According to doctors, Gaza hospitals have enough fuel for a few more hours. Gaza’s Ministry of Health appealed to gas stations to provide fuel for hospitals, and the UN agency handed over the last supplies of fuel to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Electricity was cut off in the hospital, and medical staff used mobile phones for lighting.

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07:00As fears of an escalating war grow, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said: “Everything points to the worst yet to come. The disaster will have painful consequences in the near future.”

Diplomatic efforts, Safadi added, have failed to calm the conflict. The State Department said Thursday that the new US special envoy for humanitarian affairs, David Satterfield, was still trying to “negotiate the precise terms” of the deal as Egyptian workers began repairing a road that runs through the Rafah checkpoint.

Aid agencies are warning that aid may be coming “too little too late” given the scale of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The World Health Organization’s director of emergencies, Michael Ryan, said aid was needed “every day” and said the initial convoy of 20 lorries were “a drop in the bucket.”

06:29The explosion occurred near the Church of Saint Porphyry, a Greek Orthodox church in Gaza City. Hamas said several people were wounded and killed. Witnesses told AFP that the blast damaged the facade of the church and caused a nearby building to collapse.

In a statement expressing “strong disapproval,” the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem attributed the explosion to an Israeli airstrike.

He added that attacks on churches, which are often used by civilians seeking asylum, “are a war crime that cannot be ignored.”

06:27China’s special representative for the Middle East said that the reason for the Israel-Gaza crisis is the lack of guarantees for the rights of Palestinians.

China’s Middle East envoy Zhai Jun landed in Qatar on the first leg of his tour of the region, where he and his Russian counterpart Mykhailo Bohdanov reaffirmed Beijing’s support for Moscow in its efforts to help de-escalate the Gaza crisis.

China and Russia share the same position on the Palestinian issue, Zhai said after meeting Bohdanov in Doha, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with his “dear friend” President Xi Jinping in Beijing.

06:15In an interview with CNN, IDF spokesman Jonathan Conricus was asked when the ground offensive would begin. “The IDF is deployed throughout the Gaza Strip. People are ready, equipped and waiting,” he said. But he did not say exactly when the ground offensive would begin. “Ground action is one of the options, one of the tools at our disposal,” he added.

06:00According to doctors, Gaza hospitals have enough fuel for a few more hours.

Egypt and Israel were still negotiating the supply of medical fuel. Israeli military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said that Hamas was stealing fuel from UN facilities and that Israel wanted assurances that this would not happen again. First aid trucks are expected on Friday.

Gaza’s health ministry appealed to gas stations for fuel for the hospitals, and the UN agency donated some of its last fuel supplies.

The agency’s donation to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, the largest in the territory, extends our work by several hours, said hospital director Mohammed Abu Selmiya. Electricity was cut off in the hospital, and medical staff used mobile phones for lighting.

05:00Despite expectations, the border between Egypt and Gaza may open later than expected to allow humanitarian aid, CNN reported, citing multiple sources, including one familiar with discussions on the issue between Israel, Egypt and the United States. “The situation is unstable. I would not bet that these trucks will pass on Friday,” the source said.

04:00US intelligence has put the death toll in the attack on the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in the Gaza Strip at “probably between 100 and 300 people”, noting that the numbers are not final.

This number is lower than the 471 deaths previously reported by health authorities in the Hamas enclave.

03:32Joe Biden, address to the nation: Hamas and Putin present different threats, but they have one thing in common: they both want to destroy the neighboring democracy / The US President asked the Americans for tens of billions of dollars in funding for Israel and Ukraine

01:34Sixteen Palestinian journalists have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, triggered by the Islamist movement’s attack on Israeli territory on October 7, the Palestinian Journalists’ Union announced Thursday, according to AFP.

The union, based in the occupied West Bank, estimated that dozens of other journalists were injured, according to a statement. According to the Palestinian Authority, at least 3,785 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza.

01:12Egypt prepares to open part of Rafah checkpoint tomorrow – report

Joe Biden announced yesterday that he had reached an agreement with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to open the crossing and allow 20 trucks of humanitarian aid to pass through.

00:45Missiles and drones hit the Iraqi base where American troops are stationed. Several explosions rang out inside

Drones and missiles targeted the Ain al-Asad air base, which hosts US and other international forces in western Iraq, on Thursday evening and several explosions were heard inside the base, two security sources said, cited by Reuters.