Live: Israel dropped 153 tonnes of bombs on Gaza on Sunday

US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he expects an expansion of the Abraham Accords soon, and hopes Saudi Arabia will join.

“I hope to see Saudi Arabia go in, and I hope to see others go in. I think when Saudi Arabia goes in, everybody goes in,” Trump said in an interview broadcast on Friday on Fox Business.

Trump called the pact a “miracle” and “amazing” and hailed the UAE’s signing of it.

UK media regulator Ofcom said on Friday that a BBC documentary about children’s lives in Gaza had committed a “serious breach” of broadcasting rules by not revealing that the 13-year-old narrator was the son of an official in the agriculture ministry of the Strip’s government.

It said the failure to disclose that Abdullah al-Yazouri’s father was a deputy agriculture minister was “materially misleading”.

“It meant that the audience did not have critical information which may have been highly relevant to their assessment of the narrator and the information he provided,” Ofcom said in a statement.

Ofcom regulator said it received 20 complaints about the documentary, entitled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, which was removed by the BBC from its website after five days of its broadcast in February.

“As this represents a serious breach of our rules, we are directing the BBC to broadcast a statement of our findings against it,” Ofcom said.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday that an average of 560 tonnes of food were brought into Gaza everyday since the ceasefire began, but more than these amounts is needed to feed the Palestinians.

“We’re still below what we need, but we’re getting there… The ceasefire has opened a narrow window of opportunity, and WFP is moving very quickly and swiftly to scale up food assistance,” WFP spokesperson Abeer Etefa told reporters in Geneva.

Earlier today, the UN agency said it has a three-month food supply to feed the Strip.

The World Food Programme said on Friday that it has a three-month food supply for Gaza.

On a post on X, it said: “To keep going – and reach everyone – we need lasting access and a stable operating environment”.

“The ceasefire must hold. We cannot go back.”

The United Nations agency for Palestine refugees, Unrwa, has highlighted the critical condition of Gaza’s agricultural sector following recent conflicts.

According to the agency, almost all agricultural lands in Gaza are either destroyed or inaccessible. Families who depended on farming for their livelihoods now have no income due to the destruction or restricted access to their lands.

The agency emphasised that many people cannot afford to buy food from the markets, making it essential for humanitarian aid to continue flowing into Gaza until the agricultural sector can recover and sustain the population once again.

“A kilo of tomatoes that once cost 60¢, now costs $15 – if found at all,” the agency said. “Families who once lived from their land now have no income.”

The Israeli military said on Friday that security forces on the border with Egypt has stopped an attempt to smuggle weapons into Israel using a drone.

According to the announcement, reported by the Israeli news outlet Haaretz, the drone was carrying two guns and a magazine.

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Friday that the Israeli army has been ordered to place physical markings on the ground to clearly show the initial withdrawal line of the Israeli army in Gaza.

According to Israeli news outlet Haaretz, the marks should exhibit the yellow line – an agreed upon withdrawal line - to clearly identify it, and alert Palestinians in Gaza.

Israeli forces carried out multiple raids across the occupied West Bank on Friday dawn, arresting four Palestinian youths in separate incidents in Nablus and Tulkarm.

In Nablus, soldiers infiltrated al-Makhfiyya neighbourhood, followed by the entry of military vehicles. They raided a home and fired live bullets inside, injuring Ehab Abu Rayala in the leg before arresting him. A second young man was also detained during the operation, according to the Palestinian News Agency (Wafa).

Meanwhile, in the town of Anabta, east of Tulkarm, Israeli forces arrested Ahmad Saif Fuqaha and Fares Ayman Najjar after storming their homes.

These arrests come amid ongoing Israeli military operations and heightened tensions across the occupied West Bank.

The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Friday that the inaccuracy of intelligence information about the locations of Israeli captives inside Gaza has led to the deaths of some of them in Israeli attacks carried out in the Strip.

