Israel-Hamas war highlights: Dozens reported killed in Gaza refugee camp blast

Israeli families of victims of the October 7 Hamas attacks that killed 1,400 people, appealed to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to order an investigation into the killings and abductions. This came despite Israel's opposition to the court.

Bolivia's government is breaking diplomatic ties with Israel over the Gaza conflict, the Bolivian foreign ministry said on Tuesday. The Bolivian government accused Israel of committing crimes against humanity.

Egypt is preparing to receive wounded Palestinians from the heavily bombarded Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing for medical treatment on Wednesday, reported AFP citing medical and security sources.

The White House on Tuesday said that 66 trucks of humanitarian assistance entered Gaza in the last 24 hours and that dozens more are expected to be cleared for deliveries.

The US secretary of state Antony Blinken said that there cannot be a "reversion of the status quo with Hamas running Gaza." Read more

The United Nations chief said that he was "deeply alarmed by the intensification of the conflict between Israel and Hamas" as fierce fighting raged in Gaza.

The escalation includes "ground operations by the Israel Defense Forces accompanied by intense air strikes, and the continued rocket fire towards Israel from Gaza," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.

Two Israeli soldiers were killed during combat operations in northern Gaza, the military said. "Two Israeli soldiers killed during combat in north Gaza," the military said in a statement.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed for the protection of civilians caught in the conflict.

“Protection of civilians on both sides is paramount and must be respected at all times. International humanitarian law establishes clear rules that cannot be ignored. It is not an a la carte menu and cannot be applied selectively,” he said.

The FBI director made the remarks during a hearing before the US senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee. Read more

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian called for the “last political opportunities” to be used to halt the war.

In Los Angeles, a man screaming "kill Jews" attempts to break into a family's home. In London, girls in a playground are told they are "stinking Jews" and should stay off the slide. In China, posts likening Jews to parasites, vampires or snakes proliferate on social media, attracting thousands of "likes".

Israel is assuming a defensive posture on the Lebanese front in order to avoid overstretching its forces as it focuses on waging the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Israeli National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi said.

"More than 50 martyrs and around 150 wounded and dozens under the rubble, in a heinous Israeli massacre that targeted a large area of homes in Jabalia camp in the northern (Gaza) Strip," a ministry statement said as per news agency AFP.

Israel said its troops are engaged in “fierce battles” with Hamas militants deep in the Gaza Strip as soldiers push further into the enclave and expand the ground operations that began late last week.

Israel Defense Forces said they also attacked a Hamas outpost in the Gaza Strip, according to a post on social media platform X.

Negating the notion of "you do not switch (leadership) during war", several leading Israeli tech company leaders have called for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ouster as soon as possible "to cut down losses".

The World Health Organization said services have been “severely reduced” at the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in Gaza due to a lack of power and dwindling supplies. Writing on X, formerly known as Twitter, the agency said reports of airstrikes in the hospital’s vicinity over the past two days were “extremely concerning.”

“Services have been severely reduced because of cut-off of electricity and restricted entry of medicines, other medical supplies, fuel and water,” the agency said.

President Joe Biden's two top advisers will try to convince US lawmakers on Tuesday that it is in the country's best interest to provide billions more dollars to Ukraine and Israel despite huge budget deficits and divisions over his administration's policies toward both countries, reports Reuters.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will testify to the Senate Appropriations Committee on Biden's request for $106 billion to fund ambitious plans for Ukraine, Israel and U.S. border security.

Ambassador of Greece to India, Dimitrios Ioannou says, "First, we condemn the atrocities made by Hamas. Hamas is a terrorist organisation. We would not be able to have a solution on the Israel-Palestine conflict without a solution on the end of Hamas. It is a factor to play in this situation...Second, we believe in the solution of two states...The lives of innocent civilians should be saved and protected..."

As Israel stepped up its relentless bombing of Gaza, desperate Palestinian families scrabbled through debris searching for survivors and mourned over the bodies of some of the thousands killed, draped in white shrouds.

Israeli army footage showed soldiers, who are also seeking to free at least 240 hostages, advancing through a bomb-scarred landscape, with buildings reduced to a mangled mess of stone and twisted metal by weeks of withering air and artillery strikes.

Israel said it had struck 300 targets during the fourth night of land operations in Gaza, where troops came under Hamas anti-tank and machine-gun fire, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed mounting international calls for a ceasefire.

The Israeli military said, “A surface-to-surface missile was fired toward Israeli territory from the area of the Red Sea and was successfully intercepted by the 'Arrow' aerial defence system.”

WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier warned of the risk of civilian deaths not directly linked to Israeli bombardment.

"It's an imminent public health catastrophe that looms with the mass displacement, the overcrowding, the damage to water and sanitation infrastructure," Christian Lindmeier said.

8,525 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza, news agency Reuters reports.

The tunnels are a key objective for Israel as it expands ground operations inside Gaza to wipe out the ruling Hamas movement.

More than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians have fled their homes, with hundreds of thousands sheltering in packed UN-run schools-turned-shelters or in hospitals alongside thousands of wounded patients.

UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini accused Israel of “collective punishment” of the Palestinians, and of forcing their displacement from northern Gaza to the south, where they are still not safe.