Six former prime ministers of Australia have released a joint statement supporting a two-state solution “as the basis for long-term lasting peace between the Israeli and Palestinian peoples”.

The statement released on Monday morning, external condemned the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October and called for the release of hostages being held in Gaza.

It was signed by John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Tony Abbot, Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison. Paul Keating was the only former PM who did not sign the statement.

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The statement also highlighted tensions between Israelis and Palestinians in Australia and called on Australians to treat each other with love and respect.

“If our hearts are filled with hatred, then we will be doing the terrorists’ work,” it said.

The prime ministers also called for sustained humanitarian access to ensure that supplies could reach Palestinians.

“We are horrified by the thousands of deaths and injuries inflicted on innocent Palestinian civilians, including many many Palestinian children,” the statement said.

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The funeral has taken place in Israel for Lili Itamari, 63, and Ram Itamari, 56, a couple from Kibbutz Kfar Aza.

The couple were killed when Hamas attacked the kibbutz near the Gaza border on 7 October.

The funeral was attended by friends and relatives and also those who survived the attack on the kibbutz.

Images from the service shows armed guards watching over the mourners as they remember the couple.

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On the live video feed we are watching, which shows Gaza City in the distance, the din of explosions has become constant.

Occasionally orange flashes of flame burst above the skyline in the darkness.

Just a reminder that Israel has reported hitting more than 450 Hamas targets with air strikes this Saturday alone, targeting everything from operational command centres to look-out posts.

Although the death of Friends actor Matthew Perry leads several of Monday's front pages, coverage of the conflict in Gaza dominates most of the papers.

The Times focuses on the situation in Gaza after communication with the outside world was cut off from the territory on Friday evening, as Israel prepared to expand its ground operations. "We started asking: is this a plan finally to annihilate us?" a witness told the paper.

In another report, the paper says an emergency Cobra meeting will be held by the UK government later on Monday amid fears the Israel-Gaza conflict has "accelerated" the threat of terrorism in Britain.

Civil order is beginning to collapse in the Gaza Strip, with thousands of people raiding warehouses for food, the Guardian says. Wheat, flour and hygiene products were among the supplies taken from four UN-run centres across the strip on Saturday, the paper reports

And the Daily Express leads with a warning from Iran, which said Israel sending ground troops into Gaza "crossed red lines".

Read our full round-up of today's newspaper headlines here.

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US Vice-President Kamala Harris has reiterated that the US has no intention or plans to send combat troops to Israel or Gaza.

"We have absolutely no intention nor do we have any plans to send combat troops into Israel or Gaza, period," she said in an interview on 60 Minutes, external.

The US, she said, was providing Israel with advice, equipment and diplomatic support.

“Israel, without any question, has a right to defend itself. That being said, it is very important that there be no conflation between Hamas and the Palestinians,” she said.

“The Palestinians deserve equal measures of safety and security, self-determination and dignity, and we have been very clear that the rules of war must be adhered to and that there be humanitarian aid that flows."

The US, she added, wanted to prevent the conflict from escalating and she also warned Iran not to get involved.

A soldier was seen waving an Israeli flag roughly two kilometres from the border, within the Gaza Strip, in footage posted on X (formerly Twitter).

We've been reporting on the bombing in the area of the Al-Quds Hospital, a major facility in northern Gaza.

The Israeli military issued an evacuation order for the hospital on Sunday, but staff have said that moving the hundreds of patients currently being treated there would not be possible.

BBC News tonight received a message from an unnamed doctor at the clinic saying that “heavy bombardment has now begun in the vicinity of Al-Quds Hospital”.

“Everyone, Everyone, especially the children, is terrified," he said. "They bomb the [residential] towers behind the hospital."

We also earlier received a voice note from an unnamed Gaza resident who said: “They have bombed two residential towers and now they're bombing the third one. God protect us."

Footage thought to have been shot from inside the hospital showed rooms filled with dust and windows blown out.

Scores of rioters stormed an airport in the Russian region of Dagestan on Sunday, reportedly ahead of the arrival of a flight from the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.

Unverified footage on social media showed crowds, some carrying Palestinian flags, running through a terminal at the Makhachkala airport, forcing open doors and making their way on to a runway. Others were seen stopping cars outside the site and demanding to see documents in an apparent search for Israeli passports.

