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Israel's parliament has passed a law, banning the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. UNRWA has condemned the ban, calling it outrageous. The ban will significantly restrict UNRWA's activities across occupied East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made his first comments about the “malignant” Israeli attack on Iran early Saturday in a meeting with the families of the four members of the armed forces who were killed. The Israelis try to make the impact of the strikes appear larger than reality, but any move inside Iran to make them appear smaller would also be “wrong”, he said. “It would be wrong for us to say that it was nothing and it did not matter,” Khamenei said. “The calculation error of the Zionist regime must be disrupted. They do not know Iran, its youth, its nation. They have not yet been able to fully comprehend the power, capabilities, initiative and will of the Iranian nation, we must make them understand it.” Khamenei also opened a Hebrew account on X after the Israeli strikes.

Israeli military has targeted Beit Lahiya in the north of the Gaza Strip, in a strike that's killed up to 100 Palestinians. Dozens of others have been injured and the death toll is expected to rise. Northern Gaza has been under an Israeli siege for more than 15 days. The United Nations is warning Palestinians are being forced to endure "unspeakable horrors". And in Deir el-Balah, in central Gaza, at least one air strike hit a residential building near Nuseirat refugee camp.

Hind Hassan, who conducted a one-on-one interview with Yahya Sinwar in 2021, said he came across as a man “who was defiant” in his beliefs. Hassan told Al Jazeera she met him “walking down the street in full view” during a period when Israel had been bombing Gaza for 11 days and “everyone had believed he was in hiding”. Hind said he did “not shy away” from some of the tougher questions. She said when she asked a question about the claims that Hamas firing rockets into Israel could constitute a war crime, he became “passionate” in his responses. He said that Palestinians were expected to be “perfect victims, and that’s something that they cannot be”, she said. He also drew a comparison between the protest movement that sprung up in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by US police in 2020, and what happened with the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, to the Palestinian cause, Hind said.