In a televised address on Monday, UN chief Antonio Guterres said a ceasefire becomes “more urgent with every passing hour” as Israeli forces pounded the Hamas-held Gaza Strip after encircling the enclave's main city on Sunday. Hamas militants fired 16 rockets from Lebanon towards northern Israel, the Palestinian group's armed wing announced, saying they targeted areas south of the coastal city of Haifa. Read our blog to see how the day's events unfolded. All times are Paris time (GMT+1).
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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Monday that the protection of civilians "must be paramount" in the conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas, warning that the Gaza Strip was becoming "a graveyard for children". "The unfolding catastrophe makes the need for a humanitarian ceasefire more urgent with every passing hour," he told reporters at the UN headquarters, asserting that violations of international humanitarian law were being committed.
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Israel pounded the Gaza Strip with "significant" strikes on Monday, a day after its forces reached the coastline south of Gaza City, cutting the besieged enclave in two. Israeli forces "have encircled Gaza City", military spokesman Daniel Hagari said on Sunday, adding: "Now there exists a south Gaza and a north Gaza."
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrapped up a gruelling Middle East diplomatic tour in Turkey on Monday after only limited success in efforts to forge a regional consensus on how best to ease civilian suffering in Gaza. Blinken’s visit to Turkey followed a frantic weekend of travel from Israel to Jordan, the occupied West Bank, Cyprus and Iraq to build support for the Biden administration’s proposal for “humanitarian pauses” in Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.
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The death toll in Gaza has risen to at least 10,022 people, including at least 4,104 children, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory.
10:33pm: Israeli forces cut off north Gaza to isolate Hamas as advance on urban center looms
The Israeli army severed northern Gaza from the rest of the besieged territory and pounded it with airstrikes Monday, preparing for expected ground battles with Hamas militants in Gaza's largest city and an even bloodier phase of the month-old war.
"North Gaza is where they want to fight and they are still advising civilians, any civilians left in the north, to go south," said Irris Makler FRANCE 24’s correspondent in Jerusalem, Israel.
"They now have surrounded Gaza City and are tightening the band around it. Gaza City is where they believe Hamas has its stronghold," said Makler.
9:49pm: US plans precision bombs transfer to Israel
President Joe Biden's administration has informed the US Congress that it is planning a $320 million transfer of precision bombs for Israel, a source familiar with the plan said on Monday.
The Wall Street Journal first reported that the administration sent formal notification on October 31 to congressional leaders of the planned transfer of Spice Family Gliding Bomb Assemblies, a type of precision guided weapon fired by warplanes.
9:29pm: UAE says it will establish a field hospital in Gaza, says state news agency
The United Arab Emirates will establish a fully equipped field hospital in the Gaza Strip, the state news agency said on Monday without elaborating whether there is an agreement on this initiative with Israel.
The agency said five aircraft carrying the equipment and requirements necessary for the establishment and operation of the field hospital departed from Abu Dhabi on Monday heading to Al-Arish airport in Egypt.
9:18pm: Iran president to attend Gaza summit in Saudi Arabia
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is expected to attend a summit in the Saudi capital on Sunday addressing the Israel-Hamas war, a source familiar with the preparations told AFP on Monday.
It would be Raisi's first visit to the Gulf kingdom since the two countries agreed to restore diplomatic relations after seven years of severed ties, a deal brokered by China and announced in March.
The summit is being organised by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), a 57-member bloc of majority Muslim countries based in the Saudi coastal city of Jeddah.
It is planned to take place one day after an emergency meeting of Arab League leaders on the war, also in the Saudi capital Riyadh.
"President Raisi will attend the summit of the OIC in Riyadh," the source familiar with planning for the summit told AFP on condition of anonymity as they were not authorised to discuss the plans with the media.
8:28pm: Israel steps up Gaza strikes, setting up even deadlier phase of fighting
As Israeli troops prepare to enter Gaza City, the Israel-Hamas war is set to enter an even deadlier phase. FRANCE 24's senior correspondent Catherine Norris Trent reporting from Tel Aviv, Israel, says that the Israeli army is finding even more extensive Hamas tunnels close to civilian infrastructure like schools and homes as they advance. The discovery indicates a phase of protracted urban warfare may lie ahead, in an area where hundreds of thousands of civilians are still present. Norris Trent also talks about the "explosive" atmosphere in the West Bank since the October 7 attacks.
