Live: At least 75 killed in Israeli strikes on second day of Eid al-Adha

Hamas's armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, said on Friday that it had carried out a joint military operation against Israeli forces with the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the al-Quds Brigades.

The group said it fired an anti-personnel grenade at a building housing Israeli troops southeast of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

The attack underscores how Hamas's armed wing continues to recruit fighters and launch guerrilla-warfare style operations after 18 months of war. 

The UN said on Friday that 100 percent of Gaza is at risk of famine. 

"Gaza is the hungriest place on Earth," Jens Laerke, a spokesman for the UN humanitarian agency United Nations office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs, said on Friday. 

"It's the only defined area - a country or defined territory within a country - where you have the entire population at risk of famine. 100 percent of the population at risk of famine," he said. 

In an escalation of its rhetoric against President Emmanuel Macron, Israel's foreign ministry said the leader of France of was on a "crusade against the Jewish state".

The criticism came before Macron threatened sanctions against Israel if it does not act to prevent starvation in Gaza. 

Macron had warned earlier on Friday that he could “apply sanctions” against Israeli settlers unless Israel responds to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

“The humanitarian blockade is creating a situation that is untenable on the ground,” Macron said at a joint news conference in Singapore.

A new poll found that 82 percent of Israeli Jews support the forcible displacement of Palestinians from Gaza, while an additional 56 percent support expelling Palestinian citizens of Israel.

The poll was done at Pennsylvania State University and conducted by Tamir Sorek for the Israeli polling firm Geocartography Knowledge Group, Haaretz reported on Friday.

The number marks a massive increase in support for expelling Palestinians compared to a 2003 survey, in which support was 45 percent and 31 percent, respectively.

At least 14 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on eastern Khan Younis, according to Al Jazeera. 

The Israeli strike targeted tents in the southern Gaza city. 

Doctors Without Borders has slammed the US-Israeli Gaza Humanitarian Foundation as "a cynical ploy to feign compliance with international humanitarian law” by giving some aid to starving Palestinians.

“Through this dangerous and reckless approach, food is not being distributed where it’s needed most but is instead directed only to areas where Israeli forces choose to amass civilians,” Doctors Without Borders secretary general Christopher Lockyear said in a statement.

“This means the most vulnerable - especially the elderly and people with disabilities - have virtually no chance of accessing the food they desperately need," he added. 

Hamas has called on Arab and Muslim countries to dispatch aid convoys to Gaza, saying the move could pressure Israel to allow relief into the besieged enclave.

“The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is entering a critical phase as a result of a widening and deepening famine, coupled with ongoing brutal massacres,” the group said in a statement.

Hamas accused Israel and the United States of using aid as a tool of war, describing their mechanism as a “criminal manipulation of civilian needs” designed to advance Israeli military objectives.

The group also urged the UN Security Council to take action to stop Israel’s assault, lift the siege, and guarantee the delivery of aid through United Nations channels.

The health ministry in Gaza says Israel’s war has killed at least 54,321 Palestinians since it began in October 2023.

• A total of 123,770 people have been wounded, according to the ministry’s latest update.

• In the past 24 hours alone, 72 deaths and 278 injuries were recorded - figures that do not include northern Gaza, where hospitals are barely functioning.

• Since Israel ended the truce on 18 March, at least 4,058 people have been killed and another 11,729 wounded.

“A number of victims remain under the rubble and on the roads, unable to be reached by ambulance and civil defence crews,” the ministry said.

As the father of a four-year-old daughter and a newborn baby, as I watch the international response to the genocide in Gaza, I cannot help but wonder: at what age will my children cease to be considered children, and their lives be deemed less important? 

The world is shocked at the number of children being killed and starved in Gaza, but there remains no substantive critique of what Israel has done over these past 19 months to all Palestinians in Gaza. The threshold of demands has been lowered to merely alleviating the humanitarian crisis.

Israel has succeeded in destroying Gaza’s infrastructure, healthcare system, municipalities, education networks, families, mosques and churches - in short, every framework that organised human life. 

But now, having exhausted its “target bank” and with nothing left to bomb, Israel is striking refugee tent camps and burning people alive. Such cruelty, along with the passage of time and mounting international pressure, have led to a turning point, both globally and within Israeli society.

Read more: War on Gaza: The world is turning, but Israel has yet to reckon with its crimes

Israeli settlers and activists were filmed this morning obstructing aid trucks near the Karem Abu Salem crossing, a key entry point for supplies into Gaza.

Footage shared online by activists and Israeli media shows several lorries halted on the road as demonstrators blocked their passage.

According to Israeli reports, members of the Tzav 9 group and relatives of Israeli prisoners held in Gaza joined the protest, demanding a halt to humanitarian deliveries.

The carbon footprint from Israel’s war on Gaza will exceed the emissions of around 100 countries, according to new research. 

A study published by the Social Science Research Network, first reported by The Guardian on Friday, found that the climate cost of Israel’s destruction of the Palestinian enclave, clearing debris and rebuilding the territory could exceed 31m tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent. 

That is more than the annual 2023 emissions of many countries, including Costa Rica, Afghanistan and Zimbabwe. 

The study found that Hamas’ rockets and bunker fuel made up for 0.2 percent of those emissions, while the supply and use of weapons, tanks and other ordnance by Israel made up 50 percent. 

It found that the overall impact of Israel’s wars on Gaza and Lebanon, as well as its recent military confrontations with Yemen and Iran, was equivalent to running 84 gas power plants for a year. 

Read more: Carbon footprint from Israel's war on Gaza exceeds 100 countries

Finland has condemned Israel’s decision to authorise 22 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, calling it a breach of international law.

“We reject the Israeli government's approval of 22 new settlements in the occupied West Bank. Settlements are illegal under international law,” Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen wrote on X.

“Creating deliberate obstacles to the two-state solution is unacceptable and runs counter to international efforts to advance peace,” she added.

The move by Israel has drawn widespread criticism from European states amid rising tensions in the occupied Palestinian territories.

At least 28 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza since dawn, medical staff in local hospitals told Al Jazeera.

The attacks have concentrated on the northern part of the besieged enclave, where Israeli forces earlier ordered residents to evacuate.

More than 50,000 Palestinian children have been killed or wounded since the war on Gaza began in October, according to the United Nations children’s agency, which warned that the scale of suffering is worsening by the day.

Unicef said children are paying the highest price in Israel’s assault, with one child killed or injured every 20 minutes on average.

“Grave violations. Blocked aid. Starvation. Homes, schools, hospitals - destroyed. This is the destruction of childhood. Of life itself. These are children. Not numbers. No child should live through this. Not one more," said Unicef. 

Israeli Defence Minister Yisrael Katz escalated tensions on Friday after storming the evacuated “Tarsala” settlement site near the Palestinian town of Jaba’, just south of Jenin.

Accompanied by Israeli forces and two helicopters, Katz visited the area as occupation troops locked down nearby roads, set up a checkpoint at Ajja’s entrance, and searched passing vehicles, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

The “Tarsala” site—once the location of the Sanur settlement—was among several West Bank colonies dismantled in 2005, including Homesh, Ganim, Kadim, and the Dotan-Arava military post.

Katz used the visit to lash out at France and its allies, who have called for the recognition of a Palestinian state.

“The expansion of settlements in the West Bank is a message to Macron and his friends that they will recognise a Palestinian state on paper, and that this paper will end up in the trash can of history,” Katz said, according to Israeli media.

“Settlement in the West Bank will grow stronger, and Israel will flourish and prosper. Don’t threaten us with sanctions. You won’t bring us to our knees, and we won’t submit to threats.”