Live: Israel dropped 153 tonnes of bombs on Gaza on Sunday

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday that sanctions and trade restrictions against Israeli officials are “on the table” ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg.

“The situation has changed considering the developments last week,” Kallas told reporters. “But we will discuss with the foreign ministers. These measures are on the table. The question is what the foreign ministers decide to do with them.”

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said all crossings into Gaza must be opened to allow humanitarian aid to enter. He also urged all parties to the ceasefire to “strictly respect the commitments made in the agreement”.

The Israeli army said on Monday that its troops shot several Palestinians in the Shujaiya neighbourhood in Gaza, saying they “posed a threat” to Israeli soldiers after they crossed the Yellow Line.

“The forces fired at the terrorists who crossed the Yellow Line in order to remove the threat to the troops,” the military said.

In a separate incident, the army reported that another "group of terror operatives crossed the Yellow Line" in Shujaiya and posed a threat to troops. "The soldiers again opened fire on the operatives to remove the threat,” the army added.

Palestinian media reported that at least two people were killed in the area on Monday morning.

Israeli forces in Gaza have moved beyond the Yellow Line, the position to which they had withdrawn under the terms of the current ceasefire.

At least 97 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza since the start of the latest ceasefire on 10 October.

United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator Tom Fletcher on Monday said that there is an urgent need for heavy machinery to help extract victims from the rubble and rebuild the Gaza Strip.

Fletcher on Saturday inspected a wastewater treatment plant in northern Gaza City that stopped operating as a result of the genocide.

He described the state of the city as a "wasteland" and noted the widespread devastation that has deepened the humanitarian crisis in the besieged enclave. 

For over two years, Israel's campaign of bombardment and shelling across the territory has rendered much of its infrastructure destroyed, including sanitation and water plants, schools, residential buildings and public spaces. 

Israeli forces on Monday arrested 22 Palestinians during raids in various areas of the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera Arabic reported. 

Israeli authorities also carried out bulldozing operations on Palestinian land in the Beit al-Baraka area, north of the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

A Palestinian was wounded by Israeli forces' gunfire near the separation wall in the town of al-Ram, north of occupied Jerusalem, the Palestinian Red Crescent said. 

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot on Monday said that EU's mission in Gaza is to help deploy a Palestinian police force, news agency Reuters reported. 

The comments come as US Vice President JD Vance said that security infrastructure needs to be in place and international peacekeepers need to deploy to Gaza before Hamas disarms.

“Before we actually can ensure that Hamas is properly disarmed, that’s going to require… some of these Gulf Arab states to get forces in there to actually apply some law and order and some security-keeping on the ground,” Vance told reporters.

“We don’t even have the security infrastructure in place, meaning the Gulf Arab states, our allies, don’t have the security infrastructure in place yet to confirm that Hamas is disarmed,” he added. 

Israeli forces killed 24 Palestinians and wounded 74 over the past 24 hours, Al Jazeera Arabic reported, quoting Al-Awda Hospital.

The report said that Israel conducted air strikes on refugee camps in central Gaza, in a clear violation of the ceasefire agreement.

Two Palestinians were also killed by Israeli forces in the Sha'af area of ​​the Tuffah neighbourhood east of Gaza City, Baptist Hospital reported.

Middle East Eye was on the scene in Gaza as Israel violated the ceasefire, killing more than 45 Palestinians, including children, in a series of air strikes across the enclave. Amid the chaos, survivors cried that there was no truce, only relentless bombing, describing scenes of devastation; “they killed all the people”.

Others described scenes of panic and devastation in displacement camps saying their relatives were missing and searching desperately for missing relatives.

Over two years since the war on Gaza began, the death toll has risen beyond 68,000, with continued attacks despite the ceasefire suggesting no imminent end to the bloodshed.

 

 

 

 

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Israeli forces on Monday violated the ceasefire again by bombing areas in the central Gaza Strip, Khan Younis, and Rafah, Gaza's civil defence agency said.

Civil defence teams reported the Israeli army deliberately targeted schools housing displaced Palestinians "exacerbating the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip".

US President Donald Trump on Monday that the ceasefire in Gaza remains in effect, after a series of Israeli strikes killed at least 97 people in the Palestinian territory, news agency AFP reported. 

"Yes, it is," Trump told reporters aboard the presidential plane when asked if the cease-fire he helped broker was still in effect. 

He also suggested that Hamas leaders were not involved in the alleged truce violations and instead blamed "some rebels within the movement."

Gaza's civil defence agency reported that at least 45 people were killed on Sunday, including civilians and a journalist, during Israeli air strikes. 

