Israel-Hamas war live: women and children make up nearly 70% of people reported killed in Gaza, says UN

Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Live feed From 2h ago 17. 47 EDT Nearly 70% of those reported killed in Gaza are children and women, says UNRWA chief The head of the UN relief agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) has warned that the level of destruction across Gaza “is unprecedented, the human tragedy unfolding under our watch is unbearable”. Philippe Lazzarini, addressing the UN security council on Monday, said the “forced displacement” of people in Gaza as they are told to evacuate south by Israeli authorities has left more than 670,000 in overcrowded UNRWA schools and basements.

I have said many times and I will say it again: no place is safe in Gaza. He noted that nearly 70% of those reported killed are children and women. Nearly 3,200 children have been killed in Gaza in three weeks, he said, citing figures by the territory’s health ministry.

That number surpasses the number of children killed annually across the world’s conflict zones since 2019, he said. “This cannot be ‘collateral damage’,” he said, adding that Israel is carrying out “collective punishment”. Updated at 17.

49 EDT Key events 10m ago Aid system ‘geared to fail’ says UN 1h ago Entire population of Gaza becoming ‘dehumanised’ says UN commissioner 2h ago What is a human shield and how has Hamas been accused of using them? 2h ago Nearly 70% of those reported killed in Gaza are children and women, says UNRWA chief 3h ago Summary of the day so far 3h ago More than 420 children killed or injured in Gaza every day, says Unicef 3h ago US does not believe ceasefire is ‘the right answer’, says White House 5h ago 26 aid trucks cross Rafah border 6h ago Families of hostages in Hamas video condemn ‘crime against humanity’ 6h ago Netanyahu says the ‘only thing he will resign is Hamas’ 6h ago Netanyahu: Israel ‘committed to getting all the hostages back home’ 6h ago Netanyahu: Israel will not agree to ceasefire in Gaza, adding ‘this is a time for war’ 7h ago Israeli soldier hostage rescued from Gaza, says IDF 7h ago Summary of the day so far 8h ago Hamas releases video of hostages to ‘send message’ to Netanyahu 11h ago Israeli forces reported to be advancing in two directions around Gaza City 12h ago Summary of the day so far … 13h ago South Africa calls for UN to deploy rapid protection force to protect civilians in Gaza 13h ago Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says 8,306 Palestinians killed by Israel, including 3,457 children 13h ago Israel confirms German-Israeli Shani Louk has been confirmed dead, murdered by Hamas 14h ago Kremlin: ‘outside influence’ to blame for Dagestan mob, Putin to hold meeting on ‘west’s attempts to split Russian society’ 17h ago Summary 18h ago Israel says it has attacked 600 targets in a day 20h ago Summary Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature 52s ago 20. 02 EDT Here is our video report after Israel forces announced the liberation of a hostage in Gaza. Ori Megidish, an Israel Defence Forces soldier, was freed during an escalating offensive in Gaza, the IDF said on Monday night.

It said she had undergone medical checks and was doing well: 00:01:27 Hostage rescued in Gaza as Hamas issues video of others still in captivity – video 10m ago 19. 53 EDT Aid system ‘geared to fail’ says UN More now from Philippe Lazzarini. “The system in place to allow aid into Gaza is geared to fail unless there is political will to make the flow of supplies meaningful, matching the unprecedented humanitarian needs,” Lazzarini said, calling for the Security Council to demand an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.

According to UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric, 33 trucks carrying water, food and medical supplies entered Gaza through Rafah on Sunday. Prior to the war, some 500 trucks carrying aid and other goods entered Gaza every day. 12m ago 19.

51 EDT In this opinion piece, addiction and trauma specialist Diane Young gives some advice for how to stay informed about this conflict while looking after your mental health. The ongoing conflict in Israel and Gaza has once again brought to the forefront the grim realities of war and its impact on innocent civilians. As we’re flooded with images and stories of destruction, suffering, and loss, it’s natural to feel a deep sense of sadness, empathy, helplessness and, of course, anger and dismay at what we are witnessing.

