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President Biden has urged Israel to protect Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital.

Speaking from the Oval Office on Monday, he said the US is in contact with the Israelis and it was his "hope and expectation" that there would be "less intrusive action relative to the hospital".

"The hospital must be protected," he told reporters.

Fighting has been raging close to the hospital in Gaza City in recent days, as Israel continues its ground offensive against Hamas.

Many countries have called for so-called "humanitarian pauses" to allow aid and people to enter and leave Gaza, while others have demanded a total ceasefire in fighting.

Last week, the US said Israel would start daily four-hour military pauses in parts of northern Gaza as it continues its offensive.

And on Monday, the Israeli military posted a map showing what it said were the locations of eight local pauses, external it had put in place since last Wednesday. Most were in areas north-east of Gaza City, but Monday’s was in the southern city of Rafah and lasted four hours.

The Israeli military says it's in the process of "coordinating the transfer of incubators from a hospital in Israel to Gaza".

Alongside a statement, posted on social media, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) posted an image of what appears to be one of its soldiers unloading an incubator from a van in a car park. It's not disclosed where the photo was taken.

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It comes after the latest warnings from Palestinian healthcare workers that newborn babies are suffering from a lack of supplies at Gaza's hospitals - particularly electricity, without which certain equipment - incubators - can't work.

On Sunday, the World Health Organization said Gaza City's largest hospital, Al-Shifa, had ceased to function and that the situation inside was "dire and perilous".

Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, an IDF spokesman, has said Israel will provide assistance to evacuate struggling babies to a "safer hospital" - though it was not made clear if the incubators are being sent to Al-Shifa.

Hospital staff say moving babies safely requires sophisticated equipment.

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A British family who fled Gaza with only a small suitcase between six of them have said they do not know what the future now holds and they fear for the lives of those left behind.

Emad Abuaassi and his wife Stephanie moved to Gaza from Blackpool a year ago, to be closer to his family.

After the conflict began they left their flat in the middle of the night.

They crossed the border into Egypt on 3 November and flew back to the UK but do not have anywhere permanent to live.

Emad Abuassi said their family home in northern Gaza had been completely destroyed and he was worried for the safety of his mother, brothers and sisters in southern Gaza.

He said:

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Dr Ebrahem Matar is a heart specialist in the intensive care unit at the Aqsa Martyrs' hospital - the only medical centre in the middle area of the Gaza Strip.

"The whole hospital right now is full of wounded people and it is also full of refugees who took the hospital as a shelter because they lost their houses," the doctor told BBC's Newsday programme.

Dr Matar said there was only one operating room and limited number of staff.

"It is catastrophic and it is difficult. We see patients deteriorate due to the continuous pain and the continuous resistant infections.

"The hospital is in one of the areas the Israeli army has told Palestinians to flee to.

"We are in the middle area of the Gaza strip. Most of the invasion is still in Gaza City. So it is quiet here. But the pressure of work inside the hospital is too much barely we find the time to sleep at least.

"The food is getting less, water is also getting less."

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As we reported earlier, the UN's Palestinian refugee agency, UNRWA, says the fuel depot it has been using for supplies has run dry.

Its director of communications, Juliette Touma, has told the BBC this will put the largest humanitarian operation in the Gaza Strip "in jeopardy".

She says it means UNRWA won't be able to pick up aid supplies brought into to the territory by trucks from Egypt tomorrow morning.

Touma continues:

Touma says UNRWA has been using fuel from the private sector and also getting fuel from a depot in "close coordination" with the Israeli authorities, but now "even that has now run out".

Asked about the mechanisms the US has mentioned for resupplying fuel, she simply says: "We need fuel now, now."

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Jordan's King Abdullah rejected any plans by Israel to occupy parts of Gaza or create security zones within the territory.

The monarch told senior politicians at the royal palace that there could be "no military or security solution" to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, state media reported.

He was quoted as saying that the root cause of the crisis was Israel's denial of Palestinians' "legitimate rights".

"The solution starts from there and any other path is doomed to failure and more of a cycle of violence anddestruction," he also said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel would have "overall security responsibility" for the Gaza Strip "for an indefinite period" during an interview last week.

Jordan is home to a large population of Palestinian refugees.

There have been multiple reports of Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank town of Tulkarm in the past hours.

At least three people were killed in an Israeli drone strike early Tuesday morning, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

Meanwhile, another five were killed during an Israeli military operation around the city, AFP reported citing a director of a local hospital where the deaths were recorded. The five men had been aged 21-29, the official said.

There's been a massive deployment of Israeli soldiers to the area amid reports of violent confrontations.

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Indonesian President Joko Widodo has pressed his US counterpart, Joe Biden, to take further steps to bring about a ceasefire in the conflict.

"Indonesia appealed to the US to do more to stop the atrocities in Gaza," Widodo said following talks at the White House on Monday.

