Israel-Palestine live: Thousands in state of panic as Israel continues to strike hospitals

Syrian state television said on Monday that Israeli air strikes targeted two military posts in Daraa, which is near the country's border with Israel and Jordan.

The strikes led to "some material losses".

The death toll of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Jenin on Monday morning has now risen to four, the news agency Wafa reported, citing the director of the Jenin Government Hospital.

Israeli forces launched a raid on Jenin in the hours between Sunday night and Monday morning, with local reports saying that 100 Israeli military vehicles had entered the city.

Palestinian media outlets also reported that Israel's military had stormed the vicinity of a hospital, and also targeted electrical transformers, leading to power outages in the city.

Footage on social media showed Israeli military-grade bulldozers driving around areas in Jenin.

An Israeli soldier was killed, and several others were injured, after a "tank coup" in northern Israel, according to a report by Al Jazeera Arabic.

The Israeli military confirmed that one of its soldiers was killed, saying it happened after a tank was overturned in northern Israel.

The UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Ocha, released an update report saying that on Sunday, at least 33 trucks carrying humanitarian supplies entered Gaza via the Rafah crossing with Egypt.

"This is the largest delivery of humanitarian aid since 21 October, when limited deliveries resumed. While this increase is welcome, a much larger volume of aid is needed on a regular basis to prevent further deterioration in the dire humanitarian situation, including civil unrest," Ocha said in its statement.

The UN agency added that fuel must be allowed to enter the besieged enclave.

In its update, Ocha also noted that more than 1.4 million people in Gaza have been internally displaced as a result of Israel's bombing campaign, and around 671,000 are currently sheltering in 150 UN facilities.

In another night of Israeli military raids into cities in the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces arrested dozens of Palestinians, according to the Wafa news agency.

In the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, the news agency reported that about 18 Palestinians were arrested. In Nablus, seven were arrested, and Wafa reported further that a child from the Shuafat refugee camp near Jerusalem was arrested.

An Israeli air strike has hit an ambulance in Gaza, Palestinian media outlets and journalists reported, citing the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS). No injuries were reported, however, the bombing decreased the already depleted fleet of ambulances operating in the enclave.

On Saturday, the PRCS said that three of its ambulances were no longer operational because of a lack of fuel, bringing the number of working ambulances down to 27.

A large crowd in the hundreds stormed an airport in the capital of Dagestan, a province in Russia, on Sunday evening in protest of a flight that had arrived from Israel.

Local authorities on Sunday closed the airport in Makhachkala and there were reports of several injuries, but no arrests.

“As a result of the incident at Makhachkala airport, there are injured [people], who are receiving medical help,” Dagestan’s health ministry said on Telegram.

Videos shared on social media showed a large crowd on the airport's landing field waving Palestinian flags and also showed some people checking the passports of passengers who had arrived in the city.

Dagestan's regional government called on its citizens to not participate in such protests, while also appealing to the population by voicing support for Palestinians in Gaza.

“It is not easy for each of us to stand and watch the inhumane massacre of a civilian population – the Palestinian people. At the same time, we urge residents of the republic not to succumb to provocations of destructive groups and not to create panic in society," the government said on Telegram.

Along with Chechnya, Dagestan is a Muslim-majority region in the North Caucasus area of Russia.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office condemned the protest, and said it expects Moscow to "protect the safety of all Israeli citizens and Jews wherever they may be and to act resolutely against the rioters and against the wild incitement directed against Jews and Israelis".

A second Palestinian man was killed by Israeli forces during a military raid on the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, according to several Palestinian news agencies.

Over the past several weeks, Israeli forces have been launching incursions into cities in the West Bank, including Jenin which is home to a stronghold of Palestinian fighters.

The Israeli military raid on Jenin led to confrontations with Palestinian fighters, and local reports stated that several Israeli military vehicles withdrew after being targeted with explosive devices.

The number of children killed in Gaza since 7 October has now surpassed the annual number of children killed across the world's conflict zones since 2019, according to the charity Save the Children.

