We've been reporting that an Israeli tank has been seen on a key road from the north to the south of the Gaza Strip. Verified video shows a tank firing at a car travelling north on the Salah-al-Din road, just south of Gaza City.

The Israeli military has refused to reveal its positions.

Witnesses earlier told AFP news agency that tanks had entered the Zaytun district on the southern edges of Gaza City.

"They have cut the Salah-al-Din and are firing at any vehicle that tries to go along it," said one resident, who did not give his name. The BBC has not independently verified the claim.

The IDF said earlier it had hit 600 targets in the past 24 hours and dozens of Hamas fighters were killed in overnight clashes.

Alice Cuddy
Reporting from Jerusalem

We were working outside our hotel in Jerusalem this morning when we heard a round of gunshots very close by followed by another in quick succession, and headed inside.

We then saw an injured man being brought into an ambulance at the nearby petrol station.

Details are still emerging but we understand that the injured man was a police official who had been stabbed.

The alleged assailant was shot dead by police outside St George’s Cathedral, no more than 300 yards from where the incident started, after running down the road.

We have not confirmed his identity but local reporters say he was from the Mount of Olives area in East Jerusalem.

There was a heavy security presence after the attack, with police arriving in cars and on horseback, but the streets are now quiet again.

Incidents like this are not uncommon in Jerusalem but it comes amid rising tensions here as the war continues.

Image source, Shani Louk's Instagram

Shani Louk, the 22-year-old Israeli-German woman who went missing when Hamas stormed a music festival on 7 October, has now been confirmed dead, her family have said.

Speaking to German media, Ricarda Louk said she received news on Sunday from Israeli military that some remains of her daughter's body had been found. DNA from a bone fragment had been analysed and matched samples provided by her family, her mother said.

Shani’s sister Adi added on Instagram, external: "With great sadness we announce the death of my sister Shani Nicole Louk, of blessed memory, on 7 October 2023, at the massacre at Re'im."

It had been thought Shani had been kidnapped by Hamas gunmen while at the Supernova music festival in the Negev Desert, near the Gaza border, where 260 people were killed. Ricarda had pleaded for information on her daughter after she saw footage online which she believed showed Shani "unconscious in a car".

Rushdi Abualouf
Reporting from Khan Younis, Gaza

This is a very significant development. People have been sending videos and photos of Israeli tanks and bulldozers blocking Salah-al-Din road.

It appears access to and from Gaza City and northern Gaza on that road is cut.

I've spoken to a photographer who was in the area filming an air strike and he said "suddenly I looked back and I saw Israeli tanks".

He took a couple of pictures and then fled.

We understand that tanks were shelling in the area. One car travelling back to Gaza City from Khan Younis was targeted and there were some casualties, according to the local authority.

The Israeli military has declined to say exactly where their forces are in Gaza - after reports in the last hour that Israeli tanks are on the outskirts of Gaza City and have blocked a key road running north to south.

Asked by journalists about the reports, Israel Defense Forces spokesman Daniel Hagari said he would not give details, saying "the security of our forces remains our top priority".

"We have expanded our operations, involving armour, infantry, and offensive actions within the Gaza Strip," he said.

Hagari also spoke about the latest on the operation more generally - saying they'd sent extra units into Gaza "including foot soldiers, tanks, engineering units, and artillery forces" to carry out ground and air strikes.

Yolande Knell
BBC Middle East correspondent, Jerusalem

An Israeli tank and armoured vehicle have cut a key road from the north to the south of the Gaza Strip, entering close to Gaza City, according to Palestinian witnesses.

The tanks are reported to have been on Salah-al-Din road, near the Karni-Netzarim junction, sparking speculation that it could be part of an advance on the biggest city in the territory.

A video circulating on social media shows a car doing a three-point turn after approaching a tank, only for it to open fire and destroy the vehicle.

"He’s gone, the whole family is gone," shouts one of those at the scene, as he speeds away and yells at other vehicles to turn around.

We already knew that Israeli forces said they had expanded their ground forces in Gaza over the past 24 hours. The military says it has "successfully neutralised dozens of terrorists".

IDF chief spokesman Daniel Hagari was asked specifically about the tanks at a morning briefing and declined to give more information.

Salah-al-Din road was one of two routes that Palestinians in the northern part of the Gaza Strip had been told by Israel to use to evacuate south for their safety. It was the preferred choice of many, as the alternative coastal road was seen as being within easy firing range of the Israeli navy.

Away from Gaza for a moment, we've been receiving reports of more violence in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian health officials said this morning that at least four people had been killed in clashes with Israeli forces in Jenin.

According to the Palestinian official news agency Wafa,, external military vehicles and two bulldozers carried out a raid in Jenin and destroyed part of the outer wall of the Ibn Sina Hospital. Missiles were also fired into a house and into Jenin refugee camp, Wafa reported.

In their update this morning, Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari said it had carried out an air strike operation in Jenin, adding: "We targeted and eliminated several armed terrorists."

The Israeli military regularly carried out raids in the West Bank before this war. But it rarely uses air strikes there like it does in Hamas-controlled Gaza.

The West Bank is separate from the Gaza Strip, which is run by Hamas. The Palestinian Authority governs parts of the West Bank that are not under full Israeli control.

Carmel O'Grady
BBC News reporter

Mo El-Deeb’s parents Talal and Naila are stuck in Gaza after they travelled from their home in London to visit relatives.

He managed to speak to his father over the weekend after days of being unable to contact him and assuming the worst.

Talal told him the last few days had been the loudest and scariest since the bombing began and that he doesn’t see a light at the end of the tunnel.

“I'm powerless," Mo tells me. "I've done everything I can. I've spoken to the Foreign Office maybe 100 times.

"My parents went to the border three times on their advice, twice when they were there it was bombed, the third time they stood for five hours and nothing happened.”

“There is no end to this nightmare,” he adds.

We contacted the Foreign Office for a statement. They told us: “We have been keeping in close contact with British nationals in Gaza and will continue to update them on the latest status of the Rafah crossing.”

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Hundreds of patients are stuck in hospitals in the north of Gaza and are physically unable to move south, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in the territory has said.

Tom White from UNRWA echoed what doctors and other charities have said - that it's impossible to move patients from hospitals like Al-Quds in northern Gaza. The Palestinian Red Crescent says Israel told them to evacuate the hospital on Sunday while strikes continue nearby.

"Many people in the north are seeking shelter in UNRWA schools, they're seeking shelter in hospitals," said White. "I was up and one of the hospitals this week and there are hundreds and hundreds of patients that can't be moved."

He said many people in the north - not just patients - also "can't move because they physically don't have the transportation, they don't have the means".

People are "very hungry, very thirsty and very scared", and many are living off pieces of bread and "when we can [we're] getting them canned food".

More now from the Israeli military, who have shared an update about their ground operations in Gaza which they say continued to expand overnight.

"During clashes with terrorists in the Gaza Strip, IDF troops killed dozens of terrorists who barricaded themselves in buildings and tunnels, and attempted to attack the troops," the Israel Defense Forces said.

The statement says that in one attack, an aircraft was guided by forces on the ground and struck a building "with over 20 Hamas terrorist operatives inside it".

It added that overnight a fighter jet struck a military post used to launch anti-tank missiles near Al-Azhar University in northern Gaza.

A short while ago the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) posted a video , externalon social media, which appears to show people gathered outside Al Quds hospital in Gaza City, as loud explosions are heard in the background.

"Now, continues Israeli air strikes in the Tal Al-Hawa area... where Al-Quds Hospital is located" says the PRCS.

The area around the hospital was hit on Sunday by Israeli air strikes, according to people in the area.

It's just gone 07:00 here in our London newsroom - and 09:00 in Israel and Gaza. Here's a recap of the latest headlines:

• The Palestinian Red Crescent says Israeli air strikes are continuing in the area around Gaza City's Al-Quds Hospital, which Israel has told doctors to evacuate
• Staff have warned that evacuating patients from the site is impossible

• After another night of heavy bombardment, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said this morning it had hit 600 Hamas targets in the past 24 hours, up from 450 the day before
• More than 30 aid trucks entered Gaza on Sunday, in the largest delivery since supplies were allowed to resume
• Elsewhere, Israel has urged Russia to protect "all its citizens and all Jews" after a large mob, some shouting antisemitic slogans, stormed an airport in Dagestan. Sixty alleged participants have been arrested, Russian news agencies say, citing the local interior ministry

Stay with us as we bring you updates and analysis

Image source, Reuters

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We've been bringing you reports of heavy shelling around the Al-Quds hospital in Gaza City. The Israeli military issued an evacuation order on Sunday but medical staff say moving the hundreds of patients being treated there is impossible.

There is also concern for patients and staff at another hospital in Gaza City - Al Shifa - where the situation has been described as "catastrophic" by its head of surgery.

Some 55,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) are now "occupying each square metre" of Al Shifa hospital, Dr Marwan Abusada said in a voice note to the BBC, recorded on Sunday afternoon.

Abusada said the hospital was "overwhelmed" and patients were "invading" its corridors as more arrived. About 100 patients were moved to other hospitals over the weekend, he said. "But still we are receiving many, many, many cases. Each half an hour, we receive a huge number of injured people."

A shortage of everything from anaesthetics to painkillers and antibiotics is making the situation "very difficult", he added. "We cannot do more."

Israel's military has said Hamas's main base of operations is beneath Al Shifa. Hamas rejects that claim and some of the doctors working there have called for the hospital to be protected.

On Sunday, the Associated Press reported that Israeli warplanes had carried out strikes overnight near the hospital, citing Gaza City residents. On Saturday, people in the area told the BBC's Rushdi Abualouf in Gaza that nearby roads had been struck.

