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It's 02:45 in Israel and Gaza, and 00:45 here in London this Saturday. We've been watching a live video feed being streamed from outside a hospital emergency department in the Gazan city of Khan Younis. There are few people about right now but you can constantly hear Israeli drones or other aircraft flying out of sight.

For much of Friday, we focused on the UN Security Council vote in New York - but there were other developments in Israel and Gaza too.

The UN has warned that Gaza is facing famine if fighting continues, while an investigation by BBC Verify found that false claims of staged deaths have surged in Israel-Gaza war. Meanwhile, Hamas says no more hostages will be released until the war ends.

You can find all our coverage of the Israel-Gaza war right on this page.

Rays of hope are rare among the gloom right now but do watch our report about one Israeli-Palestinian rap duo who have both been affected by the war but continue to believe in the path of peace.

Huge protests have taken place today in Sana'a, the rebel-held capital of Yemen, in solidarity with people in the Gaza Strip.

Sana'a is controlled by the Houthis, an Iranian-backed group that controls a large part of Yemen and which has declared support for Hamas.

Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war on 7 October, Houthis have launched drone and rocket attacks against cargo ships in the Red Sea, saying they are targeting those travelling to Israel.

This has led to many of the world’s biggest shipping companies announcing they will avoid the area, and the US launching an international naval operation to protect ships.

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Unicef has warned that at least 10,000 children in Gaza face life-threatening forms of malnutrition in the coming weeks amid "catastrophic" conditions.

The statement comes one day after the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) warned that one in four households in Gaza face acute food insecurity, the highest level of warning.

“These entirely manmade, foreseeable, and preventable catastrophic conditions mean that children and families in the Gaza Strip are now facing violence from the air, and deprivation from the ground - with potentially the worst yet to come," Unicef said.

According to Unicef estimates, about 10,000 children under the age of five will face severe wasting - the most dangerous form of malnutrition - and will need therapeutic foods.

"We are also particularly concerned about the nutrition of over 155,000 pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers, as well as for over 135,000 children under two, given their specific nutrition needs, which are compounded by stress and trauma," the statement added.

Here's a look at some of the most striking images to come out of both Israel and Gaza on Friday:

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US President Joe Biden has put out a statement saying he was "heartbroken" to hear of the death of dual US-Israeli citizen Gad Haggai.

The whereabouts of 73-year-old Haggai were unknown after the 7 October attack by Hamas on his kibbutz, but he is "now believed to have been killed by Hamas" that day, Biden said.

Biden said he continues to pray for the well-being and safe return of Gad's wife Judy, who is thought to have been taken hostage by Hamas.

In his statement, Biden also said the "harrowing ordeal" that families of hostages are going through is "intolerable".

"I reaffirm the pledge we have made to all the families of those still held hostage: we will not stop working to bring them home".

Read our full story on Gad Haggai here.

Here's a quick recap of today’s UN's Security Council meeting in New York.

The Council approved a resolution demanding large scale aid deliveries to Gaza to resume after days of negotiations to avoid another US veto - yet it stops short of calling for an immediate truce.

Instead, it urges the creation of conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities.

Thirteen council members voted in favour; the United States and Russia abstained - albeit for different reasons.

The UAE - which sponsored the resolution - acknowledged it wasn't perfect but said it was vital to avert famine in Gaza – something aid agencies have warned of.

Reaction has been coming in from all sides involved in the conflict - and the resolution seems to have pleased nobody fully.

Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador, said the resolution was a step in the right direction but reiterated calls for an immediate ceasefire.

Hamas called the resolution an "insufficient step" for meeting the needs of Gaza and said the US had "worked hard to empty this resolution of its essence".

Israel's ambassador to the UN criticised the Security Council resolution, saying its focus on aid is "unnecessary and disconnected from reality.

And UN secretary general Antonio Guterres said the way Israel was conducting its military offensive was the main obstacle to aid distribution inside Gaza.

IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari has given his reaction to the UN resolution adopted by the Security Council earlier today.

Hagari noted that the resolution includes a demand for the "unconditional immediate release of the hostages held by Hamas and to allow humanitarian access to address their medical needs".

"We call on the international community and international organisations to enforce this resolution," Hagari said in a statement.

A UN humanitarian official says people in Gaza need an "end to this war", which "unfortunately is not what has come out of the Security Council today".

