Live: Over 200 Lebanese children killed in two months of Israeli attacks

A large fire broke out in downtown Tel Aviv on Monday after air raid sirens sounded across the city.

Video footage showed flames engulfing the area, reportedly caused by a rocket strike from Lebanon that hit a shopping centre in Ramat Gan.

The Israeli daily, Yedioth Ahronoth, reported another rocket struck a bus in Bnei Brak, east of Tel Aviv, while air traffic at Ben Gurion Airport was temporarily halted.

Red alert sirens also sounded in Haifa, in northern Israel. According to the Israeli military, its defence systems intercepted rocket fire from Lebanon, but fragments fell in central Israel. 

“Following the alerts that were activated a short time ago in the centre of the country, the air force intercepted one launch that crossed Lebanese territory. A fall was detected, apparently originating from interception fragments,” the military said on X.

Air raid sirens rang out in Tel Aviv and central Israel after Israel reported that over 100 projectiles had been launched from Lebanon.

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski announced that European Union foreign ministers did not reach an agreement to suspend political dialogue with Israel during their meeting.

The meeting came after EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell proposed the measure.

“We know that there are tragic events in Gaza, huge civilian casualties, but we do not forget who started the current cycle of violence,” Sikorski said in Brussels. “And I can tell you that there was no agreement on the idea of suspending negotiations with Israel.”

An 18-year-old Palestinian boy was killed by Israeli gunfire in the occupied West Bank, east of Nablus, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported.

The teenager, identified as Noor Ahmad Mustafa Arafat, died from a gunshot wound to the chest. Local sources told Wafa that Israeli forces had raided the al-Masaken area and opened fire.

Since Israel began its war on Gaza in October 2023, more than 700 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank.

The death toll in Lebanon from Israeli attacks has reached 3,516, with 14,929 wounded since October 2023, the Lebanese health ministry reported.

On Sunday, ten people were killed in Israeli air strikes targeting central Beirut.

“The Israeli enemy strike on Ras al-Nabaa in Beirut led to a final toll of seven dead, including a woman, and 16 others wounded,” said a ministry press release.

The ministry also reported that an Israeli strike late Sunday in the Mar Elias district left three dead, including a woman, and 29 wounded.

Unesco has granted "provisional enhanced protection" to 34 heritage sites in Lebanon, providing stronger legal safeguards amid ongoing conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.

The affected cultural sites “now benefit from the highest level of immunity against attack and use for military purposes”, Unesco stated. 

Recent Israeli air strikes near Baalbek and Tyre, which are home to ancient Roman ruins designated as world heritage sites, have raised alarm.

Unesco said the decision “helps send a signal to the entire international community of the urgent need to protect these sites”.

The organisation also said that violations of these protections would constitute “serious violations” of the 1954 Hague Convention and could lead to prosecution.

A 2014 video of Keir Starmer arguing that Serbia committed genocide against Croatia has resurfaced, prompting further scrutiny of the British prime minister's denial that Israel is committing the same crime in Gaza. 

Last week, Starmer was asked in parliament to share his definition of genocide and to outline what action he was taking to save the lives of people in Gaza.

In response, he said he was "well aware of the definition of genocide" and that this explains why he has "never described or referred to [the situation in Gaza] as genocide". 

His remarks followed similar denials from Foreign Secretary David Lammy, who suggested that Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza because millions of people have not been killed.

As a human rights lawyer, Starmer was part of the legal team representing Croatia before the International Court of Justice, in a case where both Serbia and Croatia accused each other of violating the 1948 Genocide Convention

Read more: Keir Starmer has previously argued Serbia waged genocide against Croatia

An Israeli air strike in central Beirut has left four people dead and 18 wounded, Lebanon’s health ministry reported. The attack took place near the Lebanese government's headquarters and a Shia mosque.

The strike also occurred close to the building of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia. Smoke billowed from the area as ambulance sirens filled the air.

Parts of central Beirut, such as the Zuqaq al-Blat neighbourhood, have become shelters for those displaced by the conflict in southern Lebanon and the city's southern suburbs.

An Israeli air strike late on Monday targeted a crowded residential area in central Beirut, near key government offices, the UN headquarters, and multiple embassies.

According to Lebanon's state-run National News Agency, two missiles struck the Zoqaq al-Blat neighbourhood. The attack followed news that the US envoy had postponed his visit for cease-fire discussions.

