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

The Red Cross president, Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, has arrived in Gaza, and called for the protection of civilians on Monday. 

Spoljaric Egger said: “I have arrived in Gaza, where people’s suffering is intolerable.

“It is unacceptable that civilians have no safe place to go in Gaza, and with a military siege in place there is also no adequate humanitarian response currently possible,” she added.

The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, said on Monday that almost 1.9 million people - 80 percent of the population - have been displaced in Gaza since the war started.

“A staggering 1.2 million people are sheltering in 156 Unrwa installations across all five governorates,” they added. 
 

Paltel, one of Gaza’s main telecommunication companies, announced on Monday that all telecom services in Gaza City and North Gaza are down.

The company said it was due to the “disconnection of main elements of our network in light of the ongoing aggression.”

They added that their teams are working to restore the services.
 

The World Health Organisation announced on Monday that they will hold an emergency session on 10 December to discuss health conditions in Gaza. 

According to a document from the UN global health agency,  14 members of the WHO's board requested the session. 
 

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced on Monday that the death toll in Gaza has reached 15,899 since the war started on 7 October. 

The ministry stated that 70 percent of those killed are children and women. 
 

A 32-year-old Palestinian man, identified as Ibrahim Alqam was killed by Israeli forces after being shot on Monday, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

The shooting took place at the Qalandia checkpoint, near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah. 
 

More than 30 Palestinians were killed on Monday by Israeli air strikes in the east of Gaza, the Palestinian news agency, Wafa, reported.

Israeli warplanes targeted homes in the Al-Zaytoun and Al-Shujaiya neighbourhoods of Gaza with several families believed to have been targeted. 
 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a speech on Monday called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the "butcher of Gaza" adding that "we are preparing to put him on trial".

Speaking about Israel's attacks on Gaza, Erdogan said, "The UN, which was established for global security, cannot even protect its own employees from Israeli barbarism. Israel's massacre has accelerated, I salute the resisting Gaza.

"Netanyahu, who is currently the butcher of Gaza, will be tried as the Butcher of Gaza, just like Milosevic," added Erdogan referring to the former Serbian leader who was charged by an international court for war crimes in connection with the Bosnian, Croatian and Kosovo wars during the 1990s.

Unicef spokesman James Elder, currently in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, has described a “night of utterly relentless bombardments” in a voice note posted to X.

“I cannot stop thinking about the 1.8 million people here in the south,” he said. “I don’t think there was more than a five or ten minute period throughout the course of the night, and I really didn’t sleep, where something wasn’t flying overhead or the sky being lit up”.

Israel’s evacuation maps are causing fear and panic said Melanie Ward, chief executive of humanitarian organisation Medical Aid for Palestinians.

“I cannot overstate the fear, panic and confusion that these Israeli maps are causing civilians in #Gaza, including my own staff. People cannot run from place to place to try to escape Israel’s bombs, nor does international law expect them to.

"What is being done is unconscionable,” Ward said in a post on X on Sunday.

On Friday divided Gaza into more than 600 zones so they could evacuate from specific zones. 

Two Palestinians were killed this morning by Israeli troops in Qalqilya, Israeli radio network GLZ radio and Palestinian media outlet Arab48 said. 

Israeli forces also made more than a dozen arrests following the storming of several areas across the West Bank, including Jenin, Silwad, Jaffna, Jalazoun and Hebron.

A Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) volunteer as well as an employee have been killed in an Israeli strike on the al-Faluja neighbourhood north-east of Gaza City, the organisation has said on X.

The Israeli military said the three soldiers were killed in Gaza during fighting on Sunday. This brings the military death toll since Israel’s offensive war into Gaza on October 7 to 75.