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In the UK, Sky News international affairs editor Dominic Waghorn has had this to say about talks over a hostage deal, telling viewers:

There still seems to be differences about the number of hostages, but also the logistics of how they are found in the various bits of Gaza and how they are brought in.

The deal is still thought to be focused on the women and children. Israel wants all women and children [hostages] out of Gaza and in return it is prepared to hand over a greater number of Palestinian women and children they are holding in their jails.

There is still hesitation among some in the Israeli government. They believe they are still pressing home an advantage against Hamas and will worry about the chances of their enemy regrouping.

AP reports “heavy fighting” around the Indonesian hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip. It quotes Marwan Abdallah, a medical worker there, as saying Israeli tanks were visible from the windows.

“You can see them moving around and firing,” he told the news agency. “Women and children are terrified. There are constant sounds of explosions and gunfire.”

Abdallah said the hospital had received dozens of dead and wounded in airstrikes and shelling overnight. He said medical staff and displaced people feared Israel would besiege the hospital and force its evacuation.

The claims have not been independently verified.

Israel’s Haaretz says it has been told by a source “involved in the negotiations with Hamas” that the organisation is considering increasing the number of hostages it is willing to release.

The newspaper says the source told it that talks were in continuation, and says “indirect contacts between Israel and Hamas have already collapsed twice” and that more patience is needed.

Al Jazeera is reporting that the Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza has come under Israeli attack. It quotes health ministry officials in Gaza as saying that the death toll is 12, and that those killed include doctors and patients.

Ashraf al-Qudra, a spokesperson for the Hamas-run health ministry, described the situation to Al Jazeera as “catastrophic”. He claimed there were about 700 people inside the hospital, including medical staff and the injured.

It has not been possible for journalists to independently verify the claims.

More than 100 evacuees from Gaza are set to arrive in Turkey on Monday, including dozens of people who will receive medical treatment there, Turkey’s health minister and a foreign ministry source have told Reuters.

Sixty-one patients, accompanied by about 49 relatives, arrived in Egypt from Gaza on Sunday evening and were scheduled to fly to Ankara on Monday morning after spending the night in a hospital, the health minister Fahrettin Koca said.

He said last week that Ankara wanted to bring as many of the nearly 1,000 cancer patients from Gaza to Turkey as possible. The first 27 patients arrived in Ankara last Thursday.

Separately, a group of 87 people, consisting of Turks, Turkish Cypriots and their relatives, arrived in Egypt from Gaza on Sunday and were due to fly to Istanbul on Monday evening, a foreign ministry source said.

Australia’s foreign minister, Penny Wong, has posted to social media to say 31 people, including Australian citizens, left Gaza via the Rafah crossing earlier today.

In her message, she said: “They are being supported by our consular staff in Egypt. The Australian government has facilitated the departure of a total of 62 people from Gaza. We are working with partners as part of international efforts to allow for the safe passage of foreign nationals from Gaza.”

Wong added: “Australia has been clear in our calls for safe, sustained and immediate humanitarian access so essential assistance can reach people in need and civilians can reach safety. We all want to take the next steps towards a ceasefire, but it cannot be one‑sided.”

Our First Edition newsletter today features Archie Bland speaking to Kaamil Ahmed, a reporter on the Guardian’s global development desk, who has been using his contacts in Gaza to tell of the plight experienced by those on the ground:

As Kaamil has heard these stories, he’s been struck by the impossibility for the residents of Gaza of looking beyond their most immediate needs. “Every day is a new battle,” he said. “To find water, to find bread, to charge phones. It takes hours to get to a market, because there’s no fuel for cars. It takes hours to queue for supplies or to use the bathroom, and you can’t cook more food than you need for the next day, because you don’t have a fridge. It doesn’t matter who you are, or who you were before this: everything takes a long time, and there’s nothing to spend your money on. The cycle starts again constantly, for everyone.”

Most people Kaamil speaks to have loved ones who’ve been killed since the war began. That is the context for how they perceive Israel’s campaign: “I hear the word genocide a lot more now,” Kaamil said. “That is a very complicated and contested term, but it’s what people there feel.”

Because of the unique misfortune of their geopolitical circumstances, people in Gaza are quite often treated as if they see everything through a political lens; an answer to whether they support Hamas, even before 7 October, was far more likely to be how they would be heard by the wider world than the equivalent question to somebody living in Europe or the US.

