As we've been reporting, Gaza's largest telecommunications provider, Paltel, says internet and phone networks are down across the Gaza Strip - the second blackout in the past week.

Now global network monitor Netblocks confirms Gaza "is in the midst of a new internet blackout with high impact to the last remaining major operator, Paltel".

Most Gaza residents will experience "a total loss of telecommunications," it said in a post on X. , external

Image source, Netblocks

Image source, IDF

The Israeli military updates a list on its website, external of how many of its military have been killed since the 7 October attacks.

The website posts photographs of those killed and their ages - all 11 who died yesterday were aged between 19 and 24.

Israel says 326 have been killed in the war - most of them on or near 7 October, when Hamas launched its deadly cross-border attacks.

In Gaza, the Hamas-run health ministry gives a daily update on the number of people killed inside the Strip since 7 October. The latest total was 8,525.

Tessa Wong
Asia Digital Reporter

As the conflict between Israel and Hamas intensifies, an unlikely development has emerged - China playing the part of peace broker. There are hopes it could tap into its close relationship with Iran, which backs Hamas, to de-escalate the situation.

But China faces a difficult balancing act because it has long openly sympathised with the Palestinian cause. It stretches back to Chinese Communist Party founder Mao Zedong, who sent weapons to Palestinians.

In later decades China opened up economically and normalised relations with Israel. But it has also made it clear it continues to support the Palestinians.

Recently Chinese officials and even President Xi Jinping have stressed the need for an independent Palestinian state. One side effect is an uptick in antisemitism online, fanned by nationalist bloggers.

All this may not be a good look for China when it's trying to engage the Israeli government.

Read more from Tessa here: What China wants from Israel-Hamas war.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has released an update saying it has struck over 11,000 targets belonging to "terrorist organisations" in the Gaza Strip since the war with Hamas began over three weeks ago.

The IDF said troops identified Hamas attackers in the Jabalia neighbourhood in a multi-storey building, which was near a school, medical centre and government offices. Troops directed Israeli air forces to launch an air strike, it said.

Earlier the IDF had said a strike in Jabalia had killed a senior Hamas commander and caused the collapse of Hamas's underground infrastructure. Dozens of people were reported killed at a location in a refugee camp, and pictures from the scene showed dead and injured children.

Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry says more than 8,500 people have been killed since Israel began its heavy bombardment of the territory.

The Israel Defense Forces has released the latest photos of their military operation in the north of the Gaza Strip.

Several images show hollowed out buildings and stretches of rubble, reflecting the scale of the aftermath of Israel's airstrikes and ground attacks.

Image source, Israel Defense Forces

Image source, Israel Defense Forces

Image source, Israel Defense Forces

We've just heard from our Gaza correspondent Rushdi Abualouf, who confirmed all local mobile and internet services have gone down in the enclave.

Some in Gaza are in range of Israeli mobile phone towers and can connect to the outside world using Israeli or international SIM cards.

Palestinian news outlets and Hamas on Telegram have also reported that communications with Gaza have been cut.

Gaza's largest telecommunications provider Paltel had first announced the "complete interruption" a few hours ago.

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says his organisation continues to be "gravely concerned" about the condition of hostages held by the Hamas group when it attacked Israel on 7 October.

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, he expresed particular concern for children, women, older people, and those with health conditions requiring immediate medical attention.

"WHO, once again, calls for the immediate release of all the hostages," he wrote.

Read more about the hostages here.

Image source, Getty Images

The Israeli military has updated its list of soldiers, external who were killed in the ongoing war with Hamas.

That death toll now stands at 326, including 11 soldiers who died in Gaza on Tuesday. Those soldiers were all aged between 19 and 20 years old.

Medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has tweeted a brief account, external by one of its nurses providing emergency care at the Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City.

MSF said after the air strike in the Jabalia neighbourhood, many wounded people had sought treatment at the hospital.

"Young children arrived at the hospital with deep wounds and severe burns. They came without their families," said Mohammed Hawajreh.

"Many were screaming and asking for their parents. I stayed with them until we could find a place, as the hospital was full with patients."

MSF said it was horrified by the Jabalia air strike and condemned the "latest episode of senseless violence", while calling for a ceasefire. "Enough is enough!"

Image source, EPA

Bolivia said it is cutting diplomatic ties with Israel over the "aggressive and disproportionate" attacks on Gaza.

Deputy foreign minister Freddy Mamani told reporters that their decision was "in repudiation and condemnation of the aggressive and disproportionate Israeli military offensive being carried out in the Gaza Strip".

Separately, the leaders of Colombia and Chile have recalled their ambassadors to Israel in protest.

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Chilean president Gabriel Boric Fonts said his country "strongly condemns" Israel's "unacceptable violations of international humanitarian law".

Colombian president Gustavo Petro wrote, also on X: "If Israel does not stop the massacre of the Palestinian people we cannot be there."

Here's more on how some countries in Latin America have been responding.

In the last few hours the White House has provided a readout, external of US President Joe Biden's phone call with Jordan's King Abdullah II.

The two leaders discussed the latest developments in Gaza and ways to speed up the delivery of aid to the embattled Strip, among other issues regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Biden "reiterated the importance of protecting civilian lives and respecting international humanitarian law, as Israel defends its citizens and combats terrorism," the statement says.

The president also "agreed" that Palestinians should not be "forcibly displaced outside Gaza" and called for a "durable and sustainable peace" which would include the creation of an independent Palestinian nation.

More than half of Jordan's citizens are of Palestinian origin, including Queen Rania who in recent weeks has criticised Israel's actions in Gaza.

The country signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994.

