The conflict in Gaza has the potential to spread beyond the region, the head of the UN's Refugee Agency has warned.

Speaking a little while ago, Filippo Grandi said the war would inevitably cause more suffering for both Israeli and Palestinian civilians.

He added it risked "bringing grave instability to a region already plagued by tensions" and represented "another very dangerous piece in a growing mosaic" of global crises.

Grandi added that if these crises were not addressed with courage then it would "spell doom for world peace".

Funerals are also taking place across Gaza.

Relatives gathered to mark the deaths of members of one family who died in recent Israeli strikes.

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Israel is burying its dead following the recent attacks.

One funeral is shown here. Soldiers lower the coffin of an Israeli soldier in the kibbutz of Kfar Menahem, southern Israel.

Yuval Ben Yaakov died during fighting with Hamas militants on the border with the Gaza Strip.

Attending mourners are seen covering their faces in grief.

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More from Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been speaking about his country's response to the worst attack on its soil in decades.

He told visiting officials from southern Israel, according to the AFP news agency, that "what Hamas will experience will be difficult and terrible".

Netanyahu went on to say that "this is only the beginning... we are all with you and we will defeat them with force, enormous force".

More than 700 people have been killed in Israel since Hamas launched its incursion into Israel on Saturday. At least 560 have been killed in Gaza after Israel launched strikes in response to the attacks by Palestinian militants.

A man from Scotland has been confirmed as being among those killed in Israel.

Bernard Cowan, who grew up in Glasgow, died on Saturday.

A statement from his family said: "We are grieving the loss of our son and brother, Bernard Cowan, who was horrifically murdered on Saturday during the surprise terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas.

"We ask for privacy at this time while we process this huge loss to our family, both at home and in Israel, and to the Jewish community in Glasgow where he will be sorely missed."

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Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf has said his wife's parents are currently trapped in Gaza.

Yousaf's in-laws travelled to Gaza a week ago to visit family.

"Me and my wife are sick with worry about them," he said.

“There are people, innocent people, that are suffering. And we cannot ever justify the killing of innocent civilians.”

Yousaf told the BBC he strongly condemned the "unjustifiable" actions of Hamas.

In an interview during Israeli strikes against Gaza in May 2021, Yousaf's wife Nadia El-Nakla, who is of Palestinian descent, said she had family members in Gaza including her brother.

You can read more here.

Nick Beake
Reporting from Jerusalem

The funeral of a British man, Nathanel Young, killed in the attack by Hamas gunmen on Saturday, has been interrupted after loud bangs were heard over Jerusalem.

The alert sent hundreds of mourners to the floor at Mount Herzl, Israel’s national cemetery.

The alarm interrupted the eulogy by the sister of 20-year-old Young who was originally from London and came to serve with the Israeli military two years ago.

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BBC Thai has spoken to Thais living in Israel who survived the Hamas attacks on Saturday. Twelve Thai people have been killed and another 11 have been kidnapped by militants.

Workers at a farm in Mivtahim, a town near the Gaza Strip, described militants firing rockets and storming their farm in the early hours of Saturday.

One man, Udomporn Champahom, said a fellow Thai who was with him is recovering from a gunshot wound "as big as a bottle cap" on his leg.

Another told the BBC: "I was running and crawling underneath a truck then the gunman pulled me out and pointed the gun at me at point blank before firing to the ground."

The worker, who declined to be named, later managed to escape.

There are some 30,000 Thais in Israel working in agriculture, with as many as 5,000 working near the Gaza border.

Wanida Maarsa said that her husband Anucha Angkaew - who has been working on an avocado farm for almost two years - was one of those taken captive by the militants.

He appeared in a video Hamas put out over the weekend, but she has not been able to contact him since Friday evening - when they spoke just before she put their daughter to sleep.

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Speaking to local mayors on Israel's southern border earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the country's response would "change the Middle East".

A statement, released by Netanyahu's office, external about the visit did not elaborate on this, but it did say he had told the council heads that what Hamas will experience will be "difficult and terrible".

Qatar's foreign ministry has confirmed it is attempting to mediate between Hamas and Israeli officials.

Speaking to the Reuters news agency, a spokesman said the negotiations - including a possible prisoner swap - have been continuing since Saturday night and are "moving positively".

"Our priorities are to end the bloodshed, release the prisoners and make sure the conflict is contained with no regional spill over," foreign ministry spokesperson Majed Al-Ansari said.

The number of Israeli hostages held in Gaza remains unclear, but it is widely believed that Hamas seized women, children, elderly people and soldiers.

Hamas has said it is not open to negotiating a prisoner exchange during hostilities, according to spokesman Hossam Badran, who spoke to the AFP news agency.

The Israeli military says it has deployed helicopters to attack targets inside Lebanon.

One video shared on social media appears to show a Hezbollah observation post being bombed, but the BBC has not verified this.

Earlier the IDF said it had killed at least two gunmen who crossed from Lebanon into Israel.

Quentin Sommerville
Reporting from southern Lebanon

For the second day in a row, a small-scale attack has been launched from southern Lebanon into Israel. A number of armed men crossed the border near the Lebanese town of Dhayra and were killed by Israeli troops, supported by helicopter gunships, according to the Israeli military.

As many as six men are believed to have been involved, two were killed, three wounded and one escaped back across the border to Lebanon, although there has been no official confirmation of their numbers. Mortars were also fired into Israel, which then shelled the launch sites in Lebanon.

