Overview

• Thousands of reservists are rejoining units in a first wave of roughly 40,000, with authorization in place to mobilize about 60,000 for the planned operation.
• Israeli strikes intensified around Gaza City, with Gaza’s Civil Defence reporting 44 deaths Thursday, including 25 in the city, after earlier reports this week of lethal hits on residential buildings.
• Military planners say a ‘humanitarian zone’ spanning areas from central camps to al-Mawassi could be announced within days to receive large-scale displacement.
• The United Nations has declared famine conditions in Gaza City’s environs, and a UN disabilities committee estimates at least 21,000 children have been left disabled and about 40,500 injured by the war.
• Pressure is mounting on Israel’s government as hostage families rally in Jerusalem for a ceasefire deal, while a French jurists’ group files a legal complaint challenging France’s duty to prevent genocide and its arms deliveries to Israel.