UN Security Council calls for urgent aid to Gaza

State Department — 

Members of the United Nations Security Council, including the United States and the United Kingdom, urged an contiguous summation successful assistance to Palestinian civilians successful Gaza, informing that the humanitarian concern determination is worsening.

Meanwhile, the United States warned Turkey connected Monday against hosting Hamas leadership, saying determination tin beryllium “no much concern arsenic usual” with what the U.S. designates arsenic a violent organization.

Several media reports bespeak that elder members of Hamas' enactment extracurricular of Gaza person been successful Turkey successful caller days aft being asked to permission Qatar.

State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said helium was not successful a presumption to quality these reports, leaving it to the applicable governments to code the whereabouts of Hamas leaders.

“We don't judge the leaders of a vicious violent enactment should beryllium surviving comfortably anywhere, and that surely includes successful a large metropolis successful 1 of our cardinal partners,” Miller told reporters during a briefing connected Monday.

At the United Nations, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy called for a “huge emergence successful aid” to Gaza, wherever the displacement of astir of the 2.3 cardinal residents has exacerbated the humanitarian crisis.

In a societal media station connected X, the United Kingdom’s U.N. office said “400 days into this war, determination is nary excuse for Israeli restrictions making it harder than ever to get assistance into Gaza. There is nary excuse for Hamas inactive holding hostages. This warfare indispensable extremity — to unfastened a way to a lasting bid with a two-state solution astatine its core.”

U.S. officials said they are intimately monitoring Israel's actions to amended the conditions for Palestinian civilians portion engaging with Israeli leaders “every azygous day.”

“As we property for an extremity to the war, Israel indispensable besides urgently instrumentality further steps to alleviate the catastrophic humanitarian concern successful Gaza,” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said connected Monday.

Bombardment successful Lebanon

Late Monday, Israeli airstrikes deed a vicinity successful the bosom of Lebanon's capital, targeting an country adjacent Lebanon’s parliament, respective embassies and the U.N. headquarters, arsenic the U.S. pressed up with diplomatic efforts to extremity the fighting.

Meanwhile, Israel's strikes connected Sunday prompted the Education Ministry to unopen schools and higher acquisition institutions successful the Beirut country for 2 days.

Hezbollah spokesperson Mohammad Afif was among 4 radical killed successful the Ras al-Nabaa district, Hezbollah and the Israeli subject said.

Israel has seldom deed elder Hezbollah unit who bash not person wide subject roles, and its airstrikes person mostly targeted Beirut's confederate suburbs, wherever the radical has its heaviest presence, Reuters reported.

Israel Defense Forces issued a connection astir the “precise, intelligence-based strike” that killed Afif.

The IDF said that Afif, a cardinal fig successful Hezbollah's subject operations, was successful interaction with elder officials and straight progressive successful advancing and executing Hezbollah’s violent activities against Israel.

On Monday, the United Nations taste and technological agency, UNESCO, granted provisional enhanced extortion to 34 taste properties successful Lebanon, including the World Heritage sites of Baalbek and Tyre, pursuing caller Israeli strikes adjacent these sites.

Deaths successful Gaza

An Israeli onslaught successful a structure sheltering displaced radical successful Gaza’s Khan Younis killed 2 children and their parents overnight, Palestinian officials said Monday.

The dormant children were ages 7 and 9, and a 10-year-old kid was besides wounded, civilian defence officials said.

On Sunday, Gaza's civilian defence bureau said 34 radical were killed, including children, and dozens were missing aft an Israeli airstrike deed a five-story residential gathering successful Beit Lahia.

"The chances of rescuing much wounded are decreasing due to the fact that of the continuous shooting and artillery shelling," civilian defence spokesperson Mahmud Bassal told Agence France-Presse.

The warfare successful Gaza began with the October 7, 2023, Hamas onslaught connected confederate Israel, during which the militants killed astir 1,200 radical and took 250 hostages. Hamas is inactive holding astir 100 hostages, with a 3rd of them believed to beryllium dead.

Israel’s counteroffensive has killed astir 44,000 Palestinians, with women and children much than fractional the verified total, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

After months of rocket occurrence and airstrikes betwixt Hezbollah and Israel, the warring expanded successful Lebanon successful mid-September. More than 3,200 Lebanese person been killed, astir of them successful the past six weeks.

Both Hezbollah and Hamas person been designated arsenic violent organizations by the United States.

Information from The Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse was utilized successful this report.