The beleaguered Gaza Strip only has "24 hours of water, electricity, and fuel left" due to the ongoing Israeli attacks, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned Monday.
At least 2,808 Palestinians have lost their lives in Israeli attacks with 10, 859 injured, whereas, more than 1,400 Israelis have been killed with 3,500 injured.
More than 1,000 people are missing under the rubble of buildings that were destroyed by Israeli air strikes in Gaza, the Palestinian civil defense team said.
Hamas claims to have fired rockets against Israel after hearing sirens in Jerusalem.
Security sources in Egypt claimed that a truce was imminent, but Israel and Hamas both refuted the reports.
Israel has stationed tens of thousands of soldiers, tanks, and other weapons close to the Gaza border in anticipation of starting a ground invasion.
In a statement, the civil defense team said many others were pulled alive out of the rubble, 24 hours after buildings were struck.
More than one million people have fled their homes in Gaza in scenes of chaos and despair as Israel bombarded the Hamas-ruled territory and continued massing troops Monday in preparation for a full-blown ground invasion.
Israel declared war on the group a day after waves of its fighters broke through the heavily fortified border on October 7, killing more than 1,400 people.
The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said on Monday that Israel had killed 11 Palestinian journalists in airstrikes in Gaza since October 7.
Israel briefly stopped its shelling of the Gaza Strip, according to an Al Arabiya correspondent, but then resumed it when sources indicated that the Rafah border gate into the besieged city had reopened.
An hour after security sources in neighbouring Egypt claimed that a truce allowing for the delivery of humanitarian aid and the evacuation of foreigners from the strip was about to take effect, Israel, however, denied that the crossing had reopened and that a truce with the United Nations and Egypt was in place.
The food and water supplies in Gaza are running out, and hospitals have issued emergency alerts due to Israeli airplanes bombing neighbourhood after neighbourhood.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday condemned some incidents at pro-Palestinian marches in Britain this weekend as "simply not acceptable" after police made several arrests.
"There is no place in our society for anti-Semitism and we will do everything we can to stamp it out. And where it happens, it will be met with the full force of the law," Sunak said during a visit to a Jewish school in London.
London's Metropolitan Police force said on Sunday evening that 15 people were arrested at Saturday's pro-Palestinian protest in the centre of the British capital.
Three men were subsequently charged with committing crimes, including a 68-year-old man suspected of making racist comments. The other two were charged with illegal knife possession and failing to remove a face covering.
"They've made several arrests but they're also now reviewing footage of some of the things that many people would have seen that are just simply not acceptable, and where they can they will be able to make further arrests," Sunak added.
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in London and other UK cities in support of Palestinians on Saturday, a week after Hamas gunmen launched the deadliest-ever attack on Israel after crossing the border from Gaza.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to call Israeli and Arab leaders, his adviser said, as Russia fears Israel's Gaza offensive could trigger wider conflict in the region.
Russia has repeatedly called for talks on ending the conflict, which has strained relations with long-time partner Israel and complicated ties with Iran, which backs Hamas.
"The president has already spoken to the president of Syria and the president of Iran," Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency.
"During the day there will be more phone calls with the presidents of Egypt — Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Palestine — Mahmud Abbas, as well as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu," Ushakov said.
Hamas backer Iran has warned that an invasion of Gaza would be met with a response, prompting fears of a wider conflict that could draw in other countries.
Moscow, which has for almost 20 months been battling its own offensive in Ukraine, has repeatedly called for a ceasefire and offered itself as a mediator.
Leaders in Qatar and Kuwait received invitations Monday for a summit in Cairo to be held on Saturday to "discuss developments and the future of the Palestinian cause and the peace process".
State media in both countries announced the invitations a day after Cairo announced its intention to host "a regional and international summit on the future of the Palestinian cause", during a visit by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
The Gulf Cooperation Council also announced Monday it would hold an extraordinary meeting of its foreign ministers Tuesday, "to discuss developments of the situation in the Gaza Strip".
Ten days into the violent war that erupted between Hamas and Israel, diplomatic efforts have yielded little success, as regional and world leaders try to secure humanitarian aid and prevent any regional spillover.
The UN Security Council said it will discuss the Israel-Hamas war later today, as the crisis deepens with Israel gearing up for a ground offensive in Gaza.
The council said it will start deliberations at 6:00 pm (2200 GMT).
Diplomats say two competing draft resolutions are being discussed: one from Russia urging a ceasefire and delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza but making no mention of Hamas, and one sponsored by Brazil, calling the Hamas attacks on October 7 that triggered the war an act of terrorism.
The UN agency supporting Palestinian refugees has warned that the Gaza Strip faces an "unprecedented human catastrophe" if the supply of water and other vital supplies is not restored by the Israeli authorities.
Russia's draft resolution calls for "unimpeded" humanitarian aid and "an immediate" ceasefire.
The Brazilian version differs by stating that it "unequivocally rejects and condemns the heinous terrorist attacks by Hamas" and the taking of hostages by the Palestinian group.