8:27pm: Yemen's Houthi rebels claim new drone attack on Israel
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels said they had launched a fresh drone attack against Israel as they step up a campaign of disruptive strikes during Israel's war with Hamas.
The Houthis, who claim large swaths of the impoverished country on the south of the Arabian Peninsula, asserted that the latest strike has temporarily halted activity at Israeli military bases and airports.
Israeli authorities did not immediately confirm the attack, which is the latest in a series of Houthi drone launches in recent days.
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said on X that "the Yemeni armed forces ... launched a batch of drones during the past hours at various sensitive targets of the Israeli enemy in the occupied territories. ... As a result of the operation, the activity at the targeted bases and airports stopped for several hours."
Last week, the Houthis claimed a drone attack and said they had carried out three earlier strikes with drones and ballistic missiles.
They have said they are acting as part of the "axis of resistance" against Israel, which includes Iran-backed groups in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq.
8:01pm: US says Israel minister's Gaza nuclear strike comment was 'wholly unacceptable'
The United States on Monday condemned as "wholly unacceptable" comments by a junior member of the Israeli cabinet who on Sunday appeared to voice openness to the idea of Israel carrying out a nuclear strike on Gaza.
"We continue to believe that it is important for all sides of this conflict to refrain from hateful rhetoric," deputy State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel told a briefing.
Netanyahu's office issued a statement later on Sunday saying that the minister concerned – Heritage Minister Amihay Eliyahu, from a far-right party in the coalition government – had been suspended from cabinet meetings "until further notice".
Asked in a radio interview about a hypothetical nuclear option, Eliyahu had replied: "That's one way."
His remark drew swift condemnation from around the Arab world and scandalised mainstream Israeli broadcasters.
7:55pm: Israel families of Hamas attack victims mark month of mourning
Relatives of some of the 1,400 people killed in the October 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel gathered at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall on Monday night to mark a month of mourning.
Around 40 families lit candles for each victim at the entrance of the holy site, considered the most sacred place Jews can worship, during prayers marking the first month of grief in line with Jewish tradition.
"We don't have other ways to commemorate them except with prayers, lighting candles and having them in our heart," said Yossi Rivlin, who lost two brothers at a music festival massacre during the Hamas attack.
The ceremony was the first religious commemoration organised at the Wailing Wall since October 7.
7:45pm: Tension rises along Israel’s border with Lebanon as Israel advances in Gaza
Summing up the situation on Israel’s two fronts, the north and the south, “there has been a barrage of rockets coming in from Lebanon”, said Irris Makler, FRANCE 24’s correspondent in Jerusalem, Israel. “The furthest south they have reached inside Israel is to the town of Haïfa,” she added.
In the south, Israel has “split the Gaza Strip in two, south Gaza and north Gaza, and it’s tightening a band around Gaza City”, said Makler. "Israel is suggesting that Hamas has embedded itself – against all the rules of war – in places where it is very hard for Israel to fire back at them."
7:18pm: Biden, Netanyahu discussed potential for tactical pauses in Gaza strikes
US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed the potential for tactical pauses in strikes on Gaza during talks on Monday, according to a spokesperson.
White House spokesperson John Kirby said more Americans are expected to exit Gaza on Monday as more aid enters the territory. Biden and Netanyahu also discussed the situation in the West Bank, Kirby said.
7:05pm: Five Palestinians killed in occupied West Bank, says ministry
Israeli forces on Monday killed five Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry reported, as deadly violence surges there since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
Four people, aged 20 to 25, were killed and a 14-year-old injured by Israeli army fire in Tulkarem, the ministry said.
The Israeli army said the fatalities were "terrorists", accusing them of being behind attacks on Israelis.
The Palestinian ministry condemned the "assassinations carried out by the Israeli occupying forces" in the city in the northwest of West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967.
The ministry had initially reported three deaths. Witnesses in Tulkarem told AFP that three armed men were killed when their car was intercepted by undercover Israeli agents.
6:58pm: US submarine in Middle East for 'deterrence', says Pentagon
A US nuclear-powered Ohio-class submarine is in the Middle East to help prevent the Israel-Hamas war from spiralling into a broader conflict, the Pentagon said Monday.
The US Central Command posted a picture of the submarine the day before on social media platform X that appeared to show it transiting Egypt's Suez Canal.
It is "now in the Fifth Fleet area of operations", Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Pat Ryder told journalists, referring to an area that includes the Gulf, Red Sea and parts of the Indian Ocean.
