Live: Hamas agrees to release 10 Israeli captives

Al Jazeera is reporting on Monday that Israeli forces are demolishing houses in Khan Younis.

The demolitions are taking place as Israeli army artillery shells target northern Gaza City.

The Israeli army issued forced evacuation orders on Sunday and on Monday for multiple areas of northern Gaza as a new ground invasion is expected.

The Israeli army said on Monday that a British-Israeli solider has been killed in the city of Jabalia in Gaza.

Initial reports state that the soldier, Yisrael Natan Rosenfeld, 20, was investigating - with other soldiers, an explosive device which was hidden inside a building.

His death brings the number of Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023 to 441.

The Israeli military said on Monday that it is “operating intensively” and “will expand” its operations in different areas in Gaza City and Jabalia, ordering Palestinians to move to al-Mawasi area in the south of the Strip.

In a post on X, it issued a warning to Palestinians living in Gaza City, Jabalia areas, and in different neighbourhoods including East Zaytoun, the Old Town, Turkmen, Ajdida, Tuffah, and Daraj.

A British court ruling has rejected on Monday to halt the export of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel as it continues its war on Gaza.

The High Court dismissed an argument brought forward last month by a human rights group called al-Haq that said the decision to allow UK to send the parts to Israel was unlawful and violates the UK’s obligations under international law. I

Britain supplies the components to an international defence programme that produces and maintains the F-35 fighter jets.

Read more: High Court rejects challenge to export of UK-made F-35 parts to Israel

At least 13 aid seekers were killed on Monday by an Israeli air strike in the southern city of Khan Younis, according to medical sources at Nasser Medical complex.

Another 50 people were injured in the same attack.

This pushes the number of those killed in Gaza by Israeli attacks since the early hours of Monday to at least 48 people.

At least 27 people have been killed since the morning hours of Monday by Israeli strikes in different parts of Gaza.

The figure includes 10 aid seekers, who were seeking to collect food at an aid distribution warehouse in al- Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza City, according to Al Jazeera.

Another two aid seekers were also killed by Israeli fire near an aid distribution centre in southern Rafah, medical sources at Nasser Medical Complex said.

The British High Court is expected to deliver a verdict on Monday morning in the legal challenge over the UK government’s continued supply of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel. 

The ruling in the case brought by the UK-based Global Legal Action Network (Glan) and Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq is the most anticipated in the arms control community since the government was taken to court over its arms sales to Saudi Arabia during its bombing campaign in the Yemen war.

The challenge over UK arms exports to Israel was first filed in late October 2023, soon after Israel launched an attack on Gaza following the Hamas-led attacks in Israel earlier in the month. 

Under the Tory government, UK arms exports to Israel continued without any apparent change, despite concerns raised as early as November 2023 by the Foreign Office unit assessing Israel's compliance with international humanitarian law.

Last September, the newly elected Labour government suspended around 30 export licenses for UK-made arms that the government assessed could be used in Gaza. 

Read more: High Court ruling expected in UK arms to Israel challenge

Sixteen Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes targeting several areas in Gaza since the early hours of Monday, according to sources in Gaza hospitals.

This figure includes four Palestinians who were killed and others injured in an Israeli air strike targeting Jabalia al-Balad, north of Gaza, sources at al-Shifa Hospital told Al  Jazeera.

Separately, two Palestinians were injured in an Israeli attack on an aid distribution warehouse in the Zeitoun neighbourhood, south of Gaza City, according to Al Jazeera.

Al Jazeera is citing sources in Nasser Medical Complex as saying that four Palestinians were killed on Monday in an Israeli bombing that targeted areas in the centre and north of Khan Younis, located in the south of the Gaza Strip.

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) warned on Monday that hundreds of newborns in incubators at Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Yunis  are at imminent risk of death, due to the lack of formula milk.

According to Al Jazeera, the UN agency added, "Infant formula has completely run out in the Gaza Strip, and they are at risk of death."

Good morning Middle East Eye readers,

Here are the latest updates on Israel's war on Gaza and developments in the occupied West Bank:

• Injuries among Palestinians were reported on Monday morning  as Israeli airstrikes targeted a tent sheltering displaced people in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

• An Israeli bombing hit two schools sheltering displaced people overnight into Monday; one of them is the Yaffa School, in the al-Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City, and the other is located in al-Zaytoun neighbourhood eastern Gaza City.

