Live: 54 Palestinians killed, 831 wounded in 24 hours

The government in Gaza has demanded that the Israeli-imposed famine be immediately ended by opening all crossings leading into the enclave, and the entry of baby formula as part of 500 aid trucks and 50 fuel trucks daily. 

“We demand the formation of an international commission to investigate the systematic starvation crime,” Gaza’s Government Media Office said in a statement, calling for the "arrest of Israeli war criminals”, including soldiers vacationing in or travelling to countries around the world.

“We hold the Israeli occupation, the US administration, and countries involved in genocide, such as Britain, Germany, and France, as well as the international community, fully responsible for this historic crime.”

The number of Palestinians starved to death in Gaza due to the Israeli-imposed blockade on aid has risen to 122,  including 83 children, according to the enclave’s health ministry. 

Israeli forces have killed more than 1,000 aid seekers in Gaza so far. 

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has issued a statement against Britain's controversial ban on the direct action group Palestine Action. 

"The decision appears disproportionate and unnecessary," Turk said in the statement.

"According to international standards, terrorist acts should be confined to criminal acts intended to cause death or serious injury or to the taking of hostages, for purpose of intimidating a population or to compel a government to take a certain action or not." 

Turk said the ban "limits the rights of many people involved with and supportive of Palestine Action who have not themselves engaged in any underlying criminal activity but rather exercised their rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association".

Hundreds have been arrested across Britain under the Terrorism Act 2000 for expressing support for Palestine Action since the UK's proscription of the group came into force on July 5. 

Legal appeals against the ban, spearheaded by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, have so far been unsuccessful. 

Germany has no plans to follow France in recognising Palestinian statehood, a spokesperson has announced. 

"Israel's security is of paramount importance to the German government," said the spokesperson. "The German government therefore has no plans to recognise a Palestinian state in the short term."

Germany has maintained ties with Israel throughout its war on Gaza and has never formally recognised Palestinian statehood.

Earlier on Friday, Italy also responded to France's announcement by refusing to immediately recognise a Palestinian state.

"A Palestinian state that does not recognise Israel means that the problem will not be resolved," Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani told a meeting of his conservative Forza Italia party on Friday.

Israeli Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu said on Thursday that the government is “racing ahead for Gaza to be wiped out”, as daily air strikes continue to kill dozens of Palestinians.

“Thank God, we are wiping out this evil,” he said during an interview with Haredi radio station Kol Barama.

“All Gaza will be Jewish,” he added.  

Eliyahu, a member of the far-right Jewish Power party led by Itamar Ben Gvir, also said that “there is no hunger in Gaza".

“But we don’t need to be concerned with hunger in the strip,” he continued. “Let the world worry about it.”

Over 100 humanitarian agencies signed a letter on Wednesday sounding the alarm over Israel-imposed starvation in Gaza, where at least 45 Palestinians have died from malnutrition over the past week, according to the Palestinian health ministry. 

Eliyahu’s comments drew immediate criticism from Israel’s ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter, who urged the minister to retract his statement during a tense private phone call, according to the Jerusalem Post. 

Read more: Israel 'racing' to wipe out Gaza, heritage minister says

The number of Palestinians starved to death in Gaza due to the Israeli-imposed blockade on aid has risen to 122, according to the enclave’s health ministry. 

Hospitals in Gaza have recorded nine new deaths due to famine and malnutrition over the past 24 hours, the ministry said in a statement on Telegram. 

The number of those who have died includes 83 children. 

Israel has published a video on YouTube accusing the UN of “deliberate sabotage” of humanitarian efforts in Gaza by failing to distribute aid. Details on the Google-owned platform show that the video is promoted in the UK by the Israeli Government Advertising Agency. 

The advert, published on Israel's Foreign Affairs Ministry's verified channel on YouTube, shows visuals of trucks and what appear to be stockpiles of aid. "While Israel cleared hundreds of trucks that crossed into Gaza, the UN refuses to distribute the aid. These trucks stand idle inside Gaza next to growing stockpiles of supplies. This is deliberate sabotage by the UN," the narrator says in the video.

Israeli forces have killed more than 1,000 aid seekers in Gaza. Since morning, the Israeli military has killed more than 11 Palestinians, including at least four aid seekers.  

At least 115 Palestinians have starved to death in the enclave due to the Israeli-imposed blockade. 

Palestinian children released from Israeli prison have shown signs of malnutrition, according to testimony from former detainees.

The Israeli army on Thursday released 10 teenage boys after detaining them for nearly a month. They had been captured at al-Shakoush aid distribution area in northwest Rafah.

A reporter for Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency, who saw the teens after the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) transferred them to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, said they bore signs of severe physical abuse and exhaustion.

Karam Hamdi Hussein, one of those taken, said they were subjected to regular beatings and mistreatment while they were detained.

“We spent an entire month under constant beatings and daily humiliation,” he said.

He added that a group of children was being held in Israel's notorious Sde Teiman prison, which has gained notoriety for its abuse of detainees.

Read more: Children in Gaza show signs of malnutrition and abuse after detention in Israel

Israel has released a YouTube advert attacking the UN and has claimed that the organisation is responsible for preventing aid from getting into Gaza. The video claims that Israel has already "cleared hundreds of trucks".

The advert, published on Israel's foreign affairs ministry's verified channel on YouTube, shows visuals of trucks and what appear to be stockpiles of aid. 

