Israel-Palestine live: Israel bombs Unrwa building in Gaza

Israeli forces began raiding Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza's main medical facility, after shelling it and reportedly killing at least one patient.

The attack comes a day after the Israeli army said it tried to evacuate civilians from the hospital, but medics said patients were unable to safely flee and many displaced Palestinians remained there.

Footage from overnight shows patients being taken out of their rooms in hospital gurneys, some screaming in pain through the sound of distant gunshots.

Read more: Israeli soldiers storm Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis

The Israeli army on Thursday threatened a deadly military operation in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.

According to witnesses, Israeli forces dropped leaflets on the Nablus refugee camp warning residents against attacks on troops in the area.

"The fate of your city is in your hands. Do not follow the path of the Jenin camp," the leaflet said.

The Israeli army has staged several military raids inside the Jenin refugee camp in the past few weeks, killing a dozen Palestinians and causing widespread destruction. 

The Republic of Ireland announced $21.5m in support for the UN Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa).

"In Gaza, we are bearing witness to a humanitarian catastrophe. People are in dire need of the most basic lifesaving provisions – food, water, shelter," said Foreign Minister Micheal Martin.

"In these most harrowing conditions, facing the prospect of further military escalation, Unrwa is the backbone of the humanitarian response. It urgently needs support from all UN member states," Martin said during a visit to Dublin by Unrwa Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini.

"I urge other donors to resume and expand support to Unrwa so that it can deliver for the millions of Palestinian refugees in need," he added.

At least 11 people have been killed following an intense bombardment on Nuseirat camp in the central part of the Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera's correspondents are reporting. 

Four children were among the victims in one raid, which hit a residential building. The number of wounded is not yet known.

A separate air raid in the Wadi Gaza area killed one person and wounded several.

Sources in Israeli intelligence speaking to +972 magazine and Local Call have said that Israel has been spying on US private communication with the Palestinian Authority in order to "understand what the US knows about settler violence".

This comes after the US and UK sanctioned four settlers this year following violent acts perpetrated by them in the occupied West Bank against Palestinians. 

The purpose for this spying, far from punishing settlers for their violence, is "to prevent the collected information from developing into sanctions", the report said. 

This would mean that despite what Israeli politicians might say about cracking down on violent settlers, the official policy behind closed doors seems to be to shield them from the rule of law.

US officials have received a great deal of information from PA officials on incidents of settler violence. 

"We want to know what the Americans know," one Israeli source told +972 and Local Call. "The goal is to know what is going to hit us when Fenzel comes and demands answers about these cases. It's not for going after the settlers and arresting them," the report said.

At least 28,663 Palestinians have been killed by Israel in Gaza since 7 October, according to the health ministry, including more than 12,300 children and 8,400 women.

More than 68,395 others have also been wounded, the health ministry added.

The latest toll includes 87 people killed over the past 24 hours, the ministry statement said, while another 104 have been wounded.

A senior official in Hezbollah and a member of the Lebanese Parliament, Hassan Fadlallah, said that Israel will "pay the price for its crimes," Reuters reported on Thursday.

This is after it was reported that eleven civilians, half of them children, were killed in Israeli strikes in the country's south on Wednesday.

Lebanon also reported that the Wednesday attacks killed a Hezbollah operative.

Gaza's health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said on Thursday that Israeli troops have entered Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis

Israeli forces are in the emergency room and the trauma department, and are forcibly removing the refugees and medical staff who remained there, Qudra said.

Patients who are unable to evacuate and babies are being taken to an old building inside the complex, according to him.

Qudra also said that Israeli soldiers are digging up the dead bodies from improvised temporary graves dug there and taking the bodies, a practice that has happened several times during the conflict. 

Israel is killing too many civilians in Gaza, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani told the country's national media.

Israel's offensive in the besieged territory is "causing too many civilian victims", Tajani told Italian TV channel Canale 5.

The Israeli response to the 7 October attacks in some cases went "beyond proportionality", said Tajani.

In recent weeks, millions of people have taken to the streets in cities across Germany to demonstrate against the far right, and specifically against the Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) party. 

The protests followed revelations by an investigative media outlet that far-right politicians held a secret meeting with well-known neo-Nazis in November, where they discussed a plan for the mass deportation of foreigners and Germans deemed not to be German enough.

While the protests are welcome, what has been glaringly absent from many demonstrations is a clear expression of solidarity with those currently most targeted by racism: people of colour standing in solidarity with Palestinians. 

While one protest callout specifically listed antisemitism as a form of racism, it did not mention Islamophobia, despite the fact that Muslims, together with Black and brown migrants, are the main targets of the AfD, which is also staunchly pro-Israel. 

Read more: How Germany's left has failed Palestinians

The Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich responded to the reported American-Arab plan for peace and the formation of a Palestinian state, saying he will "demand today at the security cabinet meeting that a clear decision will be made, opposing the formation of a Palestinian state and the sanctioning of over half a million settlers".

"The message [that accepting the plan will send out] is that it's very worthwhile to massacre Israeli citizens. A Palestinian state is an existential threat for Israel, as proven on October 7," Smotrich added.

The finance minister said he is expecting his objection to the proposed plan to be supported by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Benny Gantz, Gadi Eisenkot and all the ministers present.

The US and several Arab partners are preparing a detailed plan for a comprehensive peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians that includes a “firm timeline” for a Palestinian state, the Washington Post reported, saying the announcement could come in the next few weeks.

The report, citing US and Arab officials says, that the key to the plan and its announcement would be the reaching of an initial ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

During this pause, which is expected to be at least six weeks, the US plans to make the report public, take initial steps towards its implementation, including forming an interim Palestinian government, and try drumming up further support for the move.

However, the report says it is unclear if Israel will go along with such a move.

The proposed plan includes steps that Israel has previously refused and are highly unlikely to be approved by the current hard-right government, including the evacuation of many West Bank settlements, a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem and combined security and governments for the West Bank and Gaza.

Late last month, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that it is "plausible" that Israel was committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

In response to the case brought by South Africa, the court ordered Israel to "prevent the commission of all acts" in violation of the Genocide Convention and to "prevent and punish the direct and public incitement to commit genocide" against Palestinians. The ICJ cited the many genocidal and dehumanising statements made by senior Israeli officials, including Israel's president and prime minister.  

The ICJ decision places Israel squarely in the company of genocidal white colonial-settler societies. As a result of the interim ruling, the World Court will deliberate further in the coming months or years on whether Israel is committing "genocide".

Read more: How Israel’s genocide in Gaza became a showdown between the West and the Global South

Russia and China on Wednesday accused the United States and Britain of illegally attacking Yemen. 

US Deputy Ambassador Robert Wood and UK Ambassador Barbara Woodward countered that the Houthi attacks are illegal, and that their "proportionate and legal action" against the Yemen rebels are being taken in self-defence.

Russia's UN deputy ambassador, Dmitry Polyansky, and China's UN envoy, Zhang Jun, argued that the UN Security Council never authorised military action against Yemen.