Israel-Hamas warfare LIVE: EU requires ’significant’ pauses in Gaza preventing as Palestine asks for assist 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 capturing was carried out by a terrorist squad that had embedded itself inside a gaggle of civilians on the entrance of the hospital.

After the terrorists fired RPGs, they returned to cover within the hospital… In the course of 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 elements of Gaza or to create safety zones throughout the enclave, state media stated on Monday.

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

Greta Thunberg as we speak got here beneath hearth 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 warfare.

Thunberg, carrying 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 stated, ’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 1000’s of local weather protesters.

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

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• Workers on the United Nations places of work noticed a minute’s silence to honour the 101 assist staff killed in Gaza for the reason that warfare broke out.
• ’That is the very best variety of assist staff killed within the historical past of our organisation in such a short while,’ stated Tatiana Valovaya, director-general of the UN in Geneva.

• Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s son is preventing in Gaza, his spouse has revealed.
• ’We have now not had any contact with him for a while, however we now have hope,’ Michal Herzog instructed the Kan public broadcaster.
• The couple has three sons – it isn’t clear which is among the many lots of of 1000’s of Israelis known as as much as struggle.

• The IDF says it has carried out 4,300 strikes since its floor offensive in Gaza started.
• It stated on X that lots of 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 warfare towards Israel.
• EU international affairs chief Josep Borrell stated that the bloc on the identical time was asking Israel ’for max restraint and concentrating on with the intention to keep away from human casualties’.

Israeli forces as we speak reached the gates of Gaza Metropolis’s principal hospital beneath 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 1000’s of sufferers and civilians stay trapped in what may very well be a pivotal second within the bloody warfare.

Israeli forces seem able to enter the hospital the place they’ve persistently 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 stated Monday that Israel’s navy struck considered one of its services in southern Gaza, regardless of sharing coordinates with opponents.

The company, often called UNRWA, stated Sunday’s strike brought on ’important 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 quick remark from the Israeli army.

’This current assault is yet one more indication that nowhere in Gaza is protected. Not the north, not the center areas and never the south,’ stated UNRWA Commissioner-Common Philippe Lazzarini.

No less than 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, stated on Monday.

The useless embrace three untimely infants, Al Qidra added.

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

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

• Micheal Martin, who can be international affairs minister, may even journey to Egypt as a part of the go to.
• Talking on the International Affairs Council in Brussels this morning, Mr Martin stated: ’The state of affairs within the area is at a essential 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 international minister Sameh Shoukry and secretary basic of the Arab League, Aboul Gheit.
• ’In Israel, I plan to see international 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 stated he’s scheduled to fulfill international minister Riyad al-Maliki within the occupied Palestinian territory, including he ’hopes’ to see Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
• ’I might be participating particularly on the state of affairs of Emily Hand, the eight-year outdated 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 stated 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 Power bombing websites linked to the Iranian-backed group.

• The chief Israeli army spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, described Hezbollah as ’the defender of Hamas-ISIS’, in reference to the Islamist Palestinian faction whose cross-border rampage towards Israel on Oct. 7 sparked a devastating Gaza warfare.
• 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 duty for a guided missile assault that Israel stated wounded no less than two electrical firm staff despatched to hold out repairs at a border group.
• A mortar assault wounded seven Israeli troopers, the army stated. A rocket set off sirens close to the Israeli port metropolis of Haifa, 17 miles from the Lebanese border, however brought on no casualties. A Lebanese wing of Hamas took credit score for the launch.

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

• ’It’s pressing to outline and respect humanitarian pauses,’ Janez Lenarcic, European Commissioner for Disaster Administration, stated at a gathering of the bloc’s international ministers in Brussels.
• ’Gasoline must get in. As you can see, greater than half of the hospitals within the Gaza Strip stopped working, primarily due to lack of gas, and gas is desperately wanted.’
• The enchantment went out as battles between Israeli and Hamas forces have raged round Gaza’s largest hospital, which has grow to be the main target within the five-week-old warfare.
• The Hamas-run well being ministry stated 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 army stated it might 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 ’presently consists of the realm surrounding the Shifa hospital however not the hospital itself’, a spokesperson for the Israel Protection Forces stated.
• Israeli forces and Hamas gunmen have waged heavy battles exterior Shifa, and a few hospital officers have stated Shifa was beneath siege, with these inside being pinned down by Israeli hearth. Israel has stated it had supplied protected passage to these wanting to depart.
• 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 stated Monday.
• About 650 sufferers, 500 healthcare staff and an estimated 2,500 displaced individuals stay within the sprawling Shifa hospital compound, stated Mohammed Zaqout, director of hospitals in Gaza.
• This might sign a major departure for the reason that weekend when Gaza well being officers had stated about 1,500 sufferers, together with 1,500 medical staff 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 gas, resulting in the deaths of a number of sufferers, together with untimely infants.

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

A military spokesperson instructed AFP that 44 had been killed ”inside Gaza in the course of the warfare” that started when Hamas militants stormed Israel’s southern border.

• Israel’s army asserted it positioned 300 liters of gas 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 army stated Hamas prevented the hospital from receiving the gas.
• A Well being Ministry spokesperson, Ashraf al-Qidra, disputed the account and likewise instructed Al Jazeera the gas wouldn’t be sufficient to function the generator an hour. ’It is a mockery in direction of the sufferers and kids,’ Al-Qidra stated.
• 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 stated 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, stated all hospitals within the north of the enclave had been ’out of service’.

Pictured: Docs study injured sufferers with a telephone torch amid gas 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 stated Monday.
• Youssef Abu Rish, deputy well being minister within the Gaza Strip, stated the brand new deaths introduced the toll to 6 untimely infants and 9 sufferers since electrical shortages started affecting the hospital.

Hundreds 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 stated that ’violent preventing’ raged all through the night time
• The sounds of small arms hearth and aerial bombardments had been echoing throughout the sprawling complicated.
• The World Well being Group (WHO) and different UN businesses stated as many as 3,000 sufferers and employees are sheltering inside with out sufficient gas, water or meals.

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

• Circumstances are worsening for lots of of sufferers and 1000’s of others sheltering round Al-Shifa hospital – which has grow to be the main target of the five-week-old warfare.
• The hospital’s final generator ran out of gas Saturday, resulting in the deaths of three untimely infants and 4 different sufferers, in accordance with the Well being Ministry. It stated one other 36 infants are susceptible to dying.
• The World Well being Group (WHO) warned that as many as 3,000 sufferers and employees are sheltering inside with out sufficient gas, water or meals.
• ’Regrettably, the hospital just isn’t functioning as a hospital anymore,’ stated 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 stated, describing the state of affairs inside as ’dire and dangerous.’