Sri Lanka’s opposition MP Rauff Hakeem has urged the government to cut off diplomatic ties with Israel if it continues with its military operations in Gaza.

“Threaten Israel and inform it that Sri Lanka will withdraw diplomatic ties if the offensive is not stopped in Gaza. Do this as a last resort,” Hakeem said in Parliament.

State Minister of Foreign Affairs Tharaka Balasuriya responded that Sri Lanka’s policy is to “maintain ties with all countries”, but that “does not mean we have abandoned Palestine”.

‘The police supported them’: Israeli rights activist on aid convoy looting

Biden repeats US commitment to Israel’s security is ‘ironclad’

Britain’s foreign secretary calls Monday’s attack on an aid convoy and its looting near Hebron in the occupied West Bank “appalling”.

In a post on X, David Cameron described the Israeli settlers who looted the trucks and destroyed the food supplies the vehicles were carrying before setting them on fire as “extremists”.

“Israel must hold attacks to account and do more to allow aid in,” his post read. “I will be raising my concerns with the Israeli government.”

The UN says that it had informed Israeli authorities of the movements of a vehicle carrying UN staff, which was hit in southern Gaza, killing an Indian national.

UN spokesperson Rolando Gomez told a media briefing that a second UN staff member in the vehicle was wounded in the attack, adding that the two had been travelling to the European Hospital in Rafah when their vehicle was hit.

“The UN informs Israeli authorities of the movement of all of our convoys. That has been the case in any theatre of operation. This is a standard operating procedure,” Gomez said, adding it was a “clearly marked UN vehicle”.

Of course the UN did, and the IDF was supposed to improve their coordination internally after the WCK murders. But blame the victim anyway.

Israel is attacking known aid worker locations in Gaza, says HRW

MSF ceases services at Rafah hospital amid Israeli attacks

The West Bank’s most prestigious academic institution says the solidarity shown by universities, student bodies and academic unions around the world for the Palestinian people are much needed and appreciated as the Israeli war on Gaza has raged for more than seventh months.

In a statement, the university, located near Ramallah, said these institutions are demanding “the boycott and divestment from all that is Israeli and are a live example of the importance of academic liberty and justice”.

“Your voices are heard and appreciated from Birzeit University, and we stand together in this struggle for freedom,” it said.

Here is the moment Al Jazeera’s Kimberly Halkett challenged US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on why he does not believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza:

Israel’s far-right national security minister’s comments came during a speech at a rally for the resettlement of the Gaza Strip in Sderot, Israel.

“So that the problem [of Gaza] does not return, two things must be done: return to the Gaza Strip and encourage the voluntary departure of the residents of Gaza. This is moral, rational and humanitarian,” he said.

Ben-Gvir then took aim at the allowance of aid into the Strip, which Israel’s closest allies have demanded Israel expand.

“I am ashamed that I am the only one in the cabinet who voted against the transfer of shipments to Gaza through Kerem Shalom (Karen Abu Salem aid crossing). Do you want humanitarianism? Return the abductees.”

Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has warned that even should the continuing war in Gaza stop, with no clear rescue plan for the besieged coastal enclave there is a risk of growing radicalisation in the medium term.

“We are very much worried after all these images to see another wave of radicalisation. So security is the key for us in the region. We need to preserve it as much as possible,” he said at the Qatar Economic Forum in Doha.

Palestinian hauliers have said they feared for the security of aid convoys to Gaza, a day after Israeli settlers wrecked trucks carrying humanitarian supplies bound for the besieged enclave, which is on the cusp of famine.

Footage circulated on social media showed at least one burning truck while other images showed trucks wrecked and stripped of their loads, which lay strewn over the road near Tarqumiyah Israeli military checkpoint outside Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

“Yesterday there was coordination for 70 trucks of aid to go the Gaza Strip,” Waseem al-Jabari, head of the Hebron Food Trade Association, told Reuters. “While the trucks were uploaded with products at the crossing settlers attacked the trucks and they destroyed the products and set fire in trucks,” he said, saying Israeli soldiers had stood by as the attack took place.

