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

The regional director for Near and Middle East at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said information coming out of Al-Shifa hospital were "Distressing".

In a brief post on X, Fabrizio Carboni said the situation "cannot continue like this" as "thousands of wounded, displaced people and medical staff are at risk". 

A total of 39 Palestinian babies are at risk of death in Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital, the Palestinian health minister has said.

The premature babies are hooked to incubators but electricity has been cut off, meaning they can't be provided with life-saving oxygen.

Staff are currently trying to supply the infants with manually-generated oxygen. However, health officials said the babies will start dying in a matter of hours. 

The Palestinian Minister of Health Dr Mai Al-Kaila condemned the international community for failing to protect hospitals from Israel's bombardment of Gaza. 

"What is happening now against hospitals is a decision to kill those in them, as the wounded are dying due to the exhaustion of fuel and medical consumables," Kaila told reporters. 

"Surgeons are performing surgeries without anaesthesia, and there is no electricity on the lights of mobile phones for them to operate in the night.

"The catastrophe that is occurring in Gaza now is unprecedented in Palestinian and international history.

"Our hospitals are being besieged and bombed, and their patients, medical staff, and displaced people are being killed in full view of the entire world."

Middle East Eye’s Maha Husseini is on the ground in Gaza. She was sent this report by local journalist Abu Mouath, who is in the Al-Shifa hospital.

He describes a desperate situation as power runs out entirely and Israeli attacks intensify.

Here is Abu Mouath’s account:

“Israel’s bombardment of the hospital began yesterday at 9 pm and has not stopped. The Israelis have surrounded the hospital, and the bombing is continuing in a major way. The Israelis targeted the surgery, intensive care and paediatric departments, resulting in several deaths until this moment.

"We cannot go out because the Israelis have stationed snipers around the hospital. A 26-year-old young woman tried to get out of the hospital, but an Israeli sniper targeted her. There is no electricity because the hospital has no fuel.

"We tried every way to restart the generator. One premature infant has died, and two injured people in intensive care also died. There is also news of a third injured person, but we have not yet confirmed it.

"The injured, sick and displaced are terrified. We are completely surrounded and the intense bombing is ongoing. There is panic and fear amongst the wounded, sick, and displaced people inside the hospital. They are attacking everywhere and we cannot go out because of the snipers stationed around the hospital."

Al-Shifa hospital, Gaza's largest medical complex, announced on Saturday, that it has been forced to suspend all operations after it ran out of fuel, health officials said. 

"One newborn baby died inside the incubator, where there are 45 babies," said Ashraf al-Qudra, the spokesperson for the health ministry in Gaza.

A spokesperson for the Palestinian Prisoners Club said that Israeli forces have arrested at least 25 Palestinians, including several children, across the West Bank.

The arrests took place during raids overnight and early this morning as the crackdown on Palestinians deepens further. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains undeterred by the global calls to end the fighting, despite pressure from allies like the United States and France. 

Late on Friday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters in India that "far too many Palestinians have been killed; far too many have suffered these past weeks".

Newborn Palestinian babies in incubators are beginning to die as Israeli forces put Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital under total siege and power blackout. 

Israeli fighter jets and tanks have been shelling the area outside the hospital, the biggest in the coastal enclave, for over 12 hours without a pause. 

The hospital's yard was struck on Saturday, leading to a fire. This came shortly after electricity was completely shut down.

The power outage has already led to the death of one premature baby hooked to incubators, according to Munir al-Bursh, the director of the Palestinian ministry of health.

Bursh said more babies and patients on life support will die every hour if power does not return soon. 

"Electric lines were cut off and generators stopped working. We are surrounded and cannot leave our places," Bursh told Al Jazeera. 

Muhammad Abu Salima, the director of Al-Shifa hospital, said there was currently no water, no fuel and no internet.

The Palestinian ministry of health said on Friday night that up to 30,000 people are inside the hospital's complex, including patients, displaced people and medical staff. 

"Thousands are trapped inside the complex, including patients, medical staff, and some first responders and civil defence personnel," Abu Salima said. 

"We are hours away from death, and the world is watching us die, but we are not numbers," he added.

