Supplies for air defences, munitions, and other security assistance arrived in Israel late on Tuesday night.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is also scheduled to visit Israel and Jordan from 11-13 October.

The Israeli army has said that a number of mortar shells were launched at Israel from Syria, and said it was responding with artillery and mortar fire towards Syrian areas.

Israeli forces have killed four Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian and Israeli officials have said.

Two Palestinians were killed in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan for protesting with fireworks, while another two were killed in the city of Jenin.

The death toll for Palestinians in Gaza has risen now to at least 900 people, with an additional 4,500 people injured, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, as Israel continues to bombard the enclave with air strikes.

US national security advisor Jake Sullivan says Washington is talking to Israel about the idea of a safe passage for Gaza civilians.

“We are focused on this question, there are consultations going on,” Sullivan told reporters during a press briefing.

The US also announced that Secretary of State Antony Blinken will be travelling to Israel this week.

The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court has said the court’s mandate applies to the current conflict, as it has an ongoing investigation for alleged war crimes committed since 13 June 2014.

“This mandate is ongoing and applies to crimes committed in the current context,” the prosecutors said. Palestine is a member of the ICC.

Ali Barakeh, a senior Hamas official based in Beirut, has denied reports that Iran was involved in the planning of the Palestinian attack on Israel.

“Only a handful of Hamas commanders knew about the zero hour,” Barakeh said in an interview with the Associated Press, adding that the group’s closest allies were not informed in advance about the timing of the attack.

He added that Hamas will use the scores of Israelis it captured to secure the release of all Palestinians detained in Israeli jails and even some Palestinians imprisoned in the United States on charges of funding Hamas.

“There are Palestinians held in America. We will ask for their release,” he said, without clarifying who he was referring to.

US President Joe Biden has given a public address on the Israel-Palestine War. Here are the key points:

• At least 14 Americans have been killed so far.
• The US is surging increased military assistance to Israel, including ammunition and interceptors for Israel's Iron Dome missile defence system.
• Washington is deploying US government experts to consult with Israel on hostages.
• Biden made no mention of Israel's large-scale bombardment of Gaza and its civilian casualties, or its decision to impose a full siege on the already blockaded enclave. He later said: “we uphold the laws of war”. The European Union and a UN special rapporteur on Tuesday went on the record to state that some of Israel’s actions in the siege and bombing of Gaza violate international law.

You can tune into the full address here.

A Palestinian Liberation Organisation official has called for urgent intervention to “stop the [Israeli] aggression” and allow aid and restore electricity and water in Gaza.

The official added that Israel refused a request to bring food and medical supplies into Gaza.

Thousands of people in Jordan have come out on the streets of the capital Amman to express solidarity with Gaza amid the ongoing Israeli bombing of the besieged enclave.

Over the weekend, Jordan's security forces prevented its citizens from reaching the country's border with the occupied West Bank.

Roughly half of Jordan's 10 million population is of Palestinian descent.

The European Union's foreign policy chief has said that while Israel has the right to defend itself, some of the decisions it has made are against international law.

Josep Borrell said that Israel must conduct itself "accordingly with international law, humanitarian law" after a meeting of EU Foreign Affairs ministers in Muscat, Oman.

UN special rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese said on Tuesday that Israel's decision to conduct a full siege on Gaza is a "crime against humanity".

“It is completely outside what is permitted under international law,” Albanese said on Al Jazeera English.

European Union foreign policy chief said on Tuesday that stopping aid would be a mistake.

“The overwhelming majority of the member states considered that we have to continue our support to the Palestinian Authority and the payments due should not be delayed,” said Josep Borrell.

UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman has sent a letter advising that the police should consider whether to view acts like waving the Palestinian flag or chanting "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free", as a crime.

On Monday evening, thousands of protesters gathered outside the Israeli embassy in London, waving Palestinian flags and chanting "Free Palestine". Three people were arrested.

UK home secretary says waving Palestinian flag could be an offence

Around 177,000 Palestinians are taking shelter in 88 schools run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).

This is an increase of 40,000 people from yesterday.

Jenifer Austin, deputy director of UNRWA Affairs in Gaza, told Al Jazeera English that it has turned its schools into emergency shelters for those in Gaza looking to escape Israeli bombardment.

"We've got supplies for 12 days for food and water for those people," Austin said, adding that more people will be arriving to these shelters.

Turkish Airlines is suspending flights to Israel until further notice, according to several Turkish media reports.