Palestine Israel conflict LIVE: Latest video from Gaza war as IDF strikes 320 targets in 24 hours and medics describe ‘horror movie’ scenes in hospital

Israeli strikes have killed at least 5,087 people in Gaza since war erupted on October 7, triggered by massive attacks on Israel, Hamas officials in the Palestinian enclave said Monday.

Some 2,055 children and 1,119 women are among the dead, while 15,273 people have been injured in the relentless bombardments, the Hamas-run health ministry in the Gaza Strip.

It said 436 Palestinians – including 182 children – have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza in the past 24 hours.

Humza Yousaf’s mother-in-law has said she is living through ‘torture’ in Gaza, the First Minister said.

Speaking to journalists from flood-hit Brechin on Monday, Mr Yousaf was seen to step away from cameras to take a call, which he later said was from Elizabeth El-Nakla.

Mrs El-Nakla and her husband Maged – the parents of Mr Yousaf’s wife Nadia – travelled to Gaza to visit family when hostilities flared up.

‘They’re really living in a situation that my mother-in-law describes as torture,’ he said.

‘The whole night there will be missiles, rocket fire, drones – they don’t know whether they are going to make it from one night to the next.

‘They’re down to six bottles of clean drinking water in a house of 100 people including a two-month-old baby, she tells me.’

As we reported earlier, Israel said its ground forces mounted limited raids to fight Hamas terrorists and that air strikes were being focused on sites where the gunmen were assembling to attack any wider Israeli invasion.

IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari has now revealed more details on those ground raids.

• ‘During the night there were raids by tank and infantry forces. These raids are raids that kill squads of terrorists who are preparing for our next stage in the war. These are raids that go deep,’ Hagari said in a briefing.
• The raids also tried to gather information on the 222 hostages being held by Hamas, he said.
• Hamas’s armed wing, the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, said its fighters engaged with an Israeli force that infiltrated Gaza and they destroyed some Israeli military equipment.
• The terrorist group said the infiltration by what it described as an armoured force took place east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
• ‘Fighters engaged with the infiltrating force, destroying two bulldozers and a tank and forced the force to withdraw, before they returned safely to base,’ a statement said. There was no Israeli comment about the destruction of equipment.
• The Al-Qassam Brigades also on Monday they were firing missiles on the south Israeli towns of Ashkelon and Mavki’im. Warning sirens blared out on the Israeli side.

As we reported earlier, Israel claims Hamas fighters were carrying instructions on how to make chemical weapons when they launched their horrifying October 7 attack on Israeli border villages.

Read our full report here.

The Israeli military said on Monday it had launched an interceptor missile at a ‘suspicious aerial target’ that crossed in from Lebanon, and that sirens had been sounded in areas of the border as a precaution.

Israel’s armed forces have massed tens of thousands of soldiers, tanks, heavy armour and artillery along the Gaza border ahead of a much-anticipated ground assault that aims to crush Hamas in retaliation for the group’s ruthless October 7 attacks.

On the face of it, the conflict looks to be a considerable mismatch.

Israel boasts one of the most advanced militaries in the world, with state of the art equipment and technology.

By contrast, Hamas is thought to have as many as 40,000 fighters, all of whom are crammed into Gaza, a small 140-square-mile strip of land home to more than 2.3 million people – with limited training and resources.

But military experts are reluctant to suggest an armed Israeli incursion into Gaza will be a walk in the park.

With this in mind, MailOnline breaks down the military capabilities of both sides ahead of Israel’s ground assault. Read more here.

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IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said Israeli forces had wiped out eight terrorist cells in Lebanon over the past 24 hours and more than 20 since the start of the war.

Hagari said seven of the positions were struck before Hezbollah terrorists managed to fire anti-tank missiles and rockets

An aid convoy entered the besieged Gaza Strip on Monday via the Rafah border crossing, the third since war erupted on October 7.

