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A 21-year-old Palestinian has died of injuries following an Israeli raid in the city of Nablus located in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reported on Friday.
It said Amer Dawoud Shtayyeh was pronounced dead shortly after he arrived at a medical facility.
According to Wafa, the Israeli army raided Salem, a town east of the occupied city of Nablus, where soldiers opened fire and fired tear gas canisters.
The Israeli troops have also briefly detained a minor during the raid.
Egyptian and Qatari mediators are making “strenuous efforts” in the Gaza ceasefire talks despite Israel's attempts to undermine them, Hamas spokesperson Abdel Latif al-Qanou was quoted as saying to The New Arab media outlet on Friday.
“We are working with the mediators to ensure the success of the negotiations, compel the occupation and complete the agreement’s stages,” Qanou said.
“We hope that the results of the negotiations will ensure the implementation of all stages of the agreement.”
Earlier, Hamas said it had received a proposal from mediators to restart Gaza ceasefire negotiations and had agreed to it. The group also agreed to release an Israeli-American captive in addition to the bodies of four deceased captives.
The courtyards of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital were once again filled with grief as Palestinians gathered around civil defence teams recovering the bodies of their loved ones.
Khalid Abu Assi, one of many who came to recover the remains of their relatives, told Middle East Eye he was there to retrieve the body of his son, killed in an Israeli strike on an aid convoy during the war on Gaza.
"God chose for him to become a martyr," said the 60-year-old, recalling how his son Ibrahim, a medical student, died while trying to retrieve flour for their family.
"We had to bury our son in al-Shifa because there were no cemeteries available," Abu Assi explained.
"We couldn't bury him anywhere else - anyone who left the compound was shot at.
READ MORE: Palestinians unearth fresh wounds as Gaza hospital burials are relocated
A cross-party group of British MPs has backed former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's recent call for a "Chilcot-style" inquiry into the UK's involvement in Gaza.
In a letter to the prime minister on 4 March, Corbyn - now an independent MP - argued that Britain has "played a highly influential role in Israel's military operations".
He recalled the Chilcot inquiry into the invasion of Iraq, which found that Tony Blair's government had based its decision on "flawed intelligence and assessments".
Corbyn urged a similar inquiry into Britain's complicity with Israel's assault on Gaza, which has killed at least 61,000 people.
READ MORE: UK MPs join Corbyn's call for 'Chilcot-style' inquiry into UK role in Gaza
Talking about Palestine and Israel in France is a high-risk activity, even in the sanctuary that the university is supposed to be, as the ultimate place for debate, development of knowledge free from dogma, and transmission of critical knowledge.
The latest victims to date, on 3 March, were three students expelled for 30 days from Sciences Po, the prestigious Paris Institute of Political Studies, following a rally organised in February at the call of student unions to demand recognition of the genocide in Palestine and the severing of partnerships with complicit Israeli universities.
Earlier, a seminar organised for a year and a half by students from the Ecole Normale Superieure, a French “grande ecole”, were targeted by a violent campaign of defamation and Islamophobic insults on social media after hosting the authors of two books, titled, Against antisemitism and its instrumentalisations and Anti-Zionism: a Jewish History. The campaign prompted the school to postpone the next session indefinitely.
READ MORE: The Gaza war has accelerated a climate of repression in French universities
An Israeli air strike on Gaza City's Zeitoun neighbourhood has killed four people, Al Jazeera reported on Friday.
The Trump administration has issued nine demands to Columbia University before it will discuss lifting the cancellation of $400m in federal funding, according to a letter sent to the university's interim president, Katrina Armstrong.
According to the letter, the Trump administration has demanded the university adopt the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which academics and members of the Jewish community criticised as conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism.
The university was also told to begin the process of placing Columbia's world-renowned Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies department under academic receivership. This process requires an outside chair, who could be appointed by the government, to run the department for five years.
Other demands listed by the White House include a mask ban on campus, giving "full law enforcement authority" to campus security by allowing them to "arrest and remove agitators", and reforming the admissions process for its undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
The Trump administration also ordered Columbia University to enforce its existing disciplinary policies, abolish its University Judicial Board, which includes student and staff representatives, and centralise its powers under the university president.
Read more: Trump administration issues nine demands to Columbia University to restore federal funding
A group of Israeli settler leaders visited the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and met senior government officials earlier this week, according to Israeli media.
The settler delegation discussed opportunities for economic, security, and diplomatic cooperation, Israeli news website 0404 News reported on Thursday.
The delegation included Israel Ganz, chairman of the Yesha Council (an umbrella group of municipal councils of settlements in the occupied West Bank), Eliram Azoulay, Hebron Hills settlements regional council, and Yesha Council CEO Omer Rahamim.
Settler leaders participated in an Iftar dinner at the official residence of Dr Ali Rashid al-Nuaimi, a senior member of the UAE National Council.
Around 700,000 Israeli settlers live in roughly 300 illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, all of which have been built since Israel occupied the territories in 1967.
Read more: Israeli settler leaders hail cooperation with UAE in first trip to Abu Dhabi
The Israeli military deployed sound bombs and tear gas against Palestinians taking part in a peaceful march to demand the reopening of the main road in the occupied West Bank village of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya.
Israeli forces sealed off the village's entrance connecting it to Nablus with a permanent roadblock in 2003.
Elsewhere, Wafa news agency reported that Israeli forces stormed the town of Beita, south of Nablus, firing sound bombs and tear gas at residents.
Wafa news agency is reporting that Israeli forces injured three Palestinians in attacks in and around southern Gaza's Rafah City.
Citing local sources, the agency said that two Palestinians in downtown Rafah City were injured by fire from Israeli tanks.
They also reported that another Palestinian was injured when artillery shells targeted the al-Jneina neighbourhood east of Rafah.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office has issued a statement in response to Hamas' announcement that it will release Israeli-American captive Edan Alexander and the bodies of four other captives, saying that Hamas has "not budged an inch" in ceasefire talks.
The statement added that the group "continues its manipulations and psychological warfare".
More than 80,000 Muslim worshippers gathered at Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem to perform the second Friday prayer of Ramadan despite Israeli restrictions.
The majority of worshippers were from Jerusalem or Palestinians living in Israel, while a small number of worshippers from the occupied West Bank were able to enter Jerusalem.
Only certain age groups - including men over the age of 55, women over the age of 50, and children 12 and under - were allowed entry under the condition of having valid permits as Israel mulled restrictions on Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan.
Dozens of Syrian Druze clerics crossed the armistice line in the Golan Heights into Israel, marking their community’s first pilgrimage to a revered shrine in decades.
A delegation of about 60 scholars will meet with the spiritual leader of Israel’s Druze community, Mowafaq Tarif, in northern Israel. They will then proceed to the tomb of Nabi Shuaib in Galilee - the most important religious site for the Druze.
The Druze, followers of an esoteric monotheistic faith, are primarily spread across Syria, Lebanon, Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
The breakaway Somali region of Somaliland is not in any talks with anyone about the resettlement of Palestinians, its foreign minister said on Friday.
"I haven't received such a proposal, and there are no talks with anyone regarding Palestinians," Abdirahman Dahir Adan, Somaliland's foreign minister, told Reuters.
Citing US and Israeli officials, the Associated Press reported on Friday that the US and Israel had contacted officials from Sudan, Somalia and its breakaway region of Somaliland to discuss using their territory to resettle Palestinians displaced from Gaza.
Hamas said on Friday it received a proposal from mediators to restart Gaza ceasefire negotiations and had agreed to it.
Hamas also said that it agreed to release Edan Alexander, an Israeli-American captive, and will release the bodies of four other captives.