However, it also "strongly urges" the provision of essential goods to Palestinian civilians and urges "humanitarian pauses" to let in humanitarian aid workers.
The United States is insisting that the council condemn the Hamas attacks as terrorism, diplomats say.
To be adopted, a resolution needs at least nine votes on the 15-member body, and cannot be vetoed by any of the five permanent members — the United States, Britain, China, France, and Russia.
Diplomats said the talks were tough going, as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict regularly divides the council.
Following an Israeli order to move to the south of the Gaza Strip, people have fled their homes in the north of the enclave to seek shelter wherever they can, including on the streets and in UN-run schools.
Palestinians carrying whatever belongings they can, in bags and suitcases, or packed onto three-wheeled motorbikes, battered cars, vans, and even donkey carts have become a common sight.
"No electricity, no water, no internet. I feel like I'm losing my humanity," said Mona Abdel Hamid, 55, who fled Gaza City to Rafah in the south of the enclave, and is having to stay with strangers.
Israel and Hamas officials denied the reports that a ceasefire had been implemented in southern Gaza to allow foreigners out of the besieged Palestinian enclave and aid to be brought in amid a deepening crisis.
Security sources in Egypt said a deal had been reached to open the Rafah border crossing to allow aid into the enclave from 0600 GMT.
Hamas official Izzat El Reshiq told Reuters that there was no truth to reports about the opening of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt or a temporary ceasefire.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said in a statement: "There is currently no truce and humanitarian aid in Gaza in exchange for getting foreigners out."
The situation at the Rafah crossing remained unclear.
The bombardment of Hamas-ruled Gaza continued overnight, with residents saying it was the heaviest pounding yet in nine days of conflict.
Meanwhile, the UN Human Rights Office has raised alarm over humanitarian situation in the besieged Palestinian enclave, calling for “urgent need” to halt hostilities to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza.
"There have been very mammoth diplomatic efforts to try to make this happen. The secretary-general is constantly liaising with all the parties that are involved, and many other member states are also exercising what leverage they can. We need the security for the aid deliveries to be able to happen," UNHRO spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani told CNN on Monday.
"We have seen hospitals that have been forced to evacuate. Doctors insist that they will stay with patients who are in the ICU wards and the neonatal units, where you have the impossible choice of whether to abandon your patients or to stay with them and risk death.
The access to water, access to food, the forced evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people into southern Gaza has created a very, very difficult humanitarian situation in southern Gaza as well," Shamdasani said.
She said there is a significant amount of aid waiting at the border to get in.
As Israel is preparing for the Gaza invasion, US President Joe Biden has warned Israel against the occupation of the Palestinian territory, saying the ground assault would be “a big mistake”.
Massing thousands of troops and heavy weaponry in the desert south of the country, the Israeli military has said it is awaiting the "political" green light to go into northern Gaza.
In a video clip posted by CBS News’s 60 Minutes on Monday, Biden backed a humanitarian corridor to let people flee the war-hit area as well as allow the delivery of humanitarian aid, including food and water, into Gaza.
“I am confident that Israel is going to act under the rules of war,” Biden said.
The US president said that he did not believe Hamas represented “all the Palestinian people” and that he wanted to see the group totally eliminated.
Biden said he did not think American troops would be necessary on the ground as Israel has one of the "finest fighting forces," even as American warships headed to the area amid growing clashes on Israel's northern border with Lebanon.
A bereaved and infuriated Israel has massed forces outside the long-blockaded enclave of 2.4 million in preparation for what the army has said would be a land, air and sea attack involving a "significant ground operation".
"We are at the beginning of intense or enhanced military operations in Gaza City," spokesman for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Jonathan Conricus said.
"It would be unsafe for civilians to stay there," he added.
Hamas backer Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah, which is also supported by Tehran, have warned that an invasion of Gaza would be met with a response.
But as Israel seeks to avenge the brutal attack that also saw Hamas militants take scores of hostages including young children, the Arab League and African Union have warned an invasion could lead to "a genocide".
UN chief Antonio Guterres has warned that the entire region was "on the verge of the abyss".
‘Israeli forces awaiting political green light’
Massing thousands of troops and heavy weaponry in the desert south of the country, the Israeli military has said it is awaiting the "political" green light to go into northern Gaza.
The army has told 1.1 million Palestinians in the north of the Gaza Strip to head to the south of the enclave.
But Israeli air strikes were continuing in the south of Gaza, including in Khan Yunis and Rafah, where one resident said a doctor's house was targeted.
The UN said Monday that 47 entire families, amounting to around 500 people, have been killed in Israel's bombing campaign.
Foreign governments and aid agencies, including the UN and Red Cross, have repeatedly criticised Israel's evacuation order.
The UN agency supporting Palestinian refugees said Sunday that some one million Palestinians had already been displaced in the first week of the conflict — but the number was likely to be higher
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