The Palestine Red Crescent Society has reported on social media that an attempt to reach al-Quds hospital from Khan Younis in order to evacuate patients has been abandoned due to “continuing shelling and shooting”.
It posted to social media to say:
The Red Crescent evacuation convoy, accompanied by the International Committee of the Red Cross, returned after setting off today from Khan Younis towards al-Quds hospital. The convoy was forced to return due to the dangerous conditions in the Tal al-Hawa area, where the hospital is located, in light of the continuing shelling and shooting, and the medical staff, patients and their companions are still trapped inside the hospital without food, water or electricity.
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Israeli forces have reached the gates of Gaza’s largest hospital as hundreds of patients, including dozens of babies, remained trapped inside. Thousands of people have fled al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, but health officials said the remaining patients were dying due to energy shortages amid intense fighting between Israeli troops and Hamas militants. At least 32 patients, including three premature babies, had died over the past three days, Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said.
There are between 600 and 650 inpatients at Shifa, as well as 200 to 500 health workers, and about 1,500 displaced people seeking shelter there, according to information shared with the World Health Organization. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have repeatedly said that Hamas operates from bunkers underneath Shifa. This has been denied by Hamas and hospital staff.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society said that an attempt to reach al-Quds hospital from Khan Younis in order to evacuate patients has been abandoned due to “continuing shelling and shooting”. A convey accompanied by the International Committee of the Red Cross was forced to return due to the dangerous conditions.
The IDF issued an update on its military operation in Gaza, saying its forces have conducted 4,300 strikes to date. It claims to have struck “approximately 300 tunnel shafts” and “approximately 3,000 terrorist infrastructure sites”. Israel’s campaign was launched on 7 October after the Hamas massacre inside Israel’s border which killed 1,200 Israelis. The Hamas-led health ministry in Gaza has claimed that Israel’s military action in the Gaza Strip has killed more than 11,000 Palestinians, including more than 4,000 children. It has not been possible for journalists to independently verify the casualty figures being issued during the conflict.
The UN’s refugee mission in Palestine has reported that one of its buildings in Rafah has been struck by Israel’s navy. Rafah is in the south of the Gaza Strip, within the area that Israel has insisted that Palestinians move to. In a statement, UNRWA said there were no casualties. It added that UN buildings and facilities within Gaza currently host nearly 780,000 displaced people, saying “they should be protected at all times”.
Haaretz reports that an Israeli civilian hit by anti-tank missile fire from Lebanon inside Israel’s north on Sunday has died of their wounds. Israel’s military spokesperson Daniel Hagari said that fire is again being exchanged Monday between Israel and anti-Israeli forces in Lebanon. On Sunday, 18 Israelis were injured after the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia fired anti-tank missiles into Israel.
The US carried out strikes against two Iran-linked sites in Syria on Sunday in response to attacks on American forces, the US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, said.
Sweden’s foreign ministry said it could confirm some Swedes left Gaza via the Rafah border crossing into Egypt on Monday, but it was unable to give an exact number.
A vessel from Turkey carrying materials for field hospitals arrived on Monday in Egypt’s port of El Arish, near the Rafah border crossing. A Turkish health official told AFP that the vessel was carrying “materials, generators, ambulances to establish eight field hospitals”. We will set up these hospitals to the areas shown by the Egyptian authorities,” they said.
Authorities in France on Monday detained eight minors over antisemitic chants on the Paris metro that were filmed and widely shared on social media, prosecutors said.
Police in Brazil on Sunday arrested another man suspected of links to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, bringing the number of detainees suspected of involvement with the group to three.
In the UK, former prime minister David Cameron has unexpectedly been appointed as the new foreign secretary in a reshuffle of Rishi Sunak’s government. Cameron replaces James Cleverly, who visited Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and southern Israel on 11 October, just days after the Hamas attack. The switch comes after the UK’s home secretary Suella Braverman – the equivalent of an interior minister – was sacked for her controversial comments critical of London’s police ahead of demonstrations held in the capital at the weekend calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Lord Walney, the UK government’s adviser on political violence and disruption, has said that he believes the majority of the UK’s Jewish population are “living a life of fear at the moment” and it should be treated as “a national emergency”.
Ireland’s deputy premier has announced he is to travel to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory later this week. Micheál Martin, who is also foreign affairs minister, will also travel to Egypt as part of the visit.
Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie visited Israel on Sunday, becoming the first Republican attempting to become the next president of the US to visit the country since the 7 October Hamas attack. Rejecting calls for a ceasefire, Christie said “We can’t ask Israel to stand down if they believe there is still a legitimate violent threat against them and their people, and I think there’s no question that there is.”
Here are some of the latest news wire images from Israel and Gaza.
Brazilian police on Sunday arrested another man suspected of links to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, bringing the number of detainees suspected of involvement with the group to three, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
The name of the detainee, arrested in Brasilia, was not revealed, but his alleged link to the Iranian-backed group was already under investigation, sources said.
Brazil arrested two people in São Paulo last week in an operation to break up a suspected Hezbollah cell allegedly planning attacks on Jewish targets in the country.
Reuters reports Sweden’s foreign ministry as saying it can confirm that some Swedes left Gaza via the Rafah border crossing into Egypt on Monday, but it was unable to give an exact number.
French authorities on Monday detained eight minors over antisemitic chants on the Paris metro that were filmed and widely shared on social media, prosecutors said.
The eight, none of whom live in Paris, are being interrogated by transport police, a source close to Paris prosecutors who asked not to be named told AFP.
The chanting took place on 31 October. More than 1,250 antisemitic incidents have been recorded in France since the start of the war sparked by the 7 October attack by Hamas inside Israel, according to authorities.
Emine Sinmaz is in Jerusalem for the Guardian. Here is her report on the latest developments in the Israel-Hamas war:
Israeli forces have reached the gates of Gaza’s largest hospital as hundreds of patients, including dozens of babies, remained trapped inside.
Thousands of people have fled al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, but health officials said the remaining patients were dying due to energy shortages amid intense fighting between Israeli troops and Hamas militants.
Lifesaving equipment such as incubators cannot run without fuel to run generators. At least 32 patients, including three premature babies, had died over the past three days, Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said.
The Israeli military said it was providing safe corridors for people to escape intense fighting in the north and move south, but Palestinian officials inside Shifa said the compound was surrounded by constant heavy gunfire.
Fighting has been concentrating in a tightening circle around Shifa’s gates since Israeli ground forces entered Gaza, after Hamas militants killed at least 1,200 people and abducted 240 hostages in Israel in a surprise attack on 7 October.
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have repeatedly said that Hamas operates from bunkers underneath Shifa. This has been denied by Hamas and hospital staff.
There are between 600 and 650 inpatients at Shifa, as well as 200 to 500 health workers, and about 1,500 displaced people seeking shelter there, according to information shared with the World Health Organization, which was posted on X.
As the war entered its sixth week, fresh clashes on Israel’s northern border with Lebanon and more US airstrikes on Iran-linked militia targets in neighbouring Syria renewed fears of a wider regional conflagration.
The EU’s 27 countries issued a statement on Sunday demanding “immediate humanitarian pauses” in Gaza and condemning Hamas for using medical facilities and civilians as “human shields”.
Ashraf Al-Qidra, the Gaza health ministry spokesperson who was inside Shifa on Monday, said an Israeli tank was stationed at the hospital gate. “The tank is outside the gate of the outpatient clinic department, this is how the situation looks this morning,” he said.
Read more of Emine Sinmaz’s report from Jerusalem here: Israeli forces at gates of Gaza’s main hospital with hundreds trapped
A Turkish vessel carrying materials for field hospitals arrived on Monday in Egypt’s port of El Arish, near the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip, a port official said.
A Turkish health official told AFP that the vessel was carrying “materials, generators, ambulances to establish eight field hospitals”.
They added that Ankara had requested Cairo’s approval to build the field hospitals in El Arish, which lies about 40km (25 miles) from the Rafah border, the only crossing to Gaza not controlled by Israel.
“We received the green light from Egyptian authorities. We will set up these hospitals to the areas shown by the Egyptian authorities,” they said.
Haaretz reports that an Israeli civilian hit by anti-tank missile fire from Lebanon inside Israel’s north on Sunday has died of their wounds.
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Dr Ahmed al-Mokhallalati has spoken to the media again from inside al-Shifa hospital. He told the Reuters news agency by telephone:
The tanks are in front of the hospital. We are under full blockade. It’s a totally civilian area. Only hospital facility, hospital patients, doctors and other civilians staying in the hospital. Someone should stop this.
They bombed the [water] tanks, they bombed the water wells, they bombed the oxygen pump as well. They bombed everything in the hospital. So we are hardly surviving. We tell everyone, the hospital is no more a safe place for treating patients. We are harming patients by keeping them here.
Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie was in Israel on Sunday, in the process becoming the first Republican attempting to become the next president of the US to visit the country since the 7 October Hamas attack.
Speaking to the media at the Kfar Azza kibbutz that was targeted during the attack, he said:
I want the people of Israel to know that there are hundreds of millions of Americans who stand with them, who understand the atrocities that were committed, and why in the future we need to stand absolutely shoulder to shoulder with Israel.
Rejecting those who are calling for a ceasefire, Christie said
We can’t ask Israel to stand down if they believe there is still a legitimate violent threat against them and their people, and I think there’s no question that there is.
During the trip Christie also visited Tel Aviv, where he met with the families of some of those who are still being held hostage by Hamas inside Gaza after it seized and abducted them on 7 October.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society has reported on social media that an attempt to reach al-Quds hospital from Khan Younis in order to evacuate patients has been abandoned due to “continuing shelling and shooting”.
It posted to social media to say:
The Red Crescent evacuation convoy, accompanied by the International Committee of the Red Cross, returned after setting off today from Khan Younis towards al-Quds hospital. The convoy was forced to return due to the dangerous conditions in the Tal al-Hawa area, where the hospital is located, in light of the continuing shelling and shooting, and the medical staff, patients and their companions are still trapped inside the hospital without food, water or electricity.
Al Jazeera is reporting that Mohammed Zaqout, director of hospitals in Gaza, has said that about 650 patients, 500 healthcare workers, and an estimated 2,500 displaced people remain inside the al-Shifa hospital compound.
The figures are lower than those issued at the weekend, when it was reported that 1,500 patients, 1,500 medical workers, and 7,000 displaced people were there.
CNN has spoken to Khader al Zaanoun, who is a reporter for Al Arabiya. They told the US news network they were in al-Shifa hospital, saying:
Communication is very bad and almost impossible for us to report what is happening in the hospital and its yards, we barely have cell lines but no internet.
No one can move or dare to go out of the hospital, the staff here are aware of many strikes that are happening around the hospital, we see smoke coming up from those strikes and we know that there are people in some of those buildings but ambulances do not make their way out of the hospital because … during the last days an ambulance was hit on its way out of the hospital.
In the UK, former prime minister David Cameron has unexpectedly been appointed as the new foreign secretary in a reshuffle of Rishi Sunak’s government.
In a statement posted to social media, Cameron said: “We are facing a daunting set of international challenges, including the war in Ukraine and the crisis in the Middle East. At this time of profound global change, it has rarely been more important for this country to stand by our allies, strengthen our partnerships and make sure our voice is heard.”
Cameron replaces James Cleverly, who has moved to the role of home secretary – the equivalent of an interior minister. Cleverly visited Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and southern Israel on 11 October, just days after the Hamas attack. It would be anticipated that Cameron would make a trip to Israel high on his agenda.
The Israel Defence Force has issued an update on its military operation in Gaza, where it says its forces have conducted 4,300 strikes to date. It claims to have struck “approximately 300 tunnel shafts” and “approximately 3,000 terrorist infrastructure sites.”
In a statement published to the Telegram messaging app, it said:
IDF troops are continuing to operate in the Gaza Strip. IAF aircraft and ground forces have conducted 4,300 strikes, struck hundreds of anti-tank missile launch posts, approximately 300 tunnel shafts, approximately 3,000 terrorist infrastructure sites, including over 100 structures rigged with explosives, and hundreds of Hamas command and control centres.
Israel’s campaign was launched on 7 October after the Hamas massacre inside Israel’s border which killed 1,200 Israelis.
The Hamas-led health ministry in Gaza has claimed that Israel’s military action in the Gaza Strip has killed more than 11,000 Palestinians, including more than 4,000 children. It has not been possible for journalists to independently verify the casualty figures being issued from Gaza, and the health ministry has said it has not been able to give an updated death toll since Friday due to conditions on the ground.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society has issued a statement on social media claiming that heavy gunfire has continued in the vicinity of the al-Quds hospital. It says that a convey intended to evacuate patients has had to stop.
It wrote:
Heavy gunfire continued in the vicinity of al-Quds hospital in the Tal Al-Hawa area in Gaza City, and the sounds of shelling and violent explosions were heard in the area. The convoy of vehicles that set off from the southern Gaza Strip towards the hospital, accompanied by the Red Cross to secure the evacuation of patients and medical staff, stopped.
It added that it would not be able to continue due to conditions around the hospital.
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