The Iranian-backed group Hezbollah said it was not involved in today’s attack – Palestinian militant groups have also launched assaults on Israel from the volatile border area in the past.

On Sunday, Hezbollah fired a number of shells and rockets at Israeli targets, in what it called an act of solidarity with Palestinians.

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A father-of-two has described the moment he realised his wife and daughters were in Gaza, thought to be taken hostage by Hamas.

Yoni Asher’s wife, Doron, and their children Raz, five, and Aviv, three, were staying with relatives close to the border with Gaza.

“Saturday, around 10.30 in the morning, was the last call when I spoke to my wife,” he said.

His worst fears were seemingly confirmed later that day when he saw a video of people being loaded onto the back of a truck.

He said: “In the video I recognised my wife and my two daughters, my two little babies.

“I don’t know in what terms or what conditions they are held but you know, the situation is getting much worse.”

Mediators from Qatar have been in contact with Hamas officials to try to negotiate the release of Israeli women and children seized by the militant group and taken into Gaza, the Reuters news agency reports.

A source briefed on the talks told Reuters that the Qataris proposed the Israelis be exchanged for 36 Palestinian women and children detained in Israel.

The source said the talks were being conducted in co-ordination with the US.

Neither Israel nor Hamas have directly commented on the reports.

We've received this video from our correspondent in southern Israel of the moment journalists had to take shelter during a missile attack.

The BBC team are in Ashkelon, which is 14 kilometres from Gaza. It has been the target of rocket attacks in recent days.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's The World at One earlier, Hamas' head of international relations Basem Naim said the group is "committed and we are obliged to treat our hostages in a very human, dignified way".

He refused to confirm the number of hostages taken.

More than 700 people have been killed in Israel since Saturday. Dozens of people were also kidnapped, with most having been taken into Gaza.

More than 500 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel began striking the enclave.

Naim also claimed Hamas' leader Mohammad Deif instructed militants to "respect elderly, respect civilians, respect children" and "don't kill anyone who is not involved directly in the battle".

But we know that the militants in fact killed large numbers of civilians in cold blood in Israeli communities, including the massacre of nearly 300 people at the music festival near the Gaza border, many of them young people.

Lebanese political party and militant group Hezbollah says it has not mounted an operation in Israel after the Israel Defense Forces killed at least two gunmen on the border with Lebanon.

In a statement, the IDF said it had killed "a number of armed suspects that infiltrated into Israeli territory from Lebanese territory", but didn't provide an exact update.

Hezbollah emerged with the help of Iran in the 1980s during the Israeli occupation of Lebanon.

Read more about the group here.

Misinformation goes viral after Hamas attackpublished at 14:13 British Summer Time 9 October 2023

14:13 BST 9 October 2023

Misleading and false content started to spread online soon after the Hamas attack started on Saturday, and has grown ever since.

In one example, footage was widely shared with the claim that it showed two Israeli helicopters being shot down by Hamas. But we found it was identical to a clip from the military simulation game, Arma 3.

Another video viewed millions of times claimed to show senior Israeli generals being seized by Hamas. But It actually shows the arrest of Karabakh separatist leaders by Azerbaijani forces, a video of which was posted to YouTube on 5 October, two days before the Hamas attack.

The letters DTX visible on the front of the uniform are the initials of the Azerbaijan state security service.

Yousef Shomali
Reporting from Jerusalem

Tensions are running high in the occupied West Bank – where some 2.8 million Palestinians live – as the Israeli army imposes a complete closure.

Residents say that the entrances to towns and cities have been shut off with iron gates, cement blocks and mounds of earth.

New military checkpoints have been set up in some places. Through the day there have been long queues at some petrol stations as supplies of fuel have run out.

"This is something we’ve seen before through long decades of occupation," said one tour guide in Beit Sahour, who is now without work.

"This is a policy that Israel’s been using for decades simply to punish the entire population for the acts of certain groups of people,” complained another resident.

On Sunday, shops and businesses in the West Bank were shuttered as a general strike was called in response to Israel’s military action in the Gaza Strip, which is governed by Hamas.

The evening saw angry protests. Four Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli soldiers at Qalandiya checkpoint in Ramallah last night.

In Hebron, a man was killed apparently trying to ram Israeli forces with a bulldozer.

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It's 15:45 in Israel and Gaza. If you're just joining us - here are the latest headlines on this fast-moving story:

Israel continues battle to secure its territory

• More than two days after the unprecedented attack, Israel said its border with Gaza was not yet completely secure
• But it said its forces were in full control of the communities that had been attacked by Hamas, whose fighters shot civilians on sight

• The military has acknowledged some Palestinian militants might still be at large or even continuing to enter the country

Death toll rising on both sides

• At least 700 Israelis and 500 Palestinians have been killed so far in the violence
• Nine US citizens have been confirmed killed in Israel, while more than 10 British citizens are feared dead or missing

• Dozens of people are being held hostage by Hamas, mostly in Gaza
• A Hamas spokesman said four hostages had been killed in Israeli airstrikes - this can't be verified

Gaza blockade ordered

• Israel's military intensified air-strikes on Gaza around lunchtime, after saying more than 500 Hamas targets has been hit overnight
• Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant has ordered a complete blockade, including preventing food, water and power from getting in

• The UN says more than 120,000 Gazans have been displaced from their homes, with many seeking limited shelter in schools