“But if you ask somebody a question like that, it doesn’t mean they were thinking about it before you asked them,” Kaamil said. “My experience of Gaza is as a place full of people finding creative ways to get by, and to enjoy their lives. I don’t know anybody who visited Gaza who didn’t enjoy it, and find it, despite everything, actually a nice place to be. That’s part of why it feels so important to show how people are surviving, or trying to survive, now.”

Read more here: Monday briefing – the Palestinians determined to get the word out on life inside Gaza

In an update on the 31 premature babies evacuated from al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on Sunday, health officials say they are in “extremely critical condition”.

The newborns had dehydration, hypothermia and sepsis in some cases, said Mohamed Zaqout, the director of Gaza hospitals.

Four other babies died in the two days before the evacuation, Associated Press quoted him as also saying.

The babies from the hospital, where power was cut and supplies ran out while Israeli forces battled Palestinian militants outside, were receiving urgent care in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

Zaqout said preparations were under way for them to enter Egypt.

A World Health Organization team that visited al-Shifa hospital said most of the remaining patients had amputations, burns or other trauma. Plans were being made to evacuate them in the coming days.

We’ve published a full report on the Israeli military releasing video footage that it says shows hostages being taken into Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital on 7 October, the day Hamas launched its devastating attacks on Israel.

The CCTV video aired by an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson appeared to show a group of men frog-marching an individual into a hospital, to the surprise of medical staff. A second clip showed an injured man on a gurney. Another man nearby, in civilian clothes, had an assault rifle.

Separately, the IDF claimed one hostage, a 19-year-old Israeli army conscript named Noa Marciano, had been killed by Hamas at the hospital.

Hamas has previously blamed an Israeli airstrike for her death.

The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said it was not able to confirm the authenticity of the footage of the two hostages aired by the IDF, according to the BBC. Hamas’s leadership did not immediately comment on the claims. It has previously said it took some hostages to hospitals for treatment.

Our full report is here:

Israel ‘expanding’ operation in Gaza, says military

Reuters has posted a video report on belongings left behind after Hamas’s attack on a music festival in southern Israel on 7 October.

The post on X (formerly Twitter) says that at a trauma centre in the Israeli city of Caesarea, “survivors reclaimed their lost possessions, while families of the dead reunited with the things their loved ones left behind”.

An Israeli police investigation into the attack on the Supernova music festival in Kibbutz Re’im on 7 October updated the death toll to 364, according to Israeli media reports last week.

That figure would make up nearly a third of all of those killed during the onslaught in Israel on 7 October, the Times of Israel reported, citing Channel 12.

Earlier counts had placed the death count from the festival attack at 270.

The Israeli police reportedly believe that Hamas did not know about the festival before carrying out the attacks.

Here’s our explainer from last month on the assault:

Iran’s supreme leader says Israel has suffered a “defeat” in its war against Iran-backed Hamas and that it is “a fact”.

In a speech at an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps aerospace force centre in the capital of Tehran, quoted by Agence France-Presse, Khamenei said that “the defeat of the Zionist regime [Israel] in Gaza is a fact”.

Advancing and entering hospitals or people’s homes is not a victory, because victory means defeating the other side.

Khamenei said Israel “has so far failed” in achieving its declared goal of destroying Hamas “despite the massive bombings” of Gaza.

“This incapacity reflects the inability of the United States and western countries” which back Israel, he added.

Iran, which supports Hamas financially and militarily, has called the 7 October attacks a “success” but denied any direct involvement.

We’ve just published a full report on Yemen’s Houthi rebels saying they have seized what they called an Israeli cargo ship in the Red Sea, and warning that all vessels linked to Israel “will become a legitimate target for armed forces”.

Houthi forces would “continue to carry out military operations against the Israeli enemy until the aggression against Gaza stops and the ugly crimes … against our Palestinian brothers in Gaza and the West Bank stop”, a spokesperson for the group, Yahya Saree, said on X (formerly Twitter).

Israel said the vessel was a British-owned and Japanese-operated cargo ship and described the incident as an “Iranian act of terrorism” with consequences for international maritime security.

Here’s the full report:

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Here are some recent images from the Gaza Strip, this time of the funeral of freelance journalists Hassouna Sleem and Sary Mansour.

The two were killed on Saturday in an Israeli assault on Bureij refugee camp, in the centre of the Gaza Strip, their relatives and Palestinian health officials said.

Health officials said 17 people died in the attack.

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