Closing summary
Israel issued new evacuation orders for Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday evening, forcing more families to flee. The new orders forced many families and patients to leave al-Aqsa hospital, in central Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of residents and displaced people had taken shelter, for fear of Israeli bombardments. Gaza’s health ministry called for the 100 patients inside the hospital, and the medical teams who remained to care for them, to be protected.
The UN’s World Food Programme warned that the food distribution centres and community kitchens it supports in Gaza are increasingly being disrupted by Israeli evacuation orders.
At least 40,435 Palestinian people have been killed and 93,534 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement.
Witnesses and Agence France-Presse (AFP) correspondents reported airstrikes and shelling in Gaza overnight. Medics said an airstrike on a Gaza City house killed at least five people, with two rescuers telling AFP more victims may be buried in the ruins in Al-Rimal neighbourhood.
Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araqchi, told his Italian counterpart, Antonio Tajani, that Iran’s response to the July assassination of the Hamas political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran – which it blames on Israel - would be “definite and calculated”.
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Updated
Jordan’s flag carrier Royal Jordanian is set to resume flights to the Lebanese capital Beirut starting on Tuesday morning, Jordan’s state news agency reported.
Jordan’s carrier briefly suspended flights to Beirut on Sunday after tensions between Israel and Lebanon’s Iran-aligned Hezbollah movement escalated earlier in the day.
Multiple airlines announced suspensions of flights to Israel on Sunday. British Airways, for example, said it would cancel all flights to and from Israel until Wednesday.