A Palestinian government office said that Israeli forces have carried out 80 ceasefire violations since 10 October, killing 97 people and wounding 230 more. 

The US vice president, JD Vance, on Monday said that security infrastructure needs to be in place and international peacekeepers need to deploy to Gaza before Hamas disarms.

“Before we actually can ensure that Hamas is properly disarmed, that’s going to require… some of these Gulf Arab states to get forces in there to actually apply some law and order and some security-keeping on the ground,” Vance told reporters.

“We don’t even have the security infrastructure in place, meaning the Gulf Arab states, our allies, don’t have the security infrastructure in place yet to confirm that Hamas is disarmed,” he added. 

The Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission on Monday said that Israel has seized more than 28.3 hectares (70 acres) of Palestinian land near Nablus in the occupied West Bank. 

“Data from the commission indicates that since the beginning of 2025, the occupying state has issued a total of 53 seizure orders for various military purposes, a significant increase in the use of this type of order, which uses military pretexts to seize control of Palestinian lands,” the group said.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Sunday said he would enforce the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant on Benjamin Netanyahu.

Speaking to Mishal Husain on The Mishal Husain Show by Bloomberg, Carney confirmed that if Netanyahu entered Canada, he would be arrested in compliance with the ICC order.

The court issued arrest warrants in 2024 for Netanyahu and other senior Israeli officials over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

The ICC’s ruling has put pressure on Israel internationally, reinforcing demands that the country answer for actions committed in the ongoing Gaza genocide.

 

 

 

 

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Jared Kushner on Monday said that Israel must help the Palestinians succeed if it wants to integrate into the Middle East, and that Hamas is looking to fulfil its commitment.

Speaking to CBS News, Kushner, who has no formal role in the White House, but is working as Donald Trump’s emissary to the Middle East said, "When I visited Gaza, I asked where people were returning to. They told me that they were returning to their destroyed homes and setting up tents. It is very sad that people in Gaza are returning to destroyed homes.

"So far, we see that Hamas is looking to fulfil its commitment. We wanted the hostages released and we wanted a real ceasefire that both sides would respect. Both parties wanted to achieve the goal; we just had to find a way to help," he said. 

Good morning Middle East Eye readers,

Here are the latest updates from Israel's war on Gaza:

• Hamas has dismissed Israel’s claims that the Palestinian group breached the ceasefire in Gaza as “baseless”.

• Israel's political leadership has accepted a military recommendation to suspend aid deliveries into the Gaza Strip "until further notice".

• Israeli forces violated the ceasefire by bombing areas in the central Gaza Strip, Khan Yunis, and Rafah, Gaza's civil defence agency said. 

• Israel has confiscated more than 70 acres (28.3 hectares) of Palestinian land near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, declaring the area off-limits, the Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission has said. 

• Trump’s aide, Steve Witkoff, has said that reconstruction of Gaza will cost $50bn, where Israel has destroyed more than 80 percent of buildings.

• US congressman Randy Fine has said that Gaza should be turned to glass. Fine is known for his bigoted comments against Palestinians. 

• Israeli forces launched an arrest campaign in several cities and villages in the occupied West Bank, arresting 11 Palestinians.

Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

• The death toll from the Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 2023 has risen to 68,159, with over 170,203 others wounded.

• Gaza’s civil defence and hospital sources report that Israeli air raids across the territory have killed at least 45 people on Sunday.

• A Palestinian government office said on Sunday that Israeli forces have carried out 80 ceasefire violations since October 10, killing 97 people and wounding 230 more.

• Israeli fighter jets carried out air strikes on Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Sunday, in the latest reported violation of the ceasefire.

• Hamas’s military wing, the Qassam Brigades, has reaffirmed its full commitment to the truce deal that came into effect last week. The statement comes amid Israeli attacks across the besieged enclave, which the military said is a response to the Palestinian movement "violating" the ceasefire agreement. 

• The General Authority of Civil Affairs notified the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society of the latest death of a prisoner in Israeli custody on Sunday.

• Israel's Channel 12 reported that the army bombed around 100 targets in Gaza since Sunday morning.

• Israel’s Channel 12 reports that Israel's political leadership has accepted a military recommendation to suspend aid deliveries into the Gaza Strip until further notice.

• Hamas says some of the 150 Palestinian bodies returned by Israel show evidence of torture, calling it “a war crime against humanity.” On Telegram, the group said: “Some of them were handcuffed and blindfolded, while others bore signs of being strangled or crushed under the occupation’s chains, confirming that the occupation executed them while they were prisoners.”