Thousands of protesters are gathering in Washington, D.C., for the “March for Gaza” rally, marking nearly 100 days since the Israel-Hamas war began. The rally was organized by the American Muslim Task Force from Palestine, and others calling for a cease-fire in Gaza.

Ten-thousand cancer patients have been left without treatment in Gaza due to the now-broken health care system, according to a statement from Hamas' English Telegram channel.

Around 150,000 patients with chronic illnesses are also not able to receive treatment in Gaza, the group said. There are more than 1,000 cases of hepatitis C in Gaza and the numbers are increasing.

"The health sector in Gaza is in a state of complete collapse under the continued Israeli aggression," Hamas said in a statement. "All hospitals in Gaza City and northern Gaza areas including Al-Shifa Hospital, Al-Quds Hospital and the Indonesian Hospital became out of service due to the Israeli occupation army attacks and lack of electricity."

Container shipping rates for key global trade routes have soared this week, with U.S. and U.K. airstrikes on Yemen stirring fears of a prolonged disruption to global trade in Red Sea, one of the world’s busiest routes, industry officials said on Friday.

U.S. and British warplanes, ships and submarines launched dozens of strikes across Yemen overnight, retaliating against Iran-backed Houthi forces for attacks on Red Sea shipping, widening regional conflict stemming from Israel’s war in Gaza.

Most container ships already were avoiding the nearby Suez Canal, a shortcut between Asia and Europe that handles 12% of global trade. Warnings from the U.S. and U.K. militaries for all ships to steer clear of the conflict zone stoked fears that rates for oil tankers and bulk carriers that ferry vital commodities could surge, raising the risk of a new round of global inflation.

Rates on the Shanghai-Europe route rose 8.1% to $3,103 per 20-foot container on Friday from a week earlier, while the rate for containers to the unaffected U.S. West Coast soared 43.2% to $3,974 per 40-foot containers week on week, leading ship broker Clarksons said on Friday.

Extensive fencing was erected outside the White House overnight, as the capital prepares for a March on Washington for Gaza later today, which 10,000 people are expected to attend.

Protesters are expected to assemble at Freedom Plaza at 1 p.m. and march northwest to Lafayette Square, according to the organizers.

President Joe Biden is expected to travel to Camp David this morning and will not be in the White House for protests.

Russia’s permanent mission to the United Nations said it has requested an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Friday to discuss military strikes on Yemen by the United States and Britain.

In a statement Friday, Russia, an ally of Iran and several Middle East powers, condemned the U.S.-allied strikes on Houthi-controlled targets in Yemen as “irresponsible,” saying the attacks could provoke further destabilization in the region.

Prior to the strikes on Thursday, the Security Council adopted a resolution calling for an end to attacks by the Houthis on shipping in the Red Sea, despite abstentions from both Russia and China.

Israel has failed to disprove a "compelling" case for genocide, South Africa’s Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Ronald Lamola said in a statement on Friday.

Standing outside the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Lamola said that South Africa would "stand by the facts, the law and all the evidence we have submitted" in continuing to find Israel in violation of the Genocide Convention.

Lamola said that Israel’s defense — that calls from senior political and military leaders that seemed to convey genocidal intent, including statements from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — were purely “rhetoric” was “astonishing.”

Israeli lawyers said in their defense yesterday that the accusations from South Africa painted a "partial and deeply flawed picture" of its actions in the Gaza Strip.

Civil defense forces have recovered the bodies of at least 20 Palestinians who were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City, the Palestinian Ministry of Information has said.

Footage uploaded to Telegram by the Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza, the organization responsible for emergency and rescue services in the strip, showed crews combing through rubble and carrying injured children to ambulances.

NBC News was not able to independently verify this report. The strikes on Gaza City came alongside bombardments of Khan Younis in the south and the Nuseirat and al-Maghazi refugee camps, according to the Ministry of Information.

TEL AVIV — Health workers at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza have warned that the lives of patients, including premature babies, are at risk after the main generator at the facility reportedly ran out of fuel.

"If the electricity doesn't come back ... these patients you see here will soon die," Taiseer Abu Sweirih, a health worker at the facility, said in an interview published online by Sky News, which is owned by Comcast, the parent company of NBC News.

Video showed part of the facility plunged into darkness, with staff keeping ventilators running using batteries charged by solar power during the day, according to Sky News. A health worker could be seen using the light from her phone to check in on a baby in a ventilator, while patients could be seen lying on hospital beds in an intensive care unit.

In a statement released last night, the director of the hospital warned that medical services at the facility would be forced to shut down due to dwindling fuel. The statement warned that children and other patients were at risk of dying if generators stopped running. "We call on the countries of the world to intervene immediately," it said.

NBC News was not immediately able to reach officials at the hospital on Saturday. The IDF did not immediately respond to a request for comment from NBC News.

TEL AVIV — Relatives of some of the dozens of people who remain held hostage by Hamas walked through a 30-meter "tunnel" set up in Tel Aviv today to highlight the conditions their loved ones have been held under in Gaza.

"The feeling when I was in the tunnel, it was a feeling that I just need to run away ... and it was only five minutes and I'm just thinking of the people there," said Ella Ben Ami, whose mother, Raz Ben Ami, was released by Hamas in November, while her father, Ohad Ben Ami, remains captive after they were kidnapped from their kibbutz, Be’eri.

As hostage families prepare to mark 100 days since their loved ones were kidnapped, Ben Ami, 23, told NBC News it was "hard to keep the hope" for "so many days."

Ben Ami welcomed news of a deal that will allow medicine to reach Israeli hostages in Gaza, but she said she wanted to see “proof” of medicine being provided, along with evidence of the condition of those who remain held by Hamas, including her father, who is 55.

As the death toll in Gaza continued to rise to nearly 24,000, Ben Ami said that before Oct. 7, she had "always wanted peace" between Israelis and Palestinians. "I always wanted that everything will be alright," she said. "Now, I can't think about it."