Israel-Hamas war LIVE: EU calls for ‘meaningful’ pauses in Gaza fighting as Palestine asks for aid to be ‘parachuted’ into the region

Almost 40 tiby new child infants are underneath the care of exhausted medics at Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital, which is besieged by Israeli tanks battling Hamas fighters, and lacks electrical energy, water, meals, medicines and tools.

Dr. Mohamed Tabasha, head of the paediatric division at Al Shifa Hospital, stated on Monday: ‘Yesterday I had 39 infants and in the present day they’ve grow to be 36. I can’t say how lengthy they will final. I can lose one other two infants in the present day, or in an hour.’

The untimely infants, who weigh lower than 1.5 kg (3.3 kilos) every and in some instances solely 700 or 800 grams, must be in incubators the place the temperature and humidity will be regulated based on their particular person wants.

As a substitute, they needed to be moved to extraordinary beds over the weekend due to a scarcity of electrical energy, stated Tabasha. They had been positioned aspect by aspect, surrounded by packets of nappies, cardboard bins of sterile gauze and plastic baggage.

‘I by no means anticipated in my life that I’d put 39 infants aspect by aspect on a mattress, every with a unique illness, and on this acute scarcity of medical employees, of milk,’ stated Tabasha.

The infants are too chilly, and the temperature is just not steady due to energy cuts, he stated. Within the absence of an infection management measures, they’re transmitting viruses to one another and so they haven’t any immunity.

He stated there was not any approach of sterilising their milk and bottle teats to the required commonplace. Consequently, some had contracted gastritis and had been affected by diarrhoea and vomiting, which meant an acute danger of dehydration.

At the very least three Palestinians have been killed and 20 others injured after an Israeli air strike hit Bani Suhaila, a city east of Khan Younis within the Gaza Strip, well being officers on Monday stated.

Harrowing footage confirmed kids coated in blood being handled by medics on the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis after the airstrikes.

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U.S. and worldwide forces in northeastern Syria had been attacked with drones and rockets not less than 4 instances prior to now 24 hours, although there have been no casualties and solely minor harm, a U.S. navy official stated on Monday.

U.S. forces got here underneath assault thrice on Sunday night, together with close to the Al Omar Oil discipline and at a U.S. base at al-Shaddadi, the official informed Reuters.

A number of drones had been fired at U.S. forces on the Rumalyn Touchdown Zone on Monday morning, the official stated. One drone was shot down however one other broken 4 tents, the official added.

The assaults got here after the U.S. carried out two air strikes on Sunday in opposition to amenities it stated had been utilized by Iran-aligned teams, its third set of strikes in Syria in as many weeks.

The hospitals in northern Gaza had been not functioning amid gasoline shortages and intense fight, with the loss of life toll contained in the territory’s largest facility rising, the Hamas-run well being ministry stated Monday.

• Israel argues its Hamas enemies constructed their navy headquarters underneath the Al-Shifa hospital complicated, whereas UN businesses and docs within the facility warned a scarcity of generator gasoline was claiming lives, together with infants.
• Witnesses reported intense in a single day air strikes, with tanks and armoured automobiles simply meters from the gate of the sprawling Al-Shifa compound on the coronary heart of Gaza Metropolis, now an city struggle zone.
• The Hamas authorities’s deputy well being minister Youssef Abu Rish stated the loss of life toll inside Al-Shifa rose to 27 grownup intensive care sufferers and 7 infants for the reason that weekend as the ability suffered gasoline shortages.

• Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh known as on the European Union and the United Nations to ‘parachute assist’ into the Gaza Strip.
• ‘I name on the United Nations and the European Union to parachute assist into the Gaza Strip, particularly the north,’ he stated, referring to the world the place combating is most intense.

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… Throughout 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’s continued abuse of civilian constructions, 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 inside 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 could possibly be ‘no navy 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 in the present day got here underneath 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 struggle.

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 folks 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 primary job’ for the Swedish activist.

