Israel-Palestine live: Israel and Palestinians agree to truce, hostage deal

An Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon on Monday has killed two civilians and wounded several others, according to Lebanon's National News Agency. 

The air strike targeted a house in Aynata, a village along the southern border with Israel.

Israeli soldiers have painted the Star of David on the heavily damaged Qatari consulate building in the Gaza Strip, according to media reports.

Shahar Glick, a journalist at Israel's Army Radio, posted images of the building on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Monday.

"[Israeli] soldiers left a stamp on the destroyed Qatar embassy in the Gaza Strip this morning," he posted.

The symbol can be seen sprayed on the side of the four-storey building, which was severely damaged by shelling. The building is situated in the Rimal neighbourhood of Gaza City. 

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Medics in Gaza have been speaking about just how dire the situation is at al-Shifa hospital, the enclave's largest medical facility, which has effectively closed down because of lack of resources and Israeli shelling in the vicinity.

Ahmad Mukhallati, the head of the plastic surgery department at the hospital, told Middle East Eye on Monday that there was no water or electricity at the facility, and food and fuel had almost run out. 

"We've got only one socket where we put on the anaesthesia machine," he said. "We don't do anything except for life-saving procedures now."

He added that premature babies placed in incubators were at grave risk now that fuel had run out. 

Mukhallati explained that the incubator machines, which "mimic the situation within the uterus", require high levels of electricity.

'This situation means we are waiting for [the premature babies] to die one by one'

- Ahmad Mukhallati, doctor, Al-Shifa hospital

"[The babies] have to be fully isolated from the surrounding areas so they don't get any infection as their immunity is not mature yet," he said.

But because of the blackout, the infants have been moved to normal beds - conditions in which they cannot survive.

"Unfortunately, this situation means that we are waiting for them to die one by one," Mukhallati said, adding that five premature babies had already died in recent days.

"We believe that we don't give any benefit to the patient," he said. "We can't treat them with no water, no basic hygiene, no electricity or supplies, or even basic food."

He added that there was nowhere to move or bury dead bodies. 

"The bodies will be really the big source of infection and all kinds of bacteria and other diseases, and then we can't do anything," he said.

Health ministry official Munir al-Bursh broke down on Monday morning on Al Jazeera as he explained that stray dogs were eating the bodies of civilians in the yard of al-Shifa hospital, as no one was able to bury the dead amid the bombardment.

Mukhallati called for the "massacre" to be stopped and for a "safe, guaranteed corridor" to allow patients to be evacuated from the facility. 

But as of the past three days, no one has been able to get in or out of the hospital, with Israeli snipers and tanks firing just metres away from the facility. 

Palestinian journalist Ahmad Fatima has been killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza, according to the Wafa news agency.

On Sunday, the Committee to Protect Journalists said that at least 40 journalists had been killed since the war began on 7 October, of whom 35 were Palestinian, four were Israelis, and one was a Lebanese national.

Rocket sirens were sounded in several northern Israeli cities after two mortar rounds launched from southern Lebanon, the Israeli military said on Monday. 

It said that both projectiles landed in open areas, and that Israel responded by firing at the launch site. 

A day earlier, Hezbollah claimed responsibility for a guided missile attack that Israel said wounded at least two electrical company workers. A mortar attack also wounded seven Israeli soldiers. 

"The IDF is focused on Gaza but we are at a very high state of readiness in the north," Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari said. "Lebanon's citizens will bear the cost of this recklessness, and of Hezbollah's decision to be the defender of Hamas-ISIS."

"The IDF has operational plans for changing the security situation in the north. The security situation will not remain one in which northern residents do not feel secure in returning to their homes."

At least 70 Hezbollah fighters and several Lebanese civilians have been killed by Israeli forces since 7 October. 

 An elderly Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli forces during a raid on the offices of a Palestinian orphan charity in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on Monday. 

Israeli soldiers opened fire at Issa Ali Tamimi, 66, when he drove in his car near the charity building. He was shot in the head and killed immediately, according to the Wafa news agency.

UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman has been sacked by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a cabinet reshuffle on Monday. 

It follows an article she wrote last week in The Times about pro-Palestinian protests which had not been approved by Downing Street, and a weekend of violence by far-right groups who clashed with police in central London, which critics say was stirred up by Braverman's comments against police and marchers. 

In the article, Braverman criticised the police's handling of the marches, accusing them of "double standards" in comparison with policing at right-wing demonstrations. 

She called the pro-Palestine protesters "hate marchers" and compared them to sectarian groups in Northern Ireland - comments which caused outrage across the UK.  

The UK Liberal Democrats have called for an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Palestine war. 

"More than a month since Hamas’ atrocities, it is increasingly clear that a military solution to eliminate Hamas is not possible. Nor is it tenable for Israel to reoccupy Gaza," Lib Dem leader Ed Davey said on Sunday night. 

"Only a sustained political and diplomatic solution will resolve this conflict and deliver a lasting peace. We urgently need movement towards that solution now."

He said the only answer now was an "immediate bilateral ceasefire". 

"It is temporary by its very definition: it is a step towards peace. And it is contingent upon both parties sticking to it. If one party breaks the ceasefire, a military option remains on the table," he said. 

The Scottish National Party will attempt to use an amendment in the King's Speech to force a parliamentary vote on Wednesday demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. 

The Lib Dem stance will put further pressure on Labour leader Keir Starmer, who has come under criticism for not supporting a truce. 

The Israeli government's security cabinet has on Monday approved an order by communications minister Shlomo Karhi to block broadcasters "threatening national security", close their offices and confiscate broadcasting equipment. 

Karhi has since signed an order to close down Lebanese broadcaster Al-Mayadeen's operations in Israel and the occupied West Bank. 

The network, which is affiliated with Hezbollah, will have its website and offices shut down, and its equipment seized. 

Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said Al-Mayadeen was "the mouthpiece of the terrorist organisation Hezbollah and its leader."

Nasser al-Laham, director of Al-Mayadeen's Palestine bureau, said it would "continue to broadcast the events, whatever the cabinet's decision is."

Flags at UN facilities around the world are today being flown at half-mast, to honour the memories of the 101 Unrwa staff who have been killed in the Gaza Strip.

Israel has released the names of two of its soldiers killed in the northern Gaza Strip: 28-year-old Yisachar Natan and 21-year-old Itay Shoham.

Jabalia refugee camp, in the north of the Gaza Strip, has faced repeated bombardment over the past seven weeks. The death toll from Sunday's strike has now reached 19, Al Jazeera reports.

An airstrike on Sunday killed at least 31 people in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, Al Jazeera reports.

Hundreds of thousands of residents of the Strip's northern areas have been forced to flee to the south of the 25-mile-long, six-mile-wide territory. The south is where the Israeli military told them to go "for their own safety".

[Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, November 12, 2023. Reuters/Mohammed Salem]

Hundreds of patients and medical staff remain trapped in al-Shifa hospital, the World Health Organisation's presence in the occupied Palestinian territories reports: