Updates: At least 33 killed in Israeli strike on Gaza’s Jabalia

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But before you go:

Watch our report on what is happening in northern Gaza here.

Read our explainer on how Israel killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and what we know so far here.

Watch Inside Story on what Sinwar’s killing means for the Palestinian resistance here.

Read a firsthand account here written by an Al Jazeera cameraman on his crew’s attempts to report from Beirut, navigating the fear and anger palpable on the bombed-out streets of the Lebanese capital.

But before leaving, let’s have a recap of the latest developments:

• At least 33 Palestinians have been killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli strike on Jabalia refugee camp in north Gaza.
• Gaza’s civil defence says in a statement that the Israeli army has attacked a home in Beit Lahiya, wounding seven people.
• The Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that four Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli drone strike in the al-Nusra neighbourhood of Gaza City.
• At least five Palestinians have been killed and others injured in Israeli strikes on the Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
• Hamas has confirmed that its leader Yahya Sinwar was killed in combat with Israeli forces in Gaza, saying he died defending Palestine until the last moments of his life.
• US publication Politico reports that the Belgian prosecutor’s office says it has launched an investigation into possible war crimes committed by a Belgian soldier fighting for Israel in Gaza.

Hours after Israel said it had confirmed the assassination of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, Palestinian-American journalist Said Arikat was in the State Department briefing room in Washington.

What does Sinwar’s death mean for the future of Hamas and Gaza – and how could Sinwar’s death change the rhetoric coming from the podium?

Listen to the latest episode of Al Jazeera’s The Take:

A group of 12 Arab ambassadors has met behind closed doors with the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to discuss Gaza at the UN headquarters in New York.

After the meeting, Palestine’s ambassador to the UN, Riyad Mansour, told reporters the discussion centred on a need for an immediate ceasefire and bolstering support for UNRWA, the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency. Israel’s parliament is currently considering legislation to ban the organisation from operating in the country.

He also said the group is pushing for a new UN Security Council resolution demanding a ceasefire and renewed a call for Israel to be expelled from the UN General Assembly.

“The Security Council has the tools to force its will and to use everything available to it,” Mansour told the press.

“With regard to UNRWA, if they [Israel] continue on the path, among other things, of trying to destroy it, there is no taboo in the General Assembly of questioning the seat of a country that does not respect all of us, nor the General Assembly, nor international law, nor the Security Council, nor the secretary-general.

“A country that behaves in such arrogance and disrespect to its obligation under the Charter of the United Nations does not deserve to have a seat in the General Assembly among us”, he said.

Earlier, we reported on comments from US President Biden saying that he had a better idea of how and when Israel would attack Iran, which it has promised to do in response to a missile attack Iran carried out on Israel late last month.

Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s minister of foreign affairs, has posted on X saying “Anybody with knowledge or understanding of ‘how and when Israel was going to attack Iran’, and/or providing the means and backing for such folly, should logically be held accountable for any possible causality”.

He accompanied this post with a photo of President Biden, sending a clear message to the US.

The military says in a post on X that it detected the rocket fire in the Upper Galilee region and that some of the rockets were intercepted while others fell in open areas.

For its part, Lebanon’s Hezbollah said on its official Telegram channel that it fired a rocket salvo at the Israeli army’s Philon Base in Rosh Pina, east of the city of Safad.

It is unclear at this time if these two incidents are related.

Israeli forces have cut off communication and internet networks in northern Gaza during its two-week-long siege.

We will bring you updates on Israel’s deadly strike on the Jabalia refugee camp from our colleagues on the ground as soon as we get them.

At least two Palestinians have been killed and others injured in the Israeli strikes on the Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

The Belgian prosecutor’s office says it has launched an investigation into possible war crimes committed by a Belgian soldier fighting for Israel in Gaza, US publication Politico reports.

The news site said the probe focused on a Belgian member of an elite unit of the Israeli military.

Citing multiple reports in local media, Politico said the man is a dual Belgian-Israeli citizen in his 20s from the Brussels municipality of Uccle who serves the Israeli army in the “Refaim” sniper unit.

It said the unit, which has been operating in the besieged enclave since October 2023, consists of 21 people, including three Americans, two French, a German, an Italian and a Belgian man.

The Palestinian news agency says at least 30 were killed, including 20 children and women, and more than 50 others were wounded when the Israeli army bombed the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.

At least 450 people have been killed in an Israeli siege of the northern Gaza Strip that has been going on for nearly two weeks.

Residents say they’ve been cut off from humanitarian aid and supplies of food and water.

Al Jazeera’s Virginia Pietromarchi looks at what’s happening there:

UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Michael Fakhri has spoken to reporters about his report that detailed Israel’s starvation campaign, affecting 2.3 million Palestinians.

He was asked about Israel’s claim that it is supplying enough food, over one million tonnes, to Gazans. Here was his response:

• Israel’s rules on what is allowed into Gaza are opaque and absurd. It’s a system designed to be confused, to make it very difficult for aid to enter.
• Then, if we look over the last year, whenever humanitarian aid actually makes it through, those convoys often are shot at and targeted by Israeli forces, even though those convoys are coordinating with the [Israeli army].
• And then, even if those convoys get past that, civilians seeking aid have been shot at several times. I’ll add even more: Israel has imposed a full siege against Gaza, and especially northern Gaza, at several moments.
• So … even if it were true that Israel is allowing in a few more trucks today, that does not mean that they are not starving Palestinians in Gaza.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan held talks on Friday with representatives of Hamas and expressed condolences over the death of the Palestinian group’s leader, Yahya Sinwar, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

During the meeting, Fidan said that Turkey will “use all diplomatic means to mobilise the international community against the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza”, the ministry said.

Former US President Donald Trump says the killing of Hamas’s leader has increased the likelihood of a peaceful solution to Israel’s war on Gaza.

When asked if Sinwar’s demise had made peace easier or more difficult, he replied, “I think it makes it easier. I’m glad that [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] decided to do what he had to do.”

Trump said US President Joe Biden has been “trying to hold him back”, referring to Netanyahu and that he “should be doing the opposite, actually”.

Trump frequently touts himself as a supporter of Israel, pointing to his decision to move the US embassy to Jerusalem and his administration’s role in brokering the 2020 Abraham Accords, which saw Arab countries, including the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, normalise ties with Israel. Palestinians have long opposed these policies.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s centre-left party has faced a backlash after one of its lawmakers, a vice president of parliament, shared an online post which other politicians claimed was anti-Israeli.

Aydan Ozoguz shared a post from the US-based group Jewish Voice for Peace that showed an image of a building on fire with the message “This is Zionism”.

The Israeli ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor, said the post “indirectly questions Israel’s right to exist” and accused Ozoguz of “pouring oil on the fire”.

The Social Democratic Party lawmaker, one of five vice presidents of the German Bundestag, later deleted her message and apologised.

“I realised that the shared post hurt the feelings of fellow citizens who stand up for peaceful coexistence,” she wrote. “That was not my intention and I deeply regret that.”