Israel-Hamas battle LIVE: EU requires ‘significant’ pauses in Gaza preventing as Palestine asks for support to be ‘parachuted’ into the area

The IDF says it has killed 21 Hamas terrorists who it claims had been ’embedded’ amongst civilians on the al Quds hospital in Gaza Metropolis.

The taking pictures was carried out by a terrorist squad that had embedded itself inside a bunch of civilians on the entrance of the hospital.

After the terrorists fired RPGs, they returned to cover within the hospital… Through the incident, about 21 terrorists had been killed and there have been no casualties to our forces.

This incident is one other instance of Hamas’ continued abuse of civilian buildings, together with hospitals, to hold out assaults.

Jordan’s King Abdullah rejects any plans by Israel to occupy components of Gaza or to create safety zones throughout the enclave, state media mentioned on Monday.

• In feedback he made on the royal palace, the king was quoted as telling senior politicians he met as saying there might be ‘no navy or safety answer’ to the battle between Israel and the Palestinians.
• He mentioned the war-ravaged enclave of Gaza shouldn’t be severed by Israel from the opposite Palestinian Territories.

Greta Thunberg in the present day got here below fireplace over her pro-palestine stance in Germany, the place the native chapter of local weather motion Fridays for Future distanced itself from the local weather protester’s views on the Israel–Hamas battle.

Thunberg, sporting the Palestinian black and white scarf, had urged ‘ceasefire now’ at a local weather protest in Amsterdam on Sunday earlier than a person grabbed her microphone and mentioned, ‘I’ve come for a local weather demonstration, not a political view’.

Thunberg had accused ‘the individuals in energy of not listening’ to the ‘voices of those that are being oppressed’ within the Gaza Strip throughout her speech in entrance of tens of hundreds of local weather protesters.

Her feedback in Amsterdam marked ‘the tip of Greta Thunberg as a local weather activist,’ mentioned Volker Becker, the president of the German-Israel Society DIG, including that ‘from now: Israel hater is the primary job’ for the Swedish activist.

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• Workers on the United Nations workplaces noticed a minute’s silence to honour the 101 support employees killed in Gaza because the battle broke out.
• ‘That is the very best variety of support employees killed within the historical past of our organisation in such a short while,’ mentioned Tatiana Valovaya, director-general of the UN in Geneva.

• Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s son is preventing in Gaza, his spouse has revealed.
• ‘We’ve not had any contact with him for a while, however we now have hope,’ Michal Herzog advised the Kan public broadcaster.
• The couple has three sons – it isn’t clear which is among the many a whole lot of hundreds of Israelis known as as much as combat.

• The IDF says it has carried out 4,300 strikes since its floor offensive in Gaza started.
• It mentioned on X that a whole lot of anti-tank launching positions, round 300 tunnel shafts, and three,000 Hamas infrastructure websites had been hit.

• The 27 members of the European Union have collectively condemned Hamas for what they described as the usage of hospitals and civilians as ‘human shields’ within the battle in opposition to Israel.
• EU overseas affairs chief Josep Borrell mentioned that the bloc on the similar time was asking Israel ‘for optimum restraint and concentrating on to be able to keep away from human casualties’.

Israeli forces in the present day reached the gates of Gaza Metropolis’s important hospital below which the IDF has insisted Hamas terrorists have their headquarters in makeshift tunnels.

Scores of Israeli troopers and tanks have now surrounded the sprawling Al Shifa hospital the place hundreds of sufferers and civilians stay trapped in what might be a pivotal second within the bloody battle.

Israeli forces seem able to enter the hospital the place they’ve constantly insisted that Hamas terrorists are hiding in underground tunnels beneath the constructing and utilizing the sufferers as shields.

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The U.N. company for Palestinian refugees mentioned Monday that Israel‘s navy struck one among its amenities in southern Gaza, regardless of sharing coordinates with combatants.

The company, often known as UNRWA, mentioned Sunday’s strike triggered ‘vital injury’ to its guesthouse in Rafah, including that no casualties had been reported since U.N. employees left the ability 90 minutes earlier than the assault.

There was no speedy remark from the Israeli navy.

