This comes as Israeli negotiators head to Doha for ceasefire talks

Key Points

Gaza civil defense says it no longer has capacity to respond to emergencies

Gaza sees 6% population drop since October 2023

Gaza death toll surpasses 45,600

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Here are the day’s key developments:

– Medical personnel in Gaza have told Al Jazeera that there are now at least 90 known dead since dawn on Thursday as a result of Israeli attacks on the enclave. That raises the total number of known deaths in Gaza to well past 45,600. 

– Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Gaza, citing the Gaza civil defence spokesperson, says first responders no longer have the capacity to respond to emergencies because of the scale and scope of the Israeli attacks.

– Israel ignored pleas from the World Health Organization (WHO) to stop attacking medical facilities in northern Gaza, with a medical worker telling Middle East Eye on Thursday that heavy shelling and gunfire from unmanned quadcopters was taking place in the direction of the war-battered Indonesian Hospital.

– According to Israeli news outlet Channel 12, an Israeli negotiation team is headed to Doha, Qatar, on Friday to resume Gaza ceasefire talks. Channel 12 cited recent “progress” in the discussions, which was conveyed by an Israeli official.

– The Times of Israel on Thursday said extremist Israeli settlers who have been trying to cross into Gaza have become a distraction for Israeli troops in northern Gaza. “Over the past day, IDF surveillance soldiers have reportedly been forced to deprioritize their efforts to track potential terror operatives in Gaza in order to thwart attempts by far-right Israeli extremists who have been trying to cross Israel’s border with the Strip to establish settlements there,” the Times of Israel reported. 

– The Palestinian human rights non-profit organisation Al-Haq has published a new report pointing out how “evacuation orders” and alleged “safe zones” determined by Israel are only furthering the act of genocide across Gaza. Al-Haq pointed to “mass atrocities… taking place amidst regular evacuation orders instructing the entire population of the North to move south immediately so [Israel] can resettle the area.”

– Eight members of the Israeli Knesset have signed a letter demanding a more intensified siege on northern Gaza, as they also pointed out that Israel has not achieved any military victories in the enclave. 

Israel strikes Syrian military facilities in Aleppo

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An Israeli air strike has targeted military facilities at Safira in Aleppo, according to Syrian state television reporting in the early hours of Friday, local time. 

Extremist Israeli settlers trying to cross into Gaza disrupting army work: Report

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The Times of Israel on Thursday said extremist Israeli settlers who have been trying to cross into Gaza have become a distraction for Israeli troops in northern Gaza. 

“Over the past day, IDF surveillance soldiers have reportedly been forced to deprioritize their efforts to track potential terror operatives in Gaza in order to thwart attempts by far-right Israeli extremists who have been trying to cross Israel’s border with the Strip to establish settlements there,” the Times of Israel reported. 

“The result is a game of cat and mouse between the IDF and the settlers that has been going on for hours…  The surveillance trackers who are taking part in the effort are being pulled away from their typical task of helping ground troops identify and eliminate terrorists in northern Gaza.”

Gaza death toll reaches 90 since dawn on Thursday

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Medical personnel in Gaza have told Al Jazeera that there are now at least 90 known dead since dawn on Thursday as a result of Israeli attacks on the enclave.

Israeli delegation headed to Qatar again for ceasefire talks

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According to Israeli news outlet Channel 12, an Israeli negotiation team is headed to Doha, Qatar, on Friday to resume Gaza ceasefire talks. 

Channel 12 cited recent “progress” in the discussions, which was conveyed by an Israeli official.

Israeli-designated ‘safe zones’ in Gaza furthering genocide: Rights group report

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The Palestinian human rights non-profit organisation Al-Haq has published a new report pointing out how “evacuation orders” and alleged “safe zones” determined by Israel are only furthering the act of genocide across Gaza.

Entitled How to “Hide a Genocide: The Role of Evacuation Orders and Safe Zones in Israel’s Genocidal Campaign in Gaza,” Al-Haq pointed to “mass atrocities… taking place amidst regular evacuation orders instructing the entire population of the North to move south immediately so [Israel] can resettle the area.”

“Since the very first week of its genocide, Israel has methodically cleared vast stretches of the Gaza Strip of its inhabitants through its unlawful issuance of evacuation orders. These are presented to the public as proof of its efforts to minimise civilian casualties and to support its alleged compliance with fundamental principles of international humanitarian law (IHL),” the report said.

“However, they achieve the direct opposite,” it added. 

“Despite being unilaterally established by Israel, the Israeli military routinely targets both the [safe] zones themselves as well as the routes it has instructed forcibly displaced Palestinians to use as they flee in search of ever-evasive safety. Crowded together with no place of refuge, Palestinians are either killed by Israeli strikes, severely physically and mentally injured by the IOF’s physical and psychological warfare, or subjected to a slow death from the environment of total deprivation into which they have been plunged.”  

Israeli parliamentarians call for intensified siege on northern Gaza

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Eight members of the Israeli Knesset have signed a letter demanding a more intensified siege on northern Gaza, as they also pointed out that Israel has not achieved any military victories in the enclave.

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