Image source, EPA

Children are facing a "catastrophic" situation in Gaza, with parents left with no choice but to give them salty water, according to the UN chidren's aid agency Unicef.

Toby Fricker, a spokesperson for the body, told BBC News the shortages that existed in Gaza even before the current conflict had been "raised to another level".

“One of our staff members, she has a four-year-old, a seven-year-old, and she’s just trying to keep girls safe, to keep them alive on an everyday basis," he said.

“She spoke about how they’re just drinking salty water, and her daughter’s saying, ‘Mum, why can’t I have the normal water back we used to have in regular days?’

Asked about the aid supplies that have now been able to enter Gaza, Fricker said: “There have been supplies in, but it’s extremely minimal.

“When you see the immense needs on the ground that we have, there needs to be many, many, many more."

Fricker called for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” and the scaling up of aid supplies into Gaza “on a sustained basis”.

“What we’re seeing now on an everyday basis is that children are being killed, children are being wounded, maimed,” he said.

“And that’s the number one thing - to protect children’s lives and to keep children alive.”

The Israel Defense Forces have just announced they hit 600 Hamas targets in the past 24 hours. That compares to the 450 they said they had struck the previous day.

And some news just in: according to several Russian news agencies, 60 arrests have been made after the riot at Makhachkala Airport.

Nine police officers were injured in the violence, local law enforcement reports, adding that a total of 150 protesters have been identified.

A riot last night by a large crowd at a regional airport in Russia, with some shouting antisemitic slogans, has shocked Jewish people with its echoes of past persecution.

The crowd stormed the airport at Makhachkala, capital of the mainly Muslim Russian republic of Dagestan. They were reportedly seeking people arriving from Tel Aviv. Some ran on to the runway and surrounded aircraft there.

Video clips showed hundreds of people storming the airport terminal, with some waving Palestinian flags and shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest).

Local media report that some demonstrators were even stopping cars outside the airport demanding to see documents, in a chaotic search for Israeli passports.

The incident has uncomfortable echoes of 19th Century pogroms that targeted Jews in the Russian empire, writes the BBC's Russia Editor, Steve Rosenberg.

"In the late 1890s my great grandparents left the Russian empire because of pogroms," he says on X, external, the platform formerly known as Twitter. "What happened yesterday in Makhachkala - a mob storming the airport to hunt for Jews, the mob checking passports as they looked for Israelis - this brought the 1890s into 2023."

Twenty people were injured in the incident, including some police officers, Dagestan's health ministry said. Some have serious injuries and two are in critical condition.

Dagestan, in the North Caucasus, is home to some 3.1 million people on the western edge of the Caspian Sea. An investigation has been opened into the disorder.

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Hezbollah, the armed group based in southern Lebanon, has announced that it shot down an Israeli drone - the first time it has made such a claim during recent fighting.

It occurred on Sunday above Khiam, about 5km (3 miles) from the border with Israel. The drone was seen falling into Israeli territory, Hezbollah said.

According to the organisation, which is designated as a terror group by the UK and US, it has had 46 fighters killed in fighting with Israel since the 7 October Hamas attack, as well as 43 injured.

Hezbollah also says it has launched 84 attacks at 42 points along the border in daily clashes with Israeli troops

Israel says that at least seven of its soldiers have been killed so far.

Image source, Reuters

A new day has dawned in Gaza to the rumble of explosions, as the fighting shows no sign of stopping.

The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting later on the humanitarian crisis in the Strip, after Israel expanded its ground operation in the Palestinian territory over the weekend.

During the meeting, requested by the United Arab Emirates, the Security Council will be updated by UNRWA, the UN agency providing aid to Palestinians.

On Saturday, UN Secretary General António Guterres expressed regret that Israel had intensified military operations instead of allowing a critically needed humanitarian pause supported by the international community.

The Security Council has so far failed in four attempts to secure a ceasefire resolution, because of either Russia or the US wielding their veto.

The UN says that, according to anecdotal evidence, in the north of Gaza, air strikes appear to be systematically destroying residential areas.

Image source, Reuters

More than 30 aid trucks entered Gaza on Sunday, making up the largest humanitarian aid convoy to the territory since limited deliveries were allowed into the territory more than a week ago, the UN said on Monday.

The UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said 33 trucks carrying water, food and medical supplies had gone through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.

A total of 117 trucks have entered Gaza through Rafah since the resumption of aid on 21 October.

But the OCHA warned that a much larger volume of aid was needed on a regular basis to prevent further deterioration of the humanitarian situation, including civil unrest. It added that fuel to operate medical equipment and water and sanitation facilities was "urgently required".

In response to Hamas's attack on Israel on 7 October, Israel established a "complete siege" of Gaza, with the Israeli defence minister declaring: "There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel."

Prior to this, some 500 trucks carrying aid and other goods had entered the territory every day.

Citing an unnamed US government official, AFP news agncy reports that Israel is committed to allowing 100 aid trucks into Gaza each day - the bare minimum needed to meet the most basic needs, according to the UN.