The world in brief

Israeli attacks on Gaza City, in the north of the besieged enclave, killed 42 people according to Gaza’s Hamas-controlled authorities. Israel said it had struck military infrastructure, but the director of Gaza’s government media office told Reuters that Israel had hit houses, including in al-Shati, one of Gaza’s refugee camps. As well as Hamas, Israel is fighting Hizbullah, the Iran-backed movement that controls much of Lebanon. On Friday António Guterres, the UN’s secretary-general, expressed concern that clashes on the border might “trigger a catastrophe”.

Toomaj Salehi, a popular Iranian rapper, has had his death sentence overturned by the country’s supreme court. Mr Salehi was condemned for supporting the demonstrations that erupted in Iran in 2022 after the death in custody of Mahsa Amini. He wrote songs about Amini’s treatment at the hands of the morality police who detained her for her supposedly incorrect hijab. He now faces a retrial.