Israeli attack kills eight people queueing at a bread seller’s stand in front of an UNRWA school shelter in Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp.

    Israel’s PM Netanyahu says he “will not give in to pressure” as tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrate against his government demanding a ceasefire deal and the release of captives held in Gaza.

    Hamas’s armed wing says Netanyahu’s reliance on Israeli military raids in Gaza – instead of a deal – means more captives will “be returned to their families in coffins”.

    At least 40,786 people have been killed and 94,224 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7.

    Gallant says control of Philadelphi Corridor takes just hours, no need for Israeli presence: Monitors

    Israel could re-establish control over the Philadelphi Corridor within hours if necessary following a withdrawal from Gaza, Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said in remarks critical of the Israeli prime minister’s stance that there be no withdrawal from the corridor, war monitors report.

    Israel’s refusal to pull back from the corridor along Gaza’s southern border with Egypt is a major obstacle to a ceasefire deal being reached.

    According to the US think tanks Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and Critical Threats Project (CTP), Gallant in a private cabinet meeting criticised the backing Netanyahu received from the security cabinet, arguing that Israel could “retake the corridor in eight hours if it withdrew”.

    Netanyahu has described the corridor as a Hamas “oxygen pipe”, which was vital for the Palestinian group and which necessitated Israel’s continued military control over the area.

    Hamas has long said there will be no ceasefire without a full withdrawal from Gaza.

    Netanyahu uses a map that does not show occupied West Bank border

    At a news conference on Monday evening, Israel’s PM showed a map with the Gaza Strip highlighted but the occupied West Bank border omitted.

    The map was highlighted by several experts, including Mairav Zonszein, a senior Israel analyst at Crisis Group, as an example of Netanyahu’s erasure of the occupied West Bank’s existence as Palestinian territory.

    Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, also responded on X, saying it shows that “from the river to the sea” is being presented “as a political plan by the man wanted by the ICC Prosecutor as an intel criminal”.

    NGO urges UK to impose a total ban on arms sales to Israel

    Christian Aid has described the UK government’s decision to suspend some arms sales to Israel as “progress”, but said it did not go far enough.

    “The only way to categorically ensure that arms sold to Israel are not used in violations of human rights is with a total ban,” said William Bell, the head of Middle East Policy at Christian Aid.

    “With the growing threat of this war escalating further, we need urgent steps to end the suffering and to build a world where Palestinians and Israelis are treated as equals.”