Morning updates

Good morning Middle East Eye readers,

Here are the latest updates from the Israeli war on Gaza,

• Israeli air strikes have killed at least 25 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip since the early hours of Friday.

• Palestinian sources said on Friday that Israeli artillery shelled various areas in the Zeitoun and Sabra neighborhoods, south of Gaza City, located in central Gaza.

• Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Friday “soon, the gates of hell will open” if Hamas does not agree to “Israel’s conditions for ending the war, primarily the release of all hostages and their disarmament”.

• The Palestinian Interior Ministry in Gaza said Israel’s planned invasion of Gaza City "represents a death sentence and displacement" for 1.2 million people

• The United Nations said Gaza now has the highest number of child amputees compared to any other place in the world.

• CBS News quoted an American contractor, who previously worked in the Gaza Strip as saying, that shots fired at aid distribution sites were not warning shots, but rather random. He added that shooting was directed at civilians, not militants.