Eight Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank, with clashes reportedly continuing between Israeli forces and gunmen at the Nur Shams refugee camp.
Meanwhile, road repair machinery has been moved to the Rafah crossing, in preparation for 20 trucks of aid to be brought from the Egyptian border into Gaza. Following talks with the US, Israel agreed to allow the opening for food and medicine, provided it was not diverted by Hamas for their own use.
Hamas media has since reported that one of their top commanders had been killed in an Israeli airstrike on his home. Head of the Hamas-led national security forces, Jehad Mheisen, was reportedly killed alongside his family on Thursday.
Meanwhile, a British-Israeli man has been confirmed to have been murdered in Hamas’ October 7 attack, BBC reports.
Yonatan Rapoport, known as Yoni, was killed in the attack on Kibbutz Be’eri. The Manchester United fan and father-of-two had planned to take his son to Old Trafford next month, for his son’s first game there.
During his visit to Israel on Thursday, Rishi Sunak promised Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu that Britain would stand by Israel in “its darkest hour” as he welcomed the decision to allow aid into Gaza and said Israel was doing all it could to limit civilian deaths.