"This [a ceasefire] is a must for the sake of humanity."

He earlier said he would bring Biden a “very strong message” from a joint summit of Arab and Muslim leaders over the weekend, which called for the fighting to end and condemned Israel.

Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population.

Widodo also said ahead of his meeting with the US president that he would deliver a specific message to Biden from Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.

The US has so far refused calls for a ceasefire, saying that would allow Hamas to regroup and attack again. It has, instead, been pushing for longer humanitarian pauses.

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Dr Mohamed Abu Selmia, manager of the key Al-Shifa hospital, has told the BBC 32 people have died in recent days.

Three premature babies and seven people had died due to a lack of oxygen, he said.

Several other patients needing dialysis risk dying in "the next couple of days" as the treatment is no longer available, he said.

The hospital is near out of fuel and other resources to keep functioning - with pre-mature babies having been taken out of no longer operational incubators. There are more than 600 injured patients there.

The BBC asked the doctor if the Israeli army had made any contact regarding the evacuation of patients or premature babies. Israel has said that it has sent fuel near to the hospital and other resources.

But the doctor said: "No, they haven’t reached out, instead we reached out to them... but until now we have received no response.

"There are negotiations regarding evacuating premature babies but until now nothing has happened."

Abu Selmia said the hospital had also been in touch with the Red Cross to try and co-ordinate the burial of the bodies, of which there were about 150 in the hospital - but was told that was currently not feasible.

He added - this is detail which some readers may find distressing - that dogs were eating the corpses.

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The family of Vivian Silver, 74, say they now know the Candian-Israeli peace activist was killed in the 7 October attacks at Kibbutz Be'eri in southern Israel.

Her family thought until last week that she had been taken hostage by Hamas. Her house had been burnt to the ground but no body had been found at the time, her family had told Canadian media.

But her remains, first found five weeks ago, have now been identified, her son Yonatan Zeigne told CBC News. He had previously shared how he and his mother had been speaking about Hamas's entry into the kibbutz on the morning of the attack.

The Israeli Consul- General in Toronto paid tribute to Silver in a tweet., external

Mark Regev, a senior advister to the Israeli PM, has argued that Hamas is to blame for turning Al-Shifa hospital - the largest in Gaza -"into a warzone".

In comments to the BBC, he said Hamas had "deliberately built" military infrastructure under the hospital and had "used those babies to shield its military machine".

Hamas and hospital officials have also consistently rejected these claims justifying Israels strikes around the Strip's hospitals. Regev argued Israel was not deliberating targeting hospitals.

He said Hamas wanted "pictures to show a crisis" and they were not willing to accept solutions for fuel so the hospital could continue operating.

James Landale
Diplomatic correspondent

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Western powers are growing concerned by the remorseless death toll in Gaza.

Rishi Sunak has yet to demand a ceasefire. But his speech at the at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet echoed American warnings that too many Palestinian civilians are losing their lives.

The Prime Minister said Israel must be able to defend itself and bring its hostages home. But it also had to act within international law, take all measures to protect innocent civilians – including in hospitals, and stop extremist violence in the West Bank.

He called for urgent and substantive humanitarian pauses in the fighting.

And he promised to redouble his efforts to seek a two-state solution to the conflict, something he said would involve doing more to help the Palestinian Authority.

This was Rishi Sunak’s toughest message yet for Israel, and a sign that international support is increasingly being tempered by calls for restraint.

Ayeshea Perera
Live editor Singapore

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Good afternoon from Singapore, where Frances Mao and I have taken over the live page from our colleagues in London.

It's just gone 06:00 in Gaza where fighting has continued overnight. Among key developments:

• US President Joe Biden has said hospitals in the Gaza Strip must be protected, adding he hopes for "less intrusive" action by Israel. His comments came after the World Health Organization described Gaza's largest hospital, Al-Shifa, as "nearly a cemetery"
• Israel says Hamas is using Al-Shifa as a base. An Israeli military spokesman, Daniel Hagari, presented what he said was evidence that Hamas had also used a children's hospital in Gaza to store weapons. The BBC has not been able to verify these claims. Hamas has denied that it uses hospitals for military purposes
• Hamas says the death toll in Gaza is now 11,240 since Israel began striking it after the Hamas attacks on 7 October, in which 1,200 people were killed and more than 200 taken hostage
• The UN office for the co-ordination of humanitarian affairs OCHA has said an estimated 200,000 Palestinians have left the north of Gaza for the south via a humanitarian corridor opened by Israel. It also warns that overcrowding and limited access to shelter, food and water in the south are of increasing concern
• Uk Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Israel must be able to defend itself and bring its hostages home but it also had to act within international law, take all measures to protect innocent civilians - including in hospitals - and stop extremist violence in the West Bank. He also called for urgent and substantive humanitarian pauses in the fighting.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has described Gaza's largest hospital as "nearly a cemetery."

