Summary

  • Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, says its military operation against Hamas will continue "with full force" despite international calls for a ceasefire

  • The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry says 188 Palestinians have died since Monday, and Israel has reported 10 dead

  • Sunday marks the seventh day of elevated Israeli-Palestinian violence, the worst since 2014

  • More rockets have been fired from Gaza towards southern Israel. Israel says the concentration of rocket fire in the past week has been the highest ever

  • The UN Security Council is holding an emergency meeting to discuss the hostilities

  • UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged all parties to end the "utterly appalling" violence

  • Israel says air strikes targeted the home of Hamas's leader in Gaza overnight

Live Reporting

Edited by Rebecca Seales

  1. US airlines and British Airways suspend flights to Israel

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    Three US airlines and British Airways have have suspended flights to Israel due to the escalating violence.

    American Airlines, United Airlines and Delta Air Lines have all cancelled flights to Tel Aviv.

    In a statement, British Airways said: "The safety and security of our colleagues and customers is always our top priority, and we continue to monitor the situation closely."

    British airline easyJet said that it was not yet cancelling its Tel Aviv flights.

    "We will of course continue to monitor the situation," an easyJet spokeswoman said.

  2. Old grievances fuelling new fighting

    Jeremy Bowen
    BBC Middle East editor

    Tensions in Jerusalem spiralled over the past monthReuters

    Tensions in Jerusalem have spiralled over the past month

    The latest round of violence between Israelis and Palestinians is happening because the long and unresolved conflict between the two sides has once again been left to fester.

    It is an open wound in the heart of the Middle East and it is why violent face-to-face confrontations have escalated into rocket-firing, air strikes and death.

    Just because the conflict has fallen out of international headlines in recent years does not mean that it has ended. The issues do not change, neither does the hatred and bitterness that not years but generations of trouble and killing have engendered.

    While the conflict goes on neither side can be secure. The one certainty is that every few years, at least, there will be a serious and violent crisis.

  3. Welcome to our live coverage

    patrol in LodReuters

    Mixed cities in Israel such as Lod have seen nights of violence

    Welcome to our coverage of events in Israel and Gaza. Here is what's been happening:

    • Israel is calling up reservists to restore order in Israeli cities after street violence between Jewish and Arab Israelis. It comes as communal clashes spread to a number of Israeli cities
    • Palestinian militants in Gaza have fired dozens of rockets at Israel after Israeli air strikes killed top commanders and felled another tower block there
    • At least 67 people in Gaza and seven people in Israel have been killed
    • Fighting erupted on Monday after weeks of rising Israeli-Palestinian tension in East Jerusalem which culminated in clashes at a holy site revered by Muslims and Jews
    • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to "continue acting to strike at the military capabilities of Hamas" - and other Gaza militant groups
    • The Palestinian Authority has condemned Israel's "military aggression", saying it was "traumatising an already beleaguered population of two million people"

    Read more: Rockets pound Israel after Gaza militants killed