More than 630,000 students in Gaza will not be returning to school on Monday, officials said, as Israel’s war on the Palestinian enclave disrupts schooling for a second year.

      Israeli bombardment has caused mobile phone and internet outages in central and southern Gaza, according to service provider Paltel and the Wafa news agency.

      The King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan will reopen on Monday morning after a brief closure over an attack that killed three Israeli security guards. The gunman has been identified as a Jordanian citizen.

      At least 40,972 people have been killed and 94,761 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. In Israel, the number of those killed in the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 is at least 1,139, while more than 200 people were taken captive.

      Gantz says Israel should shift focus to northern border with Lebanon

      The head of Israel’s National Unity alliance opposition said Israel’s army had crossed a “decisive point” in Gaza and “should concentrate” on its northern border with Lebanon.

      “The story of Hamas is old news,” Gantz added, speaking at an event in Washington DC, the AFP news agency reported.

      “The story of Iran and its proxies all around the area and what they are trying to do is the real issue.”

      Gantz, who quit IsraeI’s war cabinet in June and is Netanyahu’s main political rival, has said the Israeli Prime Minister is the main obstacle to reaching a ceasefire deal in Gaza.

      Israeli legislator says Beirut’s Dahiyeh ‘will look like Gaza’

      Nissim Vaturi, an Israeli legislator from Netanyahu’s Likud party, has said that “it’s a matter of days” before Israel’s conflict with Hezbollah develops into a full-on war.

      Speaking to Israel’s Kan public broadcaster, Vaturi laid out his plan for the war, calling for preemptive aerial bombardment lasting for up to five days followed by a ground invasion.

      The legislator, who is also a member of Israel’s Foreign Affairs and Security Committee, claimed that Netanyahu shared his views.

      “Dahiyeh will look like Gaza, there is no other way,” he added, referring to the southern suburb of Beirut.

      If Israel does attack Dahiyeh, it would not be the first time. The Israeli army levelled entire neighbourhoods there in 2006 during the last war with Hezbollah.

      The suburb is home to hundreds of thousands of people, including many supporters of Hezbollah from southern Lebanon.

      Vaturi’s comments come as Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib told Al Jazeera that Israel has conveyed through mediators that it is not interested in reaching a ceasefire with Lebanon, even if a deal is made to end the war in Gaza.

      Witness recounts Israeli killing of Turkish-American activist in West Bank

      An Italian woman who was with Turkish-American citizen Aysenur Ezgi Eygi when the activist was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers last week has recounted to the Anadolu Agency what she witnessed during the attack.

      Mariam, who only gave her first name, said they were standing in an olive grove near Evyatar, an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, when Israeli soldiers opened fire.

      “Palestinians prayed the Friday prayer. After the prayer, incidents broke out between the Palestinians and the army. The Israeli army dispersed the crowd using tear gas and then live bullets. We retreated down the hill to the side of the road, and about 200 metres [656 ft] away, there were Israeli soldiers on the roof of a Palestinian house. We were standing by the side of the road in an olive grove. Aysenur was a little behind me under an olive tree,” Mariam told Anadolu from the Rafidia hospital in Nablus.

      “We were clearly visible to the soldiers. We were just standing there, not doing anything. Suddenly, I heard two shots. One of them hit a metal object. Then my friends called out my name. Aysenur was lying unconscious under a tree. We called for more people. We put her in an ambulance. We came with her to Beita Health Center and from there, we brought her to the hospital in Nablus. They tried to save her but she died.”