Israel has dropped 100,000 tons of explosives on Gaza since launching its genocide 19 months ago, killing or leaving missing over 62,000 Palestinians and committing more than 12,000 massacres, the Gaza government media office said.

Israel carried out over 12,000 massacres, including 11,926 against Palestinian household members, completely erasing 2,200 families and 6,350 people from civil registries, it stated.

The campaign also targeted cemeteries, with Israeli forces stealing 2,300 bodies from Gaza graves and establishing seven mass graves inside hospitals, 529 of whom have been recovered so far.

Regarding the health crisis, the office reported over 2.1 million cases of infectious diseases caused by forced displacement and the collapse of Gaza's health infrastructure, including 71,338 cases of hepatitis.

The UN firmly opposed once again Israel's reported aid delivery control plan for Palestinians in Gaza via private US security contractors.

Farhan Haq addressed US President Donald Trump's Special Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff's unofficial briefing to the UN Security Council members on Wednesday, and stated that the UN was not "directly informed" about the briefing.

"I believe that this was something that individual members of the Security Council received a briefing on at the US mission yesterday. So, this was not an event at the United Nations," he said.

"The Secretary General has made it clear that the UN will not engage in any arrangement that fails to uphold the humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, independence and neutrality," he said.

Hamas announced that its fighters targeted two Israeli military units in southern Gaza, killing and wounding soldiers.

The group said fighters struck an Israeli force of seven soldiers with a powerful explosive device near the Omar ibn Abd al-Aziz Mosque in the al-Tannour neighbourhood in eastern Rafah.

Palestine Vice President Hussein Sheikh met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah on his first foreign visit since assuming office in April, according to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).​​​​​​​

The meeting at the Al-Salam Palace focused on “the latest developments in Palestine and explored ways to strengthen joint efforts to support the Palestinian cause and the interests of the Palestinian people.”

It was attended by Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah and several Palestinian officials.

The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization approved in April Sheikh’s appointment as vice president of the committee and vice president of Palestine.

Sheikh expressed the gratitude of Palestine and its people to Saudi Arabia and its people for their support across all levels.

Ihe Israeli army killed at least 16 Palestinians in new air strikes in Gaza, one day after it killed 100 Palestinians in a 24-hour period, according to medics.

Six victims were killed in three attacks targeting a group of civilians in Deir al Balah and the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, said a medical source.

EU's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said that any attempt at demographic or territorial change in Gaza is unacceptable.

Speaking at a joint news conference with Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski Kallas said: “The majority of European countries agreed that the situation in Gaza is untenable and rapidly deteriorating, and these plans to intensify military operation in Gaza will lead to further suffering of civilian population.”

Rejecting forced displacement of Palestinian population, Kallas said: “We urge Israel to lift the blockade on Gaza immediately and ensure that the humanitarian aid reaches the people who are in need."

Noting that the bloc is urging Israel to immediately lift the blockade of Gaza and ensure the delivery of humanitarian aid, she emphasised that such aid must adhere to the core principles of humanitarian action, which are humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence.

Palestinian resistance group Hamas blamed "individual" actors for firing rockets towards Israel from Lebanon after it handed over several people, saying it was committed to a Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire.

"The rocket launching incident was an individual act carried out by a number of young people... in reaction to the genocidal war and massacres committed by the Zionist enemy in Gaza," a statement from Hamas representative in Lebanon Ahmad Abdulhadi said.

"Hamas did not know about this in advance and did not decide to do this."

The statement added that Hamas is "fully committed to the ceasefire agreement in Lebanon, and the movement's leadership has informed all Lebanese authorities of this".

The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees decried an "assault on children" after Israel closed all six of its schools in occupied East Jerusalem, months after an Israeli ban on its activities took effect.

"Storming schools & forcing them shut is a blatant disregard of international law", UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini posted on X, describing the move as "An assault on children. An assault on education".

UNRWA's director in the occupied West Bank, Roland Friedrich, told AFP that "heavily armed" forces surrounded the three UNRWA schools in Shuafat camp at 9:00 am.

Friedrich added that 550 pupils aged six to 15 were present when the closure was enforced, calling it "a traumatising experience for young children who are at immediate risk of losing their access to education."

Friedrich said police were deployed in the area around three separate schools in other parts of East Jerusalem, which has been annexed by Israel since 1967.

The Israeli army killed one Palestinian, injured and arrested dozens in military raids in the occupied West Bank, local authorities said.

The Health Ministry said a 30-year-old man was killed by Israeli army fire in the northern city of Nablus.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society also said its medics dealt with 41 injuries, including four by live fire, in the city.