Many are finding it increasingly challenging to balance their desire to stay informed with the emotional toll this crisis can take. Unfortunately, this can lead to secondary trauma. Secondary trauma, also known as vicarious trauma, is a phenomenon where individuals experience symptoms of trauma as a result of witnessing or hearing about traumatic events happening to others, even if they aren’t directly involved.

In the context of the Israel-Gaza crisis, secondary trauma can manifest as feelings of grief and extreme sadness, anxiety and depression, helplessness, and even physical symptoms like headaches or stomach aches. For those trying to stay informed, the distressing images and videos can take a toll on their mental and emotional wellbeing. The line between being an informed and empathic global citizen and subjecting oneself to secondary trauma can be quite thin, and many of us find it difficult to turn away from the images flashing on our screens.

We are in a state of disbelief. So, how can you navigate this difficult terrain while staying informed without succumbing to secondary or vicarious trauma? Here are some strategies: Distressing images and videos can take a toll on our mental health. How can we stay informed without being traumatised? | Diane Young Read more 36m ago 19.

27 EDT Patrick Wintour Lazzarini added that there is no place is safe in Gaza, and warned that a further breakdown of civil order in the territory would make it “extremely difficult if not impossible” to deliver more aid. “Most of the people of Gaza felt abandoned. They feel the world is equating all of them to Hamas.

This is dangerous – an entire population is being dehumanised. The atrocities of Hamas do not absolve the state of Israel from its obligations under international humanitarian law. Every war has rules and this one is no exception,” he said.

Updated at 19. 57 EDT 47m ago 19. 16 EDT Patrick Wintour Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner general for the UN relief and works agency (UNRWA), has accused Israel of “collective punishment” of the people of Gaza, and of forcing their displacement from the north of the territory to the south – where they are still not safe.

More than 8,000 Palestinians have now been killed in Israel’s attack, who Lazzarini said included 64 UNRWA staff. He said that a UN worker named Samir, as well Samir’s wife and eight children, were killed just hours before the meeting. The Swiss-Italian official said: My UNRWA colleagues are the only glimmer of hope for the entire Gaza Strip … but they are running out of fuel, water, food and medicine and will soon be unable to operate Entire population of Gaza becoming ‘dehumanised’ says UN commissioner Read more Updated at 19.

57 EDT 1h ago 19. 06 EDT Entire population of Gaza becoming ‘dehumanised’ says UN commissioner Patrick Wintour The entire population of Gaza is becoming “dehumanised” the commissioner general for the main UN agency in Palestine has told the UN security council, adding that a ceasefire has become a matter of life and death for millions. Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner general for the UN relief and works agency (UNRWA) was one of three speakers to starkly describe the scale of the damage being inflicted on Gaza, as UN agencies piled pressure on the security council to set aside its divisions and back some form of immediate humanitarian ceasefire.

The speakers detailed a breakdown in civil order , the loss of clean water and a death rate of children that matches the total number of children killed in conflict in the last four years. The debate called by the United Arab Emirates was intended to build on the momentum created by Friday’s vote by the UN general assembly calling for a humanitarian truce , a vote seen as a way of shaming the superpowers to abandon their arguments for not backing a form of ceasefire. Four previous draft UN security council resolutions on the crisis have been vetoed either by Russia or the US .

Efforts are now being made by the 10 elected members of the security council – including Brazil , the current security council president – to frame a resolution that the five permanent members would feel forced to adopt. Updated at 19. 56 EDT 1h ago 18.

58 EDT Israel’s expansion of its ground operations in Gaza has complicated US efforts to secure the release of hostages being held in the Palestinian territory, according to a report. A senior US official told CNN on Monday that they believed the prospects of getting hostages out could be described as “50/50”. “The parameters are all there,” the official said about a potential deal, but efforts to negotiate with Hamas have been slow, they said.

A spokesperson for Qatar’s foreign affairs ministry told the outlet that Israel’s escalation on the ground is making the situation “considerably more difficult”. Ongoing talks involving Israel, Qatar, Egypt, the US and Hamas have centered on freeing hostages in exchange for prisoners being held by Israel, according to a source. They have also included getting Hamas to open the Rafah gates for dual nationals to get out of Gaza, they said.

Updated at 19. 40 EDT 1h ago 18. 39 EDT Cyprus is doubling the capacity of its main migrant reception camp in preparation for a potentially large influx of people if the Israel-Gaza conflict escalates, according to authorities, Associated Press reported.

