Live: 15 killed in Israeli bombing of camp in central Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the country is "changing the security reality in our region" during a cabinet address.

"We are changing the security reality in our region for the sake of our children, for the sake of our future, to ensure that what happened on October 7 will not happen again," Netanyahu said, according to his office.

"Never again."

Israel cannot confirm the death of Hashem Safieddine, the anticipated successor to slain Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, a government spokesperson said on Monday.

Lebanese security sources told Reuters that Safieddine has been unreachable since Israeli air strikes targeted Beirut's southern suburbs on Friday.

"We don't have that confirmation yet. When it is confirmed, as and when, it will be on the [Israeli military] website," spokesperson David Mencer told an online briefing.

Reporting by Reuters

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot has said that Israel's security requires a diplomatic solution and cannot be achieved by "force alone."

“Force alone cannot guarantee the security of Israel, your security. Military success cannot be a substitute for a political perspective,” Barrot told reporters during a visit to Israel.

“To bring the hostages home to their loved ones, to allow the displaced to return home in the north, after a year of war, the time for diplomacy has come.”

His comments follow French President Emmanuel Macron's call for an arms embargo against Israel.

However, a report from French television station BFMTV revealed that France will continue to provide what it called defensive equipment to Israel, primarily for missile defence.

Eight Palestinians have been killed and others injured in an Israeli air strike on Jabalia camp in northern Gaza, Wafa news agency is reporting.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that its teams recovered the bodies of eight people after Israeli forces shelled a group of civilians near Abu Qamar station.

The Israeli war on Gaza has killed more journalists over the past year than any other conflict over the past three decades, according to data by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

According to the CPJ, a US-based group monitoring human rights violations against journalists worldwide, at least 128 media workers were killed in the conflict between 7 October 2023 and 4 October 2024. The organisation is also investigating a further 130 cases of suspected killings, detentions or injuries.

The group said it's the deadliest period for journalists since it began its documentation activities in 1992.

The data is conservative compared to the number of journalists reported killed by the Palestinian health ministry, which has estimated that at least 175 were killed between 7 October 2023 and 6 October 2024.

The CPJ said that journalists over the past 12 months have worked under the same dire humanitarian conditions as all civilians in Gaza, including the devastating bombardment of the densely populated enclave that destroyed most of of its buildings, the Israeli siege that led to famine, and the constant displacement of the population. 

Read more: Israel has killed more journalists in Gaza than in any conflict in 30 years

The number of people killed by Israeli attacks in Lebanon since last October has risen to 2,083, with another 9,869 wounded, the country's health ministry said today.

The ministry also reported that at least 15 people have been killed and 46 wounded in the Mount Lebanon governorate, at least four killed and 26 wounded in the Nabatieh governorate, and at least three killed and 19 wounded in the South governorate.

Israeli forces stepped up their strikes on Gaza on Monday, killing at least 11 Palestinians across the enclave, Wafa news agency is reporting.

Four people were killed and others injured in an Israeli air strike targeting a house in the town of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, the agency reported, citing medical sources.

The agency also reported that at least five people were killed and others injured when Israeli forces bombed a group of Palestinians in Jabalia camp, also in northern Gaza.

It added that one person was killed in an Israeli drone attack in the east of Rafah, and another in an attack north of Gaza City.

Meanwhile, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said that one Palestinian was killed and others injured in an Israeli air strike targeting a family home in the Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza City.

The Israeli army has said that its fighter jets destroyed rocket launchers in Khan Younis that were used in the Qassam Brigades' attack on central Israel earlier today.

In a statement, the military said that "secondary explosions were seen, indicating the presence of weapons."

The attack follows Israeli expulsion orders for Palestinians in the southern city, who were instructed to flee to the so-called "humanitarian zone" in al-Mawasi.

Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian child during a military incursion on Qalandia refugee camp, north of occupied Jerusalem, Wafa news agency is reporting.

The Palestinian health ministry in a statement named the child as 12-year-old Hatem Ghaith, who died after being shot in the abdomen.

According to Wafa, seven other people, including three children, were injured by Israeli fire, while 20 others were detained during the ongoing raid.

The Lebanese Ministry of Health has said that the number of firefighters killed in an Israeli attack on a fire station in the town of Baraachit has risen to 10.

According to the ministry, the firefighters were preparing to go out on a mission.

It added that rescue efforts are still ongoing.

The Israeli military has ordered Palestinians in Gaza's southern city of Khan Younis to flee to the already overcrowded designated "safe zone" in al-Mawasi.

Citing Hamas' recent attack on central Israel, which the army claims was launched from Khan Younis, the military's Arabic spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, instructed civilians to "evacuate these areas immediately."

He warned that the rocket attack would be "met with extreme force."

The Israeli military has announced the death of a second soldier in combat on the Lebanese border.

Reporting by Reuters

At least 10 firefighters were killed in an Israeli strike on a municipal building on Bint Jbeil, southern Lebanon, according to the health ministry.

The ministry referred to the attack as a "massacre" and a "war crime".

Gaza's health ministry said that 39 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on the enclave in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 41,909 since 7 October 2023.

Additionally, 97,303 have been wounded since the start of the war.

Hamas' armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, said it fired a barrage of Maqadmeh M-90 rockets towards Tel Aviv, central Israel.

The Israeli army said that five rockets were fired from Gaza's Khan Younis, and medics said that two people were injured in the rocket attack.