‘This latest assault is one more indication that nowhere in Gaza is protected. Not the north, not the center areas and never the south,’ mentioned UNRWA Commissioner-Basic Philippe Lazzarini.

At the very least 32 hospital sufferers from Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital have died over the previous three days, the spokesman for the Palestinian well being ministry, Ashraf Al Qidra, mentioned on Monday.

The useless embrace three untimely infants, Al Qidra added.

Operations in Al Shifa hospital advanced, the most important within the Palestinian enclave, had been suspended on Saturday after it ran out of gasoline.

Eire’s deputy premier has introduced he’s to journey to Israel and the Palestinian territory later this week.

• Micheal Martin, who can also be overseas affairs minister, will even journey to Egypt as a part of the go to.
• Talking on the International Affairs Council in Brussels this morning, Mr Martin mentioned: ‘The state of affairs within the area is at a vital level, with a catastrophic humanitarian state of affairs in Gaza and continued dangers of regional escalation.
• ‘I’ve been participating intensively with regional counterparts since October 7 and can return to the area this week, following my go to in September, to proceed that engagement.
• ‘In Egypt, I hope to fulfill with overseas minister Sameh Shoukry and secretary normal of the Arab League, Aboul Gheit.
• ‘In Israel, I plan to see overseas minister Eli Cohen and hope additionally to go to the south of Israel and the communities that had been devastated by the October 7 assaults.’
• He mentioned he’s scheduled to fulfill overseas minister Riyad al-Maliki within the occupied Palestinian territory, including he ‘hopes’ to see Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
• ‘I will likely be participating particularly on the state of affairs of Emily Hand, the eight-year previous Irish-Israeli hostage, whose father Tom I’ll meet tomorrow in Dublin, in addition to the state of affairs of Irish residents nonetheless in Gaza.’

Israel mentioned it was poised to impose quiet on the Lebanese entrance as hostilities spiked on Sunday, with Hezbollah wounding civilians in a cross-border missile assault and the Israeli Air Drive bombing websites linked to the Iranian-backed group.

• The chief Israeli navy spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, described Hezbollah as ‘the defender of Hamas-ISIS’, in reference to the Islamist Palestinian faction whose cross-border rampage in opposition to Israel on Oct. 7 sparked a devastating Gaza battle.
• Hezbollah, whose rocket arsenal is broadly believed to dwarf that of Hamas, has been finishing up comparatively restricted assaults in solidarity with the Palestinians. Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Saturday described the Israel entrance as ‘energetic’.
• On Sunday, Hezbollah claimed accountability for a guided missile assault that Israel mentioned wounded not less than two electrical firm employees despatched to hold out repairs at a border group.
• A mortar assault wounded seven Israeli troopers, the navy mentioned. A rocket set off sirens close to the Israeli port metropolis of Haifa, 17 miles from the Lebanese border, however triggered no casualties. A Lebanese wing of Hamas took credit score for the launch.

The EU’s humanitarian support chief known as Monday for ‘significant’ pauses within the preventing in Gaza and pressing deliveries of gasoline to maintain hospitals working within the territory.

• ‘It’s pressing to outline and respect humanitarian pauses,’ Janez Lenarcic, European Commissioner for Disaster Administration, mentioned at a gathering of the bloc’s overseas ministers in Brussels.
• ‘Gasoline must get in. As you could possibly see, greater than half of the hospitals within the Gaza Strip stopped working, primarily due to lack of gasoline, and gasoline is desperately wanted.’
• The enchantment went out as battles between Israeli and Hamas forces have raged round Gaza’s largest hospital, which has change into the main focus within the five-week-old battle.
• The Hamas-run well being ministry mentioned Monday the hospitals within the centre of the heaviest preventing in north Gaza have been pressured out of service amid shortages and the fierce fight.

Israel‘s navy mentioned it will observe a ‘self-evacuation hall’ Monday, permitting individuals to maneuver from Al-Shifa southward, however admitted the realm was nonetheless the scene of ‘intense battles.’

