Morning update

Good morning, Middle East Eye readers,

Here are the latest updates from the Israeli war on Gaza, now in its 720th day, and developments in the occupied West Bank:

• Microsoft MSFT.O said on Thursday it has disabled some services used by an Israeli military unit after preliminary evidence supported a media investigation that reported mass surveillance of Palestinian phone calls.

• Israeli strikes on Sanaa killed at least nine people and wounded more than 170 on Thursday, Yemen's Houthis said.

• Former British prime minister Tony Blair seeks a senior role in running postwar Gaza under a plan being developed by the Trump administration, the Financial Times said on Thursday, citing people briefed on the proposal.

• A member of northern Irish rap group Kneecap, Liam O'Hanna, was due back in a UK court Friday seeking to dismiss a terrorism charge for alleged support of Hezbollah.

• International doctors and nurses who treated Palestinians in Gaza hospitals described wounds more severe than civilians had suffered in other modern conflicts, according to a peer-reviewed study published Friday.