Gaza misplaced communications in its third complete outage of the battle to date, as Israel’s navy stated it had divided the Palestinian territory into two.
Israeli media reported the nation’s troops are anticipated to enter Gaza City inside 48 hours, having encircled the realm.
Strong explosions have been seen in northern Gaza in a single day, with the battle now in its fifth week after Hamas militants launched a shock assault on Israel on 7 October.
Follow stay: Israeli troops ‘to enter main metropolis inside 48 hours’
At the British embassy in Lebanon, some staff and their relations have been briefly withdrawn as fears develop the struggle may spiral right into a regional battle – with Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah group having traded fireplace alongside their border.
The UK Foreign Office has suggested towards “all travel to Lebanon” and warned of “civil unrest”.
It got here earlier than Hamas’s armed wing in Lebanon stated it had launched 16 rockets from the nation in direction of the northern Israeli cities of Nahariyya and southern Haifa. The Israeli navy stated 30 rockets have been launched at Israel from Lebanon within the final hour.
Other key developments:
• Hamas says ‘Gaza holocaust’ is happening
• US ‘sends Iran a message saying it’s looking for a ceasefire’
• Number of individuals useless in Gaza throughout battle rises to 10,022
• Gaza border authority says Rafah crossing into Egypt is open
• Three Palestinians ‘killed after Israeli forces shot at their automotive in West Bank’
Hamas spokesman Osama Hamdan gave a information convention earlier after Israel stated the militant group had been stockpiling weapons beneath the Sheikh Hamad Hospital in Gaza.
He known as on the UN to examine hospitals in Gaza to watch Israeli “war crimes” and see that there isn’t any Hamas presence inside them.
Mr Hamdan was stood subsequent to a display screen which had {a photograph} with the caption “Gaza Holocaust”, earlier than he claimed Israel had focused Gaza’s civilians intentionally, destroying some 250,000 houses within the course of.
‘Refugee camps focused’ as assaults proceed on Gaza
It got here a day after Israeli navy spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari advised reporters the struggle has reached a “significant stage” as Israeli troops function in Gaza, including: “Today there is north Gaza and south Gaza.”
The momentary collapse in connectivity throughout Gaza on Monday, reported by web entry advocacy group NetBlocks.org and confirmed by Palestinian telecom firm Paltel, has made it tough for Palestinians and support staff to contact individuals exterior the territory.
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Juliette Touma, a spokesperson for the UN Palestinian refugee company, stated it had “lost communication with the vast majority” of its members.
It got here after Israeli warplanes have been reported to have struck two refugee camps on Sunday.
The Maghazi refugee camp was a type of hit, with at the very least 40 individuals killed and 34 wounded, Gaza’s Hamas-run well being ministry stated.
An Associated Press reporter at a close-by hospital noticed eight useless kids, together with a child, introduced in after the strike.
The second airstrike was reported to have hit a home close to a college on the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. Staff at al Aqsa Hospital advised the AP at the very least 13 individuals have been killed.
Israel has not confirmed it carried out the strikes.
Israel has stated it would press on with its offensive with the aiming of crushing Hamas, regardless of US appeals for even temporary pauses to get support to civilians.
On the bottom, Israeli forces in Gaza have reported discovering stashes of weapons, at occasions together with explosives, suicide drones and missiles as they function within the territory.
Gaza’s well being ministry has stated 10,022 Palestinians have been killed, with greater than 4,000 of them kids and minors.
Officials in Israel have stated 1,400 individuals have been killed within the nation through the battle.
The Gaza border authority has stated the Rafah crossing which permits individuals within the Palestinian territory to cross into Egypt is open once more.
Egyptians and overseas nationals who’re on an accepted listing are capable of cross, it added.
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Meanwhile, Iran’s overseas minister has claimed the US despatched a message to Iran prior to now three days saying it was looking for a ceasefire in Gaza.
“However, in practice we saw nothing but their support of genocide in Gaza,” Hossein Amirabdollahian advised state TV.
It got here as US secretary of state Antony Blinken met his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan on Monday.
Speaking on the airport within the Turkish capital Ankara, Mr Blinken stated they mentioned efforts to increase humanitarian efforts in Gaza and to stop the battle within the area from spreading.
The US secretary of state stated it will be seen within the coming days whether or not humanitarian help can increase in vital methods.
It comes after he met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas within the occupied West Bank on Sunday, a day after assembly Arab overseas ministers in Jordan.
Mr Abbas, who has had no authority in Gaza since Hamas took over in 2007, stated the Palestinian Authority would solely assume management of Gaza as a part of a “comprehensive political solution” establishing an unbiased state that features the West Bank and east Jerusalem, lands Israel seized within the 1967 struggle.
His remarks appeared to additional slender the already slim choices for who would govern Gaza if Israel topples Hamas.
The Palestinian Authority has partial management over the West Bank the place the well being ministry says three Palestinians have been killed after Israeli forces shot at their automotive within the metropolis of Tulkarm.
Violence within the West Bank has intensified since Hamas’s assault on Israel on 7 October.
At least 132 Palestinians, together with 41 kids, have been killed, 124 of these by Israeli forces and eight by Israeli settlers, stated Liz Throssell, spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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