Live: Over 200 Lebanese children killed in two months of Israeli attacks

Israeli settler leader Daniella Weiss has said she recently visited northern Gaza to scout locations for future Israeli settlements there. 

During an interview on Channel 13 on Saturday, Weiss said she has the support of 740 families to establish settlements in the Palestinian territory and was hoping to grow support from "one to two million Israelis". 

"Yesterday we were on a tour at a temporary site near the Gaza border, where we set up 40 trailers that we will eventually move into Gaza," she said on the evening news programme. 

"The truth is we are still a few steps away from real estate, but yes, I was in the field," Weiss told the interviewer when he questioned if she entered Gaza after 7 October.

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Hezbollah said Monday that four members of its media office died in an Israeli strike on a central Beirut district a day earlier that also killed its spokesman Mohammed Afif.

"Hezbollah's media relations mourns four knights of the resistance media... who were martyred on the road to Jerusalem alongside their beloved leader" Afif, a statement said. Lebanon's health ministry had reported four dead including a woman and 14 wounded including two children in the strike on Beirut's Ras al-Nabaa district.

Reporting by AFP

The only alternative to the U.N. Palestinian agency's work in Gaza is to allow Israel to run services there, its chief told reporters on Monday, repeating calls for countries to resist an Israeli ban on the organisation.

Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA Commissioner-General, is in Geneva for a strategy meeting with donors after it was banned by Israel from operating there last month in what he said is one of the darkest moments in the agency's history.

"I have drawn the attention of the member states that now the clock is ticking ... We have to stop or prevent the implementation of this bill," he told reporters, saying there is no alternative to the agency's services in Gaza besides allowing Israel to take them over.

Reporting by Reuters

A diplomatic source told the Times of Israel that no final decision has been made on US presidential envoy Amos Hochstein's visit to the Middle East this week.

According to the report, Hochstein will only come if significant progress has been made in ceasefire negotiations for Lebanon.

This comes amid Lebanese reports that Hochstein is expected in the cou try on Tuesday, as Lebanon's government and Hezbollah reportedly gave a largely positive response to the latest ceasefire proposal.

The Gaza Health Ministry said the death toll in the Strip has now reached 43,922.

It added that at least 103,898 are injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since 7 October attacks.

Of those,  at least 76 Palestinians were killed and 158 wounded in the last 24 hours.

The Turkish government has denied that the Palestinian movement Hamas has relocated its political bureau to Turkey, amidst claims that the group was looking for a new home after a purported Qatari request to leave the Gulf state.

Turkish diplomatic sources told journalists on Monday that members of the Hamas political bureau visit Turkey from time to time but the claims that the group has moved to the country “do not reflect the truth".

On Sunday, Israeli public broadcaster Kan reported that Hamas members departed from Doha to Turkey after Qatar allegedly requested their departure.

Read more: Turkey: Hamas has not moved offices to country, sources say

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said on Monday that a vessel, which was located 60 nautical miles southeast of Yemen's Aden, has reported a missile splashing into the sea in close proximity to the ship.

No casualties have been reported.

The Lebanese government has reacted “positively”  to the US ceasefire proposal that aims at ending the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.

In an interview with the Qatari news agency Al Arabi, the Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said that some issues still “require discussion,” but stated that all unresolved points are to be discussed with US special envoy to Lebanon Amos Hochstein, who is due to travel to Beirut on Tuesday.

Mikati hoped that a truce would be reached "as soon as possible”.

The Israeli army said 30 rockets were launched at the northern border with Lebanon.

In a statement, it said the rockets damaged houses and cars in the city of Kiryat Shmona.

At least three people were killed in an Israeli attack near al-Jalaa street in the west of Gaza city, according to Al Jazeera Arabic. The dead include children.

In a separate bombing, Al Jazeera also reported that one person has been killed as an Israeli drone raided the Khirbet al-Adas area, north of Rafah, located in the south of Gaza.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that the issue of humanitarian aid into Gaza and the Israeli army’s denial of responsibility towards its distribution are two issues that are “more serious” than the failures that led to the 7 October attacks.

"There's a meeting with the defence minister today about the humanitarian aid [going into Gaza], and the IDF will take responsibility for ensuring its distribution in a way that prevents it from reaching Hamas," he said in an interview with the Israeli Army Radio on Monday.

After his remarks, Smotrich requested to clarify on air that he did not intend to make a comparison between the two issues and the 7 October attacks, according to Israeli news outlet Haaretz.

Israeli bulldozers have destroyed several facilities in Rafat, says the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

According to local sources, a garden, a hut and a studio belonging to a resident of the Beit Surik town in northwest Jerusalem, called Nabil Mazraawi, have all been demolished.

Israeli forces have also destroyed two football pitches nearby belonging to the Aaydiya family.

Amos Hochstein, the US envoy to Lebanon, is expected to travel to the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday, according to Reuters citing Lebanese sources.

The visit has also been reported by the Lebanese media outlet Voice of Lebanon, quoting Lebanese MP Kassem Hachem.

The US has submitted a new truce proposal to the Lebanese government, hoping to bring the Hezbollah-Israel fighting to a halt.

It has been reported that the Lebanese armed group has authorised Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri to deliver its response on the proposal.

Fifteen patients and their 16 companions have been evacuated from Kamal Adwan hospital, located in northern Gaza, and transferred to al-Shifa hospital, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS).

“Additionally, 15 patients and two companions were evacuated from Al-Awda Hospital to Al-Shifa Hospital, in coordination with the International Committee of the Red Cross,” PRCS said on X.

Israel has repeatedly attacked all three hospitals and detained several medical staff there.

Lebanese newspaper al-Akhbar is citing sources as saying that a response from the Lebanese government on the US ceasefire proposal between Hezbollah and Israel is expected on Monday.

Sources say the Lebanese armed movement has reacted to the proposal with ‘great openness,’ stating that Hezbollah has authorised Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Najib Mikati to discuss the offer with Amos Hochstein, the US special envoy to Lebanon.

It added that the Lebanese government had concerns about the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701.