"What this does... is further support our deterrence efforts in the region," he said, without providing further details.
Some Ohio-class submarines are armed with nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles, while others are configured to carry more than 150 Tomahawk cruise missiles.
6:56pm: Hamas will maintain rule of Gaza, says its top official in Lebanon
Hamas will not accept a puppet government in the Gaza Strip and will remain in the territory, said on Monday the leader of the Palestinian Islamist group in Lebanon.
Israel has said it intends to destroy Hamas in retaliation for the group's October 7 attack which Israeli officials say killed at least 1,400 people.
"To those who think that Hamas will disappear, Hamas will remain entrenched in the conscience of our people, and no force on Earth can annihilate or marginalise it," Osama Hamdan told a news conference.
The senior Hamas official said Israel ally the United States planned to replace its rule in Gaza, likening such a move to Nazi Germany's puppet state in France during World War II.
"Our people will not allow the United States to impose its plans to create an administration that suits it and that suits the occupation (Israel), and our people will not accept a new Vichy government," he said.
6:54pm: Israel's military says it is striking Hezbollah targets in Lebanon
Israel's military said on Monday it was striking targets belong to the Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon, and that details would follow.
The military's statement came after a barrage of rockets from Lebanon at cities in northern Israel, not far from the Lebanese border.
6:27pm: UN chief says Gaza ceasefire ‘urgent’, as the enclave is becoming a 'graveyard for children'
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday urged an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict, as he warned that the bombarded Gaza Strip was becoming a "graveyard for children."
"The unfolding catastrophe makes the need for a humanitarian ceasefire more urgent with every passing hour," he told reporters at the UN headquarters.
"Ground operations by the Israel Defense Forces and continued bombardment are hitting civilians, hospitals, refugee camps, mosques, churches and UN facilities – including shelters. No one is safe," Guterres told reporters.
"At the same time, Hamas and other militants use civilians as human shields and continue to launch rockets indiscriminately towards Israel," he said.
He said clear violations of international humanitarian law were being committed.
6:12pm: Biden speaks with Israel's Netanyahu
US President Joe Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday to discuss the latest developments in Israel and Gaza, the White House said.
5:33pm: Jordan says 'all options' open as Gaza conflict intensifies
Jordan said on Monday it was leaving "all options" open in its response to what it called Israel's failure to discriminate between military and civilian targets in its intensifying bombardment and invasion of the Gaza Strip.
Prime Minister Bisher al Khasawneh did not elaborate on what further steps Jordan would take, days after it recalled its ambassador from Israel in protest at Israel's offensive against Gaza launched after a cross-border October 7 rampage by Hamas.
5:33pm: Civilian casualties in Gaza in the thousands, says Pentagon
The Pentagon on Monday put the number of civilians killed in Gaza in the thousands, but did not provide a specific number.
"As it related to civilian casualties in Gaza... we know the numbers are in the thousands," Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Patrick Ryder told reporters.
4:15pm: Hamas armed wing in Lebanon launches 16 rockets into Israel
Hamas militants on Monday fired 16 rockets from Lebanon towards northern Israel, the Palestinian group's armed wing announced, saying they targeted areas south of the Israeli coastal city of Haifa.
The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades said the strikes came "in response to the occupation's (Israel's) massacres and its aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip".
The Israeli army meanwhile reported about 30 projectiles had been fired at northern Israel from Lebanon, adding that it fired back at the direction they had been launched from.
3:00pm: French ministry confirms nationals taken hostage by Hamas on October 7
Of the eight French nationals who are still missing since Hamas's October 7 attacks in Israel, some have now been confirmed to have been taken hostage, France's foreign affairs ministry said in a statement on Monday.
Another French national who had been reported missing has now been confirmed dead, bringing the total of French victims of the Hamas attack to 40.
2:52pm: Israeli forces target solar panels at Gaza's al-Shifa hospital, says Hamas-affiliated media
Al Jazeera TV and Hamas-affiliated Al Aqsa radio said on Monday that Israeli forces had targeted a solar panel system at a building in the al-Shifa hospital complex in Gaza City.
2:44pm: Growing frustration for families of hostages as Israel steps up Gaza assault
The families of people taken hostage by Hamas are growing increasingly frustrated by a seeming lack of action and communication over the effort to free their loved ones, even as Israel steps up its offensive on the Gaza Strip both in terms of air strikes and a ground assault. FRANCE 24's Jerusalem correspondent Irris Makler reports.
