The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says one of its volunteer medics has been shot with live ammunition while working in the Nur Shams refugee camp just outside Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank.

As we’ve been reporting, Israeli forces have been conducting a raid on the camp, where confrontations broke out and have been ongoing for hours. The PRCS said its volunteer medic was shot in the foot “while performing his humanitarian duties”. Israeli forces are preventing an ambulance from reaching him, it added.

An Israeli raid on the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank has caused some of the “worst destruction in decades”, according to Al Jazeera’s Zein Basravi. Residents there say this escalation confirms what they fear most, that after Gaza, the occupied West Bank is Israel’s next target.

Palestinian teen killed during Israeli raid on Tulkarem’s Nur Shams refugee camp

PRCS says its ambulances barred from entering Nur Shams camp amid Israeli raid

More Israeli military tanks seen headed towards Nur Shams refugee camp

Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), an official security force, said its command post at the Camp Kalsu military base south of Baghdad was hit by a huge explosion, which two security sources said came from an air strike.

One PMF fighter was killed and six were wounded, two sources at a hospital in the nearby city of Hilla told Reuters news agency.

Earlier, a statement released by the PMF in Babil (Babylon) province stated that “American aggression bombed the Kalso military base”.

The area is located near the town of Iskandariya around 50km (31 miles) south of the capital, Baghdad. The PMF started out as a grouping of armed factions, many with close links to Iran, that was later recognised as a formal security force by Iraqi authorities.

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The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said emergency ambulance crews are being obstructed from helping injured people in the Nur Shams refugee camp by Israeli forces.

According to the Palestinian state news agency, Wafa, Israeli forces operating in the occupied West Bank refugee camp stopped two ambulances and forced their injured occupants out of the vehicles to check their identification.

Four injured people, some suffering from bullet wounds, have been taken to hospital for treatment, Wafa said, citing a brief statement from the PRCS.

Earlier on Friday, a PRCS volunteer medic was shot in the foot while working to help the injured in the Nur Shams refugee camp, where Israeli forces have killed at least five people, including a teenager.

PRCS said in a post on social media that Israeli forces prevented an ambulance crew from reaching their stricken paramedic to transport him to hospital.

Israeli forces continue to carry out raids in West Bank’s Tulkarem

Gun battles continue in Nur Shams between Palestinian fighters, Israeli forces

Israeli military inflicts ‘worst destruction’ in decades on Nur Shams refugee camp

Deaths, injuries as Israeli military raids occupied West Bank communities

Sources told Al Jazeera that the death toll from the latest Israeli air raid on the Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood in Rafah has risen to 10. Among those killed in the strike in southern Gaza were six children and two women. The sources said Israeli forces targeted the home of the Radwan family in the attack.

From last night to the early hours of the morning, there was a surge in Israeli air strikes across Rafah City. This included the eastern part of the city in as-Salam neighbourhood – a densely populated area with many displaced families taking shelter in residential homes or tents. It also included the western part of the city – the Tal as-Sultan area – where the vast majority of displaced families have been sheltering since the beginning of the war.

We’re looking at a total of at least 10 people killed – nine in Tal as-Sultan, where an Israeli attack hit an apartment, causing destruction not only to the targeted building but also in the vicinity.

In the eastern part of Rafah city, initial reports said there were no casualties. But we later learned from the hospital that one woman was killed and a couple of children, as well as other people, were injured.

The aftermath of the strikes is causing internal displacement for many who have been moving from one place to another, fleeing the horror of these bombs, for the past six months. The situation in Rafah is increasingly getting very dangerous, very risky.

Exclusive video footage from Al Jazeera shows massive destruction following an Israeli strike on a residential area in al-Dawa, north of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. In the clip, several homes are seen completely destroyed as people inspect the aftermath of the strike.

Residents said they heard a warning to evacuate their homes before the residential block was hit by an air strike.

Israeli military plans shared with the US for moving some 1.4 million Palestinian civilians out of Rafah ahead of a promised ground invasion by its forces did not include “concepts for access to food, water and other civil services” according to reports, war monitors say.

In their latest assessment of the war on Gaza, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) note that a high-level “virtual meeting” took place on Thursday between US and Israeli officials to discuss a ground incursion into southern Gaza’s Rafah – the only area in the Palestinian territory to have been spared Israel’s ground forces so far.

