Battles surrounding hospitals drove hundreds of Palestinians to abandon some of the final shelters in northern Gaza, leaving severely injured patients, including infants, and their carers with diminishing supplies and no electricity, according to health authorities, news agency Associated Press reported. The Israeli military has advised Palestinians to travel south on foot via "safe corridors." However, its ostensible effort to separate civilians from Hamas terrorists has come at a high cost, with more than two-thirds of the territory's 2.3 million residents having already evacuated their homes.


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  • Mohammad Shtayyeh, the Palestinian prime minister, called on the European Union and the United Nations on Monday to "parachute aid" into Gaza, which has been destroyed by conflict between Israel and Hamas. "I call on the United Nations and the European Union to parachute aid into the Gaza Strip, especially the north," he said, referring to the area where fighting is most intense.

  • An Egyptian border officer informed CNN that ten buses carrying 564 foreign people left the Gaza Strip for Egypt via the Rafah crossing on Monday. 

  • The Israeli military announced on Monday that it had killed a number of Hamas fighters who were "embedded" among civilians at Gaza's Al-Quds Hospital after forces were fired on from the hospital's entrance. “During operations carried out by the 188th Brigade, RPG fire and small arms fire were directed at the soldiers from the direction of the Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) statement was quoted by CNN in its report. 

  • According to the Lebanese state-run news agency (NNA), two Israeli missiles attacked a media caravan in Yaroun, near the Israeli-Lebanese border, on Monday.  

  • According to Dr. Munir Al-Bursh, director-general of the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza, doctors at Al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza have refused an Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) mandatory evacuation order because they fear the hospital's approximately 700 at-risk patients will die if they are left behind, CNN reported.

  • On Monday, Indonesian President Joko Widodo will arrive to the White House with a message for US President Joe Biden on Israel's ongoing attack on Gaza. Widodo, who is on his way to Washington after meeting with Arab and Muslim leaders in Saudi Arabia, has called for a cease-fire. 

  • Russian officials acknowledged today's crossing of the Rafah border crossing by 98 nationals into Egypt in a Telegram post. Work at the crossing is still proceeding, according to the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov expects "the process of our fellow citizens leaving Gaza will continue and everyone will be able to leave."

  • According to the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), an evacuation route for inhabitants of northern Gaza reopened on Monday. It is unknown how well the revelation of the corridor has spread in Gaza, where there is limited internet or cellular access.