The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) warned on Friday that civilians in Gaza are trapped under dire conditions, with families facing worsening food insecurity and no safe place to seek shelter.

“In Gaza, civilians are trapped with nowhere safe to go,” said UNRWA in a statement on the US social media company X.

“Families continue to face extreme conditions and rising food insecurity,” it added, noting that “urgent action is needed. #Ceasefire, before it’s too late.”

The UN General Assembly will vote on Friday whether to back the "New York Declaration," a resolution which seeks to breathe new life into the two-state solution between Israel and Palestine – without the involvement of Palestinian resistance group Hamas.

The declaration, which is formally called the New York Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution, was presented by France and Saudi Arabia.

The declaration, which was already endorsed by the Arab League and co-signed in July by 17 UN member states, including several Arab countries, also goes further than condemning Hamas, seeking to fully excise them from governing in Gaza.

A pair of Democratic senators who recently returned from the Middle East said their time there led them to determine that Israel is engaged in a plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians and urged an end to US complicity in the "strategy."

The lawmakers issued a 21-page report in which they said their time in the region led to them to the "inescapable conclusion that the Netanyahu government's war in Gaza has gone far beyond the targeting of Hamas to imposing collective punishment on the Palestinians there, with the goal of making life for them unsustainable."

"From our trip, from our observations, from our firsthand accounts, it's clear that the Netanyahu government has gone far beyond targeting Hamas to imposing collective punishment on all the people of Gaza," said Sen. Chris Van Hollen, who briefed reporters alongside report co-author Sen. Jeff Merkley on Capitol Hill.

Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani will be visiting Washington and is expected to meet US officials to discuss the Israeli strike and the status of ceasefire talks in Gaza, according to US media reports.

He is expected to see President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and special envoy Steve Witkoff, the report added, citing a source

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which is currently chaired by Türkiye, has urged the UN Security Council to "take firm measures" against Israel following its airstrike in Doha, Qatar.

Delivering a statement on behalf of the OIC on Thursday, Türkiye's UN envoy Ahmet Yildiz condemned "in the strongest terms this despicable and unwarranted attack against the State of Qatar and in flagrant violation of its territorial sovereignty and national security."

"There is no doubt that this dastardly action constitutes a blatant violation of the norms of international law and certainly the Charter of the United Nations, much as it represents an overt threat to both the security of the Middle East region and indeed international peace and security," Yildiz said.

Jordan and Palestine has warned that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s move to expand illegal settlements in occupied West Bank undermines the two-state solution.

Netanyahu signed an agreement to expand illegal settlements near occupied East Jerusalem under the so-called E1 plan aiming to split the occupied West Bank into two parts.

Jordan's Foreign Ministry condemned the Israeli move as a "flagrant violation of international law, and an assault on the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to establish their independent, sovereign state on the June 4, 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital."

Palestinian Presidential Spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh accused Netanyahu and his regime of pushing the entire region into "abyss." "All settlement activity is rejected, condemned and illegal under international law, particularly UN Security Council Resolution 2334," he said.

Yemen's Houthis have said the number of casualties in Israel's attacks rose to 46 people killed and 165 wounded.

Israel attacked the Yemeni capital Sanaa and the northern province of al-Jawf, the latest in a series of attacks and counterstrikes between Israel and Houthis in Yemen, part of a spillover from Gaza genocide.

The attack followed an August 30 strike on Sanaa that killed the prime minister of the Houthi-run government and several ministers, in the first such assault to target senior officials.

The UN children's agency has said child malnutrition in Gaza reached record levels in August, warning that the ongoing Israeli military escalation is cutting children off from life-saving treatment.

"The percentage of children identified as acutely malnourished in screenings across Gaza increased to 13.5 percent in August, from 8.3 percent in July. In Gaza City, where famine was confirmed last month, the percentage of children admitted with malnutrition was even higher, at 19 percent, up from 16 percent in July," said a statement by UNICEF.

The statement also noted that "fewer children were screened overall in August due to 10 outpatient treatment centres recently closed in Gaza City and North Gaza" due to Israel's repeated evacuation orders and ongoing attacks.

Emphasising the worsening situation of the most vulnerable, UNICEF said the number of children suffering from "severe acute malnutrition (SAM) - the deadliest form - has continued to grow, rising sharply since the beginning of the year."

Five people were injured in an Israeli air strike targeting a motorcycle in Nabatieh in southern Lebanon, local media have said.

The state news agency, citing a Health Ministry statement, said a drone hit the motorcycle in the town of Kfar Dounine, causing the injuries and setting a car on fire.

There was no comment from the Israeli army on the attack.