UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warns Gaza is becoming a "graveyard for children", as Israeli air strikes intensify
He says the case for a "humanitarian ceasefire" becomes "more urgent with every passing hour"
In a joint statement earlier, UN agencies called the killings of civilians in both Gaza and Israel "horrific"
Israel's air strikes on the Gaza Strip have intensified - it says it's targeting Hamas infrastructure, and is minimising civilian deaths
Benjamin Netanyahu tells ABC News in the US that Israel will have “overall security responsibility” for Gaza once the fighting is over
The Israeli military said on Monday it hit 450 Hamas targets in the past 24 hours, including anti-tank missile launch pads
Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry says 10,022 people, including 4,104 children, have been killed in the territory since Israel's campaign began
Israel began bombing Gaza after Hamas killed more than 1,400 people in Israel and kidnapped more than 200 others
We've just reported on the deaths of four civilians in Lebanon.
On the Israeli side of the border, an Israeli military spokesman , externalsays one civilian was killed by an anti-tank missile fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon.
The spokesman says Hezbollah is attacking "Israeli military sites and civilian towns".
Hugo Bachega
Reporting from Lebanon
Three children and their grandmother have been killed by an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon, Lebanese state media says.
The report said their car was hit on a road in the Bint Jbeil district, and that the children were aged ten, 12, and 14.
Cross-border attacks between the Lebanese group Hezbollah and the Israeli military have been frequent in recent weeks.
Paltel - the Palestinian telecommunications company – says there has been another “complete disruption” to communication and internet services in Gaza.
They say this is due to “the previously reconnected major routes" being exposed to Israeli attacks.
Internet monitoring group Netblocks , externalsays at around 18:50 local time (16:50 GMT) there was a “new collapse in connectivity” in the Gaza Strip “with high impact to Paltel, the last remaining major operator serving the territory”.
Netblocks says it is the third such blackout in the past month.
Image source, NetblocksData from Netblocks showing the communications dropout
As we've reported, more than 50 people have been killed in an explosion at Al-Maghazi refugee camp, according to the head of a nearby hospital.
What do we know about the camp and its history?
Al-Maghazi, which was established in 1949, is located in centre of the Gaza Strip. The camp is 0.6 square km, with narrow alleyways and a high population density, says the UN relief agency for Palestinians, external (UNRWA).
“Overcrowding and a lack of living space characterise Al-Maghazi camp," says the UN agency.
UNRWA says more than 33,000 Palestinians are registered as refugees in the camp – although the actual number of people living there may differ.
The UN defines , externalPalestinian refugees as “persons whose normal place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948, and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 conflict".
The descendants of "Palestine refugee males, including adopted children, are also eligible for registration", UNRWA says.
Read more on the history of the conflict between Israel and Gaza here.
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Image source, ReutersA picture from the central Gaza Strip a week ago
The health ministry of the Palestinian Authority, which is based in the West Bank, has put out new figures on the impact of the the war in Gaza. It says:
As we reported earlier, Israel accuses Hamas of locating infrastructure in tunnels underneath civilian areas.
Israel says it has struck more than 11,000 "targets belonging to terrorist organisations", external in Gaza and dropped more than 10,000 munitions on Gaza City alone since 7 October, when it began its campaign in retaliation for Hamas's deadly attacks.
Adnan al-Bursh
BBC Arabic, reporting from Khan Younis
“Over the past 25 days, I have only received one pack of bread,” this man told the BBC
It’s hard to explain just how angry and frustrated people are as they wait in line for hours outside one of the bakeries here in Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip.
People tell us they have been waiting for four or five hours, hoping to get some bread for their families. But getting it after this long wait is not even guaranteed.
As we are filming, one man interrupts us, visibly shaken.
“Over the past 25 days, I have only received one pack of bread,” he says.
“I have a whole family of at least 20 people to provide for. We have been displaced from Jabalia in the north and we’re here now in Khan Younis. How long are we going to keep living with this injustice?”
Abeer Etefa, from the UN's World Food Programme, tells the BBC: “Bread is the last staple food option for people in Gaza.
