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Amnesty International’s Chief Agnes Callamard has asked Israel to release Gaza’s hospital Director, Hussam Abu Safia, after reports emerged that he was moved to solitary confinement, Al Jazeera reported.

“Why oh why such cruelty?” Callamard said in a post on X, asking why those with the power to hold Israel authorities accountable "for their cruelty failing over and over".

“Dr Hussam Abu Safia should be with his loved ones, and caring for the many, many people in need of his skills. The last place where he should be is solitary confinement,” she added.

A Hamas statement said a delegation has reached Cairo for meetings with Egyptian officials and mediators aimed at "finalising implementation" of the first phase of a US-mediated "ceasefire" deal in Gaza, Al Jazeera reported.

In a statement shared on Telegram, the Palestinian group said it would also be discussing how to "halt the repeated Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip and establish appropriate mechanisms for entering the second phase of the agreement".

The Hamas delegation in Cairo is headed by Khalil al-Hayya, the group said.

The Gaza "ceasefire" took effect in October of last year, but Israel has continued to carry out deadly attacks on the coastal enclave despite the agreement.

The US announced in January that the deal was moving to phase two and would focus on "demilitarisation, technocratic governance, and reconstruction".

France has opened an investigation into an alleged "war crime" and "torture" over Israel's treatment of French activists who took part in a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, a prosecutor's office said on Friday.

The probe was opened at the government's request, the national counterterrorism prosecutor's office (PNAT) said, after activists accused Israeli authorities of mistreatment during their detention last month.

Israeli forces shot dead an 18-year-old Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said onFriday, while the military said it had killed someone who threw firebombs at vehicles.

In the early hours of Friday, the health ministry said it had been informed of "the martyrdom of the young man Haitham Ezzedine Omar Hmeida, 18, by occupation gunfire in the village of Beitin," north east of Ramallah.

It added that the man’s body was being withheld.

Iran has marked the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression by condemning the killing of children in Gaza, the West Bank, Beirut, Iran and other conflict-hit areas.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei said June 4 was a day when "the human conscience must confront a painful question: for what crime are innocent children being killed?"

He said the day honoured the memory of children who were meant "to dream, to be happy, to study, and to build the future", but became victims of war crimes, occupation and bombardment before they could come to know life.

Baqaei said children had been killed under bombs and missiles of the United States and Israel in Gaza, the West Bank, Beirut, Minab, Lamerd, Tehran and other places.

"No military objective, no political interest, and no security pretext can ever justify the slaughter of children," he said.

He added that children were neither parties to war nor tools of it, calling them "the living conscience of humanity".

"Every child killed or maimed is a burial of a part of our shared humanity," Baqaei said.

The Palestinian ambassador to the UN, surrounded by his counterparts from Arab and Muslim countries, called on the United States on Thursday to stop Israel's annexation of its territories.

"I know that President (Donald) Trump is capable, and he has the tools to stop Netanyahu in his tracks, in order not to keep the whole region in turmoil...and to move in the direction of peace and justice, that is why the majority of us are working with them," Riyad Mansour told press.

"We know that he told (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu, including recently, stop the nonsense in Lebanon, stop the craziness. You know you are not allowed to annex the land."

The UN's geopolitical bloc Arab Group joined the ambassador to express "deep alarm" and regional solidarity against "rapidly escalating" Israeli settler aggression and military violence against Palestinians.

At least 11 Palestinians have been killed and 32 wounded in Israeli attacks across besieged Gaza over the past 24 hours, Al Jazeera reported, citing the enclave's Health Ministry.

The ministry said in its daily report that ambulance and civil defence crews were still unable to reach a number of victims trapped under rubble or lying injured on roadsides.

Israel's military has intensified attacks across the Palestinian enclave despite a ceasefire that began last October.

Since the ceasefire came into effect, 947 Palestinians have been killed and 2,935 wounded in Israeli attacks, according to the ministry.

Another 781 bodies have also been recovered from the vast debris of the heavily bombed Gaza Strip.

Israel's hardline finance minister announced major expansion by more than 2,000 homes of three Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank that Palestinians hope will be part of a future independent state.

The new homes would "strengthen our hold on the land, reinforce Israel's security, and establish clear facts on the ground that prevent the creation of an Arab terror state in the heart of the country," Bezalel Smotrich said in a statement, without specifying when construction would begin.

Israeli strikes killed at least nine Palestinians, including five members of the same family, in separate attacks in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, health officials said.

Medics in Gaza said Israeli planes launched strikes on four apartments, including the family's home, before dawn. At least 15 other people were wounded.

The World Food Programme has confirmed that a cyberattack exposed sensitive personal information belonging to around 600,000 Palestinian households in Gaza, Anadolu Agency reported, citing media reports.

The UN food agency said it was investigating a “security-related incident” after "unauthorised actors" accessed personal information submitted by Palestinians in Gaza. The agency sent a statement to aid recipients via Telegram on May 31.

The New Humanitarian, a Geneva-based news portal, reported that WFP had confirmed a data breach took place on May 14, exposing information including names, ID and mobile numbers, and location data.

"WFP recently detected unauthorised access of its self-registration application (SRA) for Palestine, where individuals are able to register to receive food and cash assistance after verification," a spokesperson said in a statement responding to questions from the news portal.

The UN agency said an investigation was under way, while no party had claimed responsibility for the breach.

According to an anonymous whistleblower who contacted The New Humanitarian on May 31, WFP's beneficiary feedback mechanism had received a warning from an "independent expert" about vulnerabilities in the self-registration application two days before the breach.