The first images of Gaza - as it was this morning - are starting to be published by the various news agencies on the ground.

Giant craters, structural damage and people searching through rubble are some of the scenes being captured.

Here's a small selection of what we can see.

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Yolande Knell
Middle East correspondent, in Jerusalem

This morning Israeli forces are reported to be surrounding Al-Shifa hospital in the heart of Gaza City.

There have been graphic daytime videos circulating on social media in the past hour that show what appear to be dead children and scenes of panic outside the outpatients’ clinic.

In earlier night-time videos, from different angles, you hear what appears to be the whizz of a missile or mortar hitting in the hospital courtyard.

In one video, a man appears to have been hit. Another shows a body on a stretcher with a pool of blood next to it. We cannot independently verify these.

The source of the projectile is unclear. I have asked the Israeli military if it carried out any strikes at the hospital overnight. The press desk says it is checking.

Many thousands of people have been sheltering at the hospital along with some local journalists. In an earlier statement, the Israeli army said infantry and special forces backed up with air support had raided the military quarters of Hamas near to Al-Shifa Hospital.

There are reports of intense battles having taken place with Hamas fighters nearby.

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Turkey discussed increasing the daily number of aid trucks to Gaza to at least 500 with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during his visit to Ankara, President Tayyip Erdogan says.

Erdogan told Reuters news agency that Blinken took a positive approach to the proposal.

Turkey has pledged to provide ambulances, food, water and medication in cooperation with other countries.

It's also offered to take injured Palestinians and patients with chronic illnesses to Turkish hospitals for treatment.

Its past 9:00 am in Israel and Gaza now, and here is what happened so far if you're just joining us now:

• We are expecting the four-hour military pauses, which the US says that Israel will begin to implement in areas of northern Gaza, to start to allow civilians to flee. There is no specific time given for it yet
• Palestinians were seen walking through the streets of Gaza City this morning, some carrying white flags, to flee south

• The Indonesian Hospital in Gaza suffered some damage after a nearby rocket strike, and the hospital says it might stop operating by Friday as it has nearly run out of fuel
• Israel's army struck a group in Syria which it said was behind Thursday's drone crash into a school in Eilat in southern Israel
• Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his country is not seeking to conquer, occupy or govern the Gaza strip after the war with Hamas ends
• The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says at least 10,812 people, including 4,412 children, have now been killed since the Israel began its air strikes on the Strip

Renana Jacob's two sons - Yagel, 12, and Or, 16 - were kidnapped by Hamas in their kibbutz in southern Israel on 7 October and she's been speaking to the BBC about their last phone call one month ago.

"The last thing I heard my youngest boy saying to me a month ago… he was begging for them not to take him. He said 'I'm too young. Please don't take me. I'm too young'.

"But they took him."

Along with Batshema Yahalomi and Hadas Kalderon - whose children have also been kidnapped by Hamas - Renana travelled from Israel to the UK to raise awareness about the hostage issue, conducting media interviews and meeting with the Qatari ambassador to the UK.

Qatar is acting as a mediator between Israel and Hamas - a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK - to try and free the hostages.

She said the ambassador has "given us the impression that Qatar is doing whatever they can to help, and I do believe him".

Read more here.

We reported earlier about the Indonesian Hospital suffering some damages after it was hit by a nearby strike.

Now its administrators are saying it could be forced to stop operating by Friday as it has nearly run out of fuel.

"Indonesian hospitals will completely stop operating tomorrow [November 10], if there is no diesel to power generators as a source of electricity," said Dr Atef Kahlout, the head of the hospital, in a video message broadcast by the MER-C group.

The Indonesian Hospital in Gaza suffered some damage after a nearby rocket strike, an Indonesian foreign ministry spokesman said on Friday.

He noted that the target of the attack was the Taliza'tar area, which is located "very close" to the hospital.

Lalu Muhammad Iqbal said three Indonesian volunteers were in the basement when the attack occured - but added that they did not suffer from any injuries.

"Indonesia once again condemns the barbaric attacks on citizens and civilian objects, especially humanitarian facilities in Gaza," the spokesman added.

Sarbini Abdul Murad of the Medical Emergency Rescue Committee (MER-C), which runs the hospital, told Indonesian outlet Republika: “Last night's attack was very close to the Indonesian Hospital, but not a direct attack on the main building."

The Indonesian Hospital in Gaza was built to serve the medical needs of Palestinians in the enclave, according to Indonesia's foreign ministry.

But there has been some controversy around it, with the Israeli military claiming that the hospital was used as a cover to shield Hamas' underground operations - which has been strongly denied by the Indonesian government.