Speaking to the BBC News channel from Rafah, Gemma Connell from the UN's Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs (OCHA), says they welcome the effort to expand the aid effort in south Gaza.

But she says unfortunately that is also not what relief workers need, instead calling for a "massive volume" of private sector goods to flow into Gaza as well as humanitarian aid - in order to "reverse the desperation and devastation that I see here every day".

Connell says she visited al-Ahli hospital Gaza City and instead of seeing the chaos and "carnage that you see on the news", people are instead "waiting to die because they cannot any longer be treated" at the facility.

She tells the story of meeting 10-year-old girl whose entire family had been killed by a bombing, then had to have her leg amputated for a second time after contracting an infection at the hospital.

A former US State Department official, who quit the government over the US policy on the war in Gaza, says the UN resolution will be a source of "relief" for Secretary of State Antony Blinken and UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield.

"But it won't be a relief for the Palestinian people," Josh Paul adds, saying the agreement does not provide much in the way of help for them.

"The great success here was that the US didn't block it, not that the US supported this resolution that doesn't even call for a ceasefire," the former official tells the BBC News channel.

Asked why he thought the US position had changed from vetoing a previous resolution to abstaining today, he says the US is "increasingly isolated on the world stage" and was trying get to a position of avoiding having to block the resolution.

Paul accuses the US government of making a decision to "tether itself to Benjamin Netanyahu and let him drive us all off the cliff", adding the result has been a "disaster for US foreign policy" - particularly in terms of its relationships with countries in the Middle East.

The head of the World Health Organisation has also issued dire warnings about the risk of insufficient food in Gaza, warning "famine is looming" in the Strip.

In a post on social media, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says people there are "facing starvation and selling their possessions in exchange for food", adding that parents are going hungry to feed their children.

He says the situation is "catastrophic to the health of people across the Strip", explaining that four in five households remaining in northern Gaza - as well as half of the displaced households in the south - are going "entire days and nights without eating".

The WHO is not the only global body issuing dire warnings about the growing risk of famine, the UN's World Food Programme has warned nearly all of Gaza's 2.2 million people are dealing with acute food shortages.

Hamas has criticised the UN Security Council resolution as an "insufficient step" to meet the humanitarian needs of people in Gaza.

In a statement released a little while ago, the group - which is banned as a terrorist organisation in the UK, US and EU - also called it a "weak formula" and accused the US of working hard to "empty this resolution of its essence".

"[The resolution] defies the will of the international community and the United Nations General Assembly in stopping Israel's aggression against our defenceless Palestinian people," the statement says.

The US ambassador to the UN appeared to be a little too fast with her vote on the humanitarian aid resolution that was just passed by the security council.

When members were asked if they were voting in favour, Linda Thomas-Greenfield immediately raised her hand into the air. Moments later she pulled it down.

Then her hand was back in the air when members were asked who would abstain.

The US officially abstained from voting, along with Russia.

The 13 other members voted in favour of the resolution.

UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron has released a statement welcoming the adoption of the resolution as "good news".

He says the government is "doing everything it can to get more aid in", having consistently argued for more aid and called on Israel to open more border crossings"

"People across Gaza urgently need food, medicine and shelter," the former British prime minister says.

He also praise the resolution for demanding the "immediate and unconditional release of hostages", as well as calling for "steps towards a sustainable ceasefire".

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Now the UN Security Council has approved the motion calling for more aid to get into Gaza, let's take a look at the situation with humanitarian relief on the ground.

Aid agencies and charities are warning that the amount of vital supplies getting in to the Strip is too low, with around 1.9 million people in Gaza - 85% of the population - internally displaced by Israeli air strikes and ground fighting.

The UN's World Food Programme has warned that Gaza is at risk of famine if the war continues, calling for an immediate ceasefire and a resumption of commercial food deliveries to address shortages.

Israel has limited the amount and speed of aid and other supplies getting into Gaza since 7 October, saying it needs to check everything entering the territory.

Ongoing fuel shortages have led to severe difficulties getting aid to people, while the destruction of infrastructure and ongoing battles in many areas have also caused significant problems with distributing what has got in.

The UK-based charity Action Aid, which specialises in aid focused on women and girls, says Gaza's "spiralling food crisis" has left tens of thousands of pregnant women "desperately hungry, while mothers are so malnourished they are unable to breastfeed their newborn babies".