Al-Shifa hospital - which is located in the north of Gaza - has been at the front line of intense fighting over the last few days with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) insisting that Hamas is operating a command-and-control centre in tunnels underneath the hospital. Hamas and the hospital deny this.

WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier said about 600 people remained in the hospital, with others sheltering in hallways.

"Around the hospital there are dead bodies which cannot be taken care of or not even be buried or taken away to any sort of morgue," he said. "The hospital is not working at all any more as it should. It's nearly a cemetery," Lindemeier added.

Doctors have also spoken of bodies piling up and rotting at the hospital.

Dr Mohamed Abu Selmia also told the BBC that as the Israeli authorities had still not granted permission for the decomposing bodies to leave the hospital to be buried, dogs had now entered the hospital grounds and started to eat the corpses.

There are also concerns about the fate of dozens of premature babies that are no longer able to stay in their incubators due to the power cuts.

Selmia said seven of those babies had now died for lack of oxygen.

Mark Regev, a senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said Israel was offering "practical solutions" to evacuate the babies and accused Hamas of not accepting proposals.

As well as Al-Shifa, other hospitals across the Gaza Strip have reported widespread issues, including a lack of supplies and power because of the fighting and the blockade Israel has enforced on the territory since Hamas launched its attacks on Israel on 7 October.

• Read more on how the situation at Al-Shifa hospital has reached a crisis point

Nick Beake
Reporting from Jerusalem

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The chief spokesman of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says the hearts of the Israeli military go out to the family of a 19-year-old woman, Noa Marciano, who was kidnapped by Hamas on 7 October.

A video has been circulating on social media in which Marciano identifies herself and says she has been held for four days. This would date the recording to 10 or 11 October.

There is the normal assumption - as with all hostage videos - that the words are not her own and it was recorded under duress.

The footage then cuts to graphic images which appear to show the body of a young woman.

The Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's military arm, says Marciano was killed in an Israeli air strike on 9 November.

There has been no confirmation from the Israeli military of her reported death.

IDF chief spokesman Daniel Hagari says they are supporting the Marciano family.

“A representative of the IDF came to the family's house and informed them about the publication of the video," says Hagari.

"Hamas continues to use psychological terror and behaves inhumanely, through stolen videos and photos, as it has done in the past,” the Israeli military spokesman adds.

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David Cameron, who was appointed the UK’s new foreign secretary on Monday, has spoken to his US counterpart, Antony Blinken, about the Israel-Gaza war.

According to a social media post, external from his new office, Cameron, a former British prime minister, and the US secretary of state discussed “Israel’s right to self-defence and the need for humanitarian pauses to allow the safe passage of aid into Gaza”.

They also expressed their support for Ukraine and reiterated the “strength and depth of the relationship between the UK and the US”.

The US state department noted that Blinken and Cameron had "underscored continuity in the U.S.-UK special relationship and its importance to regional and global security", Reuters news agency reports.

As day 38 of the Israel-Gaza war comes to a close, here's a look at how the conflict is affecting communities on the ground and around the world.

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BBC News Community Affairs Correspondent

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Here in London, a group of British Palestinians held a press conference earlier on Monday to talk about the impact the war had been having on them.

Lubaba Khalid, who stepped down as Young Labour's BME representative over comments made by party leader Keir Starmer, said she had found out through social media that her relatives had been killed.

"Due to the lack of electricity and networks, we have found it very difficult to keep in touch with family members just to check if they're alive," Khalid said.

"As a result, I found out my great uncle's house was bombed on the social media platform X [formerly Twitter] before I could get any confirmation from my own family.

She says that in that bombing, six members of her family were killed - five of whom were children.

The press conference was held by the UK-based International Centre of Justice for Palestinians. Six people, including Khalid, spoke about grieving for dozens of family members killed in Gaza.

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said that while the immediate priority in the Middle East conflict is to address "the suffering" in Gaza, work needed to be done to ensure future stability in the region.

Sunak said, "We need to do more to create a new political horizon."

He called for unity around supporting a two-state solution which he described as "the only answer that can come close to creating peace".

Sunak said he was ready to offer "serious, practical and enduring support" to help "bolster" the Palestinian Authority who he insisted were the best option to challenge Hamas in the territory.

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More from UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's keynote speech at the Lord Mayor's Banquet in the City of London, where he has said that while he supports Israel's right to "defend itself against terror", more needed to be done to keep civilians safe during the war with Hamas.

Sunak went on to say that Israel had a responsibility "to act within international law".

"They must take all measures to protect innocent civilians, including at hospitals. Stop extremist violence in the West Bank and allow more aid into Gaza," he said.

Sunak told the banquet that the UK was doubling its aid to Gaza and was talking directly to the UN and Israel about getting "unhindered humanitarian access and urgent and substantive humanitarian pauses".

He also offered British bases in Cyprus as a staging post for aid distribution.