2:38pm: Former CNN correspondent Arwa Damon on how her charity is helping children in Gaza
Around half the population in Gaza are under 18. That's around 1.1 million children packed into one of the most densely populated territories in the world. The UN says the majority are displaced, staying with their families in overcrowded shelters or camped in hospital grounds. The latest edition of FRANCE 24's show Perspective focuses on the work of a charity set up to help children impacted by war. It's called INARA (International network for aid, relief and assistance) and was founded by former CNN correspondent Arwa Damon. She spoke to our host Gavin Lee.
2:30pm: South Africa recalls ambassador and diplomatic mission to Israel and accuses it of genocide in Gaza
South Africa's government has recalled Monday its ambassador and diplomatic mission to Israel in condemnation of the bombardment of the Gaza Strip, calling it “a genocide”.
The government also threatened action against the Israeli ambassador to South Africa over his recent remarks about the African country's stance on the Israel-Hamas war. No further details were given about the remarks.
2:29pm: Gaza border authority says Rafah crossing open only for listed Egyptians and foreigners
The border authority in Hamas-controlled Gaza on Monday said that the Rafah crossing is open only for evacuations by Egyptians and foreigners listed since November 1.
The authority's statement added that those who were not listed won't be able to cross the border as per notification from the Egyptian authorities.
2:00pm: Lebanese patriarch says country must be kept out of Israel-Hamas war
Lebanon's top Christian cleric has urged state officials to shield Lebanon from the war between Israel and Hamas.
The Iran-backed Hezbollah has been exchanging fire with Israeli forces across the Lebanese-Israeli frontier since the Israel-Hamas war began on October 7, in the worst fighting there since Hezbollah and Israel fought a war in 2006.
Long a critic of the heavily armed Hezbollah, Maronite Christian Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al-Rai called for the application of a 2006 UN Security Council resolution which ended the 2006 war, noting it ordered the sides to cease fire.
He called on Lebanese state officials to work to keep Lebanon away "from the scourge of this war ... and to carry out its political and diplomatic role in support of the Palestinian cause. That is more effective," he said.
1:05pm: Blinken says US working 'very aggressively' to get more aid into Gaza
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has wrapped up his whirlwind diplomatic tour of the Middle East with talks with his Turkish counterpart in Ankara, stressing that Washington is working "very aggressively" to expand the amount of aid reaching civilians in Gaza.
"We know the deep concern here (in Turkey) for the terrible toll ... in Gaza and its civilians, a concern that we share, that we are working on every single day," Blinken told reporters before boarding a plane for Japan.
"We engage the Israelis on the steps that they can take to minimise civilian casualties," he added.
In return, Blinken's counterpart Hakan Fidan pressed the US secretary of state to support an "immediate" ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, a Turkish diplomatic source told reporters.
12:10pm: ‘My future is over’: The children caught up in Israel’s war with Hamas
As Israel continues its relentless bombing of the Gaza Strip, children in the besieged and densely populated enclave are paying a horrific price.
Health authorities in the Hamas-run territory say around 4,000 children have been killed in the month-long conflict, with the UN agency UNICEF warning that Gaza has become “a graveyard for children”.
In the southern town of Khan Younis, doctors at a hospital stripped of resources have no choice but to amputate children's limbs due to the lack of medical supplies.
Warning: the video below contains distressing images.
11:55am: EU’s Borrell suggests plan for ‘humanitarian pause’ in Gaza including Red Cross access to hostages
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Monday suggested a plan under which Israel could suspend its military operation in Gaza in return for the Red Cross getting access to hostages held by Hamas.
"I think that a humanitarian pause counterbalanced by an access to hostages with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as a first step to their release is an initiative in which we should work," Borrell told European Union diplomats in Brussels.
The EU, United States and Britain have been pushing for "humanitarian pauses" in the fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza to ensured people in the besieged territory get help.
But Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ruled out any temporary truces until all hostages seized in Hamas's October 7 attack are released.
"Call it a truce, window, whatever, but we need that violence recedes and that international humanitarian law is being respected," Borrell said.
11:49am: Norway exploring ways to revive diplomatic channel between Israeli and Palestinian authorities
Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said on Monday Oslo was exploring ways to revive a diplomatic channel between Israel and the Palestinians to find a political solution to their decades-long conflict.
