By Kathleen Magramo, Sana Noor Haq, Aditi Sangal, Mike Hayes, Elise Hammond and Maureen Chowdhury, CNN
From CNN’s Abeer Salman
Some 436 people, including 182 children, were killed in overnight Israeli strikes on Gaza, the Hamas-controlled Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement.
The majority of those killed were from the southern part of Gaza, the ministry added.
The total death toll since the war began has risen to 5,087 killed, including 2,055 children and 1,119 women, the ministry said.
More than 15,000 people have been injured in the bombardment, it added.
From CNN’s James Frater in London
The European Union's top diplomat, Josep Borrell, led calls Monday for a revival of the peace process in the Middle East as the war between Israel and Hamas enters its third week.
“Any step towards de-escalation” must involve efforts to “revive the political process,” the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy told journalists at an EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg.
Here's what others said:
Latvia’s foreign minister Krisjanis Karins: The bloc needs to “encourage talks” and “work harder towards the two-state solution,” he said. “If the Palestinians had a clear state, I think that that would help also to alleviate some of the pressure — and maybe a great part of the pressure — which has been building up there for years and years.”
Ireland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin: “We can't lose sight of the need to get this on to the political track as well, to get an overall resolution.” he said.
Slovenia’s Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon: The country supports every effort that works toward “a tangible peace process that is based on the two-state solution,” she said.
From CNN's AnneClaire Stapleton
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Sunday it has made the first operational use of the "Steel Sting" mortar bomb in its ongoing fight with Hamas.
What is it: The Steel Sting is a mortar bomb (PGM) with dual guidance that enables precise hitting of targets in a built-up area while increasing the lethality of the hit and reducing the risk of hitting non-involved people, the IDF statement said.
More than 10 first and fatal bombs were fired in the territory surrounding Gaza and in the northern sector, the IDF statement added.
The IDF fighters used the bomb to attack a Hamas position "from which launches were made towards the territory of the State of Israel," the IDF statement said.
A video purporting to show the bomb in use was released by the IDF.
"We used it for the first time at the beginning of the war," a captain in the Magellan commando unit said, according to the IDF statement. "It allows us to neutralize threats with greater precision than other types of bombs. We don't shoot and hope to hit — we know we removed the threat."
From CNN’s Amir Tal
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) carried out raids “along the contact line” with Gaza overnight to “kill terrorist squads," a spokesperson said, as it ramps up its bombardment on the Palestinian enclave ahead of an anticipated ground assault.
“Armored and infantry raids were conducted during the night. These raids are raids that kill terrorist squads, preparing for our next phase of the war," Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said on Monday.
The "deep raids" were also to locate and search for people taken hostage during Hamas' large-scale attack on Israel on October 7, Hagari added, ahead of "the coming stages of the war."
Hamas militants killed 1,400 people in Israel during its incursion earlier this month and took hundreds of people hostage.
The IDF has since ramped up its military crackdown on Gaza while flooding the border with troops.
It has also launched raids on the occupied West Bank since the Hamas incursion, arresting hundreds of Palestinians said to include lawmakers, prominent figures, journalists, and former detainees who have served extended terms in Israeli jails.
Israeli forces launched a heavy bombardment on Gaza overnight, which killed dozens of Palestinians. At least 4,651 people have been killed inside the enclave by the continued bombardment, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza. The figure does not include casualties from Sunday.
Hagari said on Monday the Israeli airstrikes in the last 24 hours struck "hundreds of terrorist targets" in Gaza, including the tunnel network used by Hamas.
From CNN staff
A third fleet of vehicles carrying desperately needed aid traveled through the Rafah crossing linking Egypt and Gaza on Monday, according to a journalist on the ground working for CNN.
At least 34 trucks importing food, water, drugs and medical supplies also traveled from Egypt to Gaza via the crossing on Saturday and Sunday.
Sunday's convoy was subjected to "additional" security checks, a security official told CNN.
But human rights groups warned not enough aid has reached the Palestinian enclave, where Israel's continued bombardment and complete siege has put more than 2 million civilians at risk from severe dehydration and starvation.
Israel's campaign in Gaza amounts to crimes against humanity, UN experts said on Thursday.
This post has been updated to clarify that the convoy entered the Rafah crossing from Egypt but may not have entered Gaza yet.
From CNN’s Amir Tal in Jerusalem
Hamas took 222 people hostage during its deadly attack on Israel on October 7, according to the Israel Defense Forces, as international efforts ramp up to release those kidnapped.
“The number is being updated and changed in accordance with intelligence, but also due to the fact there are a considerable number of foreign citizens," Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said.
"It took us more time to classify them and find out who they are. That is why the number has grown in the last few days.”
CNN cannot independently verify the figure cited by the IDF.
On Friday, Hamas released two American hostages, Judith Tai Raanan and her 17-year-old daughter, Natalie Raanan.
Hamas killed more than 1,400 people during its large-scale incursion, including civilians and soldiers, according to Israeli authorities. It was the most deadly attack by militants in Israel’s 75-year history and revealed a staggering intelligence failure by the country’s security forces.
