• Israeli forces killed at least 74 Palestinians across Gaza on Monday, including 36 people seeking humanitarian aid, according to medical sources.
• Israel is allowing just 86 trucks of aid into Gaza a day, a figure equal to just 14 percent of the minimum 600 trucks needed each day to meet the basic needs of the population, according to data from Gaza’s Government Media Office.
• Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan said Israel’s “engineered starvation” and genocide in Gaza is “a crime against humanity”, and urged the international community to intervene immediately.
• Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 60,933 people and wounded 150,027. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.

Netanyahu ‘leaking’ arguments with military chief amid division over Gaza

Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of leaking internal disputes with the military’s top commander amid division over Gaza.

His remarks come after Israeli media outlets reported that Israeli military Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir opposes Netanyahu’s push to occupy Gaza. Several ministers reportedly said Netanyahu has privately used the term “occupation of the Strip” to describe his vision for Gaza’s future.

“When the Chief of Staff knows that every argument will leak, when he knows that they will spin it against him, he won’t say everything he thinks,” Lapid wrote on X. “Decision-making is impaired.”

“I also had arguments with the IDF chief of staff, as foreign minister, and as prime minister. Some of them were not simple. Only one thing was clear to us: they need to stay behind closed doors,” Lapid wrote on X. “This also has an operational cost,” he added.

Australia’s FM warns of ‘risk there will be no Palestine left to recognise’

Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs has told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) “there is a risk there will be no Palestine left to recognise”.

However Penny Wong did not elaborate on when Australia would recognise Palestinian statehood, saying only that it was “a matter of when, not if”.

Wong’s comments came after a mass protest in Sydney on Sunday, which she said showed the “distress of Australians, on what we are seeing unfolding in Gaza, the catastrophic humanitarian situation, the deaths of women and children, the withholding of aid”.

But asked if Australia was considering taking any more concrete actions, such as imposing sanctions on Israel, Wong said: “We don’t speculate on sanctions for the obvious reason that they have more effect if they are not flagged.”

She noted that Australia had already imposed sanctions on two far-right ministers in Netanyahu’s government, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, in June this year, as well as “extremist” Israeli settlers.

You can read more here.

Rubio spoke with UK, French counterparts about Gaza

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has discussed the “humanitarian situation in Gaza and efforts to reach a ceasefire – despite Hamas’s obstructionism” in calls with UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy and French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot.

According to a readout from State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce, Rubio also discussed efforts to “bring the hostages home” with Lammy.

Both calls also covered the countries’ “commitment to ensuring that Iran never develops or acquires a nuclear weapon”, Bruce added.

Speaker Mike Johnson visits occupied West Bank to support Israeli settlers

Palestinian foreign ministry condemns Republican visit for ‘undermining efforts to stop the war and cycle of violence’

Mike Johnson became the highest ranked US official to visit the occupied West Bank on Monday, the Republican House speaker drawing measures of praise and condemnation for his trip in support of Israeli settlements amid a worsening starvation crisis in Gaza.

The excursion followed Johnson’s arrival in Israel on Sunday on an unannounced visit with other Republican lawmakers, and his meeting with Israeli defense minister Israel Katz and foreign minister Gideon Saar.

Johnson’s visit to the West Bank is the highest profile by a senior US political figure since then secretary of state Mike Pompeo went to Psogat in November 2020 during the final months of Donald Trump’s first presidency.

Israeli forces kill nine Palestinians in attacks across Gaza

Israeli forces have killed at least nine Palestinians in early morning attacks across the Gaza Strip, medical sources have told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

In Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, Israeli forces bombed a tent, killing at least five people, according to sources at Nasser Hospital.

Al-Awda Hospital reported that two Palestinians were killed by Israeli artillery shelling north of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.

Two Palestinians were also killed and others were injured when Israeli forces bombed an apartment, northwest of Gaza City, staff at al-Shifa Hospital said.

A recap of recent developments

Here’s what you need to know:

• At least 74 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza on Monday, including 36 people seeking aid supplies.
• UN spokesperson Farhan Haq said aid entering Gaza remains “insufficient for the starving population, and our convoys continue to face impediments”.
• The UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, warned that 28 children are dying each day in Gaza from Israeli bombardments, the lack of aid, starvation and malnutrition.
• Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan said Israel’s “engineered starvation” and genocide in Gaza is “a crime against humanity”, and urged an immediate intervention by the international community.
• The Palestinian Authority slammed US House Speaker Mike Johnson’s visit to the illegal Israeli settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank.

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