Israel-Palestine live: Israel bombs Unrwa building in Gaza

The Reporters Without Borders (RSF) organisation has described the rate of killing of Palestinian journalists as "horrifying."

"In four months of conflict, Palestinian journalism has been decimated by Israeli armed forces with complete impunity, with a staggering death toll of more than 84 journalists killed, at least 20 in the line of duty,” RSF said in a statement.

Palestinian sources say the number of journalists killed is at least 123.

"After filing two complaints with the International Criminal Court and making repeated appeals to States and international organisations, RSF is once again urging the UN Security Council to immediately enforce Resolution 2222 (2015) on the protection of journalists," it said.

A Palestinian man has been shot and killed at an Israeli military checkpoint near the entrance to the village of Deir Sharaf, west of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian news agency, Wafa have also updated their earlier report, adding that another young Palestinian man was wounded after being shot in the hand.

The Palestinian news agency added that a confrontation had broken out after soldiers had closed the checkpoint and prevented Palestinians from crossing.

Repeated US strikes against armed groups in Iraq are pushing the government to end the mission of the US-led coalition in the country, the prime minister's military spokesman, Yahya Rasool, said on Thursday.

The US military said a strike on Wednesday killed a commander from Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed armed group in Iraq that the Pentagon has blamed for attacking its troops.

Rasool said in a statement that the US-led coalition "has become a factor for instability and threatens to entangle Iraq in the cycle of conflict".

The risk of famine in Gaza is “increasing by the day”, especially for some 300,000 people in northern Gaza, the UN’s aid agency, OCHA, has said in its daily update.

OCHA reported that the World Food Programme has warned that the amount of humanitarian aid reaching Gaza City in the north is “not enough to prevent a famine”.

The last time Unrwa was able to carry out a food distribution in the north of Wadi Gaza was 23 January, said OCHA. 

The former US Secretary of State and presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton has said that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “absolutely needs to go” for his handling of Israel’s war on Gaza.

“Netanyahu should go. He is not a trustworthy leader. It was on his watch that the [October 7] attack happened,” Clinton told MSNBC. “He needs to go, and if he’s an obstacle to a ceasefire, if he’s an obstacle to exploring what’s to be done the day after, he absolutely needs to go.”

Clinton also defended Israel's conduct of the war in Gaza.

“What do you do with an aggressor? You have to stop them,” she said.

Good morning Middle East Eye readers, 

Here are the latest developments from Israel's war on Gaza, which enters its 125th day today: 

• More than 14 Palestinians have been killed and many more wounded by Israeli air strikes on homes in Rafah and Deir el-Balah in southern and central Gaza
• US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has delivered one of Washington’s harshest critiques of Tel Aviv to date as he warned Israel that it does not have “a licence to dehumanise others” amid its war on Gaza
• Three dead as US drone strike targets Iran-linked militia leader in Baghdad
• Norway has transferred $26m to the UN agency for Palestine refugees (Unwra), foreign minister Espen Barth Eide said
• Countries withholding Unwra funds accused of "callous indifference" to Gaza suffering, says Human Rights Watch