Around thirty people, including women and children, were killed in a strike on a house sheltering displaced people. The Open Arms aid ship, traveling through a new sea corridor from Cyprus, began unloading its cargo of food on Friday.

Israeli NGOs went to Geneva (Switzerland) where they denounced "systematic abuse", and sometimes torture, against Palestinians in detention in Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved the army's "action plans" for an offensive in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip.