By Jessie Yeung, Adam Renton, Ed Upright, Joshua Berlinger, Aditi Sangal, Dakin Andone, Maureen Chowdhury, Leinz Vales, Elise Hammond, Steve Almasy and Kathleen Magramo, CNN
From journalist Lauren Iszo in Tel Aviv
There is no fighting going on between Israel Defense Forces troops and Hamas inside Israel, and the IDF has re-taken control of all communities around the Gaza Strip, IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari told reporters Monday morning.
The announcement comes more than 48 hours after Hamas launched a surprise attack with thousands of rockets and sent fighters across the border in an incursion the likes of which Israel has not seen since its 1948 War of Independence.
From CNN’s Abeer Salman and Kareem Khadder
Videos and images on social media show mosques and residential buildings flattened in Gaza, as the death toll in the territory rose to at least 436 people on Monday.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Monday it attacked 500 Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad targets overnight.
The Palestinian interior ministry said most of the targets were “towers, residential buildings, civil and service facilities, and many mosques.”
Mosques and homes hit: The IDF claimed Monday that two Hamas operational assets were struck inside a mosque in Gaza. It claimed to have struck another seven Hamas command centers, an Islamic Jihad command center, and numerous multi-story buildings including the home of Hamas secretary Ruhi Mashtaa.
Hamas denied that the buildings targeted were used by the militant group, saying residential homes were targeted without warning.
Thousands displaced: The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said nearly 74,000 people in Gaza were displaced and taking shelter in their schools. Those numbers are "likely to increase as heavy shelling and airstrikes continue including on civilian areas," it said.
The agency said one UNRWA school sheltering people was directly hit.
From CNN’s Benjamin Brown
Germany "has to assume" there are German citizens among those captured by Islamist militant group Hamas on Saturday, a German foreign office source told CNN Sunday.
“As far as we know, they are all people who have Israeli citizenship in addition to German citizenship,” the source said.
The German foreign ministry and German embassy in Tel Aviv are coordinating “very closely” with Israeli authorities, the source said.
The source added that Germany will not comment publicly on the number of kidnapped or individual cases to protect those individuals.
CNN earlier confirmed the identity of German-Israeli woman Shani Louk, who was seen unconscious in a video in the custody of armed militants in Gaza. Her mother told CNN she discovered Louk had been captured at a music festival near the Gaza border through a viral video on social media.
Hamas has claimed it is holding more than 100 hostages.
From CNN's Yong Xiong
An Israeli father is missing after he rushed to a music festival near the Gaza-Israel border to save his daughter during an attack by Hamas militants, his family told CNN on Sunday.
Mark Peretz was on the phone with his daughter Maya, who was at the outdoor Nova Festival event Saturday, when he heard gunshots and screaming.
“When we started to figure out that Hamas just crossed the borders ... my father understood that my sister’s gonna be kidnapped soon, so he decided to take the car and started to drive south,” said Peretz’s son Gilad Peretz.
Gilad said his father reached the site of the festival around 8:30 a.m.
When he called, "I heard shots and he tried to say 'don't shoot them,'” Gilad said. He lost contact with his father soon after.
“He might be kidnapped or dead at this moment,” Gilad said.
His sister Maya managed to escape Hamas militants by running and hiding in bushes and trash cans, and later took shelter in a police station, Gilad said. She made it home safely.
“My father is a fighter. He is a family guy, and he just tried to go save his daughter. Life will go on. I (have) hope with him. We miss him,” Peretz said.
Israeli rescue workers later said they found at least 260 bodies at the festival site. Some attendees were taken hostage, seen in social media videos being seized by their armed captors.
From CNN’s Richard Allen Greene and Sophie Jeong
The community of Be'eri in southern Israel was "very badly hit" during an attack by Islamist militant group Hamas, an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson said Monday.
"We thought we would need more rooms [to house the evacuees]. We didn't need all the rooms,” Lt. Col. Richard Hecht said during a briefing.
Israeli troops are still fighting in the kibbutz, though most Hamas militants there have been killed, Hecht added.
Be'eri lies just three miles (5 kilometers) from Gaza's eastern border.
Videos obtained and geolocated by CNN show that at least four civilians were killed while in Hamas custody, just feet from where armed militants had been escorting them in Be'eri.