"While Israel cleared hundreds of trucks that crossed into Gaza, the UN refuses to distribute the aid. These trucks stand idle inside Gaza next to growing stockpiles of supplies. This is deliberate sabotage by the UN," the narrator says in the video.

Israeli forces have been shooting and killing aid seekers in Gaza daily. Since morning, the Israeli military has killed more than 11 Palestinians, including at least four aid seekers. 

Gaza’s health ministry said on Thursday that at least 115 Palestinians have starved to death in the enclave due to the Israeli-imposed blockade

The Israeli military said on Friday that it killed a Hamas commander, named Amjad Muhammad Hassan Shaer, in an air strike in northern Gaza. It said he was the head of the counter intelligence directorate in the general security apparatus of the group.

In a statement, the Israeli army claimed that Hassan was responsible for “suppressing opposition to Hamas’ rule, thwarting espionage against the terrorist organisation, and securing senior officials and assets of the terrorist organisation within the Gaza Strip and outside of it”.

It added that Israeli warplanes have bombed areas across Gaza “dozens of times” over the past 24 hours, in addition to ground attacks across the enclave.

Earlier in the day, the death toll from Israeli attacks stood at 11

Israel has struck a school housing displaced Palestinians in Gaza's Rimal neighbourhood, killing four people, according to medical sources at al-Shifa Hospital cited by Al Jazeera Arabic.

Many others were injured in the attack.

Earlier in the day, the death toll from Israeli attacks stood at 11.

Palestinian prisoners who were released by Israel have said that they were tortured by the Israeli army, Al Jazeera has reported. 

One of the prisoners who reached the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir el-Balah, Gaza was unable to move and showed visible signs of torture.

He was arrested from an aid area in the southern part of the enclave, and spoke of harsh conditions in Israel military camps. 

“They electrocuted us and threw grenades at us,” said Asfour, who was arrested while trying to get food. “We were under torture for a whole month."

India and Israeli military officials have pledged to deepen and strengthen military ties even as images of Israel's engineered starvation of Palestinians continue to send shockwaves around the world. 

More than 59,000 Palestinians have been killed as a result of Israel’s war on Gaza, which several countries, as well as many international rights groups and experts, now qualify as an act of genocide.

More than 115 Palestinians, including 80 children, are estimated to have died from starvation in the past month, including 15 who died of malnutrition on Monday.

Earlier this week, more than two dozen countries, including France and the UK, condemned "the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, seeking to meet their most basic needs of water and food”, further calling for Israel's war on Gaza to end.

But as global condemnation and calls for an arms embargo on Israel mounted this week, on Wednesday, India's defence secretary and the director general of Israel's Ministry of Defence met in New Delhi and "agreed to further strengthen bilateral defence cooperation with a long-term perspective". 

The meeting between Shri Rajesh Kumar Singh and the Israel's deputy chief of staff, Major General Amir Baram, signalled, once more, Delhi's intention to remain committed to supporting Israel diplomatically and economically even as Israel loses the support of some of its staunchest allies.

Read more: India and Israel meet to deepen military ties in sign of solidarity amid Gaza atrocities

Israeli forces have killed at least 11 Palestinians in Gaza since morning, Al Jazeera Arabic has reported citing medical sources.

The number of Palestinians killed includes four aid seekers. 

Gaza’s health ministry said on Thursday that at least 115 Palestinians have starved to death in the enclave. 

Jordanian authorities are inadvertently fuelling an "internal crisis" with their decision to crack down on Palestine solidarity activists, sources have told Middle East Eye.

The sources said that the situation was reaching a boiling point due to Jordan's intelligence services launching a heavy-handed campaign of arrests targeting activists, political opponents and party leaders.

The arrests come amid mounting instability in neighbouring Syria, worsening conditions for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Israel pursuing a campaign of genocide by starvation in Gaza.

On Wednesday, Jordanian authorities arrested the prominent social media activist Ayman Aballi, days after he published a video denouncing what he called the country's "silence" over Israel's starvation policy in Gaza.

Criticism of the intelligence services, commonly known as the Mukhabarat, was already escalating after a young man died in police custody a day after his arrest, the sources told MEE.

Local media reported that tensions began to escalate after Ahmed al-Ibrahim died in police custody after being subject to a "severe physical assault" during detention.

According to his family, Ibrahim was taken to a nearby hospital on multiple occasions while at the Ramtha police station in Ar-Ramtha, 5km from the Syrian border.

He reportedly succumbed to his injuries hours after being transferred to the hospital for the final time.

His death triggered a night of anger in Ar-Ramtha, with videos seen by MEE showing angry protesters blocking roads, setting tyres on fire and demanding full accountability.

Read more: Jordan fuelling 'internal crisis' with Palestine solidarity crackdown, sources say 

International humanitarian organisation MSF on Friday has said that a quarter of all young children and pregnant or breastfeeding women screened at its clinics in Gaza last week were malnourished, news agency AFP has reported.

MSF blamed Israel's "policy of starvation" for the situation as more than a thousand Palestinians have been shot dead by the Israeli army while attempting to receive aid. 

The medical charity known by its French acronym MSF said that "across screenings of children aged six months to five years old, and pregnant and breastfeeding women at MSF facilities last week, 25 percent were malnourished", warning that "rates of severe malnutrition in children under five have tripled in the last two weeks alone".