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• Employees on the United Nations workplaces noticed a minute’s silence to honour the 101 assist employees killed in Gaza for the reason that struggle broke out.
• ‘That is the best variety of assist employees 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 combating in Gaza, his spouse has revealed.
• ‘We have now not had any contact with him for a while, however we have now hope,’ Michal Herzog informed the Kan public broadcaster.
• The couple has three sons – it’s not clear which is among the many a whole lot of 1000’s 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 stated 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 using hospitals and civilians as ‘human shields’ within the struggle in opposition to Israel.
• EU international affairs chief Josep Borrell stated that the bloc on the identical time was asking Israel ‘for max restraint and focusing on to be able to keep away from human casualties’.

Israeli forces in the present day reached the gates of Gaza Metropolis’s fundamental hospital underneath 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 could possibly be a pivotal second within the bloody struggle.

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 certainly one of its amenities in southern Gaza, regardless of sharing coordinates with fighters.

The company, generally known as UNRWA, stated Sunday’s strike precipitated ‘important harm’ 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 navy.

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

The lifeless embrace three untimely infants, Al Qidra added.

Operations in Al Shifa hospital complicated, the biggest 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 be international affairs minister, will even journey to Egypt as a part of the go to.
• Talking on the Overseas Affairs Council in Brussels this morning, Mr Martin stated: ‘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 satisfy with international minister Sameh Shoukry and secretary normal 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 satisfy international minister Riyad al-Maliki within the occupied Palestinian territory, including he ‘hopes’ to see Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
• ‘I shall 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 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 struggle.
• Hezbollah, whose rocket arsenal is extensively 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 not less than two electrical firm employees despatched to hold out repairs at a border neighborhood.
• A mortar assault wounded seven Israeli troopers, the navy stated. A rocket set off sirens close to the Israeli port metropolis of Haifa, 17 miles from the Lebanese border, however precipitated 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 combating 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, stated at a gathering of the bloc’s international ministers in Brussels.
• ‘Gasoline must get in. As you may 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 attraction went out as battles between Israeli and Hamas forces have raged round Gaza’s largest hospital, which has grow to be the main focus within the five-week-old struggle.
• The Hamas-run well being ministry stated Monday the hospitals within the centre of the heaviest combating in north Gaza have been pressured out of service amid shortages and the fierce fight.

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

• The realm of combating ‘at the moment consists of the world 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 outdoors Shifa, and a few hospital officers have stated Shifa was underneath siege, with these inside being pinned down by Israeli fireplace. Israel has stated it had supplied secure 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 stated Monday.
• About 650 sufferers, 500 healthcare employees and an estimated 2,500 displaced folks stay within the sprawling Shifa hospital compound, stated Mohammed Zaqout, director of hospitals in Gaza.
• This may 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 employees and 15,000 displaced folks 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 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 informed AFP that 44 had been killed “inside Gaza through the struggle” 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 stated Hamas prevented the hospital from receiving the gasoline.
• A Well being Ministry spokesperson, Ashraf al-Qidra, disputed the account and likewise informed Al Jazeera the gasoline wouldn’t be sufficient to function the generator an hour. ‘This can be a mockery in direction of the sufferers and youngsters,’ Al-Qidra stated.
• Israeli PM Netanyahu asserted that ‘100 or so’ folks had been evacuated from Shifa and that Israel had created secure 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 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 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 combating between Israeli and Hamas forces.

• On Sunday, witnesses on the hospital stated that ‘violent combating’ raged all through the evening
• The sounds of small arms fireplace 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 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) stated, as combating between Israeli forces and Hamas continued simply outdoors the ability the place incubators lay idle with no electrical energy.

• Situations are worsening for a whole lot of sufferers and 1000’s of others sheltering round Al-Shifa hospital – which has grow to be the main focus of the five-week-old struggle.
• The hospital’s final generator ran out of gasoline Saturday, resulting in the deaths of three untimely infants and 4 different sufferers, based on the Well being Ministry. It stated 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 sufficient gasoline, water or meals.
• ‘Regrettably, the hospital is just not 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 threatening.’