The WHO chief says an aid mission managed to reach Al-Shifa Hospital in north Gaza, bringing food and medical supplies, as the Health Ministry says 2,000 medical workers in the north face famine.

The US says Israel has not yet presented a plan to protect civilians in its planned invasion of Rafah as Israel’s self-imposed Ramadan deadline for invasion passes.

Israel has carried out strikes in the vicinity of Lebanon’s Baalbeck, nearly 100km (62 miles) from the Lebanon-Israel border.

Israel imposes restrictions on West Bank worshippers entering Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, as 35,000 gather for prayers on the first day of Ramadan.

At least 31,045 Palestinians have been killed and 72,654 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The revised death toll in Israel from Hamas’s October 7 attacks stands at 1,139, and dozens continue to be held captive.

Source: BBC

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