Israel-Palestine live: Unicef says over 13,000 children killed in Gaza

Israeli forces have killed at least 124 Palestinians and wounded 210 more over the past 24 hours in 13 "massacres", according to the Palestinian health ministry. 

This brings the Palestinian death toll in nearly five months to more than 30,534, with over 71,920 wounded and at least 7,000 missing, who are believed to be dead and buried under rubble. 

More than 70 percent of the victims are women and children, according to health officials.

Here's a list of Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip in the past few hours, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa: 

• In Gaza City, homes were bombed in al-Zeitoun, al-Sabra and al-Rimal al-Janobi neighbourhoods, leaving a number of people killed and wounded, including children and women. 

• In the northern Gaza Strip, Israeli artillery shelled houses in Beit Lahia and Jabalia, which was also struck by air strikes, wounding a number of people.

• In the central Gaza Strip, fighter jets bombed Deir al-Balah, the Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps. At least two people were killed.  

• In the south, 12 people, including children, were killed in bombing that hit two homes in Rafah. 

Israel's Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir said Monday on X that it was "time to destroy Hamas, Kamala," referring to US Vice President Kamala Harris. 

His post came after Harris delivered the sharpest rebuke of Israel of any senior US leader since the war started, when she called for an immediate six-week ceasefire, as well as an increase in aid being allowed into the besieged enclave. 

"What we are seeing every day in Gaza is a tragedy," Harris said Sunday. 

The vice president, who was speaking at an event in Selma, Alabama, urged Hamas to accept a deal to release captives that would kickstart a six-week ceasefire and allow more aid to flow.

"People in Gaza are starving. The conditions are inhumane and our common humanity compels us to act," Harris said.

"The Israeli government must do more to significantly increase the flow of aid. No excuses."

Mediators and Hamas envoys have made "significant progress" towards a truce in Gaza, Egyptian state-linked TV reported Monday as the talks in Cairo entered a second day.

Egypt, Qatar and the United States have been pushing for a ceasefire in the almost five-month-old Israeli war on Gaza, with the latest proposal calling for a six-week halt to fighting and prisoner swap.

Al-Qahera News, linked to Egypt's intelligence services, quoted an unnamed senior official as saying: "Egypt continues its intense efforts to reach a truce before Ramadan", the Muslim fasting month which begins on March 10 or 11.

"There has been significant progress in the negotiations," the report said after the latest talks began Sunday in Cairo, without Israeli representation.

Reporting by AFP

Israel's leader of the opposition called the Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir a threat to national security following reports alleging he leaked sensitive information.

"You cannot trust him with sensitive material, you cannot trust him around intelligence personnel and you cannot trust him in the defence cabinet," Yair Lapid said Monday on X.

"Any normal prime minister would have fired him this morning."

Good morning Middle East Eye readers, 

It's just after 8:00 am (6:00 GMT) in Palestine and Israel. Here are the latest developments on day 150 of Israel's war on Gaza: 

• Israeli jets bombed Rafah overnight, killing at least 13 Palestinians, including children, according to initial reports. 

• Early on Monday, air strikes were reported in the central refugee camps of Nusairat and Jabalia.

• In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces killed a 16-year-old boy amid raids in several cities.

• Hezbollah said it foiled two attempts by Israeli soldiers to infiltrate Lebanese late on Sunday. The Israeli military did not comment.  

• According to Israeli media, senior members of the military’s Spokesperson’s Unit have resigned.