Norway served as a facilitator in the 1992-1993 talks between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) that led to the Oslo Accords in 1993. Those talks were conducted in complete secrecy.
Since then, Norway has remained involved as chair of the donor group coordinating international assistance to the Palestinian Territories, the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC).
There is now interest in trying to revive the AHLC as a possible channel for diplomacy, Barth Eide said, as Israel continues to strike Gaza amid its war against the militant Islamist group Hamas that broke out last month.
"We hear now from very many sides – the American, the European and the Arab (sides), and from many among the parties (in the conflict), who want to see whether it can be relevant as a channel again," Barth Eide told public broadcaster NRK.
"This war has reminded everyone that there is no other lasting solution to this than having a two-state solution, which one had hoped to see after the Oslo Accords 30 years ago."
11:05am: Israeli army says allowing Gaza civilians to move south
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has posted a message on its Arabic social media channels, accompanied by a map, to inform Gaza residents that it is allowing the movement of civilians from north Gaza to the south of the besieged enclave.
"Today the IDF will once again allow passage on the Salah al-Din Road between 10am and 2pm," the message reads. "For your safety, take this next opportunity to move south beyond Wadi Gaza."
10:50am: Palestinian Authority rejects partial tax transfer from Israel
The Palestinian Authority will not accept a partial transfer of tax funds from Israel that withholds sums earmarked for administration expenses in Gaza, Palestinian prime minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has warned.
Shtayyeh said he hoped international pressure would bring a speedy transfer of the funds, which are collected by Israel in areas of the occupied West Bank, and paid to the Palestinian Authority under a longstanding arrangement between the two sides.
Part of the funds go to pay for expenses in Gaza, including the salaries of health workers, that are still covered by the Palestinian Authority even though Hamas controls the blockaded enclave.
10:15am: France in talks with Egypt to set up field hospital for Gaza wounded
France is in talks with Egypt to establish a military medical facility on the ground, which would include surgical capacities for people seriously wounded in the neighbouring Gaza Strip, France's defence minister has told Lebanon's L'Orient-Le Jour newspaper.
"There are also still discussions with Egypt in order to preposition a French military health offering on the ground, particularly providing surgery for war injuries," Sébastien Lecornu told the Lebanese paper.
France has sent the Tonnerre helicopter carrier to the region and is currently equipping a second ship with advanced medical facilities that is expected to set sail in the next 10 days.
Paris will also host an international humanitarian conference for the civilian population in Gaza later this week as it looks to coordinate international efforts for the Israeli-occupied Palestinian enclave.
9:25am: Gaza health authorities say more than 200 dead in Israeli strikes overnight
Israeli strikes killed more than 200 people overnight in the Gaza Strip, the Hamas-run health ministry in the besieged Palestinian territory said, adding that the toll only covered Gaza City and the northern part of the enclave.
Israeli forces have stepped up their ground offensive in northern Gaza, ignoring calls by UN aid agencies for a ceasefire while urging civilians to flee to southern parts of the enclave.
In the video below, ABC News correspondent Jordana Miller brings us the latest from Jerusalem.
8:50am: Israeli soldier stabbed in east Jerusalem, attacker killed
A knife-wielding assailant stabbed and seriously wounded a female Israeli soldier before being shot dead in annexed east Jerusalem, police have said.
"A terrorist armed with a knife arrived at Shalem police station and stabbed a female soldier ... border police forces neutralised the terrorist by shooting," police said in a statement.
Police, who did not give details about the assailant's identity, said the soldier was seriously wounded and another suffered light injuries.
8:35am: French death toll from Hamas attacks rises to 40
The number of French nationals killed in the October 7 Hamas attack in Israel has risen to 40, French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne has said.
Borne told France Inter radio that eight French citizens were still missing, with some believed to be held hostage in the Gaza Strip.
8:10am: Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi arrested for 'inciting terror'
The Israeli army says it has arrested the prominent 22-year-old Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi during a raid in the occupied
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"Ahed Tamimi was arrested on suspicion of inciting violence and terrorist activities in the town of Nabi Salih" near the city of Ramallah, an army spokesman told AFP.
Tamimi became famous at age 14 when she was filmed biting an Israeli soldier to prevent him from arresting her little brother who had his arm in a cast.
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She has become an icon of the Palestinian cause and a large portrait of her has been painted on the Israeli separation wall with the West Bank in Bethlehem near Jerusalem.
7:45am: Israel says it 'coordinated' with Jordan to drop medical aid into Gaza
The Israeli army has said it "coordinated" with Jordan to air-drop vital medical supplies to a field hospital in the besieged Gaza Strip.
"Overnight, in coordination with the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), a Jordanian airplane dropped medical equipment and food to the Jordanian Hospital in the Gaza Strip. The equipment will be used by the medical staff for patients," the Israeli army said in a statement.
6:50am: Hezbollah says Israel to 'pay price' after deadly Lebanon strike
Lebanon's Iran-backed group Hezbollah says it has responded to an Israeli strike on Sunday that killed three children and their grandmother, further stoking tensions at the volatile border.
Hezbollah said it fired a barrage of grad rockets at the town of Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel in response to the strike, in which three girls aged between 10 and 14 were killed, according to Lebanese authorities.
It marks the first time Hezbollah has announced using that particular weapon during four weeks of clashes with Israeli forces, underlining the risks of escalation.
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Israel on Monday pounded Gaza with "significant" strikes with soldiers battling Hamas forces in the besieged territory, ignoring ceasefire calls by UN aid agencies who condemned surging civilian deaths in the month-long conflict.
"We are striking Hamas, and we are going stronghold after stronghold, according to our plan, in a systematic effort to dismantle Hamas from its military capabilities," Israeli army spokesman Jonathan Conricus told CNN.
"We have troops on the ground; infantry, armour, combat engineers. They are striking and they are also directing fire from the air," he said, adding efforts were focused on the "underground infrastructure" network of Hamas tunnels.
4:00am: Blinken to try to soothe Turkey's anger in Ankara
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken holds tough talks in Turkey on Monday, aimed at soothing the anger of one of Washington's most strategic but difficult allies about the bloodshed in Gaza.
Blinken's first visit since Israel went to war with Hamas in reprisal for the militants' October 7 attack comes with fury at both Israel and the West boiling over on the streets of Turkey and inside the palace of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters who marched on an air base housing US forces in Turkey's southeast hours before Blinken's arrival Sunday.
3:49am: US VP Harris to discuss boosting humanitarian aid to Gaza with foreign leaders
US Vice President Kamala Harris will discuss the Biden administration's efforts to increase the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas conflict during a phone conversation with foreign leaders on Monday, her office said.
2:29am: UN agency chiefs join in urging Gaza ceasefire
The heads of all major UN agencies issued a rare joint statement Sunday expressing outrage at the civilian death toll in Gaza and calling for an "immediate humanitarian ceasefire" in the war between Israel and Hamas.
"For almost a month, the world has been watching the unfolding situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory in shock and horror at the spiralling numbers of lives lost and torn apart," the UN chiefs said.
The heads of 18 organizations including UNICEF, the World Food Programme and the World Health Organization described the horrific toll on both sides since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, which left about 1,400 people dead, mainly civilians, according to Israeli authorities.
1:08am: Israel says it stopped firing for 'many hours' in parts of northern Gaza to help civilians leave
Israel stopped firing in northern Gaza for several hours two days in a row to create safe passage for civilians to move to the south, a military spokesperson told CNN on Sunday, amid pressure for a humanitarian pause.
"Yesterday and today, for many hours with prior notice and warning, we facilitated, we stopped firing in certain areas of northern Gaza, which is the main combat area, and we called on Palestinians to move south," Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus said.
12:53am: Jordan's King Abdullah II confirms airdrop of 'urgent medical aid' into Gaza
Jordan's air force air-dropped vital medical supplies to a field hospital in the besieged Gaza Strip, King Abdullah II said early Monday.
"Our fearless air force personnel air-dropped at midnight urgent medical aid to the Jordanian field hospital in Gaza," he said on X, formerly Twitter.
Key developments from Sunday, November 5:
The Israeli army said Sunday its land assault on the Gaza Strip had split the Palestinian territory in two, with "significant" strikes continuing in its war against Hamas.
Israeli airstrikes hit two refugee camps in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing at least 45 people, the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said.
French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna has called for an "immediate" humanitarian pause in the Israel-Hamas war as casualties climb in the besieged Gaza Strip.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a high-security surprise visit to the Israeli-occupied West Bank Sunday, meeting with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, according to photographs released by the Palestinian Authority.
Tensions between Israel and Lebanon increased as an Israeli strike in the south of the country killed three children and their grandmother, Lebanese authorities said.
Read our blog to see how yesterday's events unfolded.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)