Citing an Israeli source, the news outlet explained that over the past two years, the Israeli army has carried out several special operations inside Gaza to retrieve the captives.

In one operation, the elite Sayeret Matkal unit infiltrated a house in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, before Hamas fighters responded swiftly to the attack, resulting in serious injuries in the Israeli unit and the death of one captive, whose body was recovered by Hamas.

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Thursday that his country’s recognition of the state of Palestine is closer, but it is difficult to say when as there must be "no weapons, no Hamas" in the Strip.

“We cannot have a dialogue with Hamas," but "we believe in the Palestinian National Authority which is a very serious authority,” he said while speaking at the ongoing Med Dialogues in Naples, according to the Italian news agency Ansa.

He also pointed out to a planned trip by the President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas to Italy in November.

Speaking about the current phase in Gaza, Tajani said that enhancing security in the Strip is a priority for reconstruction.

Good morning, Middle East Eye readers.

Here are the latest updates from Israel's war on Gaza:

• The Palestinian Prisoners Club said that Israel is holding the bodies of 86 prisoners who died inside Israeli jails, including 75 who died following the recent war on the Gaza Strip.

• US President Donald Trump said he would endorse attacks on Hamas, if it continues to target gangs and alleged Israeli collaborators in Gaza. “If Hamas continues to kill people in Gaza, which was not the Deal, we will have no choice but to go in and kill them,” he wrote in a social media post on Thursday.

• The New York Post quoted US envoy Steve Witkoff as saying that he is "confident that all the remains of the hostages will be returned from the Gaza Strip" and that "Hamas must be fully disarmed and has no future in Gaza".

• Israeli forces arrested two young men during a raid on the town of Anabta, east of Tulkarm in the northern occupied West Bank.

• Palestinian sources reported that Israeli forces raided the towns of al-Shuyoukh and Sa’ir located in Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank.

• Reuters, citing officials, reported that the public address systems at three Canadian airports and one US airport were hacked to broadcast messages praising Hamas.

A US lawmaker said on Thursday he is returning money to the pro-Israel lobbying group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac), ahead of a district race with a progressive senator. 

Seth Moulton said in a post on X that he would return $35,000 in donations he had received from Aipac ahead of his Democratic primary challenge to Ed Markey, a critic of Israel.

While the former Marine said he believed in Israel's right to exist, he said he did not agree with Aipac's support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. 

Moulton did not say whether he would be happy to receive donations if Aipac decides to support another Israeli leader in the future.

The Israeli military killed one young Palestinian man and injured another on Thursday, Wafa news agency reported.

Soldiers fatally shot 20-year-old Mahdi Ahmad Kmeil while they conducted a raid on the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin. During the raid, they searched several homes and detained a resident.

The Israeli military also shot a young man in the lower leg while they conducted a raid on the town of Kafr Aqab, north of Jerusalem. They pursued, shot at and fired stun grenades at multiple young men in the town. They also closed several roads in the town, preventing the movement of residents and vehicles, Wafa reported.

The Israeli military killed an 11-year-old child south of Hebron in the West Bank while he was playing football, Wafa news agency reported on Thursday.

Soldiers opened fire on a group of children playing football in a local schoolyard in the town of al-Rihiya and killed Mohammad Bahjat al-Hallaq. 

The son of prominent Palestinian prisoner Marwan Barghouti is concerned that his father is a target of violence in an Israeli prison because of his political influence, Al Jazeera reported on Thursday. 

“We do fear for my father’s life," Arab Barghouti said in an interview with the news organisation. "It’s not a crazy idea to say that the Israeli government is capable of actually killing and murdering prisoners inside prisons.”

“They are targeting him,” Arab said. “They are trying to at least cause him a disability, not to be functional for playing a political role, because he is important for the Palestinian people and a unifying figure.”

Arab said that his father was beaten for the fourth time during Israel's war on Gaza by prison guards last month.

According to polls, Barghouti is the most popular Palestinian political figure.