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

Impeding relief supplies to the besieged Gaza Strip could constitute a crime, the International Criminal Court's top prosecutor Karim Khan said on Sunday.

Speaking from the Rafah border crossing, he said that Israel must make "discernable efforts" to make sure civilians get basic food and medicine.

Israel has bombed the Rafah crossing at least four times since the start of the war on 7 October, hampering aid efforts.

Fans holding up Palestinian flags during a Liverpool football match with Nottingham Forest on Sunday were asked to lower them by security staff.

"The club is not politically sided either way," the staff member said, after asking fans to lower the flags.

When questioned about the double standard and the show of solidarity for Ukraine, the security staff member said: "I absolutely agree with you. Those are the arguments we've had, but we've been asked to bring these flags down."

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said that the rules of war "cannot be contorted for the sake of expediency" on Sunday.

In his statement, he said that the world is now seeing a "humanitarian catastrophe" unfolding before our eyes.

He also warned that the situation in Gaza is "growing more desperate", renewing calls for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.

The foreign ministry in Jerusalem summoned Russia's Ambassador to Israel, Anatoly Viktorov, on Sunday, after a Hamas delegation visited Moscow on Thursday.

"Hosting the leaders of Hamas conveys a message of legitimacy for terrorism against Israelis," the deputy director of the Eurasia Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Simona Halperin, said.

Palestinians in Gaza are describing many people suffocating and suffering from smoke inhalation due to Israel's heavy bombing of the besieged enclave.

In photos shared online, residents in Gaza show thick clouds of smoke.

One resident shared the photos on the social media platform X, adding: "These are heavy clouds of gunpowder and possibly white phosphorus… I asked my wife and little kids to go downstairs. It's too suffocating here in Gaza City."

The Palestinian Red Crescent has also reported dozens of people inside the Al-Quds Hospital suffering from smoke inhalation due to bombing close to the vicinity of the hospital, which has caused some damage to it.

France's foreign ministry has condemned the uptick in settler violence in the occupied West Bank.

"France calls on the Israeli authorities to take immediate measures to protect the Palestinian population," the ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

Two Palestinians succumbed to their wounds today after being shot by settlers in the West Bank, and over 100 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied territory since the start of the war on 7 October.

At least 30 rights organisations in Israel also issued a statement on Sunday, calling on the international community to "stop the state-backed wave of settler violence" taking place in the occupied West Bank.

According to the statement, Israeli settlers have been "exploiting the lack of public attention to the West Bank, as well as the general atmosphere of rage against Palestinians, to escalate their campaign of violent attacks in an attempt to forcibly transfer Palestinian communities".

The rights organisations say that at least 13 herding communities have been displaced since the start of the war on 7 October, while many more are in danger. 

Pro-Palestine rallies took place around the world on Sunday, including in Morocco, Lebanon and Spain.

In Morocco, tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Casablanca, opposing any normalisation of relations with Israel and calling for an "end to the genocide" in Gaza. They also called for the Rafah crossing to be opened to allow vital humanitarian aid into Gaza.

Thousands also gathered in Beirut's Martyrs Square, showing their support for Palestinians in Gaza.

In Madrid, demonstrators waved banners and flags, calling for an immediate ceasefire. 

Cries of "Freedom for Palestine" rang out as the crowd marched through narrow streets of the Spanish capital.

Around 35,000 people took part according to the central government's delegation to Madrid, making it one of the biggest rallies in Spain in support of Palestine since the start of the war on 7 October.  

A spokesperson for Gaza's Ministry of Information said Israel has carried out "at least 33 massacres" since the near total communications blackout imposed by Israel on 27 October. 

The spokesperson also said that 35 journalists have been killed since the start of the war on 7 October and that 80 government offices have been destroyed. 

Speaking at a televised press conference, he said: "At least 47 mosques have been destroyed, as well as three churches, including the Orthodox al-Rum church; 203 schools have also been destroyed in the bombings, of them 37 have been totally levelled."
 

The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court said he hopes to visit Gaza and Israel on Saturday, according to Reuters.

Israel has continued to launch rockets and air strikes in the vicinity of al-Quds Hospital, where thousands of Palestinians are sheltering. 

According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, the air strikes are an attempt to force medical staff and patients to leave the hospital.

"This has caused significant damage to hospital departments and exposed residents and patients to suffocation," it said in a post on social media platform X, formerly Twitter. 

A one-day-old baby has been killed by Israeli bombing in Gaza on Sunday, according to the Ministry of Health and local media. The baby has been identified as Uday Abu Mohsen. 

Online, people have been sharing photos of the shrouds covering the baby, with the words "his death certificate has been issued before his birth certificate", in Arabic.

The baby was at home with his family when the bomb struck. 

At least 14,000 Palestinians who have been displaced from their homes due to Israeli bombing are seeking shelter in Gaza's al-Quds Hospital. According to the organisation, the majority of them are women and children. 

"They are living in fear and anxiety due to the threats from the occupying authorities to bomb the hospital which they sought refuge in as a result of the ongoing shelling, believing that it would be a safe haven," it said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

The head of Israel's self-driving car company Mobileye says that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government is "guilty of failures, dissonance and incompetence", and the only solution is for it to be replaced. 

In an op-ed published in the Calcalist business daily he said: "We must cut our losses and do it quickly," and that Netanyahu's government is more concerned with its political survival than "the good of the country".
 

At least 30 rights organisations in Israel have issued a statement on Sunday, calling on the international community to "stop the state-backed wave of settler violence" taking place in the occupied West Bank.

According to the statement, Israeli settlers have been "exploiting the lack of public attention to the West Bank, as well as the general atmosphere of rage against Palestinians, to escalate their campaign of violent attacks in an attempt to forcibly transfer Palestinian communities".

The rights organisations say that at least 13 herding communities have been displaced since the start of the war on 7 October, while many more are in danger. 

"Palestinian farmers are particularly vulnerable at this time, during the annual olive harvest season, because if they are unable to pick their olives they will lose a year's income," the statement said. 

Some of the signatories of the statement include Amnesty International Israel, Rabbis for Human Rights, Combatants for Peace and Association for Civil Rights in Israel. 

Benny Gantz, Israel's former defence minister, said that the purpose of the war for Israel is "to change the reality in the south and also vis-a-vis our enemies in the north", according to Israeli media. 

He also said: "We possess the ability to act and inflict severe damage on Hezbollah in Lebanon and wherever it acts against us."