“There’s no fresh produce, there’s no dairy products. There is no fuel in the homes and 50 per cent of homes in Gaza have been destroyed. So people don’t have access to cooking facilities.”
She says that out of 130 bakeries operating in Gaza before the war, 11 have been destroyed. Many of those remaining are unable to operate due to shortages of fuel and flour, says Etefa.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe World Food Programme says 11 bakeries have been destroyed
Mark Lowen
Reporting from Jerusalem
Image source, ReutersThis family were pictured waiting at the Rafah border crossing today
From a Gaza Strip besieged from the air and on the ground, there is only one way in and out - the Rafah Crossing into Egypt. But for now it, too, is opening rarely, even for the foreign passport holders who were promised evacuation.
Hamas said the foreign passport holders would not be allowed out until injured Palestinians could leave. But according to the US, Hamas included some of its fighters on the wounded list. Letting them out would be unacceptable for Israel and its Western backers.
Britain said 90 of its nationals were on a list to leave Gaza through the Rafah Crossing on Saturday - but were turned away.
However, while exiting via the crossing has stalled over the past couple of days, some aid is coming the other way, entering from Egypt.
The Israeli government’s COGAT office, which coordinates humanitarian policies in Gaza, says a few dozen trucks carrying food, water and medical supplies entered the strip this weekend.
It’s a fraction of the 500 vehicles that used to enter every day - but is a much-needed lifeline amidst Gaza’s desperation.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has accused Hamas of “systematically exploiting hospitals” as part of its war machine.
Israel has been criticised by the United Nations and its agencies, including the World Health Organization, for alleged strikes on or near Gaza's medical infrastructure.
In response, IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari gave a briefing this afternoon, insisting Israel was striking “based on intelligence” and within international law, adding: “We do not want to strike hospitals and ambulances.”
Hagari also shared declassified information, detailing what he said were Hamas strongholds underneath, inside, and around three hospitals in Gaza.
The BBC cannot verify Hagari's claims.
Hagari said Al-Shifa hospital - the biggest in Gaza City - sits on top of a Hamas command-and-control centre.
He also shared videos of what an he said was a tunnel opening at the Qatari-funded Sheikh Hamad Hospital in Gaza. Further footage he claimed shows Hamas fighters shooting at IDF soldiers from within the hospital.
Hagari also said the Indonesian Hospital, in northern Gaza, was used as an operational headquarters.
Using satellite images from 2010, before it was built, and from 2023, he illustrated his claim that the hospital was built on top of “an underground city” of tunnel networks.
He also shared images of what he said was a launch pad on a street opposite the Indonesian Hospital used to send rockets into Israel.
An illustration - not specific to any site within Gaza - of the tunnel system built by Hamas underneath the Gaza Strip. Some of the tunnels are thought to be up to 80m (260ft) below the surface, sometimes accessed by ropes or ladders
Image source, EPAPalestinians mourn over the bodies of relatives killed in the blast at al-Maghazi camp
As we've been reporting, 52 people have been killed in an explosion at al-Maghazi refugee camp, according to the head of a nearby hospital.
The Hamas-run health ministry says it was caused by an Israeli air strike. The Israeli military has said it is looking into the incident.
The BBC World Service's Newshour programme asked Israel Defense Forces spokesman, Lt Col Peter Lerner, whether a strike by Israeli forces had hit the camp.
“I can't confirm that at this time," he said.
Al-Maghazi is in the southern part of Gaza, where Israel has told civilians to move for their own safety.
Lerner said any strikes taking place in southern Gaza were "specific intelligence-based strikes, specifically against terrorist elements" but "that doesn't say that there can't unfortunately be deaths".
Asked whether anywhere in Gaza is safe, he said "it is definitely safer in the south".
He said "it is truly heartbreaking what is happening in Gaza today" but "it is a war nevertheless that Hamas started”.
When Hamas decided to attack Israeli communities "killing, murdering, massacring, butchering, beheading, raping over 1,400 people" and abducting more than 240 others, "they changed the rules of the game," he says.
"Israel is saying quite clearly through the IDF, now we're changing the game - Hamas have to go."
