• An overnight attack by Israeli tanks on the Indonesian Hospital has destroyed all of its first floor, according to Dr Sarbini Abdul Murad, head of the Indonesian charity Medical Emergency Rescue Committee (MER-C).
• An infant in an incubator at Kamal Adwan Hospital died on Wednesday due to a lack of electricity, according to the latest situation update from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
• After taking in 150 people, mostly cancer patients, from Gaza for medical treatment, Turkey is expecting to evacuate about 50 more people from the enclave today. Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said the group will mostly consist of children and young people.
• Palestinian photojournalist Mohammad Ayyash was killed by an Israeli bombardment on Thursday while another journalist, Amal Zuhd, and her family were killed by air attacks on their home early on Friday morning.
• A US military official told Reuters two bases in Syria and two bases in Iraq housing American personnel were attacked in quick succession with rockets and armed drones.

Diplomacy

• The United Kingdom’s newly appointed Foreign Secretary David Cameron pledged an additional £30m ($37.38m) of humanitarian aid to Gaza on Friday. Cameron, who is visiting the region, met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday and is now travelling to the occupied West Bank for meetings with Palestinian leaders.
• Doctors Without Borders official Joseph Belliveau said on Thursday that the organisation is taking “the unusual stance of calling for a ceasefire”, due to the “brutal annihilation of an entire population’s health system” being more than what just humanitarian aid can fix. In an address to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs in Canada, Belliveau said the country should push for a ceasefire as well.
• Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian met Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday to discuss efforts to end Israel’s war on Gaza. On Wednesday, Amirabdollahian warned that the Israel-Gaza war could spill over in the region if the truce does not hold.
• Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel led a march of thousands of demonstrators in solidarity with Palestine in Havana on Thursday, according to Reuters.