More than a dozen lorries crossed Rafah, adding to a previous total of 34 trucks that had entered Gaza on Saturday and Sunday according to an Egyptian Red Cross official.

The United Nations says at least 100 trucks a day are needed to provide the basic needs of Gaza’s 2.4 million inhabitants as fighting triggered by a massive Hamas onslaught rages on, with thousands killed already.

The situation at al-Shifa hospital, one of Gaza’s biggest, is so dire that medics are being forced to improvise without supplies, medics say.

• ‘Last night it was a horror movie. Blood and dead bodies everywhere,’ Naseralldin Abutaha, an emergency nurse at the hospital, told NBC News.
• ‘I feel if I didn’t die, I’m dead inside. I can’t cry anymore,’ Abutaha, 21, said, adding that staff would be forced to use shirts as tourniquets. The medic said even water was not available, adding: ‘I swear I once used cola to wash a cut.’
• It comes as Ashraf al-Qidra, spokesperson for the Gaza health ministry, said medics at the hospital were almost at the bottom of the fuel tanks.
• ‘We have switched the fuel to the most essential life-saving services including the incubators but we don’t know how long it can last,’ al-Qidra said.
• The United Nations agency for Palestinians, UNRWA, said it would run out of fuel in three days. ‘Without fuel there will be no water, no functioning hospitals and bakeries,’ it said.
• It comes as a third convoy of aid trucks entered the Rafah crossing from Egypt on Monday bound for the besieged Gaza Strip, an aid worker and two security sources said.
• Deliveries of aid through Rafah began on Saturday after wrangling over procedures for inspecting the aid and bombardments on the Gaza side of the border had left relief materials stranded in Egypt. But there will be no delivery of fuel which is vital for hospitals.

China views the situation in Gaza as ‘very serious’ with the risk of large-scale ground conflict growing and because the conflict has begun to spill over in the region, the country’s Middle East envoy said.

• The envoy Zhai Jun, who is visiting the Middle East, noted conflict along the Israeli-Lebanese and Israeli-Syrian borders, according to China Central Television. This has made ‘the outlook worrisome,’ he said.
• Zhai called on the international community to be ‘highly vigilant’ and to take immediate action urging parties concerned to strictly abide by international humanitarian law and avoid a serious humanitarian disaster while putting in ‘joint efforts to control the situation’.
• Zhai was also quoted as saying that China is willing to do ‘whatever is conducive’ to promote dialogue, achieve a ceasefire and restore peace, as well as to promote a two-state solution.

• The Home Secretary will demand an explanation from Sir Mark Rowley over why his officers stood by as demonstrators called for a ‘jihad’ against Israel, while others were filmed chanting ‘pro-Hamas slogans’.
• In one demonstration on the same day that 100,000 people marched through London in support of Palestine, members of the extremist group Hazb ut-Tahrir – which has been banned in almost all Arab countries – were filmed shouting ‘jihad’.
• The group’s leader, Luqman Muqeem, previously said Hamas terrorists were ‘heroes’ for massacring Israelis and the attacks of October 7 had ‘made us all very, very happy’.
• During a separate demonstration on Saturday, a man was filmed waving a black and white Islamic flag while reportedly shouting in Arabic: ‘God’s curse be upon the Jews’ and ‘God’s curse upon Israel’. He was arrested for inciting racial hatred.

Read our full report here.

Israel said it had carried out ‘limited’ ground raids into Gaza overnight to target Hamas gunmen and search for the 220 hostages.

• IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said a soldier was killed and three others were wounded by an anti-tank missile during a raid inside Gaza.
• Hagari also claimed airstrikes are focusing on areas where Hamas terrorists are assembling to combat any Israeli ground invasion.

Israeli president Isaac Herzog told Sky News that Hamas were carrying instructions on how to make chemical weapons when they carried out their massacre on October 7.

• He said documents found on the bodies of dead fighters in kibbutz Be’eri were ‘official Al Qaeda material’ showing how to build a weapon with cyanide.

