• It is the 80th day of the war: According to Hamas, more than 20,400 Palestinians have been killed, including around 8,000 children. In Israel, 1,200 people died in the attack on October 7th.
• General Mousavi was killed in an Israeli attack in Syria. Raisi's threat: “Israel will pay for his death.”
• Netanyahu visits the Strip: “We won’t stop.”
• Hamas and Islamic Jihad reject Egypt's peace plan.
5:04 a.m. – USA: Three Hezbollah sites hit after attack on base in Iraq
The United States said it had struck three sites used by Hezbollah and other Iranian-backed forces in Iraq in response to an earlier attack on American personnel in Erbil. “The military conducted necessary and proportionate strikes against three facilities used by Hezbollah and affiliated groups in Iraq,” U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement.
01:23 a.m. – The number of victims of the Israeli attack on Maghazi increases: 106 dead
The death toll from the Israeli airstrike that hit the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza on Monday has risen to at least 106. The American news agency Associated Press reported this on its website, citing documents from the nearby Al-Aqsa Hospital.
00:53 – Brazilian President Lula: What is happening in Gaza is unacceptable
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visited a group of Brazilians and Palestinian relatives repatriated from the Gaza Strip on Saturday, stressing that it is “not humanly possible to accept” what is happening in the enclave. “I wish you a nice stay in Brazil. “We will accompany them until everything is resolved,” the progressive leader promised during lunch offered to the returnees at the Hotel de Transito at the Brasilia air base, where they are temporarily staying. He also recalled that Brazilian diplomacy will continue to remain in contact with Israel to rescue other citizens and their relatives stuck in the Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to heavy bombardment for two and a half months.
00:50 a.m. – Iraq, base used by US troops attacked with drone: There are wounded
A drone strike Monday evening targeted a military base in northern Iraq used by U.S. and anti-jihadist coalition forces, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. Since the war between Israel and Hamas began on October 7, the number of attacks against the coalition that has sent troops to fight the Islamic State in Iraq has increased. In last night's incident, a drone was fired at a base near Erbil airport in Iraqi Kurdistan, the Iraqi prime minister's spokesman for military affairs announced. The attack caused “injuries,” Rasool said, without giving further details. Since October 17, the US has counted about 103 attacks against its troops in Iraq and Syria.
00:49 – Israel, opposition leader Yair Lapid: The government is not doing enough for the hostages
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid said the country was “not doing enough” to return hostages captured by Hamas, the Times of Israel reported. Lapid, who refused to join the war cabinet, said the hostages must be brought home “immediately”: “We must do everything and we will do everything to bring them all back,” he said.
12:47 a.m. – Israeli Minister Dermer speaks in Washington about the next phase of the war
A close aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer are expected in Washington in the next few hours to discuss the next phase of the Gaza war with the Biden administration. This was reported by the US news site Axios. According to the source, Dermer will meet with White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and members of Congress.