The Pournara reception camp on the outskirts of the capital, Nicosia, currently has a capacity of 1,153 people. It will also receive an increase in staffing to adequately provide needed care to new arrivals and expedite asylum application processing, Cyprus’ interior minister Constantinos Ioannou said in a statement. Updated at 19.

09 EDT 2h ago 18. 32 EDT Turkey’s foreign ministry has condemned “in the strongest terms” what it said was an Israeli attack on a hospital in Gaza on Monday, Reuters reported. In a statement, it said it had shared with Israeli authorities all of the “necessary information, including the coordinates” of the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship hospital .

It added: The siege and these inhumane attacks, which aim to deprive the Palestinian people in Gaza of their most basic rights, clearly violate international law. It has not been possible to independently verify the Turkish ministry’s claims. Updated at 18.

53 EDT 2h ago 18. 20 EDT What is a human shield and how has Hamas been accused of using them? Peter Beaumont In an audio recording released by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), a member of the military intelligence directorate can be heard calling a Palestinian man in Gaza to persuade him and his family to evacuate south towards Khan Younis. But the recipient of the call complains that it is hard to comply with the Israeli warning because Hamas is blocking roads on the route south, and “just sending people back home”.

The man adds that Hamas is shooting at Palestinians attempting to leave the area. The audio is just one of numerous pieces of alleged evidence released by the IDF to support its claims that Hamas uses the civilian population of Gaza as human shields or operates in a way that shows flagrant disregard for civilian safety. Here’s what you should know about Israel’s claim that Hamas is using human shields as a tactic in the current conflict, and in the previous war in 2014 : What is a human shield and how has Hamas been accused of using them? Read more Updated at 18.

52 EDT 2h ago 18. 17 EDT Three Palestinian rights groups have called on the prosecutor of the international criminal court (ICC), Karim Khan, to issue arrest warrants for Israeli authorities and military personnel. A joint statement by Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) came a day after Khan made an unannounced visit to the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza.

Speaking after his visit on Sunday, Khan said Israel must make “discernible efforts, without further delay to make sure civilians receive basic foods, medicine”, adding that impeding relief supplies to Gaza’s population may constitute a crime under the ICC’s jurisdiction. The three Palestinian rights groups said the decision to cut off supplies of water, food, electricity, medicine and fuel and the use of starvation as a method of war to collectively punish the people of Gaza “are both clear and blatant international crimes”. These crimes were ordered and authorized by the Israeli government, including by the Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, and the Minister of National Infrastructure, Energy, and Water, Israel Kantz.

They said: Accordingly, we call on the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) to immediately issue arrest warrants for Israeli authorities and military personnel, and particularly for individuals responsible for perpetrating international crimes against children, in conformity with the OTP’s explicit policy. Updated at 18. 20 EDT 2h ago 18.

04 EDT Israel’s ground operation in the Gaza Strip intensified on Monday, with Israeli tanks and infantry advancing on Gaza City from two directions in an apparent effort to cut the strip into two. Smoke and flames rise during an Israeli air strike on west Gaza. Photograph: Reuters Flames and smoke rise in the Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood as Israeli attacks continue for the 24th day in Gaza City.

Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Anadolu/Getty Images Flames rise during an Israeli airstrike on west Gaza. Photograph: Reuters A long exposure photo shows destroyed buildings with fire and smoke rise following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City. Photograph: Abed Khaled/AP Updated at 18.

06 EDT 2h ago 17. 53 EDT The UN relief agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) chief, Philippe Lazzarini, outlined a dire humanitarian situation in Gaza Strip, with medicines, food, water and fuel running out. Lazzarini’s remarks at the UN security council came after an UNRWA official said four UN aid distribution centres and storage facility in Gaza had been put out of action due to “a breakdown of civil order”.

Tom White, director of UNRWA affairs in Gaza, also said that a logistics base at the Rafah border crossing vital to aid distribution had become increasingly difficult to operate because 8,000 people were sheltering at it. He told Reuters: Every day now we’ve got hundreds of people trying to get into the warehouses to steal flour. Right now people are in survival mode.