• Saraya al-Quds, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, published footage showing its fighters targeting an Israeli supply line and Israeli soldiers' positions in the Netzarim axis in the Gaza Strip.

• Israeli forces stormed the village of Marka, southwest of Jenin, as well as al-Irsal neighborhood in Ramallah, located in the occupied West Bank.

• The Nasser Medical Complex located in the southern city of Khan Yunis said numbers of meningitis cases among children have reached a new record of 35 confirmed cases.

• The Israeli army confirmed on Monday that dozens of Israeli settlers held ‘violent’ protests at a military base in the central West Bank against the shooting of a teenager over the weekend. The military is investigating if the 14-year-old boy was shot by an Israeli soldier, who fired shots into the air in an altercation with settlers,  thinking they were Palestinians.

• The Times of Israel quoted Likud lawmakers as saying that the likelihood of the Knesset intervening to end Netanyahu's trial early is extremely slim. But a source told the newspaper that 'members of the ruling coalition discussed linking an agreement to end the Gaza war to a halt to Netanyahu's trial.'

Our live coverage from Gaza will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are some of the day's key developments:

• At least 72 people have been killed in Gaza today as Israeli forces continue their assault, according to medical officials speaking to Al Jazeera reporters on the ground.

• The overall death toll since 7 October now stands at more than 56,500, with 133,419 wounded, according to officials.

• Since March 18, a total of 583 Palestinians have been killed and more than 4,186 wounded in Israeli assaults targeting or impacting aid seekers. 

• Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has condemned the deadly chaos surrounding food distribution in Gaza, calling the situation “unbearable” for families forced to choose between starvation and risking death.

• Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi said on Sunday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is putting forward “impossible conditions” for reaching a ceasefire deal in Gaza.

• The Israeli military has killed at least 785 Palestinian athletes and sports officials since its war on Gaza began in October 2023, the Palestinian Football Association has said.

• The Israeli military says a soldier was killed by an explosive device in northern Gaza on Sunday, bringing the total number of Israeli troops killed in the besiged enclave this month to 20—the highest monthly toll in a year of fighting.

• US President Donald Trump called on Sunday for a ceasefire deal to end the war in Gaza and the release of captives.

• Iran has said it is not convinced Israel will abide by a ceasefire that ended 12 days of hostilities between the two countries.

• An Israeli court has postponed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's testimony in his corruption trial after he requested a delay with the support of US President Donald Trump.

As Israel’s war on Gaza intensifies and expands across the Middle East, media analysts and human rights advocates are raising concerns over the lack of international accountability and the role of Western news outlets in shaping public perception of the conflict.

At a panel hosted by the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) in London on Saturday, experts accused mainstream Western media of contributing to the denial and distortion of atrocities unfolding in Gaza.

The Centre for Media Monitoring (CFMM) presented findings highlighting how often leading media organisations downplay or dismiss claims of genocide. Faisal Hanif, a media analyst at CFMM, said the BBC had shut down references to genocide in its Gaza coverage more than 100 times over the past year.

Omar al-Ghazzi, Associate Professor of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics, called the trend “a war on history.” He warned that the use of media narratives as future historical sources could shape how upcoming generations understand the events in Gaza.

Read more: Western media enabling Gaza genocide and rewriting history, say experts

At least 72 people have been killed in Gaza today as Israeli forces continue their assault, according to medical officials speaking to Al Jazeera reporters on the ground.

Hospitals across the territory are overwhelmed as the death toll climbs amid relentless bombardment

The Israeli military has killed at least 785 Palestinian athletes and sports officials since its war on Gaza began in October 2023, the Palestinian Football Association has said.

Susan Shalabi, the association’s deputy head, told Turkey's Anadolu Agency that the dead include footballers and staff from multiple disciplines, with most of the victims killed in Gaza. At least 23 were killed in the occupied West Bank.

Among the dead were 437 football players, Shalabi said, including 15 from the West Bank.

The association is compiling the figures using its registration records and data from its Gaza branch, she added.

But the true toll could be higher. “There are still people missing under the rubble,” Shalabi said, stressing that search efforts are hampered by limited access to areas devastated by Israeli bombardment.