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Gaza's government media office said the number of acute cases of malnutrition exceeds at least 65,000 children in the enclave, Arab 48 reported on Monday

Egypt has called out Israel's treatment of the Palestinians during hearings at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Al Jazeera reported on Monday. 

Egypt’s assistant foreign minister Hatem Kamaleldin Abdelkader said Israel had conducted a “brutal siege” on civilians, saying it was “the most recent chapter in Israel’s systematic weaponisation of humanitarian assistance”.

“There is no doubt that these practices are part of a widespread, systematic and comprehensive state policy to depopulate the Occupied Palestinian Territory and effect its de-facto annexation,” he said.

Abdelkader added that Israel had transferred Palestinians without a legitimate reason to areas that were not any more safe in than the areas they has been forced to feel “intentionally creating conditions intended to make Gaza uninhabitable”.

Jasmine Moussa, a legal adviser to the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, said Israel’s military campaign had “a far more insidious end": the extermination of Palestinians “under the fog of war”.

The Israeli military has said it carried out 50 attacks in Lebanon over the past month despite the fact that those attacks violated the current ceasefire, killed people and destroyed people's homes, Al Jazeera reported on Monday. 

The Israeli military justified its attacks by saying they were carried out in response to threats against the country.

Rights groups have denounced Israeli attacks on Lebanon, saying they are a violation of a ceasefire with Lebanese group Hezbollah which came into effect in November 2024.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun accused Israel of destabilising Lebanon following the latest Israeli attack on Beirut on Sunday. He accused Israel of posing “real dangers to the security” of the region.

The situation in the Gaza Strip is deteriorating by the hour, reported Al Jazeera's correspondent, Hani Mahmoud.

He said that "heavy artillery fire" was ongoing in the eastern part of Gaza City, along with systematic demolition of homes in the city’s Shujaiya and Zeitoun neighbourhoods that have been ongoing for the last 10 days. 

He added that doctors were unable to deal with the number of people being injured in Israeli attacks on Monday and the severity of the attacks. He said the "acute shortage of medical supplies" meant that more people were likely to die from their injuries. "We have a crippled healthcare system that cannot provide proper medical care."

Shifa hospital was the largest medical complex in the city before it was largely decimated by Israeli attacks in the war on Gaza.

Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira has called for Israel to completely withdraw from Gaza and has denounced Israel’s humanitarian aid blockade to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as “unacceptable” during a meeting of BRICS foreign ministers, Al Jazeera reported on Monday. 

“It is necessary to ensure the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, the release of all the captives and prisoners, and the entry of humanitarian aid,” Vieira said during the meeting in Rio de Janeiro.

Brazil holds the rotating presidency of the economic bloc for 2025.

The Palestinian Authority’s intelligence chief, Majed Faraj, will meet with CIA counterparts in Washington this week, The Times of Israel reported on Monday.

Faraj is organising the meeting while he is in the US to undergo a medical procedure. He is said to be trying to boost his standing amid an ongoing shakeup within the PA, which has seen Mahmoud Abbas appoint Hussein al-Sheikh as his deputy.

The US provides some limited funding for the Palestinian Authority's security forces.

The United Nations says it has run out of food in Gaza, and it cannot supply charity kitchens that had been feeding a million people, half of Gaza's population, according to a report on NPR on Monday. According to the UN, there is food at entry points that could feed people, but Israel has been blocking food and aid from entering for the last two months. 

The Israeli military increased heavy shelling and air strikes on Gaza's remaining residential neighbourhoods, destroying residential buildings in Rafah and killing and wounding dozens of civilians, Arab 48 reported on Monday.

US bombed a park in Sanaa, Yemen, scaring women and children who can be heard screaming in a video that Al Jazeera Arabic posted on Monday.

At least nine Palestinians - four of whom were children - were killed in an Israeli drone attack at the al-Ghafari Junction in central Gaza City, Al Jazeera Arabic reported on Monday. 

Yemen's Houthis have vowed to continue attacks in the Red and Arabian seas after a deadly US air strike, spokesperson Yahya Saree has said.

The televised statement came after a US strike killed at least 68 people at a detention centre for African migrants in the northwestern province of Saada.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel will maintain military control over Gaza and would bar the Palestinian Authority (PA) from governing the territory.

“Hamas will not be there. We’re not going to put the PA there - why replace one regime which is sworn to our destruction with another regime that is sworn to our destruction? We won’t do that,” he told a conference hosted by the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) in Jerusalem.

“Israel will in any case control the area militarily. We’re not going to succumb to any pressure not to do that,” he said.

He also criticised what he described as US efforts to halt an Israeli ground invasion into Gaza, saying that the Biden administration had urged him at the beginning of the war “Don’t go in. Don’t do the ground invasion. Do it from the air”.

“Against their better advice, we went in,” he said, adding that, when Israel did invade, “the propaganda war began to work against us”.

Read more: Israel will maintain military control over Gaza, Netanyahu says

In his latest column for Middle East Eye, scholar Joseph Massad argues that while the late Pope Francis was a lone western voice against Israel's genocide in Gaza, he failed to shift the Vatican's centuries-long support for colonialism.

Massad writes: "The Israeli foreign ministry deleted condolence posts about the late Pope from its official X (Twitter) account and directed its missions around the world to do the same. It also issued an internal order for ambassadors not to sign condolence books at the Vatican embassies.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not send any condolence messages, although Israel's President Isaac Herzog, whose position is merely titular and ceremonial, did.

Yet despite all his support for the people of Gaza facing the genocidal Israeli military machine, Pope Francis did not impose any sanctions on Israel.

He did not expel the Israeli ambassador from the Vatican, nor did he withdraw the Vatican ambassador from Israel. No suspension of diplomatic relations was even considered, though states like Colombia, Bolivia, Honduras, Belize, Chile, Chad, Turkey, Brazil and South Africa withdrew their ambassadors or their entire diplomatic missions.  

Whatever support the pontiff might have offered to the Palestinians with his personal touch was never translated into the diplomatic realm."

You can read the full column below. 

Opinion: Pope Francis defied western silence on Gaza, but Vatican complicity endures

A US air strike killed at least 68 African migrants in Yemen's northwestern province of Saada on Monday, in one of the deadliest attacks since Donald Trump entered the White House nearly 100 days ago.

The Yemeni Civil Defence said in a statement on Telegram that the strike, which injured around 47 people, struck a migrant detention centre that housed around 100 people.

Footage broadcast by the Houthi-aligned al-Masirah TV channel showed several dead bodies and wounded people at the site, as medical and rescue workers tended to the wounded.

There was no immediate comment from the US, but a statement issued by the US military's Central Command before the attack said Washington's "intense and sustained campaign" since 15 March had struck more than 800 targets and "killed hundreds of Houthi fighters and numerous Houthi leaders, including senior Houthi missile and UAV officials".

Yemen, the Arab world's poorest country, has been ravaged since 2014 by an ongoing conflict between Houthi rebels who control most of the north and Yemeni factions in the south who are backed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Read more: Dozens of African migrants killed in US air strike on Yemen detention centre

 At least 12 Palestinians have been killed and more wounded on Monday afternoon in Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip.

According to Wafa news agency, eight people were killed in attacks near Abu Mazen Roundabout and near the Al-Ghafri Junction in Gaza City.

Several others were killed and wounded in an Israeli air strike on a tent housing displaced people west of Gaza City. Another Israeli air strike, near al-Shafi'i Mosque in Gaza City, wounded others. 

Elsewhere, one civilian was killed in an artillery attack near Al-Barakah Mosque in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza.