Sally Nabil
BBC News, Cairo

The Egyptians have been working to broker a truce between Israel and the Palestinians but Israel has reportedly rejected a ceasefire proposal, leaving officials here in Cairo quite frustrated. Over the past few days, Egypt's foreign minister Sameh Shoukry has made endless rounds of calls with regional and international parties, including Jordan, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the US, trying to bring violence to an end.

Mr Shoukry told the UN Security Council yesterday that that the ongoing Israeli military operation in Gaza is jeopardising the future of peace and stability in the region.

Egypt has always seen the Palestinian cause as one of its main areas of regional influence. Not only did it mediate in past Israeli-Palestinian conflicts, but it has tried, for years, to bridge deep divisions among rival Palestinian factions.

The Egyptian authorities have made it clear hospitals in the Sinai Peninsula, bordering the Gaza strip, are ready to receive and treat wounded Palestinians. Ambulances have already been despatched to the Egyptian side of the borders, but we understand that military escalation in the strip is complicating efforts to move the victims.

At least two footballers have been spoken to by their clubs after appearing to express opinions about the Israel-Gaza conflict.

Lavazza - a sponsor of Arsenal football club - complained about this post from player Mohamed Elneny:

Arsenal said players "are entitled to express their views on their own platforms... that said, we have spoken to Mo about this so he understands the wider implications of his post".

Meanwhile, Wellington Phoenix's Israeli forward Tomer Hemed is facing scrutiny from Australia's A-league over two goal celebrations during his team's match with Melbourne City on Sunday.

After scoring a goal Hemed ran to a group of supporters and draped himself in the Israeli national flag. After a second goal he put on a kippah, covered his face with one hand and pointed to the sky.

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Phoenix general manager David Dome told New Zealand media that the club had already spoken to Hemed, and that they would look at the issue in more detail "over the next couple of days".

"We respect people's rights for their expressions but at the same time we have to be very sensitive to what is going on in the Middle East and the human tragedy that is happening there," he said.

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Rocket warning sirens have been sounding in several southern Israel communities near Gaza this morning, including the city of Ashkelon and the towns of Kisufim and Ein Hashlosha, according to Israeli media. There have been no reports of any casualties, but a chicken coop was set on fire by one rocket.

Residents of the Eshkol Regional Council, south of Gaza, have been told by local authorities to stay in their bomb shelters until further notice.

Earlier, the Israeli military tweeted, external that 3,150 rockets had been fired by Palestinian militants towards Israel since last Monday.

About 460 rockets had misfired and landed in the strip, while the Iron Dome missile defence system has intercepted about 90% of those that had crossed into Israel, it added.

The military said it had struck more than 820 “terror targets” in Gaza in response.

Turkey's state-funded media agency Andalou has offered to let Associated Press and Al Jazeera use its offices in Gaza after a tower block housing the firms was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike.

In a statement, Andalou's general manager Serdar Karagoz said: "Since this recent conflict has escalated over the past week, there is an apparent pattern of targeting journalists who are carrying out their professional duties so as to block coverage of the situation on the ground."

Israel - which gave occupants an hour to leave the building before the strike on Saturday - says it also hosted a Palestinian "terrorist" intelligence office, and that it was a "perfectly legitimate target".

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Najla Shawa, a Palestinian humanitarian worker and mother of two who lives in Gaza, told the BBC World Service’s Newsday programme that the Israeli air strikes early on Monday were even more intense than on Sunday, when 42 people were killed.

She says her “hardest mission” is explaining it to her four- and six-year-old daughters.

“When this round started [the eldest] was already screaming. They would run to the corridor. I would just simply hug them really, really tight and just tell them that it was going to be OK.”

But, Ms Shawa adds, she does not believe that.

“As an adult and someone who has witnessed all the wars... I was getting ready to die. I had to be at peace with it. I had to be at peace with even being under rubble. Yesterday, in the morning people we know [were killed], people we work with... ordinary people, professional people, young and old.”

As the Israel-Palestinian conflict has escalated, posts containing misleading or false claims have been widely shared online.

There are numerous examples of misinformation from both sides that have provoked intense debate on social media.

For example, a spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared a video on Twitter which he claimed showed Hamas firing rockets at Israel "from populated areas"...

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But the footage he shared was not of Hamas firing rockets at all - it was actually filmed in Deraa, Syria, in 2018.

BBC Monitoring has fact-checked other social media posts here.

Reality Check

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Why is Gaza, one of the most densely populated places in the world, blurry on Google Maps?

It's an issue that has been highlighted by researchers using open-source, publicly available information - including mapping data - to locate attacks and document the destruction.

"The fact that we don't get high-resolution satellite images from Israel and Palestinian territories sets us back," says Samir, an open-source investigator.

You can read BBC Reality Check's full explanation of why this is, here.

Rocket attacks on Israel and air strikes on Gaza have continued, turning homes on both sides to rubble. Here residents from both sides tell how spaces of sanctuary have been overshadowed by fear.

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Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has said that efforts are being made to protect the city's Jewish community, amid a fear that the fighting between Israel and Gaza will lead to a rise in anti-Semitism.

"It is possible... to be very angry about what is happening in Israel and Gaza and the West Bank, and be heartbroken at the death and to call for a ceasefire and a de-escalation," he told Sky News.

"What is not excusable, on the other hand, is to use that as an excuse to be anti-Semitic and racist. There can be no excuse for that."

He added that anti-Semitic incidents have a "ripple of fear effect" on the Jewish community in the UK.

"It is really important that we don't bring conflicts 3,000 miles away to the capital city," he said.

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An escalation of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians has led the UN to warn of a "full-scale war". The latest violence followed a month of rising tensions in Jerusalem, though the conflict has gone on for decades. So how did it start?

Read more in our simple guide: The conflict explained

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Gazan residents have been describing their horror and fear at the intensity of the bombardment.

One Gazan resident in an area hit by strikes, Riyad Eshkuntana, told Reuters news agency that when the strikes hit his home, his wife and three of his four daughters were killed. “I ran to check on the girls,” he said. “My wife jumped, she hugged the girls to take them out from the room, then a second airstrike hit the room.”

Another Gazan, Mani Qazaat told AFP that Israeli leaders "should realise we're civilians, not fighters", adding "I felt like I was dying".

BBC Gaza producer Rushdi Abualouf spoke to a 45-year-old woman, Sarah Mahmoud, who said: "We are still alive, but we are not well.

"The warplanes destroyed the most beautiful road in Gaza, here are deep potholes in the street that I can see from the window of my room."

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The Israeli military says it conducted strikes on a militant tunnel system in Gaza, tweeting that it “neutralised” 9.3 miles (15km) of tunnels.

Israel’s military says it has been targeting leaders and infrastructure linked to Hamas.

“That’s 9.3 miles that can no longer be used for terror,” its tweet says.

Paul Adams
BBC diplomatic correspondent, Jerusalem

Yesterday, amid international calls for a ceasefire, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu said the assault on Gaza would continue with “full force” and would take a little longer. Airstrikes on Gaza overnight were some of the heaviest yet, hitting Hamas facilities and homes, but also damaging main roads and power lines.

If the intention is to persuade Hamas to stop firing rockets, it’s not working. There were more volleys during the night, hitting the southern Israeli cities of Beersheba and Ashkelon.

American officials say they are working closely with Israel, Egypt, Qatar and the UN to end the crisis. In a tweet late last night, the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said the violence must end immediately.

But the Biden administration has stopped short of demanding a ceasefire and yesterday the United States blocked efforts at the UN Security Council to issue any kind of statement.

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Welcome to our live reporting of the conflict between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza, which is entering its second week and shows little sign of easing.

These are the latest developments:

• Israeli aircraft have carried out dozens more airstrikes on Gaza - some targeting Hamas tunnels - as the latest upsurge in violence enters its second week
• Hamas militants continue to fire rockets into southern Israel
• Palestinian officials say Sunday was the deadliest day since the current fighting began, with 42 Palestinians killed

• Israel’s army says that militants have fired more than 3,000 rockets towards Israel over the past week
• UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns that if the “utterly appalling” violence doesn’t cease the region will be plunged into an “uncontainable crisis”