Demonstrators arrested outside Netanyahu’s Jerusalem home. Five Israeli demonstrators protesting for the release of hostages taken by Hamas on October 7 have been arrested outside the home of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.

Gaza Health Minstry reported that Israel detained hospital a director in northern Gaza on Saturday. However, the director of Adwan Hospital, Hussam Abu Safiya, denied he was arrested.“All that is being circulated about Dr. Hussam Abu Safia being arrested is false news,” his Instagram account posted.

Almost one in five children live in conflict zones, says Unicef. Nearly one in five of the world’s children live in areas affected by conflicts, with more than 473 million children suffering from the worst levels of violence since the second world war, according to figures published by the UN. “The impact on children’s mental health is also huge,” Unicef said. A study backed by the charity War Child earlier this month reported that 96% of children in Gaza felt that their death was imminent and almost half wanted to die as a result of the trauma they had been through.

The head of the World Health Organization said on Friday he was not sure he was going to survive, Reuters reports. Speaking after his ordeal at the Sanaa International Airport in Yemen on Thursday, which was bombed by Israeli forces targeting the Iran-aligned Houthi movement, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the air raid was so deafening that his ears were still ringing over a day later.

The WHO has reiterated its call for a ceasefire. “This raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital comes after escalating restrictions on access for WHO and partners, and repeated attacks on or near the facility since early October,” the WHO said. “Such hostilities and the raids are undoing all our efforts and support to keep the facility minimal functional. The systematic dismantling of the health system in Gaza is a death sentence for tens of thousands of Palestinians in need of health care.”

45,436 Palestinians killed since war began. At least 45,436 Palestinian people have been killed and 108,038 injured in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza since 7 October 2023, the Gaza health ministry said. Of those, 37 Palestinians were killed and 98 injured in the latest 24-hour reporting period, the ministry said.

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