Elsewhere, we’re seeing footage online following further overnight attacks in Ukraine - with reports that a fuel and energy site is on fire in the southern port city of Odesa. Our team is also verifying reports of a Ukrainian drone attack on Voronezh in south-west Russia.

Israel will call up 50,000 reservists before a planned offensive to take Gaza City but most forces that would operate in the Gaza Strip's largest urban centre would be active duty soldiers, an Israeli military official said on Wednesday.

Tearful children in Gaza, who lost parents, took part in a graduation ceremony in Khan Younis. Since October 2023, more than 39,000 Palestinian children in Gaza have lost parents, according to Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.

As Israel expands operations in the enclave, Gazans increasingly voice defiance against Hamas, with dissenters risking their lives to demand freedom from the group’s grip.

The State Department said it was halting all visas for Palestinians from Gaza, including medical visas for children.

The U.N. humanitarian office says a record 383 aid workers were killed in global hotspots in 2024, nearly half of them in Gaza during the war between Israel and Hamas.

Israeli forces eliminated a Gaza terrorist involved in the Oct. 7 Kibbutz Nir Oz invasion and Yarden Bibas kidnapping during an Aug. 10 airstrike, the IDF and Shin Bet announced.

Israeli army attacks killed 33 civilians, including children, in the Gaza Strip since early Wednesday amid military escalation in Gaza City, according to medical sources. A medical source told Anadolu three people were killed and 10 others injured in an Israeli strike on a house in Jabalia al-Nazla town, northern Gaza Strip.