Israeli fire in Gaza led coverage as continued ceasefire violations, with injuries, shelling and gunfire reported in Khan Younis and central areas. The army's pledge to continue operations after killing 29 people in three weeks framed the day, alongside an Israeli investigation into an officer who shot an elderly woman after her evacuation from Rafah.

Midday attention turned to a war-damaged building collapsing in Sabra, Gaza City, injuring five children and prompting rescues, as outlets looked to 19 September when more than 500,000 pupils start a fourth school year without classrooms.

By afternoon the toll rose to three killed, including a motorcycle strike in Gaza City that killed one and wounded a child and a woman shot in Nuseirat. In the West Bank editors tracked settler attacks near Yabrud and Aqraba and Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa, while condemnation continued of Washington's refusal of a visa for Abbas.