Closing summary
It is approaching 6pm in Gaza City and Tel Aviv. This blog will be closing shortly but you can find all the Guardian’s Middle East coverage here.
Here is a summary of the developments on today’s blog:
An Israeli strike killed dozens early on Monday at Fahmi al-Jarjawi School, where people were seeking refuge, according to local health officials. Gaza’s civil defence says the death toll has risen to 36, with the majority of those killed being women and children. Israel’s military claimed it targeted militants operating from the school.
Police were deployed near the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City ahead of an annual Jerusalem Day march. The event happens to mark Israel’s capture of East Jerusalem.
A US-backed NGO has said it is to distribute aid in Gaza, despite its head walking out after saying that the operation could not fulfil its mission in a way that adhered to “humanitarian principles”. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s (GHF) said in a statement that it is to launch direct aid delivery, with the aim of reaching one million Palestinians by the end of the week.
The Hamas-led government media office in Gaza has described an earlier Israeli attack on school being used as a shelter as a “brutal massacre”. It claimed that 18 children were among the dead, and described the attack as “a direct extension of the crime of ethnic cleansing and genocide”.
Chancellor Merz says he will warn Benjamin Netanyahu not to take Gaza attacks too far. He said he is to speak to Netanyahu later this week, and will tell him that Israel should not take its attacks on Gaza too far.
US homeland security secretary Kristi Noem has been in Israel in the wake of the killing of two Israeli embassy staff in Washington last week. She visited the Black Arrow memorial site and an overlook on the Israel-Gaza border.
Hamas executed four men for looting aid trucks, sources said. “The four criminals, who were executed, were involved in the crimes of looting and causing the death of members of a force tasked with securing aid trucks,” one of the sources told Reuters.
The Irish government is set to unveil a bill that ban imports from the occupied Palestinian territories. This marks the first move by an EU member to curtail trade in goods produced in Israeli settlements illegal under international law.
Hamas has agreed to a proposal made by the US special envoy Steve Witkoff for a Gaza ceasefire, a Palestinian official said. The new proposal, which is conditional to the release of ten hostages and 70 days of truce, was received by Hamas through mediators.
Our colleagues in the Guardian’s video team have produced this video report on the Israeli strike on a school which was housing displaced people in Gaza, according to local officials.