This map shows the location of refugee camps in the Gaza Strip. Israel has advised Gazans to leave the north and head south of the river shown in the centre of the map
Paul Adams
Reporting from Israel
A junior minister in the Israeli government has been suspended from all government meetings until further notice after he suggested that dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza was "one of the possibilities".
Amihai Eliyahu, who is the country's heritage minister, made the comment in an interview with an ultra-orthodox radio station, Kol Beramah.
He said there were "no non-combatants in Gaza" and that providing humanitarian assistance to Palestinian civilians would represent "a failure".
Asked if that meant that using nuclear weapons might be justified, the minister did not rule it out.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to respond, saying the remarks were "divorced from reality".
On the face of it, the views of a marginal figure in Netanyahu's cabinet shouldn't carry much weight.
Eliyahu, of the far-right Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party, plays no role in the conduct of the war in Gaza.
But at a time when Israel's conduct of the war is under intense international scrutiny, to have a cabinet member openly contemplating the use of nuclear weapons is clearly an embarrassment.
The government's critics say the presence of right-wing firebrands in the government is deeply alarming.
Merav Michaeli, chair of the opposition Labour Party, said people like Mr Eliyahu "need to be kept very far away from the decision-making process".
Israel is thought to have scores, perhaps hundreds of nuclear weapons, but has never openly acknowledged having a military nuclear programme.
Image source, PA MediaIn London, crowds gathered at Parliament Square earlier to demand the release of the hostages kidnapped from Israel by Hamas during its 7 October attack.
Online footage shows the crowd singing God Save the King and the Israeli national anthem. Chants of "bring them home" can also be heard.
According to the Israeli embassy in London, thousands attended.
Of the more than 240 hostages taken by Hamas, four have been released and another was freed by Israeli forces.
Earlier, Israeli adviser Mark Regev denied Hamas claims that 60 hostages had been killed in Israeli air strikes.
We have been regularly updating this list of those taken.
Image source, Humza YousafYousaf (back row, second from right) posted this picture of his reunited family on X
In the UK, it has just been confirmed that the family of Scotland's first minister has arrived home after being trapped in Gaza for more than three weeks.
Humza Yousaf's in-laws managed to cross into Egypt on Friday.
Elizabeth El-Nakla and her husband Maged - the parents of Yousaf's wife Nadia - were allowed to leave Gaza via the Rafah crossing.
Rushdi Abualouf
Reporting from the Al-Maghazi camp in Gaza
Image source, EPAThe aftermath at the Al-Magahzi camp, seen on Sunday morning
On a narrow road in the middle of Al-Maghazi camp, the smallest and most crowded of the refugee camps, a huge bulldozer struggles to remove the rubble of four houses flattened to the ground.
More than a hundred people were here at the time of the blast, which the Gaza health ministry says was caused by an Israeli air strike - 52 were killed, says the head of the Al-Aqsa hospital, and a number of others were injured.
Residents tried to dig with their hands through layers of cement in an attempt to extract those trapped under the rubble.
Muhammad Al-Alul, a photojournalist, lost his wife and four of his children. He has one son left.
"I wish I had been with them and been killed with them," he tells me.
"I was, as usual, reporting on the rapidly unfolding story in Al-Aqsa Hospital. Suddenly I heard that a raid had struck Al-Maghazi camp. It did not occur to me that my children might be buried under the rubble."
Al-Maghazi is a small camp inside the area of Gaza where Israel asked residents of the north to go in order to escape the fighting. But airstrikes in the south have not stopped.
"There is no safe place in Gaza," says Muhammad, a civil defence officer who rushed to the scene to help. "They ask the Palestinians to go to the south but kill them everywhere - on the roads, in schools where people are sheltering, and even in hospitals."
In the main street near the bombed site, the movement of people around the main market in the camp seems almost as normal. People try to buy what remains of some canned food and some vegetables collected by farmers from nearby farms.
You notice the misery, fear and sadness on the faces of passers-by. Many have not managed to change their clothes or shower in a long time.
"Don’t film me," an old woman shouted at me. "We are respectable people, but the conditions are very difficult.
"There is no water, no bread, and we have no money left."
