Palestinians are fleeing eastern parts of Gaza City after the Israeli military expanded “immediate” evacuation orders to the Tuffah, Darraj and Old City neighbourhoods.

      Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will only agree to a deal with Hamas that allows it to resume fighting in Gaza while Defence Minister Yoav Gallant says Israel will keep fighting with Lebanon’s Hezbollah even if a truce agreement is reached in Gaza.

      Mediated truce talks are expected to continue in Egypt and Qatar this week.

      At least 38,153 people have been killed and 87,828 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from the Hamas-led attacks is estimated at 1,139, with dozens of people still held captive in Gaza.

      Israeli soldier seriously wounded in northern Gaza

      An Israeli soldier is receiving medical treatment after being “seriously injured in a battle in the northern Gaza Strip”, the Israeli military said in a post on X.

      At least 324 Israeli soldiers have been killed and thousands wounded since Israel launched its ground invasion of the Gaza Strip on October 27.

      Palestinian victims must be accorded proper burials, says rights group

      More from the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.

      The group said Israel’s obstruction of the recovery of Palestinian victims from under the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza constitutes a “flagrant and compound breach” of international law, including the rights to “investigations, redress, and reparations, as well as the final right of all people to be treated with dignity and respect when their bodies are buried”.

      It added that “the fact that thousands of Palestinians are still missing is a further crime against their families, who endure terrible psychological injury”.

      The group also called for international pressure to “compel Israel to fulfil its legal obligations and bring in trucks, special equipment, and sufficient fuel, given the urgent need to clear the debris, locate bodies, and recover them with special procedures to identify and bury them in marked graves, and ensure the victims’ and their families’ rights to a respectful and appropriate burial in accordance with their religious rituals.”

      Heavy gunfire, clashes as Israeli soldiers raid Nablus

      Heavy gunfire has been heard as clashes broke out during an Israeli raid on the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reported.

      The Israeli soldiers carried out the raid to make preparations to escort settlers to the shrine known as Joseph’s Tomb on the outskirts of Nablus, Wafa reported.

      The shrine, which is also known as Yusuf’s Tomb, is a significant site for followers of the Abrahamic faiths, including Christians, Jews, Muslims and Samaritans.

      More than 10,000 Palestinians missing under rubble in Gaza Strip

      The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has called for global action to help Palestinians recover the bodies of more than 10,000 people who are missing under the rubble of buildings destroyed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip.

      The rights group also has accused Israel’s military of preventing and obstructing the recovery of victims and missing people, including by targeting Civil Defence crews, rescue teams and families trying to find the bodies of their relatives.

      Israel’s military has also prevented the entry of equipment needed for rescue operations as well as the entry of fuel necessary to operate heavy machinery in Gaza, it said.