• The realm of preventing ‘at the moment consists of the realm surrounding the Shifa hospital however not the hospital itself’, a spokesperson for the Israel Protection Forces mentioned.
• Israeli forces and Hamas gunmen have waged heavy battles exterior Shifa, and a few hospital officers have mentioned Shifa was below siege, with these inside being pinned down by Israeli fireplace. Israel has mentioned it had supplied protected passage to these wanting to go away.
• Many displaced Palestinians, together with some medical sufferers, have left Gaza’s largest hospital, which is surrounded by Israeli forces, a U.N. well being official mentioned Monday.
• About 650 sufferers, 500 healthcare employees and an estimated 2,500 displaced individuals stay within the sprawling Shifa hospital compound, mentioned Mohammed Zaqout, director of hospitals in Gaza.
• This is able to sign a big departure because the weekend when Gaza well being officers had mentioned about 1,500 sufferers, together with 1,500 medical employees and 15,000 displaced individuals had been at Shifa.
• The state of affairs at Shifa deteriorated over the weekend, with docs reporting that the final generator had run out of gasoline, resulting in the deaths of a number of sufferers, together with untimely infants.

The Israeli military on Monday introduced the dying of two extra troopers in northern Gaza, elevating to 44 the quantity killed within the Palestinian territory since October 7.

A military spokesperson advised AFP that 44 had been killed “inside Gaza throughout the battle” that started when Hamas militants stormed Israel‘s southern border.

• Israel‘s navy asserted it positioned 300 liters of gasoline close to Shifa in a single day for an emergency generator powering incubators for untimely infants and coordinated the supply with hospital officers. However the navy mentioned Hamas prevented the hospital from receiving the gasoline.
• A Well being Ministry spokesperson, Ashraf al-Qidra, disputed the account and likewise advised Al Jazeera the gasoline wouldn’t be sufficient to function the generator an hour. ‘It is a mockery in direction of the sufferers and youngsters,’ Al-Qidra mentioned.
• Israeli PM Netanyahu asserted that ‘100 or so’ individuals had been evacuated from Shifa and that Israel had created protected corridors.
• However Well being Ministry Undersecretary Munir al-Boursh mentioned Israeli snipers have deployed round Shifa, firing at any motion.

• Not one of the hospitals within the northern Gaza Strip are operational, the Hamas-run well being ministry has declared
• Youssef Abu Rish, deputy well being minister within the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, mentioned all hospitals within the north of the enclave had been ‘out of service’.

Pictured: Docs study injured sufferers with a cellphone torch amid gasoline shortages on the Indonesian Hospital in Jabalia, northern Gaza.

• A untimely child and two sufferers have died in Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital, the Hamas-run well being ministry mentioned Monday.
• Youssef Abu Rish, deputy well being minister within the Gaza Strip, mentioned the brand new deaths introduced the toll to 6 untimely infants and 9 sufferers since electrical shortages started affecting the hospital.

1000’s of individuals remained trapped in Gaza’s largest hospital Monday, the place evacuations have been hampered by fierce preventing between Israeli and Hamas forces.

• On Sunday, witnesses on the hospital mentioned that ‘violent preventing’ raged all through the evening
• The sounds of small arms fireplace and aerial bombardments had been echoing throughout the sprawling advanced.
• The World Well being Group (WHO) and different UN companies mentioned as many as 3,000 sufferers and employees are sheltering inside with out ample gasoline, water or meals.

The most important hospital in Gaza has ceased to operate and fatalities amongst sufferers are rising, the pinnacle of the World Well being Group (WHO) mentioned, as preventing between Israeli forces and Hamas continued simply exterior the ability the place incubators lay idle with no electrical energy.

• Situations are worsening for a whole lot of sufferers and hundreds of others sheltering round Al-Shifa hospital – which has change into the main focus of the five-week-old battle.
• The hospital’s final generator ran out of gasoline Saturday, resulting in the deaths of three untimely infants and 4 different sufferers, in keeping with the Well being Ministry. It mentioned one other 36 infants are prone to dying.
• The World Well being Group (WHO) warned that as many as 3,000 sufferers and employees are sheltering inside with out ample gasoline, water or meals.
• ‘Regrettably, the hospital just isn’t functioning as a hospital anymore,’ mentioned WHO director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, after making contact with on-the-ground employees.
• ‘It has been three days with out electrical energy, with out water,’ he mentioned, describing the state of affairs inside as ‘dire and threatening.’