UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday called for an ‘immediate’ ceasefire as Israeli forces “carpet-bombed” Jabalia in northern Gaza, killing and wounding several Palestinians, media reports say. The attacks come as Israel launches a new ground assault there, months after announcing Hamas had been “dismantled” in the area.

    Officials from the European Union and the United Nations warn against a major ground assault on Rafah after the Israeli military expands evacuation orders for the city sheltering 1.4 million Palestinians.

    Tens of thousands of people take part in antigovernment protests in Israel as pressure intensifies on the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make a deal to bring captives in Gaza home.

    At least 34,971 people have been killed and 78,641 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The revised death toll in Israel from Hamas’s October 7 attacks stands at 1,139 with dozens of people still held captive.

    Israeli forces raid Palestinian refugee camp in occupied West Bank: Report

    The Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that Israeli forces stormed the Al-Arroub refugee camp, near Hebron, in the occupied West Bank on Sunday morning.

    A Palestinian was assaulted in the raid, and two Palestinians were arrested, according to the news agency.

    UN chief calls for ‘immediate’ Gaza ceasefire

    UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has yet again called for an immediate halt to the war on Gaza, the return of captives and a “surge” in humanitarian aid to the besieged Palestinian territory.

    “A ceasefire will only be the start,” he said in a video address to an international donors’ conference in Kuwait, adding “It will be a long road back from the devastation and trauma of this war”.

    How has Jabalia refugee camp been targeted during Israel’s war on Gaza?

    The Jabalia refugee camp was set up in 1948 to house Palestinians displaced after the Nakba or catastrophe, referring to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948. More than 750,000 Palestinians were forcefully displaced, leading up to the birth of Israel in 1948.

    In the north of the Palestinian enclave, it was the Gaza Strip’s most populated refugee camp.

    In the first few weeks of Israel’s war on Gaza, it was struck multiple times by Israeli forces, including a strike on a UN-run school where thousands of displaced Palestinians had been sheltering. The Health Ministry in Gaza at the time had said more than 50 people were killed in the attack and 150 were wounded.