Leaders from across the Arab and Muslim world - including regional foes Iran and Saudi Arabia - are set to meet in Riyadh on Saturday to discuss the situation in Gaza. 

Late on Friday, the Saudi Foreign Ministry confirmed that the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation summits would be combined.

Riyadh said combining the two summits underscores the importance of reaching a "unified collective position that expresses the common Arab and Islamic will regarding the dangerous and unprecedented developments witnessed in Gaza and the Palestinian territories".

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will attend the meeting and make his first trip to Saudi Arabia, ending seven years of severed ties between Riyadh and Tehran. 

It remains unclear what outcome will come from the extraordinary summit, with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad saying they "expect nothing". 

Good morning MEE readers.

We have now reached the 36th day of the war in Gaza, with the Palestinian death toll surpassing 11,000, according to the health ministry in Gaza. Meanwhile, the Israeli death toll was revised to 1,200, down from the original number of 1,400.

Israeli air strikes have struck the vicinity of several hospitals in Gaza, including Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical complex in the enclave. The air strikes, coupled with Israeli ground forces continuing their advance into the north, have left the thousands of Palestinians sheltering at these hospitals in a state of fear and anxiety.

In case you're just tuning into our live coverage, here's a recap of what you missed over the past few hours:

• The Palestinian health ministry has said 198 medical personnel have been killed, 53 ambulances destroyed, and 21 hospitals have been put out of service since war broke out on 7 October.

• Doctors Without Borders has lost contact with its staff at Al-Shifa Hospital.

• Late on Friday, Al-Quds Hospital warned that it was at risk of shutting down because of a lack of fuel.

• The World Health Organisation has said it is "extremely disturbed" by the reports of strikes on Al-Shifa Hospital.

• Saudi Arabia is hosting a joint summit with the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the Arab League on Saturday, where Muslim and Arab leaders will discuss the situation in Gaza.

• Around 30,000 Palestinians fled southwards on Friday, according to the UN.

The Palestinian health ministry in Gaza has provided an update on the current state of the enclave's health infrastructure, as reported by several Palestinian news outlets.

Gaza's hospitals have been in a state of disarray and panic in recent days as Israel has targeted several hospitals with air strikes.

Here are the latest facts:

• At least 198 health personnel have been killed.

• Fifty-three ambulances have been destroyed.

• Twenty-one hospitals and 47 primary care centres are out of service since the war broke out on 7 October. The health ministry added that 135 health institutions were targeted by Israel.

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi said on his way to attend a joint summit in Saudi Arabia, in which Muslim and Arab leaders will discuss the war in Gaza, that the time is no longer for talk but action, Reuters reported on Saturday morning.

"Gaza is not an arena for words. It should be for action," Raisi said at Tehran airport before departing for Riyadh in Saudi Arabia.

"Today, the unity of the Islamic countries is very important," he added.

A report published on Friday by HuffPost stated that David Satterfield, who was appointed as a special Middle East humanitarian envoy by US President Joe Biden, raised the idea of moving Gaza civilians into Egypt during a high-level meeting last month.

The report cited an American official that was in the meeting.

HuffPost reported that Satterfield "backed off" the idea since then. Biden has publicly opposed the idea that Palestinians in Gaza be displaced to Egypt.

A State Department spokesperson told the news site in an email: "This reporting is false." 

"Special Envoy Satterfield has vociferously been against this, has not raised this as [a] policy consideration in any meeting, and has reiterated publicly and privately that the US does not support forcible displacement of Palestinians from Gaza. Not now, not after the war."

The international charity Doctors Without Borders lost contact with its staff inside Al-Shifa Hospital on Friday, as Israel has continued targeting hospitals in Gaza.

"We're currently unable to contact any of our staff inside Al-Shifa, and we are extremely concerned about the safety of patients and the medical staff. Patients are still in the hospital, some in critical condition and unable to move," the group said on X, formerly known as Twitter.

The charity urgently called for an end to attacks on hospitals, and pleaded for "the protection of medical facilities, medical staff, and patients".

Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical complex in Gaza, has been in a state of panic as thousands of Palestinians seeking refuge there have been faced with Israeli air strikes and encroaching Israeli forces.