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

Less than 5 percent of Gaza's cropland can be cultivated due to damage and access restrictions, "further deteriorating food production capacity and exacerbating the risk of famine in the area", according to a UN assessment published on Monday.

"This level of destruction is not just a loss of infrastructure - it is a collapse of Gaza's agrifood system and of lifelines," said Beth Bechdol, deputy director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which produced the assessment alongside the UN Satellite Centre.

By the end of April, more than 80 percent of the farmland was damaged and 77.8 percent was no longer accessible, leaving barely 4.6 percent of potentially arable land, according to a new satellite assessment released by the FAO.

Before the start of the war, agriculture accounted for approximately 10 percent of Gaza's economy, with more than 560,000 people relying at least partially on farming, herding or fishing, the FAO said.

A Palestinian source familiar with negotiations aimed at securing a truce between Israel and Hamas in Gaza said on Monday that a new proposal involved the release of 10 captives, a 70-day ceasefire, a partial Israeli withdrawal, and the release of a number of Palestinian prisoners, AFP reported.

The proposal would involve the release of "five living Israeli hostages during the first week of the agreement's implementation, and five others before the end of the truce period".

A second Palestinian source familiar with the talks said that "Israel and Hamas will study the proposal and both sides will respond to the mediators".

Israeli military attacks have killed at least 53,977 Palestinians and wounded 122,966 others since 7 October 2023, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

The Israeli army has killed 3,822 Palestinians and wounded 10,925 others since violating the ceasefire agreement on 18 March.

The ministry said the hospitals in Gaza received 38 bodies and 169 injured people in the past 24 hours.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday that Israel's recent attacks on Gaza are taking a humanitarian toll on civilians that can no longer be justified as a fight against terrorism.

"Harming the civilian population to such an extent, as has increasingly been the case in recent days, can no longer be justified as a fight against Hamas terrorism," he told broadcaster WDR in a televised interview.

He also said that he planned to hold a call with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week to tell him "to not overdo it," though for "historical reasons", Germany would always be more guarded in its criticism than some European partners.

Horrifying images have emerged from Israel's latest attack on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City, with a video purporting to show a young girl scrambling for safety after the classroom she was sleeping in was engulfed by flames.

In an 11-second clip shared on the messaging site Telegram, a young girl can be seen trying to make her way out of a burning classroom following a deadly Israeli strike on the Fahmi Al-Jargawi girls' school.

Health officials told reporters they had recovered the severely burned bodies of 31 people, including children, after the late-night strike.

It was unclear whether the child who featured in the video survived the attack.

Other footage taken from the school showed blood-stained walls and charred mattresses lying on the floor, as rescue workers and distraught parents searched for survivors.

Read more: Scenes of horror in Gaza as Palestinian child tries to escape the flames after school attack

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) said on Monday that Israeli protesters have broken into its compound in East Jerusalem.

The organisation’s West Bank coordinator Roland Friedrich said that around a dozen Israeli protesters, including a member of parliament, forcefully entered the compound on Monday.

Earlier, hundreds of Israelis stormed Al-Aqsa mosque and its surrounding areas, waving Israeli flags and chanting to celebrate “Jerusalem Day” and Israel's occupation of East Jerusalem.

At least 18 children were killed among more than 35 dead in what the Government Media Office in Gaza has described as “brutal massacre” at the school-turned-shelter in Gaza City.

In a statement, the government office said the attack on Fahmi al-Jarjawi school is “a direct extension of the crime of ethnic cleansing and genocide” that the Israeli army has been carrying out against Palestinians since 7 October 2023.

It added that Israel has been “deliberately and systematically” targeting shelters and centres for displaced people “in a flagrant violation of all international and humanitarian laws, and in a blatant attempt to inflict the largest possible number of civilian casualties”.

“Medical staff are under tremendous pressure, face a severe shortage of medical supplies, the closure of crossings to the wounded and sick, and the prevention of the entry of fuel, food, medicine, and treatment, exacerbating the humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip,” the office said.

Israeli far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and other politicians have stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and surrounding areas to celebrate so-called “Jerusalem Day”.

On a post on X, Ben-Gvir released a video showing him on the site saying he “prayed for victory in the [Gaza] war, for the return of all our hostages, and for the success of the newly-appointed head of the Shin Bet - Major General David Zini”.

Earlier, hundreds of Israeli settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and its surrounding areas, waving Israeli flags, chanting and performing Talmudic rituals in the mosque.

Thousands gathered at the Western Wall in the early hours of the morning to perform prayers, on the occasion that commemorates the Israeli occupation of the east part of occupied Jerusalem after the 1967 war.

The Israeli military said on Monday that it has attacked more than 200 targets in Gaza over the past 48 hours.

