Israel-Gaza war live: Israeli army bombs Nour Shams camp in occupied West Bank

One Palestinian was killed and four others were injured in an Israeli bombing of a house in the Nour Shams camp in the city of Tulkarem in the northern area of the occupied West Bank, Palestinian media said.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society said that it was dealing with two casualties as a result of the bombing of the house, noting that its crews were unable to enter the house because of the fire the bombing caused.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that four injured, including two in serious condition, arrived at Tulkarem Governmental Hospital.

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The Israeli army has continued a series of ground operations and raids on the Shujayea neighbourhood east of Gaza city in the northern Gaza Strip, while its warplanes attacked Tal Al Sultan, west of the southern city of Rafah.

There have been more than 40 clashes in Shujayea since Thursday.

Ramy Abdu, director of the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, said that the group’s field team confirmed dozens of deaths in the raids.

“Israel is committing widespread massacres in the northern part of the [Shujayea] neighbourhood and the Jdaida area. Our field team is receiving reports of dozens, possibly hundreds, of victims being executed on the spot or having their shelters bombed,” he wrote on X.

The Israeli military on Saturday announced the death of two soldiers in combat in northern Gaza, as their forces pressed on with their offensive in Shujayea.

Residents said tanks advanced deeper into several districts, including the area around the local market and there was heavy fire from the air and the ground.

Ismaeel Naar reports:

Bahrain has condemned Israel for its decision to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank.

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed the kingdom of Bahrain’s strong condemnation and denunciation of the Israeli security cabinet’s decision to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank and to legalise five settlement outposts in a blatant violation of the principles of international law and resolutions of international legitimacy, and a serious threat to international efforts aimed at establishing just and comprehensive peace in the region by establishing an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital,” the ministry said.

Bezalel Smotrich, Israel's far-right Finance Minister, said on Thursday that the government would promote West Bank settlements and punitive measures against the Palestinian Authority in response to Palestinian moves against Israel on the international stage.

Nada Maucourant Atallah reports:

Hezbollah said two of its fighters were killed in an Israeli air strike on a house in Houla, south Lebanon, on Sunday.

The Israeli army said it had targeted "terrorist cells" in a strike on "a Hezbollah military building".

Also on Sunday, Israel said its warplanes broke the sound barrier over several areas of Lebanon overnight, including Beirut, in a show of force with sonic booms which sounded like explosions.

Fears of all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah have increased in recent weeks as violence has escalated between the two sides, which have traded daily cross-border fire since Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel sparked war in the Gaza Strip.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza said that the Israeli military has killed least 43 people and wounded 111 who arrived in hospitals in the 24 hours to Sunday.

The toll from the war since October 7 rose to 37,877 killed and 86,969 injured.

Two men were remanded in custody after a Serbian police officer killed a man who shot him with a crossbow outside the Israeli embassy in Belgrade in a "targeted terrorist act", a minister said on Sunday.

The assailant, whom the police identified as being a "convert" to Islam, shot the officer while he was on duty in front of the embassy on Saturday.

The policeman fired back in self-defence and the attacker later died.

The assailant, from Mladenovac, near Belgrade, lived in Novi Pazar, a historical and political centre of Serbia's Bosniak Muslim minority, police said.

Israel's Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Saturday thanked Serbian authorities for their "strong support and co-operation following the attempted terror act on the embassy of Israel in Belgrade today".

Israeli tanks, which moved back into Shujayea four days ago, shelled houses, trapping residents inside, the residents said.

The armed wing of Hamas and the allied Islamic Jihad reported fierce fighting in both Shujayea and Rafah, saying their fighters had fired anti-tank rockets and mortar bombs against Israeli operating there.

In Rafah, near the border with Egypt, Israeli tanks pushed deeper into several districts in the east, west and centre of the city, and medics said six people had been killed in an Israeli strike on a house in Shaboura, in the heart of the city.

The bodies of six members of the Zourob family were taken to Al Nasser Hospital in the nearby city of Khan Younis. Relatives paid their respects before the bodies were taken in shrouds for burial.

Residents said the Israeli army had torched the Al Awda mosque in the centre of Rafah.

The Gaza Ministry of Health made an appeal to international organisations to ship fuel to the besieged strip's hospitals, warning that the remaining hospitals and their oxygen tanks will stop working within 48 hours.

“We appeal to all relevant, international and humanitarian institutions to intervene quickly to bring in the necessary fuel,” the health ministry said in a statement.

The ministry also called for the entry of generators and spare parts for maintenance, while the Israeli army has prevented the entry of fuel and aid required to treat the injured.

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said on Sunday it had received a report of an incident 13 nautical miles south-west of Al Mokha in Yemen, but that the ship and its crew were safe.

An UKMTO advisory note said a merchant ship had reported 12 small craft in its vicinity of the vessel for about an hour before leaving.

The ship and crew were reported safe, and its was travelling to its next port of call, the note added.

Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi rebels have been launching drone and missile strikes in shipping lanes since November, saying that it acts in solidarity with Palestinians in Israel's war in Gaza.

The Israeli media outlet added that Mr Netanyahu wants the head of Israel’s Supreme Court to have no part in choosing the committee.

Opposition leader Yair Lapid said he has had no contact with Mr Netanyahu regarding such a committee.

Mr Lapid stressed that Israeli law stipulates that only the head of the Supreme Court determines the formation of the investigation committee, stressing that he "will not allow any tricks."

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has extended a waiver that allows co-operation between its banking system and Palestinian banks in the occupied West Bank, the minister's representative said on Sunday.

The waiver, which was scheduled to expire at the end of June, allows Israeli banks to process shekel payments for services and salaries tied to the Palestinian Authority. Without it, the Palestinian economy would have taken a hit.

Mr Smotrich extended the waiver during a recent cabinet meeting.

The Palestinian economy relies heavily on this relationship to process transactions made in Israeli shekels.

Some 53 billion shekels ($14 billion) were exchanged at Palestinian banks in 2023, official data show.

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Israeli soldiers have arrested six Palestinians during raids across the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Wafa news agency.

Four were arrested in Yatta city, south of Hebron, while two were arrested in Al Ein camp in Nablus.

Israel has arrested at least 9,430 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since October.

An Israeli drone attacked the town of Houla in southern Lebanon on Sunday morning, amid fears of a wider regional war involving Israel and Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement.

Meanwhile, the Israeli military said that it bombed what it claimed was operational infrastructure and a military building for Hezbollah in the towns of Taybeh and Rab Thaleen in southern Lebanon.

The Israeli military says it plans on remaining in Gaza “as long as no other international entity is found” and that the war could last many more months, an Israeli security source told Israel's Kan public broadcaster.

According to the source, the chance of reaching an agreement with Hamas without ending the war is "very low".

A senior Palestinian Hamas official said on Saturday in Beirut that negotiations for an agreement with Israel on a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal had not made any progress.