Israel-Hamas LIVE: Israeli forces renew raid on Gaza’s largest hospital as IDF says air strike hits home of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh

US 'deeply concerned' that attack wounded Jordanian medics in Gaza

The United States is ‘deeply concerned that Jordanian medical personnel in Gaza were wounded in an attack near their field hospital,’ White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Thursday.

‘Their essential role in conflict must be protected,’ Sullivan wrote in a post on X, calling Jordan ‘a critical ally.’ Jordan said seven staffers were wounded in shelling on Wednesday, according to reports.

WATCH: Israeli soldiers fight against Hamas in Gaza

South Africa's ruling ANC backs suspending diplomatic ties with Israel

South Africa’s ruling party said on Thursday it will support a parliamentary motion to suspend diplomatic relations with Israel until it agrees to a ceasefire in Gaza.

EU top diplomat asks Israel 'not to be consumed by rage'

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Thursday called for Gaza hostages to be immediately freed, but asked Israel ‘not to be consumed by rage’ in its battle with Hamas militants in the Palestinian territory.

‘I ask for their immediate and unconditional release,’ Borrell said on a visit to a kibbutz targeted by Hamas in the October 7 attacks. ‘I understand your fears and pain… I understand your rage. But let me ask you not to be consumed by rage.’

WATCH: IDF says airstrikes hit terrorist cell in Lebanon after terrorists tried to launch anti-tank missiles towards Israel

UN Human Rights chief warns widespread outbreaks of disease and hunger 'inevitable' in Gaza

The United Nations human rights chief said on Thursday widespread outbreaks of disease and hunger seemed ‘inevitable’ in Gaza after weeks of Israeli assault on the densely populated Palestinian enclave.

Israel orders Palestinians to leave four towns in southern Gaza

Israel ordered civilians to leave four towns in the southern part of the Gaza Strip on Thursday, raising fears its war against Hamas could spread to areas it had told people were safe.

MPs' fury as police standby and watch Pro-Palestine protesters scale Hyde Park war memorial and surround innocent couple in car after Parliament Gaza vote – as Met apologise for 'not being able to respond quickly enough' but insist no laws were broken

IN PICTURES: Israel continues ground operations in Gaza

Saudi Arabia condemns Israel's raid on Al Shifa hospital

Saudi Arabia condemned Israel’s raid on Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, calling it a ‘blatant violation of international law’ in a statement Thursday from the Foreign Ministry. It also condemned what it said was shelling near another hospital and called on international bodies to hold Israel accountable.

UN rights chief urges international probe into Israel-Hamas war violations

The UN human rights chief decried Thursday serious allegations of violations of international law in the Israel-Hamas war, suggesting an international investigation was needed.

‘Extremely serious allegations of multiple and profound breaches of international humanitarian law, whoever commits them, demand rigorous investigation and full accountability,’ Volker Turk said in a briefing on the situation to UN member states, adding ‘international investigation is called for’.

Israel army says 50 soldiers killed in Gaza since start of war

The Israeli army on Thursday announced the deaths of two more soldiers in Gaza, raising the number of troops killed in the Palestinian territory to 50 since the war with Hamas militants began.

An army spokesman confirmed the new overall toll to AFP, after announcing two soldiers were killed in combat in northern Gaza on Wednesday.

German authorities raid properties linked to group suspected of promoting Iranian ideology

German police raided 54 locations across the country on Thursday in an investigation of a Hamburg-based center suspected of promoting Iranian ideology and supporting the activities of Hezbollah, the government said.

Gunmen wound several in attack near Jerusalem before being 'neutralised': Israeli police

Three gunmen attacked a checkpoint near Jerusalem on Thursday, Israeli police said, wounding several people before the attackers were ‘neutralised’.

Four people suffered gunshot wounds, including one who was critically injured, said the emergency medical service Magen David Adom in a statement, with another two people lightly wounded.

All those injured were members of security services, according to police.

The attack on a checkpoint guarding access to road tunnels linking the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem came on the 41st day of the war between Israel and Gaza-based Hamas terrorists.

Biden warns occupying Gaza would be 'big mistake'

US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he had made it clear to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that a two-state solution was the only way to resolve the Israel-Palestinian conflict and that occupying Gaza would be ‘a big mistake’.

Israeli troops show what they claim is 'concrete' evidence that Hamas was using Gaza's Al Shifa hospital as a terrorist base – but admit they have not yet found tunnels or an advanced command centre

Israel has claimed to have found ‘concrete’ evidence that Gaza’s biggest hospital Al Shifa was being used as a terrorist base after hundreds of commandos raided it early yesterday.

The IDF revealed evidence of weaponry which it said proved the hospital was a terrorist base, with spokesman Lt Col Jonathan Conricus showing a duffel bag hidden behind a hospital MRI machine containing an AK47 assault rifle, grenades, ammunition and a uniform.

He also said a backpack contained ‘what appeared to be very important intelligence including a laptop’, and added that security cameras in one part of the hospital had been taped over.

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Israeli president says 'strong force' may need to stay in Gaza

Israeli President Isaac Herzog said a ‘very strong force’ may need to remain in Gaza for the near future to prevent the Hamas militant group re-emerging after the war.

Driver arrested after a car struck a barricade near the Israeli Embassy in Tokyo

Police in Japan said Thursday they arrested a driver after a vehicle crashed into a temporary barricade near the Israeli Embassy in Tokyo, injuring one police officer.

Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department said they arrested a 53-year-old man on suspicion of obstructing official duties. The man was unemployed and a member of a right-wing group, police said.

Tokyo police said the suspect suddenly drove into the street where police officers were on duty at the barricade set up to secure the Israeli Embassy, injuring an officer in his 20s. His injury was not life-threatening, police said. Media reports said he had a hand injury.

The alleged motive and whether the embassy was targeted are not known. Demonstrators often gather to protest Israel’s attacks on Gaza, and the street near the embassy has been barricaded by Japanese police.

Israel signals wider operations in southern Gaza

Israeli forces dropped leaflets warning Palestinians to flee parts of southern Gaza, residents said Thursday, signalling a possible expansion of operations to areas where hundreds of thousands of people who heeded earlier evacuation orders are crowded into U.N.-run shelters and family homes.

WATCH: Israeli air strike hits home of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh

Israeli fighter jets have struck the house of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza, the Israeli military said on Thursday.

Haniyeh’s house was ‘used as terrorist infrastructure and often served as a meeting point for Hamas’ senior leaders to direct terror attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF (Israel Defence Forces) soldiers,’ the military said.

Israeli forces renew raid on Gaza's largest hospital

Israel renewed its operation at Gaza’s largest hospital Thursday, targeting what it said was a Hamas command centre nestled among patients, medics and the displaced.

‘Tonight we conducted a targeted operation into Shifa hospital,’ said Major General Yaron Finkelman, the head of Israeli military operations in Gaza. ‘We continue to move forward.’

Gaza’s Hamas-controlled health ministry said Thursday that Israeli bulldozers had ‘destroyed parts of the southern entrance’ of the hospital.

Both Israel and its top ally the United States believe Hamas has a command centre below the Al-Shifa complex, which has become a focal point in the war.

The Palestinian militant group and directors at the hospital have denied the charge.

Before Israel first sent troops into the hospital complex on Wednesday, UN agencies estimated that 2,300 patients, staff and displaced civilians were sheltering at Al-Shifa.

Israel’s army claimed an initial raid had uncovered military equipment, weapons and what spokesman Daniel Hagari described as ‘an operational headquarters with comms equipment’.