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

During a news conference, Yoav Gallant called on Hamas fighters to unconditionally surrender or face death.

“Eliminating Hamas politically and militarily and [returning] the detainees are the goals of the war, and we will implement these goals,” Gallant said.

The minister added that Israel has no intention of permanently remaining in Gaza.

The European Union's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said on Monday that the EU will propose that governments in the bloc impose sanctions on extremist Israeli settlers committing acts of violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

"We will work on proposing sanctions on extremist settlers in the West Bank," Borrell told a news conference after an EU foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels.

A group of pro-Palestinian protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza were arrested in a US Senate building on Monday morning, after demonstrators launched a disruption against the ongoing discussions over an aid package to Israel.

Reuters reported that protesters were arrested in the Hart Senate Office Building but did not specify the number.

A coalition of groups, including the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Jewish Voice for Peace, Adalah Justice Project, and the Movement for Black Lives, said in a press release shared with MEE that they would be "staging disruptive actions on Capitol Hill" on Monday.

The US Campaign for Palestinian Rights said that over 100 protesters had taken over the Senate atrium and were demanding an end to arms shipments to Israel.

The protests are taking place as the Senate discusses a $106bn spending package that includes $14.3bn in military resources to Israel.

White House spokesperson John Kirby said on Monday that the US is concerned about reports Israel has used white phosphorus, and will be seeking more information.

The comments from Kirby come after The Washington Post reported on Monday that Israel had used US-supplied white phosphorus in an attack in Lebanon that injured nine civilians.

Human rights groups have reported on Israel's use of white phosphorus since 7 October, both in Gaza and in Lebanon. Experts also raised concerns with MEE back in October that the white phosphorus shells could have been supplied by the US.

However, The Washington Post's report, in which it says the information was verified by Amnesty International, offers the most definitive evidence so far that the US supplied white phosphorus rounds Israel has used on civilians.

Ahmed al-Kahlout, head of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, told Al Jazeera that "no one can leave" the hospital, which has been under siege by Israeli tanks for four days.

Al-Kahlout reported that the bombardment of the hospital was "very, very intense", with two mothers killed along with their newborn babies after the woman's maternity unit was targeted  "without prior warning or explanation".

The hospital is the third to come under Israeli siege since 7 October. It is one of the last remaining operational health facilities in the northern Gaza Strip.

Hussein Mansour, a Lebanese official, was killed by an Israeli strike on the southern village of Taybeh amid ongoing fighting between Israeli forces and Hezbollah.

According to the National News Agency, the shell that targeted Mansour's house "did not explode", but struck and killed him.

Clashes between Israeli forces and Hezbollah have killed more than 120 people in Lebanon since 7 October.

At least 18,205 Palestinians have been killed, and 49,645 injured in Gaza since 7 October, according to the latest report from the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza.

The ministry also reported that the Israeli army have carried out 19 "horrific massacres" in residential neighbourhoods and shelters in the last several hours.

It also said that Israeli strikes have crippled 22 hospitals and 26 primary care centres, while Israel's military continues to besiege Kamal Adwan Hospital.

It added that 36 medical professionals remain detained by Israeli forces, including Muhammad Abu Salmiya, the director of Al-Shifa Hospital.

Spanish fashion retailer Zara has removed an advertising campaign featuring disfigured mannequins and statues wrapped in white from the front page of its website and app following calls for a boycott by pro-Palestine activists who condemned the campaign as "Gaza destruction-inspired".

Zara had faced online backlash following the launch of its campaign, with social media users saying that the images resembled those of bodies wrapped in white body bags.

The 90-year-old father of Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif has been killed in an Israeli strike on Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.

Due to his poor health, Sharif's father was unable to accompany the rest of the family who were evacuated to an Unrwa school.

Jordan's Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh has raised concerns about the displacement of Palestinians from Gaza at the Doha Forum today in Qatar.

Khasawneh said there "is a deliberate attempt to generate the conditions for Gazans – coupled with increased violence in the West Bank abandoned to settlers – that will compel people to consider the option of moving across the border".

The Israeli army has arbitrarily detained dozens of women and girls from Gaza without disclosing their whereabouts or the charges they face, Palestinian groups and families have said.

The Palestinian' Authority's Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian on Sunday confirmed at least 142 females - including older women and infants - are currently held in Israeli jails.

In a joint statement with the Palestinian Prisoners' Club, the commission warned that "horrific crimes" have been carried out against the female prisoners. 

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The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) have said that volunteers are preparing to set up a Qatari field hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza.

The 50-bed hospital will have an operating room, an intensive care unit and a radiology department.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has adopted a resolution calling for "immediate, sustained, and unimpeded passage of humanitarian relief" into Gaza.

It is the first resolution adopted by consensus within the UN system since the Israeli assault on Gaza began on 7 October.

 “It does not resolve the crisis. But it is a platform on which to build,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

Israeli forces destroyed a Hezbollah military target in Lebanon, an army spokesperson said on Monday.

The strike comes amid ongoing battles between Hezbollah and the Israeli military at the border.

Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Monday that she expects Israel to prevent suffering among Palestinian civilians and allow more humanitarian aid into the besieged enclave.

"We expect Israel... to allow more humanitarian aid, especially in the north, to ensure its military actions are more targeted and cause fewer civilian casualties," the minister said at a news conference in Dubai on the sidelines of the United Nations climate summit.

The comments mark a change in tone from Germany, after the government has faced accusations - including from prominent Jewish residents in Germany - of allowing guilt to blinker its response to Israel's aggression in Gaza, which has caused a humanitarian crisis.

Germany has previously staunchly supported Israel's "right to defend itself" since the Hamas attack on 7 October.