Netanyahu signals openness to Trump's Gaza ceasefire plan: Sources

Doctors Without Borders announced on Friday that it has suspended all medical activities in Gaza City due to the danger created by the increased Israeli offensive on the city, "including continued airstrikes and advancing tanks less than half a mile from our health care facilities," the humanitarian medical group said.

"The escalating attacks from Israeli forces have created an unacceptable level of risk for our staff, forcing us to suspend lifesaving medical activities," DWB said in a statement Friday.

The aid group continues to provide care in other parts of Gaza -- in Khan Younis, the middle area of Gaza and Deir al-Balah -- but warns that conditions are rapidly deteriorating and called for an end to the offensive.

"We have been left with no choice but to stop our activities as our clinics are encircled by Israeli forces," said Jacob Granger, MSF emergency coordinator in Gaza. "This is the last thing we wanted, as the needs in Gaza City are enormous, with the most vulnerable people -- infants in neonatal care, those with severe injuries and life-threatening illnesses -- unable to move and in grave danger."

While many have fled the city to southern Gaza, hundreds of thousands remain and have "no other option but to stay," DWB said.

"Those who can leave face an impossible choice: either remain in Gaza City under intense military operations and the deterioration of law and order, or abandon what's left of their houses, their belongings, and their memories to move to areas where humanitarian conditions continue to collapse. There is no safe space in Gaza," DWB said.

President Donald Trump, leaving the White House on Friday to attend the Ryder Cup in New York, spoke to reporters and said he believed there may be a deal on Gaza.

"It's looking like we have a deal on Gaza, and we'll let you know," Trump said. "I think it's a deal that will get he hostages back. It's going to be a deal that will end the war. It's going to be a deal -- it's going to be peace. I think we have a deal."

Trump didn't elaborate on what the plan would entail. His comments come after recent reports of a Gaza plan that would see former United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair head a temporary administration of the Gaza Strip.

Speaking to leaders at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to make the case that Israel's fight is an American and European fight.

Netanyahu criticized world leaders that have opposed Israel's military incursion on Gaza saying "over time many word leaders buckled."

"As we fight the terrorists who murdered your citizens, you are fighting us, you condemn us, you embargo us and you wage political and legal warfare against us. This is not an indictment of Israel this is an indictment of you," Netanyahu said.

Right as Netanyahu took the podium, General Assembly delegates staged a walk out.

Netanyahu pushed back on claims that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza and deliberately starving the Palestinians in Gaza.

"What a joke," Netanyahu said.

Netanyahu criticized the move by western nations including France, the U.K., Canada and Belgium to recognize the state of Palestine, saying it was "horribly wrong" decision that will encourage "terrorism against Jews."

Micrsoft has announced it disabled a set of its services to an Israel Ministry of Defense unit after an August article in The Guardian alleged the Israel Defense Forces were using Microsoft products to store surveillance of Palestinians, Brad Smith, vice chair and president of Microsoft said in a note with employees Thursday.

The article revealed a unit of the Israel Defense Forces was using Azure to store "data files of phone calls obtained through broad or mass surveillance of civilians in Gaza and the West Bank."

Microsoft said while it has not accessed the Israeli government's data in its review, it has found "evidence that supports elements of The Guardian’s reporting."

"We do not provide technology to facilitate mass surveillance of civilians. We have applied this principle in every country around the world, and we have insisted on it repeatedly for more than two decades. This is why we explained publicly on August 15 that Microsoft’s standard terms of service prohibit the use of our technology for mass surveillance of civilians," Smith said.

Microsoft said its review was based in part on information the Guardian collected from outside of Microsoft that the company "could not access in light of [its] customer privacy commitments."

"We therefore have informed IMOD of Microsoft’s decision to cease and disable specified IMOD subscriptions and their services, including their use of specific cloud storage and AI services and technologies. We have reviewed this decision with IMOD and the steps we are taking to ensure compliance with our terms of service, focused on ensuring our services are not used for mass surveillance of civilians," Smith said.