Police in Canada's second largest city say two Jewish schools were hit by gunfire on Thursday.

Teachers turned up to the school grounds in Cote-des-Neiges to find the front door struck by bullets. No one was injured.

But the incident comes on the tail of a firebombing attack at a Montreal synagogue earlier this week, and clashes between pro-Palestine and pro-Israel groups at the city's Concordia University.

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau has called for a de-escalation of tensions nationally.

"I know emotions are high, and people are scared. But attacking each other is not who we are as Canadians," he said during a visit to Montreal.

Joe Inwood
Reporting from Bethlehem and Efrat

The events of 7 October, as well as Israel's military response, have soured relations between Jewish settlers and their Arab neighbours in the West Bank.

One Palestinian man near Bethlehem told me how he had lost his livelihood, after being banned from accessing his workplace in Israel.

"They have closed roads. I can only walk around my home now. These checkpoints are suffocating us," Ahmed says.

The same increased security that Ahmed criticises has made people like Danny Chesterman feel safer. A cheerful man who used to run bike tours, he lives in the settlement of Efrat. He moved to Israel decades ago.

"I hope and I believe that the relations with our immediate neighbours here in the Arab villages will continue to be good," he told me. "Having said that, obviously there are security concerns."

The fact that Hamas attackers reportedly had help from Gazans who worked with Israelis has fundamentally altered the way Danny, along with much of Israeli society, seem to think about their Arab neighbours.

In Arab villages back across the valley, there are very different catalysts for mistrust. In the last month, the Israel Defence Forces have arrested more than 1,400 Palestinians.

Just on the day we are filming, the Palestinian Authority says 18 people were killed in the West Bank, taking the total to 170 in just over a month.

Read more of the report from on the ground in the West Bank.

Israel's army has said that it has struck an organisation in Syria which it said was behind Thursday's drone crash into a school in southern Israel.

The drone hit an elementary school and did not cause any injuries.

"In response to a UAV (drone) from Syria that hit a school in Eilat, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) struck the organisation that carried out the attack," the military has said on X,, external formerly known as Twitter.

The IDF did not identify the group, but said it "holds the Syrian regime fully responsible for every terror activity emanating from its territory."

Syria has not yet responded to Israel's statement.

This evening, the Pentagon shared an update on the latest attacks to American troops in the Middle East.

It said that since 17 October, US and coalition forces were attacked "at least 46 times", including 24 times in Iraq and 22 times in Syria "by a mix of one way attack drones and rockets."

A total of 56 people have been injured in these attacks, the Pentagon added.

Yvette Tan
Live editor

Welcome back to our coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict. It's just past 06:30 in Israel and Gaza - here's more on what's happened over the past few hours.

• The US says that Israel will begin to implement four-hour military pauses in areas of northern Gaza each day to allow civilians to flee
• The pauses are a "step in the right direction", US President Joe Biden has said, adding that there will be two humanitarian corridors in Gaza allowing people to escape the hostilities
• Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his country is not seeking to conquer, occupy or govern the Gaza strip after the war with Hamas ends
• Speaking to US outlet Fox News, he said a "credible force" would be needed to enter the enclave if necessary to prevent the emergence of militant threats
• The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says at least 10,812 people, including 4,412 children, have now been killed in the enclave since Israel began its air strikes. The strikes began in retaliation to the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October, which killed 1,400 people and 240 others were taken hostage

Stay with us as we bring you the latest updates through the day.

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Israel’s prime minister says the country is not seeking to conquer, occupy or govern the Gaza Strip after its war with Hamas ends.

Benjamin Netanyahu told US television outlet Fox News that a “credible force” would be needed to enter the enclave if necessary to prevent the emergence of militant threats.

"We don't seek to conquer Gaza, we don't seek to occupy Gaza, and we don't seek to govern Gaza,” he said, adding that a civilian government would be required, but that Israel would also need to ensure that an attack like that of 7 October, in which Hamas killed about 1,400 people, doesn’t happen again.

"So, we have to have a credible force that, if necessary, will enter Gaza and kill the killers. Because that's what will prevent the re-emergence of a Hamas-like entity,” he said.

Netanyahu’s comments earlier this week had suggested Israel would be responsible for security in Gaza, drawing a critical response from the US.

Nathan Williams
Live reporter

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We're pausing our live coverage for the next few hours, so until then, here's a quick recap on where things stand in the conflict.

US President Joe Biden says Israel's agreement to observe a daily, four-hour pause in its bombardment of northern Gaza to allow civilians to flee is a step in the right direction.

The US will continue to talk to Israel about the length and frequency of such military pauses, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby tells the BBC. He also says any future release of hostages held in Gaza would require a longer pause in the fighting to ensure their safe passage.