It  claimed the targets were “terrorists, weapons depots, sniper and anti-tank positions, tunnel shafts, and other terrorist infrastructure”.

In the middle of the night on Monday, Israeli forces bombed Fahmi al-Jarjawi school-turned-shelter, located in Gaza City, killing at least 30 people, many of them children.

In its usual claims, the Israeli army said the school was used as an "intelligence compound" by Hamas and the Palestinian Jihad movement.

A new government report, presented by France's Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, revives the spectre of the Muslim Brotherhood as an underground Islamist threat poised to capture local and national institutions.

But behind this alarmist framing lies a deeper political strategy: to delegitimise non-compliant Muslim political participation ahead of the 2026 and 2027 elections, and to bolster the far-right parties as the most credible guardians of the republic against a manufactured enemy.

On 21 May, a confidential report - drafted by two civil servants and initially classified as "Secret Défense" before being leaked to Le Figaro - was presented to France's National Security Council. It warned of an alleged strategy of "entrism" by Muslim Brotherhood-linked actors to infiltrate and gradually transform public institutions, including schools, town halls, and sports associations.

While the report offered no specific names or data, it was swiftly amplified by government officials and conservative media figures. Retailleau described it as evidence of "Islamist submersion", while former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal called for new legislation on "separatism", including a hijab ban for girls under 15.

The narrative is familiar - and so is the timing.

Read more: France’s Muslim Brotherhood report is manufacturing a threat

Hamas and Israel are looking into a newly proposed ceasefire deal that was put forward by the mediator who had facilitated the release of ex-Israeli captive Edan Alexander, the Lebanese newspaper Al Mayadeen said on Monday, quoting a senior Palestinian official.

According to the source, the proposal, which was submitted by Palestinian-American activist Bishara Bahbah, reportedly includes the release of 10 Israeli captives in two stages over the course of a 60-day ceasefire.

Hamas agrees to release only five living captives and five bodies in two phases and a 70-day ceasefire, on its first and seventh days. It also demands the entrance of 1,000 humanitarian aid trucks daily to the Gaza Strip.

The two parties are expected to discuss a Hamas agreement in order to “refrain from any military action against Israel or attempt to arm itself, as well as US-guaranteed negotiations on ending the war”, reports the Israeli media outlet Haaretz.

The US proposal includes extending the ceasefire if the negotiations last.

 The formation of a transitional government in Gaza and rebuilding the Strip will also be discussed.

The Israeli media outlet Haaretz has quoted sources as saying that the US is exerting “significant pressure on Israel to end the war in Gaza”.

It reported on Monday that the message was delivered by Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, in a meeting with Israeli minister Ron Dermer in Rome over the weekend.

America is exerting significant pressure on Israel to end the war in Gaza, a source familiar with the matter told Haaretz.

The message was reportedly delivered in part by Witkoff during a meeting with Israel's minister of strategic affairs Ron Dermer in Rome over the weekend.

Hundreds of Israeli settlers have stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and its surrounding areas in Jerusalem on Monday to mark so-called “Jerusalem Day”.

They waved Israeli flags, chanted and performed Talmudic rituals in the mosque.

Thousands gathered at the Western Wall in the early hours of the morning to perform prayers, on the occasion that commemorates the Israeli occupation of the east part of occupied Jerusalem after the 1967 war.

Thousands of heavily armed police and border police were dispatched in advance, as the settlers regularly assault, attack and harass Palestinians and shops in the Muslim quarter.

The Israeli army and Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, said on Monday that the bombing of Fahmi al-Jarjawi school in Gaza City was targeting an intelligence compound used by Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

"The command and control center was used by the terrorists to plan and gather intelligence in order to execute terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF troops," the Israeli army said in a statement, saying that the compound was used by both Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

It added that "numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians" in the school.

At least 30 people were killed in the bombing that targeted the school-turned-shelter located in al-Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City, with videos showing children burned alive as heavy fire broke out in the building after the attack.

Rescue teams say the search is ongoing for missing bodies under the rubble.

The death toll from the Israeli bombing of Fahmi al-Jarjawi school-turned-shelter in Gaza City has climbed from 25 to 30, according to Al Jazeera.

Meanwhile, Palestinian Mujahideen Movement has condemned the “international silence” after the massacre, describing it as “a manifestation of the most heinous crimes against humanity caused by the criminal entity’s impunity for international accountability”.

“We condemn the international silence and Arab failure to address the ongoing genocidal and ethnic cleansing massacres in the Gaza Strip, the latest of which was the horrific massacre at the Fahmi al-Jarjawi school in Gaza,” said the group’s statement published on Telegram.

The group said it holds the US “fully responsible for this brutal crime and all the crimes” committed by Israel against Palestinians, as “they continue to be a genuine partner in supporting and providing cover for the entity”.