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Israeli President Isaac Herzog has called on all sides to respect “every clause” of the US-mediated ceasefire deal, even as his own government repeatedly violates it with near-daily attacks on Gaza.
Israeli forces continue to justify their bombardments by claiming delays in the recovery of bodies belonging to Israeli captives. Many of these remains, however, are believed to be trapped under mountains of rubble caused by Israel’s own strikes, making retrieval efforts nearly impossible.
On Thursday, Israeli troops entered southern Gaza with bulldozers to dig through debris in search of bodies. They recovered three remains, which were later handed back, yet the operation was swiftly followed by renewed deadly raids across the enclave.
Gaza’s health ministry announced that it will launch a vaccination campaign next week, targeting approximately 40,000 children under the age of three.
The drive comes as months of Israeli bombardment and siege have decimated Gaza’s healthcare system, halting routine immunisations and leaving tens of thousands of children vulnerable to preventable diseases like measles, polio, and meningitis.
Nedal Ghoneim, the health ministry’s public health manager, told the Associated Press that priority would be given to children who had missed their full vaccination doses due to the war.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says countries are still negotiating a United Nations Security Council mandate for an international stabilisation force in Gaza, with troop deployments to be decided once a framework is finalised.
Fidan spoke after ministers from several Muslim-majority states met in Istanbul to discuss the fragile US-brokered ceasefire, which Israel has been accused of breaching.
The meeting included representatives from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Jordan, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Turkey, some of whom could contribute troops to monitor the ceasefire. The group had also met US President Donald Trump in New York in September, shortly before Israel and Hamas agreed to the truce.
Fidan told reporters that “Israel’s repeated violations” were preventing the full implementation of the ceasefire, stressing that Israel must allow “unhindered humanitarian aid” into Gaza.
Israel has released five Palestinian prisoners in what marks the first unexpected release since the ceasefire took effect, offering a rare moment of hope and relief to families in Gaza.
The prisoners were handed over under the terms of the truce and immediately taken to a hospital in Deir el-Balah for medical check-ups.
While Israel freed only a handful, thousands of Palestinians remain behind bars, many held without charge or trial under Israel’s notorious administrative detention policy, a system long condemned by rights groups as a tool of collective punishment and repression.
A Gaza civil defence spokesperson said on Monday that heavy equipment is needed to recover the bodies from under the rubble, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.
"The remnants are ticking time bombs and pose a danger to the population in the Gaza Strip. We need specialists alongside the teams working in the sector," he said.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health and the civil defence estimate that about 10,000 people are still buried in the rubble in Gaza.
A preliminary United Nations assessment of the damage in Gaza said that about 175,000 structures were destroyed, leaving behind over 53 million tonnes of rubble.
A trio of prisoners, held on remand in the UK for alleged offences relating to Palestine Action activities, have launched a hunger strike over what they describe as "systematic abuse" by prison authorities.
The campaign group Prisoners for Palestine (PFP) announced on Sunday that prisoners Qesser Zurah and Amu Gibb launched a rolling hunger strike by refusing food at HMP Bronzefield.
Huba Muraisi, who is being held on remand at HMP New Hall, joined them on Monday.
More prisoners are expected to join the strike in the coming days, although PFP said they could not disclose total number of prisoners participating in the strike over fears individuals will be further targeted by the authorities.
Muraisi, who is originally from Yemen and has family in Gaza, is one of the Filton 24 - a group who were arrested on terrorism charges in connection with an action in August 2024 targeting a research and development hub of UK-based Israeli arms company Elbit Systems in Filton, Bristol.
Read more: Palestine Action prisoners launch rolling hunger strike over detention conditions
Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday said that cooperation with the United States was not possible as long as it supports Israel, Reuters news agency reported.
"The Americans sometimes say they would like to cooperate with Iran. Cooperation with Iran is not possible as long as the US continues to support the accursed Zionist regime, maintains military bases and interferes in the region," Khamenei said, according to state media.
US President Donald Trump said last month that the US was prepared to make a deal with Iran when Tehran is ready to do so, saying: "The hand of friendship and cooperation [with Iran] is open."
Israeli police have arrested the country's former top military lawyer on suspicion of faking a suicide attempt to dispose of a phone containing incriminating evidence in regards to leaking a video apparently showing soldiers raping a Palestinian detainee.
Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi went missing on Sunday after leaving a note to the family and abandoning her car by the beach.
She was found at night alive and in good condition and brought to police custody.
Israeli Channel 12 news reported that police suspect Tomer-Yerushalmi staged the attempted suicide to get rid of her phone, which she tossed into the sea. The letter she left behind was described as "ambiguous" and staged.
She appeared in court on Monday with another suspect in the same case.
