services including landline, cellular and wifi are likely to be unavailable to most residents at the present time,” they said. 
 

The United Nations agency Unrwa said on Thursday that sewage is flowing in the streets of Rafah, as all sewage pumps have run out of fuel. 

Human Rights Watch said on Thursday that images released by Israel showing weapons it says its soldiers found inside Gaza's biggest hospital are not sufficient to justify revoking the hospital's status as protected by the laws of war.

"Hospitals have special protections under international humanitarian law. Doctors, nurses, ambulances and other hospital staff must be permitted to do their work and patients must be protected," Human Rights Watch UN director Louis Charbonneau told Reuters.

"Hospitals only lose those protections if it can be shown that harmful acts have been carried out from the premises. The Israeli government hasn’t provided any evidence of that."
 

Gaza’s two main telecommunications companies, Paltel and Jawwal, said that all telecoms services in the Gaza Strip have gone out of service as all energy services have been depleted. 

The United Nations agency Unrwa said that 103 of its staff have been killed by Israeli air strikes since the start of the war on 7 October. 

“This marks the highest number of our employees killed in the history of the United Nations,” it said in a statement on Thursday. 
 

Shelling at the Lebanon-Israel border has intensified on Thursday, with Hezbollah saying it had fired missiles at eight positions across the border and Israel saying it had retaliated with artillery.

A Lebanese security source said Israeli bombardment, including drone strikes, hit at least a dozen villages along Lebanon's southern border.

The Israeli military said in a statement it had struck a "cell" in Lebanon that had tried launching anti-tank missiles towards Israel and was firing artillery onto other targets.

It said no injuries were reported in the shelling on Israel.

The Lebanese security source said it was one of the most violent days there since the start of the war on 7 October.
 

Sources inside the al-Shifa Hospital on Thursday told Al-Jazeera that Israeli bulldozers are destroying buildings, starting from the south of the complex, and advancing to other areas.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that the Israeli army has destroyed several medical departments during its ongoing raid on the hospital in Gaza.
 

Israeli forces stormed the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday, with video footage showing armed military vehicles inside the city.

According to local media, checkpoints into the city were closed off by Israeli forces.

Eyewitnesses on the ground said the Israeli army stormed a number of homes, and interrogated the residents. 
 

France has denounced Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, calling it a "policy of terror" aimed at displacing Palestinians.

France urged Israeli authorities to protect Palestinians from the violence.

Speaking to reporters, foreign ministry spokesperson Anne-Claire Legendre also said that about half the 100 tonnes of aid France had sent to Gaza had now entered the enclave. 

She added that it was not up to Israel to decide the future governance of Gaza, which she said should be part of a future Palestinian state.
 

Sources inside the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza told Al Jazeera Arabic that Israeli soldiers have opened fire inside the buildings and are storming various departments. 

The source said that “hundreds” of soldiers are currently inside the hospital. 
 

The Israeli army assault on Gaza's al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical complex in the Palestinian territory, is continuing for the second day, as thousands of civilians remain besieged inside.

The hospital has been turned into a "large prison",  the hospital's director, Dr Muhammad Abu Salmiya, said from inside al-Shifa on Thursday afternoon.

"The occupation soldiers roam freely inside the hospital and only want to kill, kill, then kill," Abu Salmiya told Al Jazeera Arabic. 

"Even the jungle law doesn't allow the current inhumane conditions at al-Shifa. We are fighting death minute by minute."

In a phone interview with Al Jazeera 35 hours after troops broke into al-Shifa, Abu Salmiya gave the following updates:

• Israeli tanks have encircled the hospital, while soldiers roam inside, including in the emergency room. 

• Soldiers have searched all departments, taken bodies of dead patients and blown water pipes.

• Some displaced families are held by soldiers in storage rooms.

• No fighting took place inside the hospital, and no bullets were fired at soldiers from within the complex. 

• Communications between doctors across different sections are cut. 

• Oxygen has completely run out. 

• The hospital has no food, water or electricity.

• Doctors can no longer treat patients, who are at risk of dying at any moment.

• Doctors have decided to stay with their patients until the end, dead or alive.