Israel has returned the bodies of 30 more Palestinians to Gaza as part of an ongoing exchange deal under a U.S.-brokered ceasefire plan, a hospital told AFP on Friday.

The Israeli military said its top lawyer resigned on Friday during an investigation into a leaked video appearing to show soldiers severely abusing a Palestinian detainee.

Israel's national security minister on Friday posted a video of himself standing over a row of Palestinian prisoners lying prone with their hands tied, in which he calls for the "death penalty for terrorists".

In footage shared on his personal Telegram channel, Itamar Ben Gvir addresses the camera while pointing at a dozen detainees face down in front of an Israeli flag.

Humanitarian workers are being increasingly targeted in Gaza and in Sudan, where five Red Crescent volunteers were killed this week, the International Committee of the Red Cross's director-general Pierre Krahenbuhl told AFP Friday.

Pretoria on Friday criticized a U.S. decision to prioritize white South Africans as refugees accepted into the country, saying it was based on "widely discredited" claims of their persecution.

Turkey will on Monday host a meeting of foreign ministers from Muslim countries to discuss a U.S. peace plan for Gaza, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said.

The U.N. and Red Cross voiced alarm Friday at alarming details of executions, gang rapes and abductions as Sudan's western city of El-Fasher fell to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

Embassies in Mali urged citizens to depart the country immediately this week while the United States and United Kingdom withdrew non-essential staff, as a fuel blockade by jihadists upturns daily life and stokes fears of growing insecurity.

Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji on Friday asked his visiting German counterpart Johann Wadephul to "help put pressure on Israel to stop its attacks."

"Only a diplomatic solution, not a military one, can ensure stability and guarantee calm in the south," Rajji was quoted by the National News Agency as saying.

Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to extend a temporary ceasefire and will hold another round of peace talks in Istanbul next week, aiming to defuse tensions after a deadly flare-up this month.