Israeli air strikes continue to target parts of Gaza, according to medical sources.

In northern Gaza, three civilians were killed in a separate strike that targeted a gathering of residents in the Al-Atatra area north of Beit Lahia.

In the same locality, two Palestinians were killed in an early morning strike on a group of civilians.

Gaza's civil defence agency has said a pre-dawn Israeli air strike killed 10 members of the same family, including seven children, in the southern city of Khan Younis.

"Ten people, including seven children, were brought to the hospital as martyrs following an Israeli air strike that targeted the Farra family home in central Khan Younis," agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal told AFP.

2,000 members of Israeli higher education institutions, 100 military doctors, and hundreds of reservists join a petition calling for a halt to Israel’s war on Gaza, according to Israeli media reports.

Israeli medical workers have signed a petition demanding accountability for Israel’s massacre of 15 aid workers in an air strike on Rafah in southern Gaza last month, calling on the government to investigate and take responsibility.

The move marks a rare but significant stand from within the medical community in Israel, highlighting growing unease over the conduct of military offensives and their humanitarian consequences.

Ahmed Manasra’s release has sparked renewed outrage over Israel’s treatment of Palestinian minors.

Manasra, a Palestinian who was arrested by Israeli forces at age 13, was released Thursday after spending nearly a decade in Israeli prisons.

He was accused of attempting to carry out a stabbing in the Pisgat Ze’ev settlement in 2015, during which his 15-year-old cousin was shot and killed by Israeli police.

His lawyer Khaled Zabarqa said Israeli authorities released him secretly in a remote area to prevent his family from receiving him.

World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Ghebreyesus has demanded the "urgent lifting" of Israel’s aid blockade and the protection of healthcare and humanitarian access, warning that the siege increases the risk of disease and death.

He said 75 percent of UN missions in Gaza last week were denied or impeded.

"Yesterday, WHO and our partners evacuated 18 patients and 29 companions to Norway, Malta, Luxembourg, and Romania," he said, adding that more than 10,000 patients in Gaza still await evacuation.

Touching on how the already dire situation in Gaza has become crippling, Tedros stressed that the UN agency took advantage of a ceasefire to resupply the health system and warehouses, but after six weeks of a blockade, supplies are "dangerously low" and will run out in two to four weeks unless the siege is lifted.

Twelve protesters were charged with felony vandalism for a June 2024 pro-Palestinian protest at Stanford University in which demonstrators barricaded themselves inside the office of the school president.

Those charged, ranging in age from 19 to 32, entered the building and demonstrated a "conspiracy to occupy" it, prosecutors said, and chanted, "Palestine will be free."

At the time, the university said 13 people were arrested.

Protesters renamed the building "Dr Adnan's Office" in honour of Adnan Al-Bursh, a Palestinian doctor who died in an Israeli prison after months of detention.

The Israeli military has tested an Australian-designed weapon system ahead of a potential purchase despite Canberra’s repeated denial that it is sending weapons to Israel, local media reported.

According to ABC News, Israel has completed trials of a remote weapon system designed by Canberra-based defence supplier Electro Optic Systems (EOS).

Australia-made components were first sent to an EOS entity in the US for assembly and then sent to Israel without an Australian export approval, it said.

The remote weapon system was one of dozens of counter-drone technologies tested by the Israeli army earlier this year, according to the report.

However, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said that his country would not sell arms to Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has discussed a new Egyptian proposal for a prisoner exchange with the Palestinian resistance group Hamas during a briefing session that included Israel’s negotiation team and heads of security agencies, Israeli media reported.

Channel 12 said that Netanyahu held a review session regarding the Israeli hostages in Gaza without providing further details.

According to the channel’s sources, the Egyptian proposal includes “the release of eight living Israeli hostages in exchange for a 50-day ceasefire”.

Channel 12 also said the proposal includes proceeding to discussions for the second phase of the deal after the eight hostages are released.

Israeli officials told the channel that “the chances of reaching an agreement are increasing.”

The report added that families of the hostages, who recently met with unidentified American officials, are feeling “optimistic about the possibility of a breakthrough in the coming days.”

Israel has bombed home of Al-Farra family in Sheikh Nasser area of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, leaving at least eight Palestinians dead and several wounded, reports said.

Children are believed to be among the casualties.

Meanwhile, search operations are under way to locate the missing Palestinians under the rubble of a home destroyed by Israeli warplanes in al Shujaiya neighbourhood, local media reported.