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The Biden administration sees a possible Gaza agreement as soon as this week, White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told Bloomberg News on Monday, adding that there were no guarantees that the parties would agree to such a deal.

Sullivan, speaking to Bloomberg in an interview, added that US President Joe Biden's administration has been in contact with incoming president Donald Trump's team on the issue. 

Reporting by Reuters

Lebanese state news agency NNA reported four more Israeli violations of its ceasefire deal with Hezbollah.

It said that Israeli forces targeted several home homes in the town of Aita ash-Shaab in southern Lebanon. The same source reported that an Israeli reconaissance plane flew at low altitude over the city of Tyre.

It added that Israel conducted a large-scale military operation in the town of Khaim, and that military vehicles were seen advancing into the town of Meiss el-Jabal.

Lebanese authorities have reported over 470 Israeli violations of the ceasefire deal, which was reached after months of fighting on 27 November.

Since then Israeli forces have killed 32 people and injured 39 others in Lebanon.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has taken new measures to ensure the acceleration of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, with minimal US involvement or political approval. 

Smotrich has been seeking to expand land seizures throughout occupied Palestinian territory - outlawed under international law - via a new mechanism that will allow for weekly settlement building permits, which previously took months to be approved.

According to the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth (Ynet), these measures have been taken despite US-Israeli tensions over illegal settlements and violent settler activity, as well as guidelines set by the United States that allow Israel to build a few settlements only near the designated "Green Line".

This 1949 armistice line is an area that separates the Palestinian territories of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip from Israel.

Ynet reported that Smotrich's Settlement Administration, which is responsible for land seizures in the West Bank, aims at normalising settlement planning by holding meetings on a weekly basis, where discussions would lead to the approval of new settlements. 

Read more: Israel's Smotrich takes measures to fast-track West Bank settlement building

The head of the International Court of Justice, Nawaf Salam, secured the support of enough lawmakers to be designated Lebanon's next prime minister on Monday, political sources said.

President Joseph Aoun is required to nominate the candidate with the greatest support among lawmakers.

Reporting by Reuters

A Hamas official has told Reuters that talks over some core issues for a ceasefire deal in Gaza have made progress.

"The negotiation over some core issues made progress and we are working to conclude what remains soon," the official, who did not wish to be named, said.

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Wafa news agency is reporting that a further four Palestinians have been killed and others injured in an Israeli attack on Gaza City.

The agency reported, citing medical sources, that two Palestinans were killed when Israeli forces targeted a group of people in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood.

Two more people were killed in a separate attack near the Al-Yarmouk area.

We reported earlier that six people had been killed in an Israeli attack in the Al-Daraj neighbourhood in the city.

According to Wafa, Israeli forces have conducted strikes on five different areas across the strip, leaving dozens dead.

Gaza's Ministry of Health reported earlier on Monday that 19 Palestinians have been killed and 71 wounded by Israeli forces in the last 24 hours.

Six people have been killed and others injured in an Israeli attack east of Gaza City, Wafa news agency is reporting citing local sources.

According to the sources, Israeli fighter jets targeted a group of civilians in the Al-Daraj neighbourhood.

The Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom has reported that 80 percent of the commanders within the Givati Brigade have either been killed or wounded during the ongoing assault on the Gaza Strip.

Less than a year after Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza and the Sinai Peninsula, Jewish philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz published an article titled “The Territories,” criticising the Israeli occupation and the imposition of a military regime on millions of Palestinians. 

From this critique emerged the now-famous slogan: “The occupation corrupts” - a phrase that has become the foundation of arguments by many liberal Zionists. 

These individuals view the crimes of the occupation primarily as acts that corrupt their own morality, rather than fundamentally harming the lives of others. Palestinians are thus not people in their own right, but a backdrop to a story liberal Zionists tell about themselves. 

When a Palestinian dies, they see themselves as the true victim - their delicate conscience sullied by that death. As former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir once remarked: “We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children.”

In this twisted logic, even while acknowledging that Israelis kill Palestinian children, they are still positioning themselves as the victim. 

Read more: War on Gaza: As Palestinians suffer, liberal Zionists play the victim

Israeli shelling on Al-Oyoun Street, west of Gaza City, killed at least two Palestinians and left others wounded. The attack occurred in the central Gaza Strip Al Jazeera Arabic reported.

Denmark’s Foreign Minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, affirmed on Monday that his country sees no viable alternative to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (Unrwa), stating, "for sure not in the near future," Reuters reported.

Responding to a question from Haaretz regarding Israel's decision to end cooperation with Unrwa,, Rasmussen noted, "We definitely do not see eye to eye on this issue." He further stressed, "Unrwa, cannot operate in Israel under new laws, but what about the occupied territories? We support Unrwa."

At least 33 Palestinians have been killed in a series of Israeli air strikes targeting the northern Gaza Strip since dawn medical sources in Gaza told Al Jazeera Arabic.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza reported that the death toll from Israel’s ongoing military onslaught has climbed to 46,584, with 109,731 people wounded since Israel's war on Gaza began on 7 October 2023.

Experts estimate the death toll to be much higher, with a new study in the Lancet medical journal saying that the ministry's death toll had undercounted deaths caused by Israeli attacks by 40 percent between October 2023 and June 2024.

The ministry of health in the Gaza Strip reported that Israeli forces carried out two massacres within 24 hours, leaving 19 Palestinians dead and 71 others wounded.