Read more: Ex-Israeli army legal chief 'stages suicide' amid Palestinian prisoner rape scandal
The Israeli army on Monday said that it killed several Palestinians who crossed the Yellow Line demarcating the military’s withdrawal and approached troops in the southern Gaza Strip.
Times of Israel quoted the Israeli army as saying, "the operatives had posed an immediate threat” to the forces stationed in the area.
The military said that shortly after they were identified, the Israeli Air Force struck and killed them “to remove the threat”.
Israel committed 194 violations of the ceasefire agreement that came into effect on 10 October, the director of the government media office in Gaza said.
The family of British journalist Sami Hamdi has urged the UK government to intervene after he suffered a health emergency in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention in the US.
“We demand the UK government intervene immediately to ensure Sami is immediately returned home to us before his health suffers any further,” the family said in a statement.
“In a phone call with his wife Soumaya this weekend, Sami shared that he was experiencing excruciating pain on his left side and needed to be seen by a medical professional immediately,” the family said.
“He has now been able to access medical attention, but we remain deeply concerned that his continued detention is damaging his health," the statement added.
A US federal court has raised "serious questions" about the legality of detaining Hamdi, according to a legal advocacy group.
Hamdi was on a speaking tour across North America when he was detained.
An Israeli panel approved a bill introducing the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners on Monday, paving the way for its first reading in parliament.
The proposal, tabled by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir's far-right Jewish Power party, would allow Israeli courts to impose the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis on "nationalistic grounds".
The legislation does not apply to Israelis who kill Palestinians under similar circumstances.
The bill has been promoted by far-right Israeli parties since before the genocide on Gaza began in October 2023, with renewed calls for its passage in recent months.
Israeli security officials had previously opposed the measure, warning that it could endanger Israeli captives held by Palestinian factions in Gaza.
Read more: Bill allowing death penalty for Palestinian prisoners advances to Israeli parliament
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday said Israel has "massacred over 200 innocent people" since the agreement and "continues its occupation and attacks on the West Bank", Anadolu news agency reported.
“We all see that Israel’s record on this matter is very poor,” Erdogan said, adding that "Hamas appears more determined to comply with the ceasefire".
“We are facing an administration that has massacred over 200 innocent people since the ceasefire agreement and continues its occupation and attacks on the West Bank,” he said.
“We cannot allow the annexation of the West Bank, the changing of Jerusalem’s status or attempts to damage the sanctity of the Al-Aqsa Mosque,” he said.
Foreign ministers from eight nations are meeting in Istanbul on Monday to discuss the implementation of the Gaza "peace plan". The meeting brings together top diplomats from Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistan and Indonesia.
Talks are expected to centre on the October 10 ceasefire and the second phase of Trump’s proposed 20-point peace plan.
Israel committed 194 violations of the ceasefire agreement that came into effect on 10 October, the director of the government media office in Gaza said.
Palestinian Prisoners' Club on Monday said that Israel has never stopped carrying out extrajudicial killings of Palestinians, while criticising the draft law to execute Palestinian prisoners.
"The occupation's efforts to pass a law to execute prisoners are a further step to entrench a crime that has existed and been practised for decades. The brutality of the occupation is unprecedented, and today it seeks to entrench the crime of execution through the enactment of a special law," it said.
Knesset's National Security Committee approved a bill that would allow the execution of Palestinian prisoners, local media reported.
The committee referred the bill to the Knesset General Assembly for discussion and voting in the upcoming legislative session, reports said.
Times of Israel reported that the legislation stipulates that courts will be able to impose the death penalty on those who have "committed a nationalistically motivated murder" of a citizen of Israel. It would not apply to an Israeli who killed a Palestinian.
Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas on Monday called on the United Nations and human rights organisations to take urgent action to stop the draft law to execute Palestinian prisoners.
"We demand the formation of international committees to enter the detention centres, examine the conditions of Palestinian prisoners, and expose the atrocities committed there," the organisation said.
The Israeli military is set to appoint a new advocate general after a scandal forced the resignation of its top lawyer, who admitted to leaking footage apparently showing soldiers raping a Palestinian detainee.
Knesset's National Security Committee approved a bill that would allow the execution of Palestinian prisoners, local media reported.
The committee referred the bill to the Knesset General Assembly for discussion and voting in the upcoming legislative session, reports said.
Times of Israel reported that the legislation stipulates that courts will be able to impose the death penalty on those who have "committed a nationalistically motivated murder" of a citizen of Israel. It would not apply to an Israeli who killed a Palestinian.
Illegal Israeli settlers, accompanied by dogs, attacked and intimidated Palestinian farmers harvesting olives in the occupied West Bank, near the towns of Turmus Ayya and Aqraba.
The settlers forced Palestinian families to leave their olive groves during the vital harvest season.
The violence is part of a growing campaign by illegal Israeli settlers to expel Palestinians from their land across the occupied West Bank.