Israel’s Defence Forces have published what they claim is proof of Hamas rocket launch sites nestled amid mosques, schools and nurseries in Gaza.

• A series of satellite images, shared on the IDF’s official website and social media accounts, shows what they claim are launch pits dug into the ground right next to the civilian structures – something Israel says backs up their claims that Hamas is using the Palestinian people as human shields.
• Two alleged launch sites were located a stone’s throw away from each other, one in the garden of a mosque, and another mere feet away from a kindergarten.
• A third was seen across the road from a UN building in Gaza and a fourth was located opposite the Manfaluti Secondary School for Boys.
• Geolocation of the images provided by the IDF confirmed the locations given were correct, and analysts pointed out that previous satellite images taken in September did not show any launch sites – suggesting that any rocket launch platforms would have been recently constructed.

European Union foreign ministers are meeting today to discuss ways to help vital aid get into Gaza, particularly fuel, after two convoys entered over the weekend.

• EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said that ‘in normal times, without war, 100 trucks enter into Gaza every day. So it’s clear that 20 is not enough.’
• Borrell said the emphasis must be on getting power and water-providing desalination plants running again.
• ‘Without water and electricity, the hospitals can barely work,’ he told reporters in Luxembourg, where the meeting is taking place.
• He said the ministers will also look at ways to resolve the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians in the long term.
• ‘The great powers have forgotten about the Palestinian issue, thinking it was going to be solved alone, or it doesn’t matter. Yes, it matters,’ Borrell said.

The Israeli military said the number of people confirmed as being held hostage by Hamas terrorists has risen to 222.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday warned that the nation was in a ‘do-or-die double battle’ to ‘erase Hamas’ in Gaza while trying to hold back against Hezbollah firing missiles from Lebanon

• Netanyahu said Hezbollah terrorists in the north will be making ‘the biggest mistake of their lives’ if they launch a war against Israel.
• ‘It will be the mistake of its life. We will cripple it with a force it cannot even imagine, and the consequences for it and the Lebanese state will be devastating,’ Netanyahu said.
• Hezbollah’s political movement is part of Lebanon’s fractious government, but its fighters operate outside the state’s control.
• Israel heavily bombed Beirut’s airport and civilian infrastructure during a 2006 war with Hezbollah.
• Israel is meanwhile evacuating some communities on its own side of the border.

The Israeli military said it had destroyed two ‘terrorist cells’ inside Lebanon in an overnight strike.

• The IDF said it had struck two Hezbollah terrorist cells operating on the border with Lebanon as well as infrastructure targets including an anti-tank missile launch post, a military compound and an observation post.
• ‘The terrorist cell was planning to carry out an anti-tank missile launch towards the town of Shlomi,’ the IDF said on Telegram.
• Israel has frequently traded fire with Lebanon’s Hezbollah terrorist group, which is armed with tens of thousands of rockets.
• It comes amid growing fears the Israel-Hamas war will widen across the Middle East.

The Israeli military said on Monday it had struck 320 Hamas targets throughout Gaza over the past day.

• The IDF said it has destroyed anti-tank positions, tunnels, operational headquarters and other targets that could endanger forces preparing for a ‘manoeuvre in the Gaza Strip’ in reference to Israel’s imminent ground invasion

Good morning to our MailOnline readers. Here’s a recap of what’s happened in the Israel-Hamas conflict in the last few hours.

• Israeli warplanes struck targets across Gaza early on Monday
• Another aid shipment was allowed into Gaza
• Israel is widely expected to launch ground offensive as tanks continue to mass on the border
• Israel has said it has stepped up airstrikes in order to reduce the risk to troops in the next stages
• US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Washington expects the Israel-Hamas law to escalate through involvement by proxies of Iran
• Blinken said the US government is prepared to respond if American personnel or armed forces become the target of any such hostilities