Israel-Palestine live: US and Israel air differences over Gaza strategy

Israeli tanks are encircling the Kamal Adwan hospital and attacking its vicinity, one of the last remaining operational health facilities in the northern Gaza Strip. 

The attacks on the hospital follow a similar pattern in recent weeks of siege and bombing against Gaza City's major health facilities, the al-Shifa medical complex and the Indonesian Hospital. 

Journalists reporting from the scene said the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital, located in Jabalia, was continuously hit overnight with artillery shelling.  

A drone strike targeting the northern gate of the hospital just after midnight killed four people, according to local reports.

The Palestinian health ministry's director-general in Gaza, Dr Munir al-Borsh, said 7,000 people are taking shelter inside the hospital.

He told Al Jazeera he fears another "massacre" would take place at the hospital similar to what happened at al-Shifa and the Indonesian hospitals. 

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Israeli fighter jets killed at least 30 Palestinians sheltering at a school in Khan Younis on Tuesday, Al Jazeera Arabic reported citing a medical source. 

Scores of others were wounded, the report added. 

Elsewhere, at least 10 were reported dead after an air strike in Nusairat camp, located in the central Gaza Strip.

Streams of wounded Palestinians were rushed to the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis on Tuesday, as intense Israeli shelling continued into the morning. 

A school sheltering hundreds of displaced families was the latest target, leaving scores of people killed and wounded.

Internet connections were partly restored in some areas across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning after a night of heavy Israeli bombardment, described as one of the most violent so far. 

The extent of damage and casualties is not fully clear yet as access to many targeted areas remains limited due to the presence of Israeli tanks. 

Iran has denied having a role in recent attacks against United States' military forces. 

The country's United Nations Envoy Amir Saeid Iravani said Tehran has not been involved in any of these actions, the Tasnim news agency reported on Tuesday. 

Jake Sullivan, US national security adviser, said on Monday that Washington has "every reason to believe" attacks by Yemen's Houthis on vessels in the Red Sea were "fully enabled by Iran".

The Wall Street Journal cited US officials as saying Israel is considering flooding tunnels in Gaza with seawater. 

Large pumps were assembled last month by the Israeli military north of the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza, the report said. 

The report said the pumps could draw water from the Mediterranean Sea and flood the tunnels within weeks but threaten Gaza's water supply.

Middle East Eye could not independently verify the details of the Monday report.

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man and wounded four others on Tuesday morning as they carried out military raids across the occupied West Bank. 

Mohammad Yousef Manasara, 25, was shot dead in Qalandiya, a village located between Ramallah and Jerusalem, the Palestinian health ministry said. 

Four people were wounded in Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem, one critically. Israeli forces also attacked Jenin overnight. 

According to the Palestinian health ministry, Israeli troops and settlers killed over 460 Palestinians in the West Bank this year, more than half of them died in the last two months alone. 

Three Israeli soldiers were killed on Monday amid reports of heavy fighting in the Gaza Strip's north and south, the Israeli military announced on Tuesday. 

Israeli group troops invading Gaza are reportedly fierce resistance from Palestinian fighters in Khan Younis in the south, and Jabalia and Shujaiya in the north. 

A total of 80 soldiers have been killed in the ground invasion of Gaza since it was launched in late October. 

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Israel launched one of its most intense bombardments of the Gaza Strip yet, as video footage shared by the Palestinian Red Crescent showed its forces carpet bombing the besieged enclave’s south with explosions illuminating the night sky.

The strikes came as Israel pushed deeper into southern Gaza, even as it continued to engage Hamas fighters in northern and central areas of the Strip.

Both Hamas and Israel released statements documenting what they said were casualties they had inflicted on the warring side amid reports of fierce, close quarter fighting.

Hamas’s al-Qassam Brigades said they completely or partially destroyed 28 Israeli military vehicles in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, while Israel’s military said its forces had killed Hamas fighters who had attacked troops from a tunnel shaft and with an RPG.

Israeli officials said their troops were moving south, while Hamas and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a secular, leftist Palestinian fighting group, both said they had engaged Israeli troops on the outskirts of Khan Younis.

The renewed Israeli offensive has taken a brutal toll on civilians.

Doctors Without Borders said the number of wounded and dead Palestinians has surged since the breakdown of a fragile truce in Gaza last week. In the last 48 hours, over 100 dead Palestinians and over 400 injured have arrived at Al -Aqsa hospital in central Gaza alone. 

Meanwhile, Israel continued to order a forced displacement of Palestinians even as the UN said it considered “nowhere safe” in the besieged enclave.

Other key points from the past few hours:

• The US issued guarded praise for Israel saying that its ally had made “a much more targeted request for evacuations" in southern Gaza than in the north, calling it “an improvement.”
• A rocket fired by Hamas on 7 October likely hit an Israeli military base where many of the country’s nuclear-capable missiles are based, according to a report by The New York Times.
• Unrwa commissioner general Philippe Lazzarini reiterated that nowhere is safe for Palestinians in Gaza and that the number of Palestinian civilians being killed by Israel was “rapidly increasing.”
• US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Iran had “enabled” attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Houthis

Israel launched a fresh assault on Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, deploying a massive force that included 50 armoured vehicles and four bulldozers, according to Palestinian news agency, Wafa.