This comes as the world saw the first glimpse of Israeli hostages for around 10 days, after the second largest armed faction in Gaza, Islamic Jihad, released a video showing two hostages.

One, Hanna Katsir, a woman in her 70s, is pictured sitting in a wheelchair. She was taken from kibbutz Nir Oz on 7 October. The other is a young boy.

Negotiations about the fate of the around 240 hostages in Gaza are intense and have been going on for weeks, and the prospect about some kind of deal to release them has moved in and out of focus, the BBC's Paul Adams says.

The publication of the hostage video comes as Israel’s military is involved in heavy fighting in the centre of Gaza City, with its troops battling Hamas in an area close to two major hospitals – Al Shifa and Al Quds. One man told the BBC he had fled under a "barrage of bullets".

There have also been clashes in the West Bank, with 14 Palestinians reported killed in an Israeli raid on the Jenin refugee camp, according to the Palestinian health ministry. It's one of deadliest incidents of its kind in Jenin, which has been raided by Israel several times.

Earlier on Thursday, Israeli forces again opened the main road out of Gaza City for several hours to allow civilians to move south, away from the heaviest fighting. Thousands have done so, mostly on foot.

Abdelhakim Awad studied software engineering and graduated months before the war.

The 23-year-old recounts to BBC World Service how his life has changed in Gaza City since Israel began its military operation, following the 7 October Hamas attacks.

At home when planes pass over head Abdelhakim says he counts to three or four "to see if the rocket is landing on our house".

You can watch Abdelhakim in Gaza Diaries on BBC iPlayer (UK ony), where five people use their phones to document their struggle to survive the war.

We've heard from Juliette Touma, director of communications at the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), who says the situation in Gaza is getting increasingly worse.

UNRWA is now helping more than 700,000 people in 150 of its shelters, she tells our TV colleagues on the BBC News channel. Colleagues of Touma's are also continuing to be killed, she says, noting that figure is up to 99.

"We do not have the supplies, and we have the same issue with fuel shortages," she says, adding that children are asking UN officials visiting Gaza for a piece of bread or a sip of their water.

Asked if Israel, then, is wrong to suggest there's no humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Touma says this "is not the time for tit for tat" and that she is partaking in the interview to relay "the facts".

To provide more assistance, she says, Unrwa needs two things: fuel and a humanitarian ceasefire.

No fuel has been allowed into Gaza since the Hamas attacks on 7 October. Israel says there is enough in the territory, accusing Hamas of hoarding it. The US says the UN has been able to access some reserves, but the UN has continued to say more fuel is desperately needed, external.

Gary O'Donoghue
Reporting from Washington

The Pentagon has confirmed that Houthi rebels shot down a US drone on Wednesday off the coast of Yemen.

It's not the first MQ9 Reaper - a surveillance drone that can also carry missiles - to be shot down by the Houthis.

The attack is the latest in a series on US assets and personnel in the region, where the Pentagon says Iranian-backed groups are seeking to take advantage of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.

Last night, the US used two F-15 fighter bombers to attack what it described as an ammunition depot inside Syria, rendering it "unusable". It's the second such strike by the US since the Israel-Hamas conflict erupted on 7 October.

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US President Joe Biden says Israel's decision to implement pauses in fighting comes after he has been speaking to the country's leadership about the issue for weeks.

Writing on X (formerly Twitter), external, he says that from Thursday, there will be two humanitarian corridors in Gaza allowing people to escape the hostilities.

Biden also says that while the number of aid trucks getting supplies into the Strip via Egypt’s Rafah border is increasing, the US is aiming for at least 150 trucks a day.

On Wednesday, that number was 106.

The President describes the humanitarian pauses, which are now to include daily four-hour breaks in the fighting, as a "step in the right direction".

"You have my word: I will continue to advocate for civilian safety and focus on increasing aid to alleviate the suffering of the people of Gaza."

Image source, Nour Swirki

Nour Swirki is a journalist who had to leave her home in Gaza City with her husband, mother, sister and two children.

She sent the BBC's Women's Hour a voice note in which she talks about what her family is going through.

We transcribed her message:

You can listen to the whole interview with Nour on Thursday's Women's Hourhere.

Every day during this conflict, we receive hundreds of images from news agency photographers working in Gaza.

Some of them are too graphic or upsetting for us to publish here, including badly injured children being carried into hospitals and parents holding small bundles wrapped in shrouds - sometimes with the faces visible.

We want to reflect the gravity of this conflict, and its toll on civilians, while being sensitive about what you, the audience, are exposed to.

Here are some images taken in Gaza today.

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