Away from food insecurity, Medical charity Doctors without Borders (MSF), says treating war-wounded in Gaza is made much harder by Israel's "complete siege", as accessing enough drugs and medical equipment vital for life-saving surgery is impossible.

Russia has again criticised the draft resolution, accusing the US of playing an “underhanded game” by not doing more to restrain Israeli operations in Gaza.

Ambassador Vasily Alekseyevich Nebenzya said that the resolution is, in Russia’s view, a “licence for Israel to kill Palestinian civilians in Gaza.”

“This is a tragic moment for the council…one of unprincipled blackmail,” he added.

Nebenzya said Russia would have vetoed the resolution if it “weren’t supported by a number of Arab states.”

Israel's ambassador to the UN has criticised the Security Council resolution, saying it's focus on aid is "unnecessary and disconnected from reality".

"Israel is already allowing aid deliveries at the required scale," Ambassador Gilad Erdan said. "The UN should have focused on the humanitarian crisis of the hostages".

According to Israeli government statistics cited by Reuters, 129 hostages remain in Gaza, including 22 who are dead. About 240 hostages were taken during the initial Hamas raid into southern Israel on 7 October.

In his remarks, Erdan also thanks the US for its support for Israel over the course of several days of negotiations ahead of the resolution, which allows Israel to continue inspecting aid entering Gaza.

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After the Security Council vote, we heard from Palestinian Ambassador to the UN, Riyad Mansour.

Mansour brought up the dire situation in Gaza, telling the council more than 20,000 Palestinians have so far been killed in the war.

“No one should forgot that what we are talking about is 2.3m Palestinians who have been fighting for their life and facing death,” he says.

Mansour called for an immediate end to the “carnage”.

The Security Council meeting has now officially adjourned.

Stay with us for the latest updates and analysis.

After days of tense diplomatic negotiations, the United Nations Security Council has finally agreed to a resolution to get more aid into Gaza.

The text calls for "safe and unhindered delivery of humanitarian assistance at scale".

To get that aid in as fast as possible, the resolution also calls for the creation of "conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities". But it does not call for a ceasefire.

The resolution calls for all parties to facilitate the use of routes across the Gaza Strip, including border crossings, “for the provision of humanitarian assistance".

It also mentions the creation of a UN humanitarian coordinator role to oversee aid into Gaza. Israel will still be involved in this process.

After the vote, UN chief Antonio Guterres said the “real problem” for UN aid efforts has been Israel’s offensive, which he says has created “massive obstacles”.

“A humanitarian ceasefire is the only way to begin to meet the desperate needs of people in Gaza and end their ongoing nightmare,” he added.

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After days of delays – the vote finally happened and the resolution passed. Thirteen members voted in favour – including the UK.

The US and Russia abstained rather than use their vetos to block action.

The text had been watered down to get Washington onboard, removing a call for an urgent and sustainable cessation of hostilities – and instead calling for creating conditions for one.

Russia objected to the change– saying the council would essentially be giving Israel complete freedom of movement for further clearing of the Gaza Strip. Moscow introduced an amendment to revert to the initial wording. But the US blocked that effort.

The UAE’s Ambassador Lana Nusseibeh defended the resolution, despite acknowledging it wasn't perfect.

The resolution also creates a coordinator to oversee a UN mechanism that will be set up with the goal of speeding up and streamlining the distribution of aid.

Washington initially feared that would take away Israel’s control of the screening process – but the resolution made clear it would be in consultation with all relevant parties.

The US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas Greenfield explained why the US still abstained.

“Ultimately, while we are encouraged that the Council spoke out on this humanitarian crisis, we're deeply disappointed - appalled, actually - that once again, the Council was not able to condemn Hamas’ horrific terrorist attack on October 7.”

Several members noted that ultimately – the true test of the resolution will be its implementation on the ground – and whether it does alleviate the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza that gets more desperate by the day.

More from UN chief António Guterres now, who says the "real problem" for aid delivery to Gaza is Israel's offensive.

He says the attacks are creating "massive obstacles to the distribution of humanitarian aid inside Gaza".

"A humanitarian ceasefire is the only way to begin to meet the desperate needs of people in Gaza and end their ongoing nightmare," Guterres adds.