Tessa Wong
Live page editor

Hello from Singapore, where I've taken over from our team in London. It's now 05:00 in Gaza, where explosions have continued overnight.

We've just heard from our diplomatic correspondent who says there are "credible reports" that the Rafah crossing in the south of Gaza may open to allow some wounded Palestinians to seek treatment in Egypt.

In the past hour the main telecommunications company in Gaza, Paltel, has also announced that all communication services and the internet in the enclave have been cut off. We're trying to verify this with our teams on the ground right now.

The last time this happened was over the weekend, when communications went down for more than a day as Israeli forces moved into Gaza.

I'll be bringing you more updates together with my colleague Kelly Ng - stay with us.

Gaza's largest telecommunications provider Paltel has announced a "complete interruption of all communications and Internet services" in the enclave.

This was due to international access that was "previously reconnected being cut off again," Paltel said in a post on X, external, formerly known as Twitter.

Paul Adams
Reporting from Jerusalem

Image source, Getty Images

Tuesday’s air strike on Jabalia is remarkably similar to an episode on 16 May 2021, during which many civilians died.

Early that morning, a series of devastating air strikes on Gaza’s al-Rimal neighbourhood brought three residential buildings crashing to the ground.

Forty-two people were killed. It was the deadliest single Israeli attack in just over two weeks of Israeli air strikes.

Israel blamed Hamas and what one officer called “this crazy underground infrastructure".

The buildings were not the target, he insisted. But when part of the tunnel network collapsed, nearby foundations collapsed too.

“That was very unfortunate,” the officer said. “We’re trying to learn what happened.”

Tonight, Israel Defence Forces (IDF) spokesman Lt Col Jonathan Conricus spoke of a “vast underground tunnel complex” that had been targeted.

He said the IDF had struck in between buildings, aiming to destroy the tunnels underneath.

But once again, the effect had been to bring down nearby buildings.

This, Conricus said, “cannot be avoided”.

Both episodes highlight the risks – and the moral and legal implications - of Israel’s determination to destroy Hamas’ underground infrastructure, some of which lies beneath densely populated civilian areas.

A student at Cornell University in New York has been arrested for making violent threats against Jewish members of the campus.

The FBI charged Patrick Dai, 21, with posting threats to kill or injure another using interstate communications.

According to the federal criminal complaint, he allegedly posted "threatening messages to the Cornell section of an online discussion site, including posts calling for the deaths of Jewish people".

"The charges and the allegations in the complaint are merely accusations," the US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of New York said. "The defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty."

It was reported earlier that a person had been arrested after someone with the user name "hamas" had posted on a university website, making threats to bring a gun to campus and threatening violence, stalking and rape against Jewish men, women and babies.

There has been a massive uptick in antisemitic threats resulting from the latest flare-up of violence between Israelis and Palestinians.

On Tuesday, the director of the FBI warned that antisemitism in the US had reached "historic levels".

Read more here

James Landale
Diplomatic correspondent

Since the 7 October attack by Hamas and Israel’s military response, Gaza’s borders have remained largely closed.

But various sources in the region have suggested the southern border at Rafah might open as early as today to allow some of the most seriously wounded Palestinians to get treatment on the Egyptian side.

The UK Foreign Office said it had informed British nationals trapped in Gaza about what it called credible reports that Rafah might open for limited exits.

But it said there were no details about how the opening would be managed and who would be permitted to leave.

US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said “good progress” had been made in negotiations to allow foreign nationals to leave.

Egypt has been reluctant to open the border, fearing an uncontrolled surge of refugees.

Patrick Jackson
BBC News

Greetings from London where I've just taken over from my colleague in New York City.

On a live video feed showing Gaza City, largely shrouded in darkness, the sounds of war between Israel and Hamas are unmistakable and relentless: the constant report of explosions, rattle of machine-guns and droning of unseen aircraft.

Palestinian civilians in their hundreds of thousands are spending another night of uncertainty after the Hamas-run health ministry reported that the death toll in this tiny territory, where 2.2 million people live, had passed 8,500.

Since Hamas attacked on 7 October, more than 1,400 people have been killed in Israel and more than 200 are still missing, believed held hostage in Gaza.

The Israel Defense Forces say it “intercepted an aerial threat” in the Red Sea in a region south of the Israeli city of Eilat.

“No threat was posed to civilians and no infiltration into Israeli territory was identified,” the IDF said on X, formerly Twitter.

No other details were provided in the IDF tweet.

Paul Adams
Reporting from Jerusalem

IDF spokesman Lt Col Jonathan Conricus has been giving more details on today’s strike on Jabalia in the Gaza Strip.

He said the target, Ibrahim Biari, was a senior and important Hamas battalion commander. Conricus described him as “pivotal in the planning and execution of the Oct 7 attacks".

Conricus said “multiple dozens” of Hamas fighters had been killed in a “vast underground tunnel complex” from where Biari was directing operations.

He said the IDF had struck in-between buildings, targeting the tunnel complex underneath. The collapse of the tunnels, he said, had caused surrounding buildings to collapse. This, he said “cannot be avoided”.

He said the attack had involved more than one bomb, but he did not elaborate.

The IDF, he said, was looking into reports of “collateral damage” and “non-combatant casualties”.

Conricus said northern Gaza was “the very heartland of Hamas”.

As a reminder, the BBC is not able to immediately verify most battlefield claims.

Image source, EPA

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Israel on Friday, the US State Department says.

He will be meeting members of the Israeli government and will also make other stops in the region.

It is unclear if Blinken will meet with any Palestinian officials on the trip.

This will be Blinken's second trip to the Middle East in the past three weeks.