From CNN's Abeer Salman in Jerusalem
The death toll in Gaza has risen to 436, Palestinian officials said Monday, as Israel pummels the isolated, densely populated territory with airstrikes in response to the Hamas attack.
The toll includes 81 children and 61 women, according to the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza.
Some 2,271 people have been injured in Gaza, including 244 children and 151 women, the ministry added.
Meanwhile, the death toll in Israel has risen to more than 700, a spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces said on Sunday.
From CNN’s Kocha Olarn and Manveena Suri
Twelve Thai citizens have been killed and 11 others kidnapped during the conflict in Israel, a spokesperson for Thailand’s foreign ministry said Monday.
Eight Thais have also been injured in the country since violence erupted on Saturday, the spokesperson told a news conference, adding that the names of the victims would be withheld from the media until their families had been told.
More than 1,000 Thai workers have requested help to be evacuated, the spokesperson said. There are approximately 30,000 Thai workers in Israel, according to the foreign ministry.
The Royal Thai Air Force is on standby to evacuate Thai citizens from Israel, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin has said.
Foreign victims: A number of foreign or dual nationals have been confirmed killed or captured by Hamas militants, including Mexican and Brazilian nationals taken hostage by the group.
US Sen. Chuck Schumer said Sunday that four Americans had been killed, adding: "We know the toll will rise."
At least 10 Nepali citizens and two Ukrainians were also killed, according to their respective authorities.
Analysis from CNN's Stephen Collinson
A weekend of terror in Israel has sharpened already grave questions about the capacity of the politically fractured United States to lay out a unified and coherent response to a world spinning out of its control.
When the House of Representatives descended into chaos last week, many Republicans, Democrats and independent experts warned that anarchy raging in US politics sent a dangerous message to the outside world. But no one could foresee just how quickly the paralysis in Washington would test the country’s reaction to a major global crisis.
The horrific Hamas attacks on Israeli civilians, which have killed hundreds of people and shattered the country’s sense of security, thrust the Middle East to the precipice of a new era of violence and instability. This followed a period of relative calm and after US presidents spent years trying to extricate American forces from the region.
Israel’s response to the carnage caused by a major Iranian proxy raises the possibility of a wider regional war that would further destabilize the global order already rocked by the war in Ukraine and China’s flagrant challenges to Western power.
A situation this dangerous requires a calm, united and thoughtful US response, supported across the political spectrum. But the turmoil in America’s politics — plagued by internal extremism, threats to democracy and the hyperpoliticization of foreign policy — means it will be an impossible task to bring the country together at a perilous moment.
House Speaker vacancy: Swift efforts by lawmakers to quickly register support for Israel and to rush extra aid to its government could be hampered by the collapse of the Republican Party’s ability to govern in the House after the ouster of Speaker Kevin McCarthy last week by his party’s extreme elements.
Looming presidential election: And the US is also facing an unprecedented election season. A president with low approval ratings confronting questions about his advanced age could go up against a potential Republican nominee who could be an indicted felon by Election Day. This means, at best, the United States will spend the coming months preoccupied by its own political plight. At worst, the world’s superpower guarantor of democracy could actually worsen global disruption and instability.
Read Collinson's full analysis here.
From CNN's Paul P. Murphy, Gianluca Mezzofiore and Kathleen Magramo
At least four civilians were killed while in the custody of Hamas, just feet from where armed militants had been escorting them near the Gaza border, videos obtained and geolocated by CNN show.
One video from the kibbutz of Be'eri in southern Israel showed armed fighters with burned cars and a bulldozer in the background. Toward the end of the video, which was released on a Hamas-affiliated Telegram channel, four bodies can be seen on the ground.
Another video previously geolocated by CNN showed five Israeli civilians taken captive by armed militants in nearly the same spot.
A CNN analysis of the videos determined that the bodies, and the individuals being escorted by heavily armed militants, had matching clothes and hairstyles. It is not clear what happened to the fifth hostage.
Be'eri lies just three miles from the eastern border of Gaza.
Hamas militants have taken more than 100 Israelis hostage, including high-ranking army officers, a spokesperson for the group claimed Sunday. It’s believed they are in Gaza but their fate is unknown.
Read more here.
