By Tara Subramaniam, Christian Edwards, Aditi Sangal, Rosa Rahimi, Dakin Andone, Maureen Chowdhury, Elise Hammond, Tori Powell and Steve Almasy, CNN
From CNN's Abeer Salman in Jerusalem
At least 3,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since last Saturday, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.
An additional 12,500 people have been injured, the ministry added.
In Gaza, hospitals have entered a stage of “actual collapse” due to electricity cuts and fuel shortages, ministry spokesperson Ashraf Al Qidra said in a statement Tuesday.
From CNN’s Tamar Michaelis in Jerusalem
The head of the Israel Defense Forces' military intelligence branch admitted on Tuesday to an "intelligence failure" by his unit, which he said "failed to alert" the terror attack by Hamas on October 7.
“During my visits to IDF Intelligence bases over the last 11 days, I have repeatedly said that this war began with an intelligence failure. The Intelligence Directorate, under my command, has failed to alert this terror attack launched by Hamas,” Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva said in a letter to IDF’s intelligence personnel — his first comments since Hamas attacked Israel earlier this month.
“We didn’t fulfill our most important task, and as the head of the Intelligence Directorate, I take full responsibility for this failure,” he continued in the letter, which was released by the IDF.
Haliva's comments come a day after Israel's top domestic security official also took responsibility for the attacks.
Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar wrote in a statement Monday that, "despite a series of actions we carried out, we weren’t able to create a sufficient warning that would allow the attack to be thwarted."
"The responsibility is on me," Bar added, according to Israel’s Army Radio station.
From CNN's Eyad Kourdi
A hospital in Gaza went out of service Tuesday after sustaining severe damage following Israeli airstrikes targeting the hospital's neighboring buildings, according to a statement by Dr. Ashraf al-Qidra, the spokesperson for the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.
"Severe damage to Al Karama Hospital in Gaza led it to be put out of service as a result of the Israeli occupation forces airstrikes targeting neighboring buildings and their (the buildings) falling towards it," according to the statement.
The ministry has issued a plea to all gas station owners and anyone in possession of diesel fuel to contact them to secure fuel for critical medical services, the statement added.
Fuel reserves at all Gaza hospitals are on the brink, with only about a day's supply left, a United Nations relief agency said earlier Tuesday. The failure of backup generators would endanger thousands of patients' lives, it added.
From CNN’s Tamar Michaelis in Jerusalem
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has landed in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, according to Israeli foreign ministry.
Scholz was received by Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen on the tarmac, a photo released by the ministry shows.
From CNN’s Kareem Khadder in Jerusalem
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh on Tuesday demanded an end to Israel’s "aggression" against people in Gaza, according to a statement by his office, as he called for humanitarian aid for the besieged territory.
“Our priority now is to halt the occupation’s aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip, and to ensure the delivery of medical, health, and food supplies, as well as the restoration of electricity and water services,” Shtayyeh said during a meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah with Norway’s special representative to the Middle East, Hilde Haraldstad, per the statement.
“We must also operate water treatment and desalination plants to address the humanitarian and health crisis facing the region," the prime minister said. The World Health Organization has warned that water is running out for hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians.
Shtayyeh called for pressure be put on Israel to abide by international humanitarian law, the statement said.
At least 21 French citizens have been killed following the Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7, the French Foreign Ministry said in a news release Tuesday.
Eleven others are still missing, the ministry said. French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna met with the families of those still missing in Tel Aviv on Sunday.
From CNN’s Alex Hardie and Claudia Rebaza in London
Spain supports the existence of "humanitarian corridors because it is imperative that humanitarian aid, which these days is more necessary than ever, reaches the civil population in Gaza,” said Foreign Affairs Minister José Manuel Albares.
“Spain is ready, and its cooperation is totally prepared, to participate as soon as humanitarian aid can arrive,” he told reporters Tuesday.
“In fact, we are not only maintaining it, but we have increased it with a first package of 1 million euros. More will come, because unfortunately everything signals that new packages will be needed,” Albares added.
From CNN's AnneClaire Stapleton and Tamara Qiblawi
At least four people were killed in Israeli strikes in the Alma al-Shaab area of Southern Lebanon on Tuesday, according to the Lebanese Red Cross.
Hezbollah announced two of its fighters were killed in confrontations Tuesday, but it's unclear whether they are part of the death toll reported by the Red Cross.
Some context: News of the deaths come amid clashes along Israel's northern border with Lebanon. Hezbollah — an armed group backed by Iran — dominates the southern part of the country, and while the fighting there appears marginal compared to fighting between Israel and Hamas, it raises fears of a wider war that could drawn in a myriad of actors.
From CNN’s Caitlin Danaher and Sharon Braithwaite in London
Shops in Gaza will run out of available food stocks in “less than a week," with retailers unable to restock from wholesalers due to “widespread destruction and insecurity,” a spokesperson for the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) told CNN Tuesday.
Bread supplies are running short, with only one of the five flour mills in the Gaza Strip functioning due to a lack of fuel and electricity, the spokesperson warned. Meanwhile, people are “lining up for hours to get bread” from bakeries, and only five of the 23 bakeries contracted by the WFP to provide fresh bread to shelters are operational.
In warehouses, commercial supplies of essential food commodities are “sufficient for approximately two weeks,” but due to damaged infrastructure, it is difficult to distribute, the spokesperson for the UN agency added.
With warehouses located in Gaza City, the WFP is struggling to channel food to the southern region where displaced people are moving.
