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

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Israeli, American and Arab officials in Doha, Qatar, discussed new outlines for a possible Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal. 

"In the coming days, discussions will continue between the mediators and Hamas to examine the feasibility of talks and a continued attempt to advance a deal," Netanyahu's office said in a statement.

Netanyahu also said that he hopes to continue the Abraham Accords process of expanding Israel's ties to Arab states after the wars in Gaza and Lebanon. 

The Israeli military said Hezbollah launched around 150 projectiles into Israel on Monday, as Israeli forces pounded the Lebanese city of Tyre and eastern district of Baalbek. 

Oil is trading down 5.33 percent on Monday at $71.58 per barrel.

The plunge in oil prices is a market reflection of Israel's limited strikes on Iran and Tehran's muted response to the attack. 

Israel followed the Biden administration's requests not to bomb Iranian oil facilities, which some analysts worried could provoke an oil war in the Middle East. 

At least six people have been killed by Israeli strikes south of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, Al Jazeera Arabic is reporting. 

Some of the dead include children, according to the report. 

Hezbollah said it fired on Monday a barrage of advanced rockets towards a naval base in the area of Haifa in northern Israel. 

Hezbollah said it fired "a rocket barrage at...a naval base" after Israeli strikes hit the southern Lebanese city of Tyre. 

Hezbollah reported earlier that it ambushed Israeli soldiers near the Lebanese town of Kfar Kila. 

Hezbollah said it ambushed Israeli troops near a Lebanese border village on Monday.

The Lebanese group said it had "ambushed... the Israeli enemy's vehicles and soldiers as they advanced towards" the outskirts of the border village of Kfar Kila.

A group of more than a thousand authors have launched an appeal to boycott Israeli publishers in light of the country's assault on Gaza.

The letter, initiated by the Palestine Festival of Literate and signed by Nobel laureates and winners of the Booker, Pulitzer, and National Book Awards, said writers should end their relations with companies that are "complicit in Israel’s human rights abuses against the Palestinian people and upholding apartheid and genocide.

"The overwhelming majority of Israel’s publishing industry is silent on Israel’s pervasive practice of targeting Palestinian writers and scholars for death and persecution; silent on Israel’s destruction of Palestinian libraries, printers, and publishing houses; silent on Israel’s now widely-known practice of scholasticide, even as it continues to destroy Palestinian schools, universities, libraries, and archives," reads the letter.

"In several cases there was not only silence, but support for the Israeli military’s actions."

Among the signatories are Sally Rooney, Annie Ernaux, Owen Jones, Arundhati Roy, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Judith Butler.

Israeli strikes targeted Tyre in southern Lebanon on Monday, following a call to evacuate the coastal city that is home to ancient Unesco World Heritage sites.

The national news agency Ani reported a series of Israeli air raids on the city shortly after the Israeli army called for evacuation of parts of the city, where seven people were already killed on Monday.

The ongoing and simultaneous Israeli aggression in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iran strikes many as exceptional and unprecedented.

Israeli attacks targeting civilian airports, hospitals, schools, and shelters are thought to be the work of an extremist right-wing leadership spearheaded by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the country had never perpetrated before.

Likewise, settler violence across the West Bank and settler invasions of al-Aqsa Mosque are seen as novel provocations and violations that previous rational Israeli governments would have never allowed or at least sought to seriously limit.

But none of this is true.

While the scale of the genocide in Gaza - which has killed, according to recent estimates, around 200,000 people - is indeed unprecedented, such atrocities are routine in all Israeli governments.

Read more: Israeli atrocities are nothing new. The only novelty is the scale by Joseph Massad

Israeli fighter jets launched a series of heavy air strikes on residential areas in the heart of Lebanon's historic port southern city of Tyre, known in Arabic as Sour, according to local media. 

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German airline group Lufthansa said Monday it was extending the suspension of flights to Tel Aviv to 25 November amid the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza and Lebanon.

"The Lufthansa Group airlines Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Lufthansa and SWISS have decided to extend the suspension of its flights to Tel Aviv up to and including November 25, 2024," it said in a statement.

It also confirmed that Eurowings flights to Tel Aviv are suspended until 3 0November.

Reporting by AFP

Israeli forces have killed at least 96 Palestinians and wounded 277 in the past 48 hours across Gaza, according to the Palestinian health ministry. 

This brings the death toll in the besieged Palestinian enclave since 7 October 2023 to 43,020, with more than 101,110 wounded and at least 10,000 still missing, likely dead and buried under rubble.

Health officials report that over 60 percent of the victims are children and women.

The Israeli military said it ended a three-day raid of north Gaza's last working hospital after emptying it of doctors. 

The assault began before dawn on Friday after nearly three weeks of besieging the health centre. Fighter jets bombed the hospital facilities before troops stormed it, assaulting and arresting doctors, patients and displaced people taking shelter there. 

The Palestinian health ministry said all doctors at the hospital had been either arrested or expelled by Israeli soldiers during the attack, except for one paediatrician. 

The Israeli military said it "apprehended approximately 100 terrorists from the compound". 

However, while the raid on the hospital has been concluded, the assault on northern Gaza continues, the military added.

According to its unverified assessments, nearly 50,000 Palestinians have been forced to leave their homes in the ongoing assault on north Gaza, which was launched on 5 October. Nearly 600 more have been abducted by the army. 

The Israeli military issued expulsion orders in large parts of Lebanon's southern city of Tyre, known in Arabic as Sour, on Monday.

Similar orders issued in recent weeks have preceded heavy bombardment in the historic port city.

The Israeli military claimed there were "Hezbollah's activities" in the region. Hezbollah vehemently denies conducting military operations from within civilian areas. 

Iranian media on Monday said a civilian was killed during the Israeli strikes over the weekend, although authorities had not previously reported civilian deaths. 

"The martyr Allahverdi Rahimpour, a civilian who was killed near Tehran during the recent attack by the Zionist regime, has been buried," the local Fars news agency reported. Tasnim news agency also reported the death. 

Reporting by AFP