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In the north of the Gaza Strip, explosions have been reported at or near several hospitals throughout Friday
Footage shows tanks firing near Al-Rantisi children's hospital, where civilians say they are trapped, and Israel has confirmed it is operating close to Al-Shifa, the biggest hospital in Gaza City
An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman said it does not fire on hospitals - but "we’ll do what we need to" if Hamas fires from hospital grounds
French President Emmanuel Macron has told the BBC Israel must stop killing civilians in Gaza, saying a ceasefire would benefit Israel
He also stressed that France "clearly condemns" the "terrorist" actions of Hamas and recognised Israel's right to protect itself
Israel has revised down the death toll in the 7 October attacks from 1,400 to "about 1,200"
An Israeli foreign ministry spokesman says it now thinks some unidentified bodies “belong to terrorists”
Israel began striking Gaza after the Hamas attacks on 7 October, which saw 1,200 people killed and more than 200 taken hostage
More than 11,000 people have been killed in Gaza since, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, including more than 4,500 children
Edited by Andrew Humphrey
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We're pausing our live coverage for the next few hours, so here's a quick recap on where things stand in the Israel-Gaza war.
On Friday, eyewitnesses told the BBC that Israeli forces were close to key Gaza hospitals - Al-Shifa, Al-Quds, Al-Rantisi and the Indonesian Hospital - and there were reports of explosions inside or near them throughout the day.
Israel has repeatedly accused Hamas of operating from tunnels underneath Al-Shifa, which Hamas denies.
A video verified by the BBC showed a woman filming herself at the Al-Rantisi Hospital in Gaza City, where she claimed that the children’s hospital was being “besieged” by tanks and full of people told to evacuate.
And the International Committee of the Red Cross warned that hospitals in northern Gaza have "reached a point of no return", risking the lives of thousands of people.
In an exclusive interview with the BBC this evening, French President Emmanuel Macron said Israel must stop killing babies and women in Gaza, but Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu responded that world leaders should be condeming Hamas, not Israel.
The Hamas-run health ministry says 11,078 people have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war and more than 27,000 others are injured.
Away from Gaza, in the West Bank, dozens of people attended the funerals of 11 Palestinians killed in a reported Israeli raid on the Jenin refugee camp.
It all comes after Israel launched a retaliatory offensive in Gaza as a response to Hamas's deadly 7 October attacks, which killed around 1,200 people while more than 240 others were taken hostage.
Israel revised the death toll down from 1,400 on Friday because, according to Foreign Ministry spokesman Lior Haiat, many poeple killed were not immediately identified after the attack, and "now we think those belong to terrorists... not Israeli casualties".
Nada Tawfik
North America correspondent
UN Security Council members have been trying to reach consensus for weeks now and it just doesn't seem like they are making any ground.
In particular, there is some frustration that the United States isn’t showing serious interest in having a resolution - they are of course Israel's strongest ally on the council and oppose a ceasefire.
The US also vetoed a resolution that was supported by 12 other members of the council, saying it didn't have enough strong language on Israel's right to self-defence.
Russia and China went on to veto a US resolution, saying it would give a green light to further escalation of the war. In total, the Security Council has failed four times to reach consensus.
We have a very divided council.
The UAE called today's meeting because they were concerned about the health crisis and ongoing strikes on hospitals in Gaza. The World Health Organization (WHO) just gave a briefing on the dramatic deterioration of the health system, which as we already heard the ICRC say today "has reached a point of no return".
At the end of the briefing by WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, he said the crisis underlined once again the need for reform of the Security Council. Not holding back his criticism, he said the council no longer served the purposes for which it was established and reiterated his call for a ceasefire.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reponded to an interview France's President Macron gave to the BBC this evening, in which he urged Israel to stop killing women and babies in Gaza, and reiterated his call for a ceasefire in the war.
Netanyahu said that nations should condemn Hamas rather than Israel, claiming his military was trying to remove civilians from the conflict, while Hamas was using them as human shields.
"The crimes being committed today by Hamas-ISIS in Gaza will be committed tomorrow in Paris, New York and all over the world," he warned in a statement.
You can see a clip from Macron's interview below and read more from the interview here.
As we reported a little earlier, Israel's military is fighting near or at the four main hospitals in Gaza City.
Dr Mohammed Abu Salamiya, Al-Shifa hospital director, said he was hearing "shooting and bombardment everywhere around me in Shifa hospital".
"It's a horrible situation now," Dr Salamiya explained.
He said that some people "evacuated from Shifa because it is not a safe place to stay". But the hospital's staff, Dr Salamiya added, are "still there" and the healthcare facility continues to take in casualties.
BBC Verify has authenticated 10 videos from four hospital sites in Gaza, showing explosions or their consequences overnight.
At Al-Shifa hospital, across multiple social media clips, we can see a projectile flying, and people in courtyard tents reacting to the sound of an impact, the bloody aftermath, then daytime clips of distressed and injured people.
