The U.N. has been unable to deliver food supplies to the north for the past eight days, according to a briefing yesterday by Stéphane Dujarric, a spokesperson for the U.N.’s secretary-general.

As of Thursday, there were no bakeries operating in the north, Dujarric said, because of a lack of fuel, water and flour, as well as damage to the structures. He added that people have been queuing for hours for food, exposing them to continued airstrikes.

Basic food items including flour, dairy, eggs and bottled water have “disappeared” from shelves across the strip over the last two days, he said, with other stocks of essential items such as rice and cooking oil depleting quickly.

For the first time since the Hamas-led terrorist attacks of Oct. 7, Palestinian officials have not released a death toll.

LONDON- Far-right counterprotesters descended on London Saturday to confront a crowd marching in support of a cease-fire in Gaza, and at least 82 were arrested, police said.

In a series of posts on the social media site X, the city’s Metropolitan Police said they arrested a group of counterprotesters in Pimlico, in central London, “to prevent a breach of the peace.” Police said they encountered the group near the Westminster Bridge as the counterprotesters attempted to reach the main march, and were met with violence as members “threw bottles and other missiles” at officers.

Many counterprotesters mainly opposed the march’s timing, as Saturday is Armistice Day in Britain — the anniversary of the end of World War I, which is often marked by military parades and a wreath-laying ceremony. Senior members of the U.K. government, including Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, said it was disrespectful to hold the march on Armistice Day.

Two other counterprotesters were arrested in Soho on charges of assaulting police and possession of a controlled substance, police said. No arrests have been made in connection with the main pro-Palestinian protest.

LONDON — Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters streamed into London’s main shopping district, Oxford Street, today to demand an end to Israel’s bombing of Gaza. Some traveled for hours to join the demonstration.

“We condemn what’s happened to Israel — of course we do,” said Hasnat Miah, 38, from Manchester. “What is happening in Gaza now is beyond belief. … It needs to stop.”

The businessman said the last protest he attended in London was one against the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Saturday's multiethnic crowd was there to show support and be “as loud as we can,” he said.

The protest, which is expected to amass hundreds of thousands of people, was already spilling over as much as half a mile beyond the meeting point.

The group included many families holding handmade placards and Palestinian flags. Chants of “Free Palestine,” “Israel is a terror state,” and “We are all Palestinians,” broke out sporadically.

Helicopters circled above as police braced for the largest protest in London in response to the war so far. The marchers headed south towards the River Thames and across to the U.S. Embassy.

France’s President Emmanuel Macron urged Israel to stop bombing Gaza yesterday, prompting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to issue a late-night defense, laying the blame for civilian deaths caused by Israel's bombardment of Gaza on Hamas.

“The responsibility for any harm to civilians lies with Hamas — ISIS and not with Israel” Netanyahu said in a statement released by his office early Saturday on X.

Macron had called for a cease-fire during an interview televised by the BBC, the British broadcaster. While saying that France “clearly condemns” Hamas and upholds Israel’s right to protect itself, he added that “we do urge them to stop this bombing” in Gaza and said that he hoped leaders in the U.S. and Britain would join his calls for a cease-fire.

LONDON — Protesters are arriving at Hyde Park Corner in London for a 2.5-mile march to U.S. Embassy. Hundreds of thousands of protesters are expected to join the call for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip. This is the fifth week of pro-Palestinian marches in the U.K. capital.

“I'm marching because people in Gaza say it gives them hope to see us out in our numbers,” said Ben Snaith, 26, a data researcher from London. This protest for Gaza was “much busier” than ones he attended in previous weeks, he added.

The protest caused political controversy in the U.K., as interior minister Suella Braverman described the protests as “hate marches.”

Protests have also been held in Berlin and Tokyo this week and are planned in Miami later today. Last night, Grand Central Terminal in New York was briefly shut down by pro-Palestinian protesters.

Doctors treating injured patients at Al Quds hospital in northern Gaza are conducting operations under torchlight due to a lack of fuel and aid, video footage released by the Palestine Red Crescent Society shows.

Hospital workers throughout the besieged strip have warned that patients are starting to die inside hospitals due to the lack of fuel and medical equipment. Early this morning, the PRCS said that Al Quds hospital was at risk of closure “within hours” due to the “depletion of fuel supplies and the non-arrival of aid.”

“500 patients and injured will be deprived from medical care,” the PRCS said in a post on X. “Those who are at the ICU and babies in incubators will lose their lives.”

TEL AVIV — The Israeli government has revised its current toll of the number of people killed in Israel so far to around 1,200, roughly 200 fewer than previously reported, according to a statement from Lior Haiat, a foreign ministry official, late on Friday. He did not offer reasoning.

A source from the Israeli prime minister’s office on Friday told NBC News’ Tel Aviv bureau that the roughly 1,200 figure is not final because identification processes are still ongoing. They also said around 100 people were still missing, in addition to the 239 hostages taken by Hamas.

Official figures will be released and distributed in the coming days, the source from the prime minister's office said.

Leaders from across the Arab and Islamic world have begun arriving in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh, for an emergency summit “in response to the unprecedented circumstances in Gaza,” the kingdom’s foreign ministry announced today in a post on X.

Iran, Saudi Arabia’s historic regional rival, will join the summit, represented by President Ebrahim Raisi, in the first visit to Saudi Arabia by an Iranian head of state after years of regional hostility.

“Gaza is not an arena for words. It should be for action,” Raisi said in televised comments at Tehran’s airport before departing for the summit of Arab and Islamic nations in Riyadh. “Today, the unity of the Islamic countries is very important,” he added.