The death toll of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza since October 7 has climbed to more than 10,000, including 4,104 children, according to the health ministry in Hamas-controlled Gaza.
A statement by the Fatah-affiliated Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades said three of the militants, whose ages ranged between 20 and 25, were from its Tulkarm arm while the fourth was from the Islamist Hamas' armed wing, the Al Qassam Brigades. "We need an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. It's been 30 days. Enough is enough. This must stop now."
Palestinian health officials said eight people were killed in an air strike overnight on Gaza City's Rantissi cancer hospital. Israel's military said it was looking into the report. In the south, where Israel has ordered all Gaza civilians to go, saying this would be for their own safety, hundreds of thousands of displaced people, many now living in makeshift shelters, endured heavy bombardment in all the main cities and refugee camps under a communications blackout.
Outside al-Shifa, displaced woman Haneed Abdelhakim Saad said her family would not leave Gaza City despite the Israeli assault and demands for civilians to go. She fears that if they head to the south of the enclave they will never be allowed back home. US CIA Director William Burns was also set to visit Israel on Monday to discuss the war and intelligence with officials, the New York Times reported. Mr Burns will also make stops in other regional states, it quoted an unnamed US official as saying.Israel said 31 soldiers had been killed since it began expanded ground operations in Gaza on October 27, fighting thousands of Hamas fighters who believe they can hold off Israel's advance from a warren of tunnels under the enclave.
A Hamas statement called on UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to form a committee to visit Gaza hospitals to verify Israel's "false narrative" that Hamas uses hospitals as sites.