Palestinians and human rights groups have long accused the Israeli military and police of deliberately failing to intervene when settlers attack Palestinians in the West Bank. Adel Amer, a member of the West Bank-based hauliers’ union, said around 15 trucks had been damaged by Israeli protestors who beat some drivers and caused about two million dollars worth of damage.

“The drivers are now refusing to take goods to Gaza because they’re afraid,” he said. “It’s a disaster here because of the settlers.” Even when the military was present, the convoys were still at risk, he said. “The army says we cannot do anything to the settlers.”

Aid trucks headed to Gaza from occupied West Bank set ablaze

Israel’s foreign minister says that Egypt must be “persuaded” to reopen the Rafah border crossing with Gaza to “allow the continued delivery of international humanitarian aid”.

Israel Katz said in a statement that “the key to preventing a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip is now in the hands of our Egyptian friends”, adding foreign critics blaming Israel for the humanitarian situation in the strip are misguided.

He added that Israel will not allow Hamas to control the Rafah crossing. “This is a security necessity on which we will not compromise”, he said.

Israeli forces seized and closed the crossing, the main entry point for aid to the besieged Strip since the beginning of the war in October, one week ago as it began its offensive on the southern city of Rafah.

Oh blame Egypt again, that will go over well. You closed the crossing, as well as Kerem Shalom. What's the excuse there?

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has denounced what he called Israel’s attempt to blame Egypt for the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Shoukry added in a statement that Israel’s seizure of the Rafah border crossing from Gaza into Egypt, as well as its military operations in the area were the main reasons for aid being unable to enter Gaza.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society has warned of the “deterioration of humanitarian conditions” in the coastal enclave, amid the closure of border crossings.

“The ongoing closure of crossings by the Israeli occupation forces, especially the vital Rafah crossing, which is the main artery supplied to the entire Gaza Strip, prevents the entry of humanitarian aid, including food medicine, as well as fuel and poses an imminent humanitarian and health disaster,” the group said in a post on X.

“This means that famine is imminent with the depletion of food stocks, especially the continued seven-month-long aggression and displacement of more than 85 percent of the population. Citizens are suffering from severe levels of food insecurity amid severe humanitarian aid shortages, in clear violation by the occupation forces of international humanitarian law.”

The group urged the international community to “urgently intervene” and pressure the Israeli government to open the crossings, and to allow “unimpeded, sustainable, and unconditional flow of humanitarian aid”.

Hamas’s armed wing says on its Telegram channel its fighters:

• destroyed an Israeli troop carrier with a Yassin-105 rocket in Rafah’s eastern al-Salam neighbourhood, killing some crew members and injuring others
• blew up an Israeli military bulldozer east of Rafah
• shelled a group of Israeli soldiers and military vehicles east of Jabalia, in northern Gaza
• targeted a Merkava tank with a Yassin-105 rocket northeast of Jabalia
• shot and wounded an Israeli soldier with sniper fire east of Jabalia

Israeli forces raided the Shu’fat camp, the Wafa news agency reports.

According to sources who spoke to Wafa, Israeli forces fired gas and sound bombs.

Violence has surged in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem since Hamas’s October 7 attack triggered the war in Gaza. Nearly 500 Palestinians have been killed there, mostly during confrontations with Israeli forces and settlers.

Footage shared online shows Israeli forces storming Sinjil, located north of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank. The videos, verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking unit Sanad, shows military vehicles entering the town.

Israeli incursions in the occupied West Bank have intensified since the war on Gaza started on October 7. More than 8,700 Palestinians have been arrested over the past seven months.

A Hezbollah field commander was among the dead in the strike on a vehicle in southern Lebanon’s Tyre area, news reports said.

More than 400 people have been killed in Lebanon in seven months of cross-border violence. Israel says 14 soldiers and 10 civilians have been killed on its side of the border. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced on both sides.