Israel-Hamas war highlights: 'Ceasefire in Gaza will not happen,’ says Netanyahu

The United States is "confident" of increasing the number of aid trucks getting into Gaza through the Rafah crossing with Egypt to around 100 a day, the White House said on Monday.

Israel's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva Meirav Eilon Shahar on Monday said that her country had been "let down" by the global body, saying its agency chiefs had not done enough to condemn Islamist movement Hamas and growing anti-semitism. "I have to say, generally, the United Nations has let down the people of Israel," she said.

Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday ruled out any possibility of a ceasefire in the Gaza war, saying that if it did it would be "to surrender" to Hamas.

Israel says a female soldier captured by Hamas militants during their Oct. 7 incursion has been released during Israel's ground operations in Gaza. The military provided few details, but she appears to be the first captive to be freed since Israel stepped up its ground war. The military says Private Ori Megidish “was medically checked, is doing well, and has met with her family.”

Canada's foreign minister reiterated a call for a humanitarian pause in the conflict in Gaza, and said there is little time left to get Canadians and hostages out while delivering badly needed aid.

"Four hundred Canadians are trapped in Gaza, they are living in fear and despair... And that is why we need humanitarian pauses, a humanitarian truce, in Gaza," Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said.

Five Palestinians were killed in clashes with Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said. Another Palestinian died of wounds sustained in an attack on a Jewish West Bank settler last week near Ramallah, the ministry said.

A breakdown in civil order has put four U.N. aid distribution centres and a storage facility out of action in Gaza as people search desperately for food and water, a U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) official said.

A senior Russian Rabbi urged the Kremlin to ensure that rioters in the predominantly Muslim Dagestan region who stormed an airport to "catch" Jewish passengers on board a flight from Tel Aviv were harshly punished.

Another 33 aid trucks entered Gaza from Egypt, in what the UN said was "the largest delivery of humanitarian aid" since October 21.

Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu called Hamas' hostage video 'cruel psychological propaganda'.

Lebanon's caretaker prime minister said he was working to ensure his country does not enter the Hamas-Israel war.

Hamas captured around 240 people during the deadly raid in Israel.

"Dozens" of tanks entered the Zaytun district in south of the Palestinian territory's main city, cutting a key road from the north to the south of the Gaza Strip for more than an hour, AFP reported.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society warned Israel was repeatedly bombing around Gaza City's Al-Quds hospital, where it said 14,000 displaced people were sheltering. The UN also reported shelling near Gaza City's Shifa hospital and Indonesian hospital, saying all 10 hospitals in the area had been told to evacuate by Israel.

Rocket alert sirens blared in Jerusalem and several blasts were heard from within the city, AFP reported.

Israeli troops and tanks attacked Gaza's main northern city from the east and west, three days after it began ground operations in the Palestinian enclave.

Israeli forces killed five Palestinians in the West Bank, said health officials in the occupied territory, as violence has escalated amid Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza.

Hundreds of people stormed into the main airport in Russia's Dagestan region and rushed onto the landing field, chanting antisemitic slogans.

South Africa called for the United Nations to deploy a rapid protection force to protect civilians in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza.

The war between Israel and Hamas could trigger price shocks for raw materials such as oil and agriculture products if the conflict escalates across the Middle East, the World Bank warned in a report.

At least 8,306 Palestinians have been killed, including 3,457 children, in Israeli strikes on Gaza since Oct. 7, the health ministry in Gaza.

Shani Louk Dies: Shani Louk's mother said that she has received information from the Israeli military that her daughter is dead.

A top Vatican official spoke by telephone with the Iranian foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, at the foreign minister’s request. The Vatican said in a statement that the Vatican’s foreign minister, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, expressed “serious concern in the Holy See about what is happening in Israel and Palestine, emphasizing the absolute necessity to avoid widening the conflict and to reach a two-state solution for a stable and lasting peace.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced criticism over his unwillingness to accept any responsibility for the Oct. 7 attack by the militant group.

UK foreign secretary James Cleverly speaks to political leadership of Israel's neighbouring countries, including Lebanon.

“We are working to make sure that this does not become a regional conflict,” says Cleverly.