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Here are the day's key developments:

- Israeli air strikes have killed 45 people across Gaza since dawn on Friday.

- US President Donald Trump told reporters he pushed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow food and medicine into the Strip. That follows pleas by the UK and European governments, as well as a dozen major aid organisations that are demanding Israel reopening border crossings into Gaza. 

- About 500,000 people in Gaza have been newly displaced since Israel broke the ceasefire last month, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) said on Friday. 

- Newly revealed details by Drop Site News show what the current ceasefire plan being pushed by mediators Qatar, Egypt, and the US entails: a non-permanent ceasefire in Gaza that lasts 45 days, a semi-withdrawal of Israeli ground forces, and ultimately, the release of all living and deceased captives from Gaza in exchange for talks toward a permanent end to the war. Hamas would also have to disarm.

- Hamas said it will not entertain any proposals that factor in its disarmament. "The weapons of the resistance are not negotiable, and will remain in our hands as long as the occupation persists," the group's statement said.

- Israeli forces have killed over 212 Palestinian journalists since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza, according to a statement by Gaza’s Government Media Office reported by Aljazeera. 

- New polling from 745 likely Democratic voters across the US, conducted by Data For Progress, has shown that 71% of them want to see restrictions on military aid to Israel "until it stops attacks on civilians in Gaza, supports Palestinian rights, and commits to a long-term peace process."

US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he pushed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow food and medicine into the devastated Gaza Strip.

No aid has been delivered to the Palestinian enclave since March 2. Israel has said it would not allow the entry of goods and supplies into Gaza until Palestinian militant group Hamas releases all remaining hostages.

Earlier on Friday, the U.N. World Food Programme said it had run out of food stocks in Gaza.

- Reporting by Reuters 

An Israeli air strike on a family home in the al-Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza has killed at least one person and wounded a number of others, local reports said late on Friday. 

In a statement released late Friday, Hamas said it will not entertain any proposals that factor in its disarmament. 

"The weapons of the resistance are not negotiable, and will remain in our hands as long as the occupation persists," the statement said.

It follows newly revealed details by Drop Site News on what exactly the current ceasefire plan being pushed by mediators Qatar, Egypt, and the US entails: a non-permanent ceasefire in Gaza that lasts 45 days, a semi-withdrawal of Israeli ground forces, and ultimately, the release of all living and deceased captives from Gaza in exchange for talks toward a permanent end to the war.

Hamas would also have to disarm its military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, but it has made clear that while it is willing to step away from future governance of Gaza, it will not lay down its weapons. 

New polling data from 745 likely Democratic voters across the US has shown that 71% of them want to see restrictions on military aid to Israel "until it stops attacks on civilians in Gaza, supports Palestinian rights, and commits to a long-term peace process."

The poll, conducted by Data For Progress and published by Zeteo, was carried out from 9 - 14 April using SMS and web panel respondents. The sample was weighted to be representative of likely Democratic primary voters by age, gender, education, race, and geography, and the margin of error associated with the sample size is ±4 percentage points. 

The Arabic-language spokesperson for the Israeli forces late on Friday issued a "final advance warning" for Palestinians to leave three Gaza City neighbourhoods: Turkman, Ajdeeda, and northeast Zeitoun. 

In a post on X, Avichay Adraee said there are "terrorist operations from the aforementioned area against our forces," and that Israel "will attack with great force any area used to carry out these terrorist operations."

"For your safety, you must move immediately west to Gaza City," he added. 

With growing discontent in Israel and tens of thousands taking to the streets to demand an end to the war on Gaza and the inking of a deal to bring the captives home, Defence Minister Israel Katz on Friday urged citizens to back Israel's forces.

"The IDF is operating vigorously, providing a comprehensive defense envelope for forces maneuvering from the air, land, and sea, and accompanying the activity with heavy weapons to thwart explosive devices and destroy threatening structures," he wrote on X, referring to the Israeli Defence Forces.

"The achievements are great, but the dangers are still great and the prices are heavy. All citizens of Israel must embrace and strengthen the IDF commanders and soldiers and pray for their safety and success," Katz said. 

A dozen major international aid organisations including Save The Children put out a plea to the Israeli government on Friday: Let us do our jobs in Gaza.

"We have supplies. We have trained medical staff. We have expertise," the statement said.

"What we don't have is the access - or the guarantee by the Israeli authorities that our teams can safely do their jobs."

Israel closed all border crossings and reimposed a full siege on Gaza more than 50 days ago. No food, medicine, or clean water is allowed in. 

Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in an air strike on Al Farabi School in Gaza City, and one in Beit Hanoun, Wafa news agency reported.

At least 84 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in the last 24 hours, according to Al Jazeera.

About 500,000 people in Gaza have been newly displaced since Israel broke the ceasefire last month, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) said on Friday. 

In a post on X, the agency noted that a series of Israeli expulsion orders has rendered Palestinians with access to less than a third of the Gaza Strip.

The remaining space is "fragmented, unsafe and barely liveable", according to the UN. 

Meanwhile, Israeli bombing on Friday hit al-Mawasi, a designated "safe area" in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, killing a family of five.

Despite Israel labelling al-Mawasi as a humanitarian zone, it has been repeatedly targeted by Israeli forces throughout the war.

Read more: Nearly a quarter of Gaza's population displaced since Israel broke ceasefire, UN says

Israeli forces killed 17-year-old Abdul Khaliq Musab Jabour in a raid on Salim, near Nablus, Wafa news agency reported.

Wafa also reported that Israeli forces stormed several neighbourhoods in Hebron, and fired tear gas canisters at the entrance of the nearby Al Fawwar refugee camp.

Israeli forces have killed over 212 Palestinian journalists since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza, according to a statement by Gaza’s Government Media Office reported by Al Jazeera. 

On Thursday, Israeli forces killed Al Aqsa Radio journalist Saeed Amin Abu Hassanein alongside his wife and daughter in a strike in Deir al Balah.

The statement also called on “International Federation of Journalists, the Federation of Arab Journalists, and all journalistic bodies in all countries of the world to condemn these systematic crimes against Palestinian journalists and media professionals in the Gaza Strip,” according to the report.

The World Food Programme has completely run out of food stocks in Gaza, according to a statement reported by Al Jazeera.

“No humanitarian or commercial supplies have entered Gaza for more than seven weeks as all main border crossing points remain closed,” the same source reported.

According to the WFP statement, “this is the longest closure the Gaza Strip has ever faced".

In November 2024, the United Nations Special Committee stated that Israel was using “starvation as a weapon of war,” a violation that is “consistent with the characteristics of genocide".

At least three Palestinians, including two children, were killed this week by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, according to a UN statement reported by Al Jazeera.

The fatalities bring the total number of children killed by Israeli troops in the West Bank to 192 since the start of Israel's war on Gaza.

The statement also noted that “high levels of settler violence against Palestinians continue in the occupied West Bank, causing death, injuries and loss of property and undermining Palestinian lives and livelihoods in many areas”.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich clashed with Israeli army chief of staff, Eyal Zamir, during an Israeli cabinet meeting held this week on the issue of humanitarian aid to Gaza,

During the meeting, the chief of staff said that Israeli soldiers would "not distribute humanitarian aid, and we will not starve the Gaza Strip," referring to the demands of government ministers to take over aid distribution to the besieged enclave.

At this point, Smotrich attacked Zamir's remarks. 

"The army does not choose its missions. We have defined for you that you need to prepare for this. We will define the what, and you the how," he said. 

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