Newspaper headlines: Tributes paid to Matthew Perry and UN Gaza warning

A man walks among the rubble of destroyed residential buildings in Gaza

Israel's ongoing ground operation in Gaza is the main news for many of Monday's newspapers.

The Daily Telegraph reports that Hamas is preventing foreign citizens from leaving Gaza. Westminster sources have told the paper they're concerned that at least 200 Britons and about 600 Americans are in effect being held hostage in a war zone. The issue was discussed last night in a series of phone calls between world leaders, including UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

Under the headline "Middle East on precipice," the Daily Express leads with a warning from Iran on the increasing risk that the war could spread across the region. The paper says a message from Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, declaring that "red lines have been crossed", has put "the world on red alert."

With internet and phone communications restored in Gaza, accounts are emerging of what it was like for civilians inside the territory when links were cut for 36 hours. A mother of four children, sheltering in an apartment in Khan Younis, tells the Times it was as if the outside world no longer existed. In the dark, with no way of accessing information, she says all she had was her imagination, and was fearing the worst.

The Guardian describes people's phones springing back into life on Sunday morning "inundated with updates, messages and missed calls" from family and friends.

Elsewhere, The Times reports on a warning from the UK's most senior police officer, Sir Mark Rowley, that the conflict has "accelerated" the threat of an attack here. The paper says the security risk to the UK will be at the top of the agenda at Monday's meeting of the emergency Cobra committee at Downing Street.

The Telegraph has seen a witness statement, submitted to the Covid inquiry by an Oxford epidemiologist, which claims Boris Johnson told scientists he favoured a Swedish-style "soft touch" approach to the pandemic instead of lockdowns. Prof Sunetra Gupta attended a meeting with the former prime minister in the autumn of 2020 when cases of the virus were steadily increasing. The paper says Mr Johnson had been persuaded by a Swedish expert that less restrictive rules would be enough to protect the vulnerable.

Friends star Matthew Perry is pictured on many of the front pages following his death at the age of 54. The Guardian says that in his role as the "metrosexual, ironic" Chandler Bing the actor "captured the spirit of the age".

The Daily Mirror says Perry's death is "shocking, but not surprising." "Friend to the end" is the headline in the Sun.

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