Live updates: Middle East crisis

Hezbollah has reported inflicting "casualties" on Israeli forces that attempted to infiltrate the town of Odaisseh in southern Lebanon. 

The clashes occurred late Friday evening when Hezbollah fighters engaged the advancing troops. 

The group claimed to have executed a "huge explosion" that forced the Israeli forces to retreat, resulting in casualties and injuries. 

Despite this, Israeli forces have reportedly resumed their advance, and clashes are ongoing. 

No official death toll has been provided, and Israel has not confirmed the incident.

At least eight people have been killed in recent Israeli military airstrikes in central Gaza, according to the Wafa news agency. 

The strikes included an attack on the Alian and Karajah family homes in the ad-Dawa neighborhood, northeast of the Nuseirat camp, which resulted in five fatalities and several injuries. 

Additionally, two individuals died when Israeli forces bombed a house belonging to the Ghafri family, also northeast of Nuseirat. 

In a separate incident, one person was killed and others were injured when an Israeli strike hit a center for displaced Palestinians at al-Salah school in Deir el-Balah. 

Further updates on these events will be shared as information becomes available.

Germany said Friday an Israeli air strike on a West Bank refugee camp, which killed at least 18 people, was "shocking".

"The high number of civilian casualties in an Israeli air strike in Tulkarem is shocking. In the fight against terror, the Israeli army is obliged to protect civilians in the West Bank," the German foreign ministry said on X.

Hamas' armed wing al-Qassam Brigades confirmed death of one of its commanders Zahi Yaser Oufi in an Israeli strike on the West Bank city of Tulkarm along with seven other fighters, the group said in a statement on Friday.

The Israeli military said that it killed Oufi, head of the Hamas network in Tulkarm, in an attack on Thursday.

US Military says it conducted strikes on 15 Houthi targets in Yemen on Friday. 

Earlier, the Al Masirah TV of Yemen had reported that UK, US had carried out strikes in Sanaa and Dhamar City. 

The UK Ministry of Defence, however denied any involvement in the airstrikes in Yemen, as per an official who spoke to Al Jazeera. 

The Lebanese death toll has surpassed 2,000 in almost a year of cross border fighting with Israel, the government reported.

The toll on civilians in Lebanon from Israel’s campaign against Hezbollah is “totally unacceptable,” UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Friday.

“All parties must do whatever they can at all times to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure and ensure that civilians are never put in harm's way,” Dujarric told reporters.

A senior adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris met American Muslim and Arab leaders on Wednesday as Harris' presidential campaign seeks to win back voters angry at US support for Israel's wars in Gaza and Lebanon.

Harris' national security adviser, Phil Gordon, told the community leaders in the virtual meeting that the administration supports a ceasefire in Gaza, diplomacy in Lebanon and stability in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the vice president's office said.

Ali Dagher, a Lebanese-American attorney and community leader, said the outreach from Harris' office was not enough. "It's too little, too late," said Dagher, who did not participate in the meeting.

The UK Ministry of Defence, however has denied involvement in the airstrikes in Yemen, as per an official who spoke to Al Jazeera.