Ambulance sirens blared through the neighbourhood, though official casualty numbers have yet to be reported. An Associated Press reporter on-site observed significant injuries on the street. The intended target of the air strike is still unknown, and the Israeli military did not provide advance warning.

The mayor of Amsterdam has taken back comments describing violence that took place following a football match between Israeli and Dutch teams earlier this month as a "pogrom", and has said Israel "bypassed" Dutch authorities regarding the details of the events.

Mayor Femke Halsema was speaking on Sunday evening on Dutch state broadcaster NPO's News Hour programme. 

On 6 and 7 November, travelling Maccabi Tel Aviv fans stirred trouble in different parts of the Dutch capital by chanting racist anti-Arab slogans ahead of their Uefa Europa League match against Amsterdam club Ajax. 

Fans were also seen removing at least two Palestinian flags from what appeared to be residential buildings the night before the match. Following such provocations, confrontations erupted between Maccabi fans and Dutch youths, before and after the match, and late into the night. 

A large group of Maccabi supporters were seen arming themselves with sticks, pipes and rocks and clashing with Dutch youths. Videos posted on social media showed people attacking and chasing some of the Israeli fans.

Read more: Amsterdam mayor takes back 'pogrom' comments following Maccabi-Ajax violence

The United States has sanctioned Israel’s Amana settler organization, according to the US Treasury Department’s website. The move targets a group known for violence against Palestinians and their property in the occupied West Bank.

Amana is described as “a settlement development organisation that is involved with US-sanctioned individuals and outposts that perpetrate violence in the West Bank,” the statement said. The organisation is also under sanctions by the United Kingdom and Canada.

“The settlers and farms that Amana supports play a key role in developing settlements in the West Bank, from which in turn settlers commit violence. More broadly, Amana strategically uses farming outposts – which it supports through financing, loans, and building infrastructure – to expand settlements and seize land,” the US Treasury said.

The US State Department also announced sanctions against three Israeli individuals and an entity linked to violence in the occupied West Bank.

US President Joe Biden called on G20 leaders Monday to step up pressure on Hamas for a ceasefire with Israel, as he vowed to "keep pushing" for a deal in his last weeks before Donald Trump returns to the White House.

"I ask everyone here to increase their pressure on Hamas, which is currently refusing this deal," Biden said in his opening remarks to the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro.

The outgoing president also renewed his calls for Israel to limit civilian casualties in its war in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been repeatedly internally accused of stalling or hampering ceasefire negotiations.

Hamas on Friday called on US President-Elect Donald Trump to "pressure" Israel, and said the group was "ready for a ceasefire."

Israeli forces have carried out field executions of Palestinians in northern Gaza, according to eyewitnesses who spoke to the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor in a new report.

The Geneva-based NGO says it has documented dozens of deliberate killings by Israeli soldiers since Israel began its new offensive in the area in early October.

The executions are part of "numerous atrocities" committed in the besieged area, including "killing and terrorising civilians, forcibly evicting them from their homes, and displacing them outside northern Gaza province", the monitor said on Sunday. 

The organisation's field teams documented "harrowing incidents of direct killings and extrajudicial executions", that were "carried out with no justification whatsoever."

READ MORE: Palestinians detail field executions by Israeli forces in north Gaza

US presidential envoy Amos Hochstein informed Lebanon's Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri that he is delaying his departure for Beirut, which was scheduled for Tuesday, Axios reports.

Axios says Hochstein's trip is delayed until he gets "more clarifications about the Lebanese position regarding the ceasefire agreement".

Reports in Lebanon over the weekend said that both the Lebanese government and Hezbollah had delivered a largely positive response to the ceasefire proposal.

🚨🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein informed the Lebanese Speaker of Parliament, Nabih Berri, that he is delaying his departure to Beirut until getting more clarifications about the Lebanese position regarding the cease-fire agreement, U.S. officials told me

— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) November 18, 2024

A convoy of 109 trucks was violently looted on Nov. 16 after crossing into Gaza, resulting in the loss of 98 trucks, an UNRWA aid official told Reuters on Monday.

The convoy carrying food provided by U.N. agencies UNRWA and the World Food Programme was instructed by Israel to depart at short notice via an unfamiliar route from Kerem Shalom crossing, Louise Wateridge, UNRWA Senior Emergency Officer told Reuters.

"This incident highlights the severity of access challenges of bringing aid into southern and central Gaza," she said.