Israel has since hammered the Hamas-run Gaza Strip with a deadly barrage of airstrikes, killing 4,651 people and injuring 14,245, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza. The bombardment has killed more than 1,900 children and unraveled a catastrophic humanitarian crisis in the enclave.
The death toll does not include casualties from the IDF's heavy shelling on Gaza overnight, which killed dozens of people, Palestinian doctors and Gaza ministry officials told CNN.
CNN's Richard Greene, Helen Regan, Kareem Khadder, Eyad Kourdi, Abeer Salman and Elliott Gotkine contributed reporting.
From CNN’s Manveena Suri
Relief workers in hospitals in Gaza are unable to use morphine or painkillers to treat civilians, as Israel's siege on the enclave drains critical medical supplies amid persistent bombardment, a relief agency official said Monday.
“What is extremely important are the trauma kits, the surgery kits,” said Leo Cans, the Head of Mission for Medicins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) in Jerusalem.
Doctors were “doing surgical operations without the correct dose of narcotics, without the correct dose of morphine," Cans told CNN’s Max Foster.
“In terms of pain management, it's not happening. We currently have people being operated on without having morphine. It just happened to two kids.
We have a lot of kids that are unfortunately among the wounded, and I was discussing with one of our surgeons, who received a 10-year-old yesterday, burnt on 60% of the body surface, and he didn't end up having painkillers.
“There is no justification at all to block these essential medicines to reach the population,” Cans added.
The UN's experts last week said that Israel's "unspeakably cruel" blockade on Gaza is in violation of international and criminal law.
Cans also acknowledged CNN’s reporting on parents who have resorted to writing their children’s names on their limbs in the event that either they or the children are killed.
Colleagues had told him families were sleeping in the same room because “they want to live together or die together,” he said.
Health workers were also seeing the impact fuel shortages have on the functioning of hospitals and water supplies.
“Fuel is essential for the water plants in order to desalinate to water…If you don’t have fuel, you don't have quality water,” he said, adding many Gazans were now drinking untreated water, leading to outbreaks of diarrhea.
He also called for an end to the “indiscriminate bombing."
“Even war has rules, and you cannot bomb civilians. We have too many children, too many women arriving at the hospital. It is not acceptable.”
CNN's Rhea Mogul and Christian Edwards contributed reporting.
From CNN's Niamh Kennedy and James Frater in London
The European Union's top diplomat has called for "more" essential supplies to enter Gaza "quicker," as Israel's blockade and relentless bombardment on the strip has spiraled into a devastating humanitarian crisis.
Ministers of member states will discuss a potential "humanitarian pause" to facilitate aid deliveries to the Palestinian enclave at a foreign affairs meeting on Monday, Josep Borrell told reporters.
"The most important thing is to call for humanitarian support to go into Gaza.
"We, the European Union, we have increased our support, but there are queues and queues of trucks waiting to enter. They have to enter, and they had to bring in things that are badly needed," Borrell stressed.
Two convoys of aid trucks carrying aid relief crossed into Gaza over the weekend, according to Palestinian and Egyptian authorities.
However, human rights groups warned that much more is needed to remedy the catastrophe on the ground, where more than 2 million people are running out of drinking water, and risk starvation. Hospitals are facing severe supply shortages and, in some cases, have been forced to use ice cream trucks as morgues to manage overflow.
Israel's complete siege on food, fuel and water entering Gaza has stunted electricity supplies for powering essential infrastructure, including desalination plants and the strip's sole power plant. Amnesty International said Israel's "collective punishment" of Palestinian civilians amounted to a war crime.
Borrell emphasized the need for fuel supplies to make Gaza's "power stations and desalination stations work."
He also said hostages kidnapped by Hamas during its deadly incursion onto Israel on October 7 "have to be released."
"It is part of any step towards de-escalation and we have to start thinking of how to revive the political process."
CNN's Renée Rigdon and Annette Choi contributed reporting.
From CNN's Tim Lister
At least 85 people have been arrested in the occupied West Bank by Israeli forces Sunday night and early Monday morning, according to a statement published by the Palestinian Prisoners Club.
The arrests took place in Ramallah and Bethlehem, it said, adding that more than 1,215 people have been arrested in the West Bank since the start of the month.
CNN has reached out to the IDF for comment on the arrests. There have been arrests of suspected militants in the West Bank daily since October 7.
The Palestinian Prisoners Club is a non-governmental organization dedicated to addressing the concerns of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons and detention centers, according to its website.
Some context: Even before the war with Hamas, tension was high between Palestinians and Israelis in the West Bank.
Following a wave of Palestinian attacks on Israelis last year, Israel launched regular incursions and raids into the West Bank targeting what they said were militant strongholds. The resulting violence left a record number of both Palestinians and Israelis dead, numbers not seen in at least a decade.
Since Israel took control and occupied the West Bank in 1967 from Jordan following the Six Day War, the territory, which residents hope will form part of a future Palestinian state, has been settled by Israeli civilians, often under military protection.
Most of the world considers these settlements illegal under international law.
