Evening recap

Middle East Eye's liveblog will shortly be closed until tomorrow morning.

Here are some of today's major developments:

Authorities in Gaza have said that at least 37 Palestinians were killed by Israeli attacks across the strip on Monday. The majority were killed in air and ground strikes on Nuseirat refugee camp, when Israeli tanks moved in during the early morning hours.

An Israeli bombing raid targeting a building in Ain Yaacoub, in the northern Lebanese governorate of Akkar, has killed eight people and wounded another 14, Lebanese authorities said on Monday. Akkar is located northwest of Tripoli, closer to the Syrian border with Lebanon. 

Lebanese officials say close to 3300 people have now been killed by Israel since 8 October 2023. Approximately 1,000 were killed just this month. 

The US military has bombed nine facilities in two unnamed locations in Syria that it says are aligned with Iran, as well as sites in the Hodeidah Governorate in western Yemen. 

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman called for immediate ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon at a joint Arab League and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation summit on Monday, and referred to what is taking place in Gaza as a "genocide" for the first time. 

Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has told his department to prepare for the annexation of the occupied West Bank in the wake of Donald Trump victory in the US elections.

Palestinian non-governmental organisations are calling on the United Nations and the Palestinian government in Ramallah to immediately declare a "famine zone" in Gaza, according to a Facebook post published Monday on the official page for the PNGO umbrella group, which comprises more than 130 NGOs working in occupied Palestine.