Israel-Hamas truce to start at 7 am on Friday: Qatar

Al Jazeera updates:

ISRAEL-Hamas truce will start at 7 am on Friday and the first captives will be freed at 4pm, the Qatari foreign ministry says. 

Gaza’s Health Ministry says will stop coordinating hospital evacuations with the WHO after Israel arrested the director of al-Shifa Hospital.

Families of Israeli captives express frustration and blame the government for lack of information as the wait for the truce continues.

Northern Gaza ‘on verge of famine’: Official
In an interview with Al Jazeera, the director of the Government Information Office in Gaza has commented on a number of issues,

Here are some of his translated comments:

New Israeli attacks destroyed three mosques in Khan Younis.

Israel is working to aggravate the situation and create a humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip.

All hospitals north of Wadi Gaza have stopped working, exactly as Israel had planned.

Northern Gaza is on the verge of real famine because Israel has refused to allow food to enter.

Water wells are not working in northern Gaza due to the absence of electricity and fuel.

We are surprised by the position of the UN and the WHO regarding the arrest of the director of the al-Shifa Hospital.

What Israel published as a tunnel under the al-Shifa medical complex is an old well whose digging was not completed.