It’s about getting enough flour and it’s about getting enough water. Thousands of Gaza residents broke into UN warehouses on Sunday to seize flour and other items. Lazzarini said a communication blackout over the weekend had accelerated the breaking down of civil order in Gaza.

If that breakdown worsened, it “will make it extremely difficult, if not impossible” for the UN to continue operating in Gaza, he said. Updated at 19. 14 EDT 2h ago 17.

47 EDT Nearly 70% of those reported killed in Gaza are children and women, says UNRWA chief The head of the UN relief agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) has warned that the level of destruction across Gaza “is unprecedented, the human tragedy unfolding under our watch is unbearable”. Philippe Lazzarini, addressing the UN security council on Monday, said the “forced displacement” of people in Gaza as they are told to evacuate south by Israeli authorities has left more than 670,000 in overcrowded UNRWA schools and basements. I have said many times and I will say it again: no place is safe in Gaza.

He noted that nearly 70% of those reported killed are children and women. Nearly 3,200 children have been killed in Gaza in three weeks, he said, citing figures by the territory’s health ministry. That number surpasses the number of children killed annually across the world’s conflict zones since 2019, he said.

“This cannot be ‘collateral damage’,” he said, adding that Israel is carrying out “collective punishment”. Updated at 17. 49 EDT 2h ago 17.

38 EDT Israeli tanks and infantry have advanced on Gaza City from two directions, with tanks reported to be on the main north-south road, in an apparent effort to cut the strip into two. Here’s our video report: 00:01:35 Israeli forces appear to be advancing on Gaza City from two sides – video report 3h ago 17. 24 EDT Summary of the day so far It’s nearly 11.

30pm in Gaza City and Tel Aviv. Here’s where things stand: Benjamin Netanyahu has ruled out a ceasefire in Gaza, declaring “this is a time for war” . In a press conference conducted in English on Monday, the Israeli prime minister said the army’s advance through Gaza opened opportunities to free hostages, which Hamas would do only under pressure, he told a news conference.

00:00:50 ‘A time for war’: Israel will not agree to ceasefire with Hamas, says Netanyahu – video The US does not believe a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is “the right answer” right now, the White House’s national security council spokesperson said. “We believe that a ceasefire right now benefits Hamas, and Hamas is the only one that would gain from that right now,” John Kirby said on Monday. Hamas has released a video of three Israeli hostages in Gaza in an apparent effort to increase the pressure on Netanyahu’s government.

Netanyahu’s office named the hostages as Daniel Aloni, Rimon Kirsht and Elena Trupanov. Their families held a press conference in Tel Aviv urging Red Cross to demand to see all of the hostages held in Gaza, and for the US president, Joe Biden, to “do any and everything in your power to bring everyone home”. An Israeli soldier captured by Hamas has been rescued from Gaza in an overnight operation, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said.

Ori Megidish, an army private, was freed on Sunday night, three weeks after she was abducted with more than 220 other hostages. After a medical check declared her healthy she was reunited with her family, giving Israelis a rare image of joy. Israeli forces appear to be advancing in two directions on Gaza City .

In the north of the Gaza Strip, Israeli armour was operating close to the Mediterranean coast. Witness reports described Israeli tanks cutting the main north-south Salah al-Din road south of Gaza City and operating on the outskirts of the Zaytun district and Shejaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City. The cutting of the key road , if confirmed, would suggest that Israeli forces are attempting to cut off Gaza City from the south, effectively isolating and laying siege to the urban sprawl that extends north all the way to Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia.

Map A total of 26 trucks containing food supplies and medical equipment have passed through the Rafah border crossing into the Gaza Strip, the Palestine Red Crescent said on Monday. Just 144 trucks have delivered supplies to the Palestinian humanitarian organisation since 7 October, it said. More than 8,300 Palestinians have been killed in the bombardment in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry .

One child is now being killed every 10 minutes in Gaza, according to Save the Children. The head of the UN’s children agency (Unicef) said more than 420 children are being killed or injured in Gaza each day – “a number which should shake each of us to our core”. Hundreds of patients are trapped inside al-Quds hospital in northern Gaza amid intense constant bombardment around the hospital, ActionAid warned.