Further discussions between the two allies regarding the Rafah operation are reportedly on hold, according to the ISW-CTP report.

The US-based think tanks also report that Palestinian armed groups continued to launch attacks on Israeli forces in Gaza City on Friday and that the Israeli Air Force was called in to attack 25 targets to support Israeli forces operating on the ground.

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli gunboats have fired at the city of Deir el-Balah, in the latest wave of attacks to hammer the enclave’s central area. As we’ve been reporting, Israeli strikes have also hit the Nuseirat camp in the centre, entirely destroying several homes.

Within the past two hours, there has been an attack on a residential block in the al-Mawasi evacuation zone in Khan Younis. This is where the vast majority of displaced families were ordered by the Israeli military in the initial weeks of the war to go and shelter to avoid being bombed.

There are reports of multiple injuries right now. There is difficulty in reaching those injured due to the presence of quadcopters – attack drones. This makes it very risky for civil defence crew to do their jobs and help save people.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has agreed to help deliver aid for the starving people of Gaza via sea when a US military-built pier is complete, according to a report. WFP will be partnering with USAID to carry out the humanitarian effort, but it remains unclear when the US will complete the construction of the pier in Gaza, The Associated Press (AP) news agency reports.

“This is a complex operation that requires coordination between many partners, and our conversations are ongoing,” USAID said in a statement to AP.

US and WFP officials are working on how to deliver aid to Palestinian civilians “in an independent, neutral, and impartial manner”, the agency said.

A protest in New York City calling for a ceasefire in Gaza has entered its third night, as students continue to occupy the central square of Columbia University.

The protesters denounced the decision of university president Minouche Shafik to authorise the police to arrest at least 108 demonstrators, who erected tents inside the campus to call attention to the Israeli war on Gaza.

The student protesters are also demanding that Columbia University divest from companies linked to Israel. The university’s student publication, Columbia Spectator, reported that as of Friday evening, all individuals who were arrested have been released from custody.

But the publication said the university has also begun issuing formal notices of “interim suspension starting late Friday” to students who participated in Wednesday’s “Gaza Solidarity Encampment”.

Outrage over the arrest of the students has set off similar protests at other top US universities, including Harvard and Yale.

The president of Columbia University in New York said police were authorised to clear the campus of pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had set up a tent encampment in solidarity with the people of Gaza.

University authorities said the hundreds of students who took part in the peaceful protest had breached rules regarding unauthorised gatherings on campus.

Despite the mass arrests and demonstrators facing suspension from their university courses, students said they will continue their activism in support of Palestinians.

The army says in a statement that no drones or fighter jets were detected in the airspace of the Babil (Babylon) province before or during the blast. As we reported earlier, a huge blast rocked a military base south of Baghdad used by PMF.

Iraq blast may be ‘another message’

Removed videos show crater in Iraqi base, suggesting it was hit by projectile

Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces says military base blast was result of attack

• One Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) member was killed and eight were injured in the blast, an army statement said.
• The base hosted Iraq’s PMF, Iraqi federal police and Iraqi military forces.
• The PMF says the explosion was the result of an attack.
• Videos posted, and then deleted, on social media – and seen by Al Jazeera – showed a crater, suggesting the site was hit by a projectile.
• Another group, the Iraqi Resistance forces, said this was an Israeli attack to which they responded with a drone strike against the Israeli city of Eilat.
• However, the Iraqi government said this was an explosion that they were investigating without identifying who or what was behind it.
• And the Iraqi military says that there were no drones or fighter jets detected in the airspace of the Babil area before or during the blast.
• An Al Jazeera team trying to access the base was turned back and was not given access to the wounded.
• The PMF formed in 2014 in Iraq in response to a fatwa by Iraq’s most influential Shia leader, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. as a coalition of dozens of armed factions, many with close links to Iran, to combat the growing threat of ISIL (ISIS).
• The force is Shia-led but also includes others. It has been recognised as a formal security force by Iraqi authorities since 2018.
• While the PMF’s exact troop numbers are unknown, it is estimated to command anywhere between 40,000 and 100,000 fighters.
• Several groups within the PMF, such as Kataib Hezbollah, have launched attacks against US forces in Iraq, creating tensions with the Iraqi government.
• On top of its military strength, the PMF also exerts political influence. The Shia Coalition Framework, which represents PMF-linked groups, won more than 30 percent of Iraq’s seats in the last provincial elections.