Lebanon’s Hezbollah group on Sunday stated it shot down an Israeli drone over southern Lebanon with a surface-to-air missile. According to the Iran-backed group, the drone was hit close to Khiam, about 5 km (3 miles) from the border with Israel, and was seen falling into Israeli territory.

Israel should shield harmless Gaza residents by distinguishing between Hamas militants and civilians, the White House warned on Sunday as US President Joe Biden promised a major improve in support to the Palestinian territory throughout a name with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.

US President Joe Biden known as Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu and emphasised the necessity for elevated humanitarian support to Gaza. According to an announcement by the White House, Biden additionally agreed in a separate name with Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to “the significant acceleration and increase of assistance flowing into Gaza beginning today and then continuously.”

Number of Israelis killed – 1,400

Number of Palestinians killed in Gaza – 8,005

Number of Palestinians killed in West Bank – 116

Number of Israelis injured – 5,431

Number of Palestinians injured in Gaza – 20,242

Number of Palestinians injured within the West Bank -2,000

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on Sunday accused Hamas of taking part in “psychological games” over hostages after it supplied to free all captives in trade for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. “The stories published by Hamas are part of their psychological games … Hamas is cynically using those who are dear to us — they understand the pain and the pressure,” Gallant advised kinfolk of hostages held by Hamas within the Gaza Strip, an announcement launched by his workplace stated, reported AFP.

International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan who visited the Rafah border crossing on Sunday stated that he “hopes” to go to the Gaza Strip and Israel whereas he’s within the area. “There should not be any impediments to humanitarian relief supplies going to children, women and men, civilians, they are innocent,” he added.

Lebanon’s Hezbollah stated it shot down an Israeli drone southeast of Lebanon with a surface-to-air missile,

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with US President Joe Biden, Netanyahu’s workplace stated, after Israel expanded floor incursions in a Gaza battle now in its fourth week.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society stated that the Israeli army was repeatedly bombing round its hospital in central Gaza, inflicting injury and placing civilians in danger.

“The Israeli army deliberately continues to launch rockets directly near Al-Quds hospital with the aim of forcing medical staff, displaced individuals and patients to evacuate the hospital,” the medical organisation stated in an announcement.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society stated Israeli strikes broken sections within the jam-packed Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City.

The Israeli military stated that troops had “identified a number of terrorists exiting the shaft of a tunnel” close to the Erez border crossing and “confronted the terrorists, killing and injuring them”.

Israel’s army stated that floor forces killed numerous Hamas terrorists as they had been exiting a tunnel close to the Erez crossing, Associated Press reported.

Hamas’s armed wing stated that its fighters had been engaged in “heavy fighting” with Israeli forces in Gaza. “Our fighters are currently engaged in heavy fighting with machine-guns and anti-tank weapons with the invading occupation (Israeli) forces in northwest Gaza,” the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades stated in an announcement as per information company AFP.

Israel’s army dropped leaflets on the Gaza Strip asking civilians to “surrender.” Written in Arabic, the leaflets advised civilians to put down all their weapons, put their arms up, wave white flags and comply with directions from the Israeli army.

“Hamas leaders are exploiting you,” the flyers learn. “They and their families are in safe places, while you die in vain.”

“What we believe is that every hour, every day of this military operation, the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), the Israeli government should be taking every possible means available to them to distinguish between Hamas terrorists who are legitimate military targets and civilians who are not,” Jake Sullivan stated on CNN.

Israeli forces killed 5 Palestinians throughout the occupied West Bank, well being officers stated, elevating to greater than 110 the loss of life toll in surging violence there because the begin of the Gaza battle.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian described claims that Iran was instantly related to Hamas’ Oct. 7 assault as “baseless” saying, “We always had political media and international support for Palestine. We have never denied this.”

UK PM Rishi Sunak’s workplace stated that he has spoken to French President Emmanuel Macron concerning the significance of getting pressing humanitarian assist into Gaza.

The leaders “agreed to work together on efforts both to get crucial food, fuel, water and medicine to those who need it, and to get foreign nationals out,” Downing Street stated in an announcement, including, “They expressed their shared concern at the risk of escalation in the wider region, in particular in the West Bank. The Prime Minister and President Macron updated on the conversations they have had with leaders in the region to stress the importance of working to ensure regional stability.”

More than 5,000 people protested in Athens on Sunday, police said, calling for an end to the “massacre” of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

“We are fighting for the peace of people,” Athens News Agency reported.

“The things I said following the press conference should not have been said and I apologize for that,” Benjamin Netanyahu said. Read here

The US believes Israel should take every means possible to distinguish between Palestinian civilians and Hamas in its military operation in Gaza, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres met with Nepali Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and expressed his deepest condolences to the families of 10 Nepali students killed in a Hamas attack in Israeli villages bordering Gaza.

“Residents said some were local settlers dressed in army uniforms who have regularly harassed the village, while others wore civilian clothing, with army and police vehicles also at the scene”, the report claimed.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said that it had received warnings from Israeli authorities to immediately evacuate al-Quds hospital in the Gaza Strip. The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that the Palestinian Red Crescent report was “deeply concerning”, adding it was impossible to safely evacuate hospitals full of patients.

Pope Francis called for a ceasefire in Gaza saying, “Let’s continue to pray for Ukraine and for the serious situation in Palestine and Israel and for other regions with wars. In particular, in Gaza, leave space to guarantee humanitarian aid. And let the hostages be freed immediately. Let no one abandon the possibility to stop the arms. Cease fire.”

“The Palestinian Red Crescent report of evacuation threats to Al-Quds hospital in Gaza is deeply concerning,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote X.

Gazans struggled to find their loved ones and heard news of family members killed as communications gradually returned to the enclave after a near total blackout. The United Nations warned that Palestinians were desperate for food and that civil order was breaking down.

“Israel cut us off from the world in order to wipe us out, but we are hearing the sounds of explosions and we are proud the resistance fighters have stopped them at meters distance,” Shaban Ahmed, a public servant who stayed in Gaza City despite an Israeli warning to evacuate south, said as per news agency Reuters.

More than 1,400 people have been killed on the Israeli side, the vast majority civilians killed by Hamas in its October 7 incursion into Israel.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres reiterated his appeal for an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza. Condemning the “appalling attacks perpetrated by Hamas”, he stated “there is no justification, ever, for the killing, injuring and abduction of civilians.”

“I have always been consistent in my call for strict compliance of the well-established principles and rules of international humanitarian law. The protection of civilians is paramount,” he stated, including, “The laws of war establish clear rules to protect human life and respect humanitarian concerns. Those laws cannot be contorted for the sake of expediency. The world is witnessing a humanitarian catastrophe taking place before our eyes.”

The total death toll in Gaza rose to 8,005 people, a statement released by the health ministry in Gaza said.

The Israeli military said that it had struck over 450 militant targets over the past 24 hours, including Hamas command centers, observation posts and anti-tank missile launching positions. It said more ground forces were sent into Gaza overnight.

The head of the World Health Organization said that they managed to communicate with the agency’s team in Gaza after internet and phone connectivity in the enclave were gradually restored.

“They said the last two nights were extremely tense with a lot of airstrikes – without fuel, water, electricity, connectivity and safe shelter to evacuate to,” Tedros Adhanom wrote on X.

The Israeli army raised the number of troops fighting inside the Gaza Strip, a spokesman said. “Overnight we increased the entry of IDF forces into the (Gaza) Strip, and they joined the forces already fighting there,” Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari informed.

Israeli forces killed three Palestinians across the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, as violence surges across the territory.

UN says thousands of people broke into Gaza aid warehouses to take food and other ‘basic survival items’, reported AP.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari urged civilians residing in the northern regions of Gaza and Gaza City to temporarily relocate to the safer South, where they can access essential supplies such as water, food, and medicine.

“The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is expanding its operations. We are moving to the next phase of our war against Hamas in Gaza, from the air, land, and sea. On October 7, Hamas committed a crime against humanity. Israel is in a war, it did not start, and it did not sink. Hamas is attacking Israeli civilians while firing from among dozen civilians. These are both war crimes. Our fight is with Hamas. Not with the people of Gaza,” Hagari stated in a video posted to the IDF’s profile on ‘X’.

Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes early Sunday close to Gaza’s largest hospital, which is filled with sufferers and tens of 1000’s of Palestinians looking for shelter, report AP quoting residents.

In a robust show of solidarity with the Palestinian folks, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan denounced the continuing offensive in Gaza whereas addressing a protest rally in Delhi.

“The support being extended to Israel by the government of India in blatant violation of time-tested policy of solidarity with the Palestinian people who fight for their own land. It is really shocking that the government has gone to the extent of abstaining from discussion of the UN resolution, supporting Israel and the US.”

Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan has voiced his astonishment and concern over the Indian authorities’s determination to abstain from voting on a vital decision associated to the Gaza battle on the United Nations.

“It is really shocking that the Government of India has gone on to abstain from the resolution on Gaza in the UN supporting Israel and the US,” stated Kerala CM.

The UN General Assembly on Friday adopted a decision that known as for an “immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce” between Israel and Hamas militants within the Gaza Strip.

Sitaram Yechury, addressing the gathering, delivered a fervent plea for motion.

“The whole central committee has decided to protest today demanding an immediate end to this barbarity that is being done by Israel in the Gaza Strip against the Palestinians.”

“Till now the figures show that more than 8000- people have died. Children are being targeted and killed. All communications are cut. How many bodies are buried under the rumble is only a guess. This is inhuman barbarism. This must stop… The UN call for humanity must be implemented…”