More than 12,000 displaced people are taking shelter in the hospital’s corridors and courtyards in addition to hundreds of patients who would not survive the journey south, it said. The humanitarian crisis in Gaza continued to worsen with insufficient water, food, medicine and fuel, aid agencies said. The international criminal court’s top prosecutor, Karim Khan, said impeding aid could constitute a war crime and urged Israel to allow more trucks to enter.

The deepening IDF incursion into Gaza came amid dwindling Israeli public enthusiasm for a prolonged occupation. Support has fallen from 65% on 10 October to 46% now, according to a study by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which has monitored the same sample of 1,774 people, with a 4. 2% margin of error.

Israeli forces struck targets in Syria and Lebanon , in response to launches from those areas into Israel, the military said. In separate tweets, the IDF said an aircraft had attacked Hezbollah targets in Lebanese territory, including “infrastructures for directing terrorism and military infrastructures of the organisation”, and that a fighter jet had attacked launchers in Syrian territory. Israel said it carried out an operation to “thwart terrorist infrastructure in the Jenin refugee camp” in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, which it claimed led to 51 people being arrested, of which it claimed 38 were operatives of Hamas.

The family of Shani Louk, a 22-year-old German Israeli woman initially believed to have been kidnapped alive during Hamas’s assault on a music festival in Re’im , have said she died . A Palestinian stabbed and seriously wounded an Israeli police officer before being shot dead in annexed east Jerusalem, close to the green line. Guardian correspondents about 200 metres from where the shooting took place heard two bursts of gunfire in quick succession and saw armed police, horses and sharp shooters on motorbikes converging on a nearby petrol station.

The Kremlin has said a mob that stormed a Dagestan airport in search of Jewish passengers from Israel on Sunday did so due to “outside influence”. The Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said “ill-wishers” had used widely seen images of suffering in Gaza to stir up feeling in the predominantly Muslim region in the north Caucasus. Local health authorities said 20 people were injured in the incident in Makhachkala.

A British Conservative MP, Paul Bristow, has been sacked from his government job after breaking ranks to publicly urge Rishi Sunak to back a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. A man accused of murder, attempted murder and a hate crime in an attack on a Palestinian American boy and his mother pleaded not guilty on Monday after his indictment by an Illinois grand jury. Joseph Czuba, 71, is charged in the fatal stabbing of six-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume and the wounding of his mother, Hanaan Shahin, on 14 October.

Authorities said the victims were targeted because of their Muslim faith. Civil rights groups in the US have warned of a “wave of McCarthyite backlash” against criticism of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza after Americans expressing support for the Palestinians have been sacked, faced threats of violence and hounded by pro-Israel groups. Updated at 17.

41 EDT 3h ago 17. 06 EDT Unicef executive director Catherine Russell, at the UN’s security council on Monday, said the lack of clean water and safe sanitation is on the verge of becoming a catastrophe in Gaza. More than two million people are in “dire need” as what little clean water remains in Gaza is quickly running out, she said.

We estimate that 55% of the water supply infrastructure requires repair or rehabilitation. Only one desalination plant is operating at just 5% capacity, while all six of Gaza’s water-waste treatment plants are now non-operational due to a lack of fuel or power. She said her agency was doing its best to reach all children in need, but that the delivery of humanitarian aid is now “extremely challenging”.

Some of her staff have lost close family members, including spouses and children, she said. She added that she was also grieving with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa), who have said that 63 of their staff have been killed in Gaza since 7 October. The situation grows worse by the hour, and without an urgent end to the hostilities, I am deeply afraid for the fate of the region’s children.

3h ago 16. 57 EDT More than 420 children killed or injured in Gaza every day, says Unicef The head of the UN’s children agency (Unicef) said the “true cost” of the latest escalation in Gaza will be measured in children’s lives. Unicef executive director Catherine Russell, addressing the UN’s security council on Monday, said: More than 420 children are being killed or injured in Gaza each day – a number which should shake each of us to our core.

The number is “quickly adding up” with “rampant grave violations” being committed against children, she said. More than 3,400 Palestinian children have been killed in Gaza and more than 6,300 children injured since 7 October, according to the territory’s health ministry. In the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, at least 37 children have reportedly been killed, she said.

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