Normal life has been on hold since 7 October. People here can’t see an easy or a quick way out of this.
Israel says it is open to the possibility of a so-called humanitarian pause - but it must include “movement on the hostage issue”.
Mark Regev, a senior adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, says any agreement on a pause in fighting “from our point of view has to include a release of hostages”.
Regev was also asked by BBC correspondent Lyse Doucet about Hamas’s claim that 60 hostages had been killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza.
“I cannot confirm that… I believe it is part of Hamas’s psychological propaganda,” says Regev.
“They want us to stop hitting them, and so they are telling us we are killing our own people. That’s what they want us to believe… that’s obviously not true.”
On whether fuel can enter Gaza via aid lorries, Regev says Israel has agreed to unlimited access for food, medicine and water.
“Fuel is much more sensitive, because fuel can power hospital generators – which is a good thing – but fuel can also power Hamas’s military machine, specifically it powers their ability to shoot rockets into Israel.”
Image source, AFPThousands gathered outside Israel's Ministry of Defense headquarters on Saturday night, protesting against the government's handling of the hostage situation.
Hamas kidnapped more than 200 hostages, including elderly people and children, during its 7 October attack on southern Israel.
Relatives of people kidnapped by Hamas were at the Tel Aviv protest.
Image source, AFPEyala Yahalomi, sister of Ohad and aunt of Eitan
"My brother and my nephew were kidnapped in Gaza from their home on that dark Saturday. I’m here today, to say to all the world leaders, please help us release them as soon as possible," says Eyala Yahalomi.
Her nephew Eitan, aged 12, was was driven away from Kibbutz Nir Oz by Hamas on a moped during the attacks.
Her brother, Ohad, was shot and injured as he tried to defend the family in their home, and is now missing.
"I can't remember how many nights I've slept, and I don't know how many meals I've had. I've been awake for one long day since October 7th."
Image source, AFPShoval Tzartfati, sister of Ofir Tzarfati
"I want them to know his name, to do everything to bring him back. I want the world to help us because what the country is doing is not enough, " says Shoval Tzartfati whose brother was kidnapped.
"I don’t want the country to bring back only a few, two here, two there, only those who have foreign citizenship. There is no difference between one life and another."
Read more: Hamas hosages: Who are the people taken from Israel?
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says at least 45 people have been killed in an Israeli air strike on the al-Maghazi refugee camp, which is in the part of the Gaza Strip civilians have been told to evacuate to.
The Israeli military says it is looking into whether it was operating in the area at the time.
As the BBC's Rushdi Abualouf reports, people are searching through the rubble of destroyed buildings.
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza has released its latest figures for the number of people killed in Gaza.
It says 9,770 Palestinians - including more than 4,000 children - have been killed since 7 October, when Israel began bombing the territory in response to Hamas's unprecedented attack on Israel in which 1,400 were killed and around 240 taken hostage.
Image source, EPAPalestinians search for bodies and survivors among the rubble of a residential building at the Maghazi refugee camp
It's 14:15 in Israel and Gaza - and 12:15 in our London newsroom. Here are the key developments so far today:
The Israeli military says its forces have successfuly intercepted an unmanned aircraft that was spotted approaching "from deep within the territory of Lebanon" towards Israel.
It said the aicraft was brought down "deep in Lebanon".
The Israel Defence Forces also said a number of anti-tank missiles were fired from Lebanon towards Israel - and Israeli forces responded with artillery fire.
More from Ramallah now.
During their meeting, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that there must be an "immediate ceasefire" and humanitarian aid allowed to enter the Gaza Strip, his spokesperson Nabil Abu Rudeineh told Reuters news agency.
According to the Palestinian official news agency he also told Blinken: "I have no words to describe the genocide and destruction suffered by our Palestinian people in Gaza at the hands of Israel's war machine, with no regard for the principles of international law."
This follows similar demands from Arab states.
On Saturday, Blinken dismissed the notion of a ceasefire during a joint press conference with the Jordanian and Egyptian foreign ministers, saying it would allow Hamas to regroup and calling instead for a humanitarian pause (earlier we looked at the difference between the two here).
