Israel’s government press office (GPO) has announced it is revoking the press cards of all Al Jazeera journalists working in Israel.

Nitzan Chen, the director of the GPO, said the network constitutes “a threat to IDF soldiers”.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s government had already banned the network from operating in Israel in May of this year.

In its press conference earlier, Reuters reports that the World Health Organization said at least one quarter, or about 22,500, of those Palestinians injured by Israel’s bombardment in the Gaza conflict had suffered life-changing injuries, such as missing limbs that would require rehabilitation services for years to come.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday it had evacuated nearly 100 people – including dozens of children – from Gaza to the UAE.

Saying that there were over 10,000 Gazans awaiting medical evacuation after 11 months of Israeli bombardment of the territory, WHO said the transfer of nearly 100 people was “the largest evacuation yet from Gaza since October 2023.”

Reuters reports Richard Peeperkorn, WHO representative for the occupied Palestinian territory said “Gaza needs medical corridors. We need a better organised and sustained system.”

The evacuation of patients took place on Wednesday.

The organisation also said it was happy with progress in its emergency polio vaccination programme in the Gaza Strip, and is confident of reaching its 90% target. The first case of polio in Gaza for 25 years was recently discovered, prompting the vaccination effort.

Turkey has opened an investigation into the death of a Turkish-American activist shot and killed by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank and will request international arrest warrants, Ankara said on Thursday.

Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, a 26-year-old volunteer with the anti-occupation International Solidarity Movement, died in hospital on Friday after being shot in the head during a protest in Beita, near Nablus. Witnesses said she was shot at by Israeli soldiers positioned in a nearby field.

Reuters reports her body will arrive for burial in Turkey on Friday. It reports Turkey’s foreign ministry said she “was deliberately targeted and killed by Israeli soldiers during a peaceful demonstration in solidarity with Palestinians. We will make every effort to ensure that this crime does not go unpunished,” it said.

Israel has said it was highly likely its troops had fired the shot that killed her but claimed her death was unintentional. Turkey’s justice minister Yılmaz Tunç said the Ankara chief prosecutor’s office is investigating “those responsible for the martyrdom and murder of our sister”, and told reporters that Turkey had evidence regarding the killing and would make international arrest requests.

In the wake of Eygi’s death US secretary of state Antony Blinken called on Israel to “make some fundamental changes in the way that they operate in the West Bank, including changes to their rules of engagement. Now we have the second American citizen killed at the hands of Israeli security forces. It’s not acceptable.”

Eygi’s family have been critical of the way the US administration responded to her death, saying that several days after she was killed, neither the White House nor Joe Biden had called to offer condolences. A vigil in Eygi’s memory was held last night in Seattle, where she had lived.

The UK’s foreign secretary, David Lammy, has described the reported deaths of six Unrwa workers in an Israeli strike on a UN-run school in Gaza as “appalling”.

In a message posted on social media, the recently installed foreign secretary said:

Reports of six Unrwa staff members being killed in an Israeli strike are appalling. My thoughts are with their families and all those who continue to carry out lifesaving work. Aid workers must be able to do their jobs safely. We need a ceasefire and hostage release deal now.

Since coming to power in July, the new UK Labour government has restarted British funding for the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency, with Lammy stating in parliament in London that “Humanitarian aid is a moral necessity in the face of such a catastrophe [in Gaza]. Unrwa is absolutely central to these efforts. No other agency can get aid into Gaza at the scale needed.”

The UK and many other western nations suspended funding to Unrwa after Israel alleged that several members of its staff participated in the surprise 7 October Hamas attack inside southern Israel.

At the time UK funding was restored to Unrwa, Lammy said “I was appalled by the allegations that Unrwa staff were involved in the 7 October attacks. We are reassured that after Catherine Colonna’s independent review, Unrwa is ensuring they meet the highest standards of neutrality and strengthening its procedures, including on vetting.”

The Labour government has also imposed a limited export ban on some arms sales to Israel, a move which was described as “shameful” by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Israel’s military has claimed that the strike yesterday on the UN-run school, which was sheltering displaced Palestinians, was aimed at what the IDF described as “a Hamas command and control centre”. Israel has repeatedly accused Hamas of using civilian buildings and infrastructure in the Gaza Strip. [See 9.34 BST]