Israel's army says it has killed a senior commander of the terrorist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad in an attack inside a humanitarian zone in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Ahmed Aish Salame al-Hashash was the head of the group's rocket and missile unit in the Rafah area of Gaza and responsible for firing rockets from an area designated as a humanitarian zone into Israeli territory,

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has accused Israel’s military of striking schools, humanitarian workers and civilians in Gaza.

Israeli attacks have killed more than 11,000 students in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank since October 7, the Palestinian Education Ministry says. At least seven people have been killed and many are feared trapped after Israeli forces bombed Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, according to rescuers.