At least 3,195 children have been reported killed in Gaza from Israeli air strikes, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. That's more than the number of children killed in armed conflicts across more than 20 countries around the world over the course of a whole year, for the previous three years.

"Three weeks of violence have ripped children from families and torn through their lives at an unimaginable rate. The numbers are harrowing and with violence not only continuing but expanding in Gaza right now, many more children remain at grave risk," Jason Lee, Save the Children's director in the occupied Palestinian territories, said in a statement.

"One child’s death is one too many, but these are grave violations of epic proportions. A ceasefire is the only way to ensure their safety. The international community must put people before politics—every day spent debating is leaving children killed and injured. Children must be protected at all times, especially when they are seeking safety in schools and hospitals."

Congressman Mike Johnson, the new Speaker of the US House of Representatives, said on Sunday that he expects to advance a funding bill to support Israel exclusively, as President Joe Biden is pushing for a $106bn combined aid package for both Ukraine and Israel.

"We're going to move a stand-alone Israel funding bill this week in the House," Johnson said in an interview on Fox News.

"There are lots of things going on around the world that we have to address and we will," Johnson said, without explicitly mentioning Ukraine. "But right now what’s happening in Israel takes the immediate attention, and we’ve got to separate that and get it through.”

Biden's budget request calls for $106bn, the majority of which would go to bolster Ukraine's defenses against Russia, and the remainder of the money split between Israel, the Indo-Pacific region and immigration enforcement along the US-Mexico border.

Biden's budget request also includes a call to fund the “potential needs of Gazans fleeing to neighboring countries”, raising fears of US support for the displacement of Palestinians from the besieged enclave.

US President Joe Biden and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah el-Sisi spoke over the phone on Sunday, where the two leaders discussed efforts to release the Israeli captives held by Hamas, as well as helping Americans in Gaza leave the enclave safely.

According to Biden, the two leaders also said they shared a commitment to "ensuring that Palestinians in Gaza are not displaced to Egypt or any other nation".

The statement is significant, considering that a number of Israeli officials and prominent figures have brought up the idea of Palestinians in Gaza being forced to leave the area and head into Egypt.

MEE also reported on Friday that in a $105bn budget request, the Biden administration asked Congress to fund the “potential needs of Gazans fleeing to neighboring countries”.

Palestinians feared the request suggests the White House is endorsing the mass displacement of Palestinians from Gaza.

Dozens of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli air strikes in the hours between Sunday night and Monday morning, as Israel has continued an intense aerial bombing campaign all across Gaza.

In the area of al-Saftawi in northern Gaza, at least 16 people have been killed by two Israeli air attacks on a house, killing some who were injured in the first strike and nearby residents who rushed in to try and rescue the victims. The tally was reported by Al Jazeera, which has reporters based in Gaza.

Al Jazeera also reported that at least 10 people were killed by air strikes in central Gaza, and at least another seven were killed following a bombing in southern Gaza.

After Israel's military stormed the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Monday morning, its forces also launched an incursion into the city of Nablus, several Palestinian media outlets have reported.

In MEE's latest episode of Real Talk, we sit down for a candid discussion with British columnist Owen Jones. 

Jones talks about British politics regarding the war between Israel and Palestinian armed groups in Gaza, particularly Labour leader Keir Starmer and his party’s stance. We also speak on the "dehumanisation" of Palestinian voices and victims in the media.

Real Talk is a Middle East Eye interview show that delves into the stories and experiences of a diverse range of guests.

Check out the full episode below.

Owen Jones on Keir Starmer’s ‘gaslighting’, Labour’s Gaza stance, and coverage of Palestinians

After Israel's military stormed the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank in the early hours of Monday morning, Israeli forces shot dead a young Palestinian man, and injured another, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa.

According to local sources, the news agency reported that Israeli forces entered Jenin with more than 100 military vehicles, including two military-grade bulldozers, and also besieged the areas surrounding Ibn Sina Hospital.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that two young Palestinian men were injured by live bullets fired by Israeli forces.

Over the past several weeks, Israeli forces have been launching incursions into cities in the West Bank, including Jenin, which is home to a stronghold of Palestinian fighters.