We know the location because the clips show the façade of the distinctive Specialist Surgery Building on the courtyard’s north side.
There are also videos from Al-Adwa and Indonesian Hospitals, 200m apart, in the north of Gaza City, showing explosions filmed from their courtyards.
Their layouts and buildings, the position of trees, are matches for satellite imagery of their grounds. We have also verified video of fires around Al-Rantisi Hospital.
We took frames from those videos in which we were most confident and reverse-searched them for copies from before last night, and found none.
Paul Adams
Reporting from Jerusalem
The Israeli's believe - and they have published what they say is evidence - that Hamas is operating in, near, or in the case of Al-Shifa hospital, underneath hospitals.
The Israelis agree that a hospital should be protected under international law, but say that if somebody attacks you from that hospital, it then becomes a legitimate military target (provided you still give advance warning that you plan to attack).
Given what the Israelis say about the way Hamas is using such places, it was always inevitable troops entering Gaza City would turn their attention towards some of these key hospitals.
I think they’re trying to force the remaining civilian population to leave the hospital compounds and move south, to give themselves more freedom to deal with Hamas.
The problem now is that the situation in Gaza is so chaotic, so dangerous, that I think people are afraid to leave. We saw what happened outside al-Nasser hospital, where a crowd waving white flags tried to leave but had to retreat into the compound as volleys of gunfire rang out.
The gun battles suggest that Israel and Hamas are exchanging fire right around those hospitals. In such volatile circumstances, it seems inevitable that more civilians will be caught up in the violence and that more of them will die.
Daniel Hagari, a spokesman for the Israeli military, has given an update on the situation regarding civilians moving from the north of the Gaza Strip as Israel continues its strikes.
He says more than 100,000 Palestinians in Gaza have moved from the north to the south of the Strip in the past two days.
Humanitarian corridors have been opened to allow people to flee the fighting, as Israel continues its campaign in Gaza.
Katya Adler & Toby Luckhurst
BBC News, Paris
Israel must stop killing babies and women in Gaza, French President Emmanuel Macron has told the BBC.
In an exclusive interview at the Élysée Palace, he said there was "no justification" for the bombing, saying a ceasefire would benefit Israel.
While recognising Israel's right to protect itself, "we do urge them to stop this bombing" in Gaza.
But he also stressed that France "clearly condemns" the "terrorist" actions of Hamas.
France - like Israel, the US, the UK, and other Western nations - considers Hamas a terrorist organisation.
When asked if he wanted other leaders - including in the US and the UK - to join his calls for a ceasefire, he replied: "I hope they will."
At Al-Nasr hospital in Gaza City, we have verified video posted today of children and adults, including an old man with a stick, waving white flags as they appear to try to leave.
Gunfire and possibly an explosion can be heard, and the people turn back through a gate toward the hospital.
We know it is from this hospital as it has a distinctive arch, under which the people were passing.
We can’t say where the gun shots came from, nor who fired them.
The video matches other footage of the same incident.
As with all videos verified today, reverse searches for frames from this one showed no older copies online – meaning it was posted today.
Rushdi Abualouf
Reporting from Khan Younis, Gaza
It is now evening here in Gaza and tension remains at the four main hospitals in Gaza City, with Israeli troops drawing close.
The unease is especially felt in the territory's largest hospital – Al-Shifa.
People inside say they can hear explosions and firing around the hospital and that Israeli tanks are about 100m (328ft) away.
I spoke to the director of the hospital, who says around 15,000 people remain there, including those who have fled from a nearby refugee camp that has been surrounded by Israeli tanks.
Those who remain at Al-Shifa are largely the elderly and sick, who cannot make the journey further south to where Israel has promised greater safety.
The hospital’s director says they are overwhelmed by the number of injured people and are having to treat people in corridors and on the floor.
Meanwhile, the fighting around Al-Quds hospital has also intensified tonight. We understand an Israeli navy ship was involved as well as tanks, which have surrounded the hospital.
More now from Daniel Hagari's earlier statement. He says the IDF is “extensively targeting” sites in northern Gaza that it believes are being held by the Lebanese Islamist group Hezbollah.
That’s in retaliation for what Hagari says was the infiltration of Israeli territory by three drones from Lebanon earlier on Friday.
Hagari says one was intercepted, while two fell in open ground.
“That is a threat on Israel and we are going to continue to retaliate with fire and target any terrorist who tries to enter Israeli territory,” he adds.
Israel has revised down the number of people killed during Hamas's 7 October attack to "about 1,200" from the earlier 1,400 figure.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Lior Haiat, said the revised number was because many bodies were not immediately identified after the attack, and "now we think those belong to terrorists... not Israeli casualties".
Daniel Hagari, spokesman for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), has giving an update on developments in the war and says various efforts are underway to secure the release of hostages in Gaza.