As Israeli forces assaulted Jenin gunfire erupted as a result of “confrontations” between Palestinians and the Israeli forces, Wafa said.

A video on social media showed a bulldozer destroying infrastructure in the city of Jenin.

Israel deployed a reconnoissance plane over the city and positioned snipers on the rooftops of several houses, Wafa reported.

Israeli forces deployed near Al-Amal Hospital and also positioned snipers near the medical facility as they stopped and searched ambulances, according to Wafa.

A 19 year-old British national was amongst three Israeli soldiers killed in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, according to a statement by the Israeli military.

Binyamin Needham was one of three soldiers killed fighting in northern Gaza on Sunday, the Israeli military said.

Needham, who served in the 601st Battalion was from Zichron Yaakov. He was born in England, but emigrated with his family, including four siblings, to Israel at the age of eight, according to Israeli news site, Haaretz.

Neriya Shaer, 36, of the 55th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade’s 6655th Battalion and Sergeant First Class Ben Zussman, 22, of the Combat Engineering Corps’ 601st Battalion, where also killed fighting in Gaza. 

The World Health Organization has said that Israel forced it to remove medical supplies from a warehouse in southern Gaza, as it pounds the besieged enclave with airstrikes.

“Today, @WHO received notification from the Israel Defense Forces that we should remove our supplies from our medical warehouse in southern Gaza within 24 hours, as ground operations will put it beyond use,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO director-general said in a post on X.

Israel’s office for coordination in the Palestinian territories, called COGAT, denied the claim in a statement.

But Shannon Barkley a member of the WHO's staff in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip said workers had completed “a proportion of the evacuation of the warehouse to a new facility.”

The WHO issued a dire warning on social media platform X that thousands of Palestinians could be cut off from healthcare as result of Israel’s continued assault on Gaza. 

“We have seen what happened in northern Gaza. This cannot be the blueprint for the south. Gaza cannot afford to lose another hospital as health needs continue to soar,” according to the statement.

The number of operational hospitals in Gaza has dropped from 36 to 18 in less than 60 days, according to the WHO, with three providing only basic first aid and others offering partial services.

Twelve hospitals still remain operational in the south part of the Gaza Strip, according to the WHO.

It warned that access to storage facilities could become “challenging” in the coming days as Israel expands its ground offensive in southern Gaza.

“As more civilians in southern Gaza receive immediate evacuation orders and are forced to move, more people are being concentrated into smaller areas, while the remaining hospitals in those areas run without sufficient fuel, medicines, food, water, or protection of health workers.”

US Central Command provided fresh details about a rocket strike on its Rumalyn Landing Zone in Syria.

The US said 15 122mm rockets originating in Iraq were fired at the US base on Sunday. 

“There were no injuries to personnel or damage to equipment,” Centcom said in a post on X.

Central Command released photographs of a fuel truck it said was modified to launch up to 20 rockets at the base from a site in Iraq.

The US said it located the site with unmanned surveillance and reconnaissance assets. Iraqi security forces then moved in to investigate the site.

Iranian-backed forces in the region have renewed their attacks on US bases since the collapse of the truce between Hamas and Israel.

Israel is pounding the Gaza Strip with an intense carpet bombing as Palestinian fighters report engaging with Israeli forces closer to Khan Younis, in a sign Israel's military offensive is pushing south. 

On Monday night, the Palestinian Red Crescent released a video that showed intense carpet bombing with repeated massive explosions in southern Gaza.

The organisation said the strikes came just 500 metres from their headquarters and al-Amal hospital.

Jan Egeland, the secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, said the organisation had received "harrowing reports" from aid workers in southern Gaza that "the indiscriminate Israeli bombardment of the densely packed civilian population has reached new depths". 

Meanwhile, both Israel and Hamas said Monday they engaged in central and northern Gaza, even as Israel pushed deeper into the besieged enclave’s south

Hamas’s military wing the al-Qassam Brigades, said it struck two Israeli army vehicles and a tank north of Khan Younis, in a sign that the Israeli military is moving south. The group said its fighters used Yasin 105 anti-tank weapons against the Israeli forces. 

Fighters with the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a secular leftist group of Palestinian fighters, said they had also engaged with Israeli forces on Monday in al-Qarara, a town close to Khan Younis.

PalTel, the main telecom company in the Gaza Strip, reported a total communications blackout.

Israeli forces killed at least five Palestinians on Monday in the occupied West Bank, in a particularly bloody day, even as they continued their offensive in Gaza. 

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced the death late Monday evening local time of Muhammad Saadi al-Faroukh, 22, and Anas Ismail al-Faroukh, 23, as a result of gunfire by Israeli forces in Sa’ir, northeast of Hebron.

The deaths came as the Israeli military ramped up attacks in the occupied West Bank. Earlier in the day they assaulted the Qalandia refugee camp near the city of Ramallah, injuring at least 22 other Palestinians, the Palestinian Red Crescent said.

Middle East Eye reported earlier the death of one Palestinian man in Qalandia by Israeli forces and two other Palestinian men in Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank.