Live: At least 75 killed in Israeli strikes on second day of Eid al-Adha

Israel is conducting a series of raids on al-Karama neighbourhood, northwest of Gaza City, according to Al Jazeera Arabic. 

Israel has been ratcheting up its attacks on Gaza throughout the day on Monday.

The UK's trade envoy, Ian Austin, visited Israel's Haifa port on Monday, raising questions among journalists and observers about London's policy toward Israel amid its war on Gaza. 

The UK has criticised Israel's war on Gaza recently, but several analysts say the policy does not appear to indicate a broader shift in the UK and Israel's deep ties. 

"Last week the UK government suspended free trade negotiations with Israel in protest at the war in Gaza. This week the UK’s trade envoy is touring Israel. Slightly mixed messaging," Sky News Arabic journalist Alistair Bunkall said on X. 

It was midnight when Israeli warplanes bombed the Fahmi al-Jarjawi School in Gaza City, setting it ablaze, Middle East Eye's Maha Hussaini reports from Gaza City. 

Families who had sought refuge in the school after being displaced were instead engulfed by fire in the early hours of Monday, desperately trying to reach loved ones trapped in the flames.

"The aftermath of the Israeli strike revealed the charred remains of more than 30 Palestinians, 18 of them children and six women.

Alaa Talal Abu Odah told Middle East Eye that most of those residing in the school, located in the al-Daraj neighbourhood, were asleep at the time of the strikes. 

“Those who were awake and moving through the hallways were either burned or thrown by the blast,”  Abu Odah said. 

Read more: 'Flesh everywhere': Israeli bombing of Gaza shelter leaves children charred

The European Council on Monday called on Israel to lift its blockade of the Gaza Strip. 

In a phone call between European Council President Antonio Costa and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the former called for the "immediate, safe, and unimpeded access for humanitarian aid and assistance" in Gaza. 

"I reiterated my grave concerns regarding the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza and the escalating violence in the West Bank," Costa said. 

Hamas on Monday slammed Israeli settlers who stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque and performed rituals there.

Hamas called the Israeli storming “a blatant violation of the sanctity and status of Al-Aqsa Mosque”.

“We affirm that our Palestinian people will continue to defend Al-Aqsa Mosque and will not allow the implementation of partition or Judaisation plans," the Hamas statement on Telegram said. 

Israel's Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer threatened the UK and France that Israel would annex parts of the occupied West Bank if the countries recognise a Palestinian state, Haaretz reported on Monday. 

Dermer told the foreign minister of France that Israel would annex parts of Area C in the occupied West Bank and legalise several Israeli settlements as well. France is set to host a conference in June with Saudi Arabia, where discussions about recognising a Palestinian state will be held. 

All Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are illegal under international law. 

Israeli nationalists chanted "death to Arabs" and scuffled with Palestinian shopkeepers and left-wing activists ahead of Tuesday's so-called flag march in Jerusalem.

Held every year to mark the occupation and conquest of Palestinian East Jerusalem, the event sees hundreds of Israeli nationalists march through the Old City of Jerusalem waving Israeli flags and taunting Palestinian merchants and residents of the city.

This year, scuffles broke out between the marchers and Palestinians and left-wing Israeli activists, who had gathered along the route.

Other chants included "let your village burn", a reference to the 1948 Nakba, in which Zionist militias forced 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and villages to make way for the establishment of Israel.

Several news outlets reported on Monday that Hamas accepted a ceasefire proposal that reportedly involves the releasing of 10 captives in two batches and a 70-day truce.

Citign a Hamas source, the AFP reported that Hamas agreed to the new proposal by US envoy Steve Witkoff. 

However, Witkoff appeared to walk back the reports. He told Axios on Monday that he was "disappointed" that Hamas did not accept his proposal. 

Israel's war on Gaza is no longer justified, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday, in his sharpest rebuke yet of Israel. 

“To harm the civilian population in such a way as has increasingly been the case in recent days can no longer be justified by a fight against Hamas terrorism,” Merz said at an event held by German broadcaster WDR.

Merz, who has been a staunch defender of Israel, said that Israel had pushed its assault on Gaza to such a level that he could “frankly no longer understand the goal of what the Israeli army is doing" in the enclave. 

Hamas has not accepted a ceasefire proposal yet, US envoy Steve Witkoff told CNN on Monday. 

Witkoff was responding to an earlier report that Hamas had agreed to a ceasefire. 

Cindy McCain, the widow of staunch pro-Israel US Senator John McCain, disputed Israeli allegations that Hamas is looting aid in Gaza and causing a famine. 

"This doesn't have anything to do with Hamas... it has simply to do with the fact these people are starving to death," McCain, the UN World Food programme’s executive director, said in an interview aired on Sunday by CBS. 

Asked if Hamas was looting aid as Israel says, McCain replied, "No. Not at all. These people are desperate....they see a World Food Programme truck coming in and they run after it," referring to starving Palestinian civilians. 

The Israeli army last week posted on social media an announcement, in Arabic, ordering residents to leave Gaza’s Khan Younis area ahead of an “unprecedented attack”.

The statement, which ordered Palestinians to flee westwards towards al-Mawasi, said Khan Younis would thenceforth be considered a “dangerous combat zone”.

The order was accompanied by a map of the neighbourhoods of Khan Younis, most of which were shaded in red, and an arrow pointing towards the Mawasi “humanitarian zone”.

Moments after the warning was posted, the streets filled with tens of thousands of people wandering aimlessly. My friend, the journalist Saleh al-Natour, said what he witnessed that day was difficult to describe.

“I saw pain and oppression walking once again in human form through this city,” Natour told me. “They were fleeing in groups, from east to west, like an endless human flood … exhausted, frail bodies staggering like torn rags, covered in the dust of the surrounding destruction.

Read more: 'Staggering like torn rags': No respite for Palestinians as Israel crushes Khan Younis

The majority of medical equipment has run out in Gaza, and 42 percent of basic medicines, including painkillers, are out of stock, the World Health Organisation said on Monday.

"We are at stock zero of close to 64 percent of medical equipment and stock zero of 42 percent of essential medicines and vaccines," Hanan Balkhy, the WHO's regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean, told reporters in Geneva, Switzerland.

The head of a controversial aid organisation, which says it is ready to start delivering food into Gaza, has resigned, saying he does not believe it is possible for the organisation to operate independently or adhere to strict humanitarian principles.

Jake Wood, the executive director of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), announced his resignation late on Sunday, hours before the group said it planned to begin "direct aid delivery" into the Palestinian enclave and after aid organisations sought to distance themselves from the contentious plan.

“I am proud of the work I oversaw, including developing a pragmatic plan that could feed hungry people, address security concerns about diversion, and complement the work of longstanding NGOs in Gaza,” Wood said.

“However, it is clear that it is not possible to implement this plan while also strictly adhering to humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence, which I will not abandon.”

Read more: Head of Gaza aid organisation resigns hours before controversial plan set to launch

Hamas has agreed to a proposal by US special envoy Steve Witkoff for a Gaza ceasefire, a Palestinian official close to the group told Reuters on Monday, paving the way for a possible end to Israel's war on the enclave.

"The proposal includes the release of 10 living Israeli hostages held by Hamas in two groups in return for a 70-day ceasefire and a partial withdrawal from the Gaza Strip," the source said.

The proposal, which was received by Hamas through mediators, also sees the release of a number of Palestinian prisoners by Israel, including hundreds of those serving lengthy prison terms.