Speaking earlier at a news conference, he describes these processes as “complex” and adds that they are not finished yet.
“We are not going to miss even one opportunity to bring hostages home,” Hagari says.
He is cautioning people to only listen to official reports regarding the release of the more than 200 people thought to still be held in Gaza.
We've been reporting that IDF forces have been fighting close to Gaza hospitals following reports of explosions inside or near them.
Now the Palestinian Red Crescent says that electricity, internet and water have been cut off at the Indonesian Hospital, in Gaza City.
Nebal Farsakh, a spokesperson for the Palestine Red Crescent, says that surgeons and doctors are having to use torches to be able to do life saving treatments due to the power being cut.
“They will work under circumstances that no medical person in the whole world can even work under in normal circumstances,” she told BBC News this evening.
She also warned that all services inside the hospital will be “shut down” in a few hours as their resources will soon run out.
Welcome to our live coverage, as we continue to report on the latest developments in the ongoing Israel-Gaza war.
At Al-Rantisi Specialist Hospital, where we verified a video showing fires overnight, we have seen claims people are “besieged” inside.
BBC Verify have authenticated daytime video of burning wreckage at the hospital. We can see the hospital sign in the video, and the layout of the roads and car park matches satellite imagery.
We have also verified video of two tanks along roads immediately north of the hospital. We know this because we can see the same elements from the overnight video: A car park, one-storey building, lamppost and tree, and the position of non-hospital buildings and roads, all matching satellite imagery.
Further, a video of a woman appealing for the world to help has been verified as inside the hospital today.
She claims the hospital is “besieged” by tanks and full of people told to evacuate. We know it is Al-Rantisi from interior railings, walls, tiles and windows.
The Israeli military says that 242 people are being held hostage by Hamas following the deadly 7 October attack in southern Israel.
Four hostages have now been released and another was freed by Israeli forces. Ori Megidish, an Israeli solider, was freed during ground operations in Gaza on 29 October. Two women, Nurit Cooper and Yocheved Lifschitz, were freed on Monday 24 October. On Friday 20 October, two US hostages - a mother and daughter - were also freed.
Twin brothers Gali and Ziv Berman, 26, were taken from Kfar Azar kibbutz. Ziv was messaging a friend as the attack happened, Their family said the IDF has told them the brothers are being held in Gaza. Their brother Liran told CBN news the pair had "twin power" and were the centre of attention wherever they went.
Noa Marciano, 19, was on the phone to her mother Adi on 7 October during the attack. A week later, Adi told reporters, Hamas released an image of Noa in handcuffs.
The BBC has been compiling a list of who we know was kidnapped and you can read it in full here.
Yolande Knell
Middle East correspondent reporting from Tel Aviv
Today’s talks in Cairo between the emir of Qatar and the Egyptian president were keenly watched here, in what is now known as Hostage Plaza outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
At dusk, at an emotionally charged event to mark the start of the Jewish Sabbath, women light candles. As has become the custom here, a long table is set up for the traditional Sabbath meal with places for all 239 people being held hostage in Gaza.
“This is the fifth Friday without my son, it’s really the only day when we usually gather together and have a nice dinner,” says Malki Shem-Tov, whose 21-year-old son, Omer was snatched by Hamas gunmen from the Nova party.
“I hear all the news and I hear about the Qataris and the Egyptians,” Malki goes on.
“But then everybody told us until it’s something official, it’s better not to have any opinion. It’s very difficult because every small news is a light.”
Eyal Nouri is carrying signs which show his aunt, Adina Moshe, who is 72. She was filmed on 7 October being driven into Gaza on the back of a motorcycle from her home in Nir Oz. Her husband was shot dead in their safe room although her son and his family survived.
“No children, no babies, no older women are meant to be part of any conflict,” Eyal says.
But he insists Israel must strike a comprehensive deal to free the hostages even if it involves a mass exchange for Palestinians imprisoned in Israel.
He tells me: “We should release everybody, not a partial release. We just want our loved ones. We will support any deal.”
We're now hearing from Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Richard Hecht, who says the military does not fire on hospitals - but "we’ll do what we need to" if Hamas are firing from hospital grounds.
"If we see Hamas terrorists firing from hospitals we’ll do what we need to do," he said at a briefing today, adding:
Quote MessageWe’re aware of the sensitivity. If we see Hamas terrorists - we’ll kill them.
Quote MessageWe’re not dropping bombs right now on Shifa or Rantisi."
It comes after fighting was reported at or near several hospitals north of the Gaza Strip today, with footage showing tanks firing near a children's hospital, Al-Rantisi, which Hecht mentions.
Israel has confirmed its military is operating close to Al-Shifa.
When asked if there was a plan to deal with patients in the hospitals, including people who can’t walk or are on drips, Hecht said: “We’re saying to Hamas to move people south."