Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 50,944
Israel forces evacuation of new areas in southern Gaza
IFRC head calls for end to attacks on humanitarian workers
Israel announces siege of Rafah in southern Gaza
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The Palestinian government in besieged Gaza condemned an Israeli air strike on the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City.
The Gaza Media Office said Israel committed another horrific crime by bombing the hospital, which housed hundreds of patients, the wounded and medical staff.
Tens of thousands of Bangladeshis gathered in the capital for the "March for Gaza" rally to demand action from the UN and Muslim-majority countries to stop Israel's genocide in besieged Gaza.
Participants urged the government to restore a former passport clause that bars travel to Israel that was removed in 2021 by the Sheikh Hasina administration despite public backlash.
Hamas announced that a delegation, headed by senior official Khalil Al-Hayya, departed for Cairo to meet Egyptian and Qatari mediators as part of efforts to reach an agreement and end the Israeli onslaught against besieged Gaza.
"There will be meetings and follow-ups with our brothers, the mediators from Qatar and Egypt, as part of ongoing efforts aimed at reaching an agreement and stopping the Zionist aggression against our people," the Palestine resistance group said on Telegram.
Turkish deputy foreign minister Nuh Yilmaz stressed that Israel is acting as a "strategic destabiliser" in the region and is benefiting from the situation.
"In order to see better relations or normalisation with Israel, we need to witness an end to the genocide in Gaza and the establishment of a ceasefire," Nuh Yilmaz noted.
At least five Palestinians were killed and several wounded following Israeli air strikes targeting besieged Gaza.
The Israeli army expanded its ground invasion in Gaza City to include neighbourhoods in the eastern part of the city.
"The forces are expanding ground operations to the al-Daraj and al-Tuffah neighbourhoods" in Gaza City, the military said in a statement.
Israeli forces "began operating in these two neighbourhoods last night with the aim of deepening operational control in the area and expanding the defensive security zone," it said.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has warned that all essential supplies in Gaza are nearly depleted, WAFA news agency reported.
Director of Communications Juliette Touma urged immediate action to prevent the worsening humanitarian crisis and accused Israel of exhausting food stocks with its blockade on the enclave.
Over 60,000 children aged five and under in besieged Gaza are facing malnutrition, according to the UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process.
Speaking to Anadolu Agency at Türkiye's Antalya Diplomacy Forum (ADF), Sigrid Kaag said the humanitarian aid sent to the region through the UN during the January 19 ceasefire reached those in need without any problems, but that since March 2, "aid has not been allowed in."
Kaag also said the equipment needed by aid workers in the region to do their work is insufficient, and the fuel needed to run hospitals has run out, adding that there were also disruptions in the distribution of humanitarian aid due to insufficient fuel and equipment.