It is thought the mob intended to attack Israeli or Jewish passengers because of anger over the conflict in Gaza. Dagestan is a constituent republic of Russia, but is located in the country’s far south and has a majority Muslim population.

In a statement, the Israeli government said that it viewed with “utmost gravity attempts to harm Israeli citizens and Jews anywhere”.

“Israel expects the Russian legal authorities to safeguard the well-being of all Israeli citizens and Jews wherever they are and to take strong action against the rioters and against the wild incitement being directed against Jews and Israelis,” it said.

Dagestan's health ministry said a number of people had been injured in the incident and were receiving medial help, though did not provide any further details.

Regional governor Sergei Melikov said that “all Dagestanis empathise with the suffering” of people in Gaza but called the riot “outrageous” and said it would “receive the appropriate assessment from law enforcement”.

A criminal case has now been opened for civil disorder.

Authorities said on Sunday evening that all "unauthorised citizens" had been removed from the airport but that it was expected to remain closed until 6 November.

Read more here.

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A good way of seeing where countries stand is through their votes in Friday’s UN General Assembly over a resolution calling for a ‘humanitarian truce, external’ in Gaza: 120 countries voted in favour, 45 abstained and 14 were against.

Many Western states publicly back Israel. The US voted against Friday’s resolution, while Canada and the UK abstained. The EU (which cannot vote as a bloc) expressed support for Israel, but its members are split. Germany and Italy, which support Israel’s right to defend itself, abstained. Others such as Spain have urged European leaders “not to make us complicit in genocide., external”

Russia, which hosted Hamas recently, externalbut also pursues good relations with Israel, voted for the truce.

Most Middle Eastern statesvoted in favour, and many have strongly denounced Israel’s military operation. Iraq and Tunisia were the two abstentions.

Most countries in South America also voted in support of the resolution. Colombia has threatened to break ties, externalw ith Israel, while Brazil has issued stern statements against Israel’s bombing of Gaza. Paraguay was the only South American country that voted against Friday’s resolution.

Nearly all ofAsia– including China, which is trying to position itself as a peace broker in the Middle East – voted for the truce. India abstained, amid speculation that the government was strengthening ties with Israel.

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As we mentione earlier, the International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor has been speaking about the situation in Gaza.

He has just come back from visiting the Rafah crossing with Gaza and Egypt.

Karim Khan said that impeding aid deliveries for Gaza could constitute a war crime and that there must be an effort by Israel to ensure vital supplies are allowed in.

“Civilians must receive food and water,” he said. “I saw trucks full of goods, full of humanitarian assistance, stuck in Egypt where no one needs them. Stuck in Egypt, away from hungry mouths and bleeding wounds. These supplies must get to civilians in Gaza without delay".

He said that Israel had “clear obligations in its war with Hamas. Not just moral obligations but legal obligations to comply with the laws of armed conflict".

Khan added that “this principle applies to Hamas, in firing indiscriminate rockets into Israel”.

He said he was also concerned about a spike in the number of reported incidents of attacks by settlers against Palestinian civilians on the West Bank.

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It has just gone midnight here in London, 02:00 in Israel and Gaza, and we have been hearing the occasional boom of an explosion, roar of jets and apparent whirring of drones on a video feed which shows Gaza City in the distance, largely shrouded in darkness.

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians are enduring another anxious night in the Gaza Strip, the stronghold of the Hamas group Israel has pledged to destroy since its devastating attack of 7 October.

One site in particular, the Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City, has been the focus of attention after Palestinian doctors reported that they had been told by the Israelis to evacuate – a request they say is impossible for the patients inside. Air strikes were reported close by on Sunday.

US President Joe Biden has told Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that the flow of aid into Gaza needs to be considerably increased. On the same day, the International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor warned that impeding aid deliveries for Gaza could constitute a war crime.

Stay with us through the night for updates and expert analysis, brought to you by our team of writers in the UK, US and Singapore.

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Israel Defense Forces say they have carried out a strike in Syria.

The IDF said on social media platform X that they had targeted launchers in the country, external.

They added that the strike was in response to launches from that area against Israel last night.

A tweet from the IDF a few hours ago said that theyhad also carried out strikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanese territory.