Egypt fears that any Palestinian exodus to the Sinai Peninsula could become permanent, and Palestinians fear that Israel will not allow them to return to their homes in Gaza. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi last week hinted at the consequences of Palestinians fleeing Gaza, saying that allowing them to settle in Sinai, even temporarily, would be tantamount to allowing Israel to control an empty Gaza Strip.

Synthesis of the last 24 hours of the war:

• The lives of thousands of patients will be at risk if fuel supplies run out in all of Gaza’s hospitals, expected within the next 24 hours, the UN has warned.

• Living conditions in Gaza are deteriorating, with water, food, electricity and medicine severely limited

• Israeli forces continue to build up near Gaza in preparation for a ground offensive

• Israel has called on the 1.1 million Palestinians living in northern Gaza to move south. Hundreds of thousands did, doubling the population of the southern city of Khan Yunis overnight.

• The UN says the Middle East is “on the brink” and is calling on Israel to allow humanitarian aid

• According to the Palestinian Authority, more than 2,450 people died during Israel’s shelling of Gaza, and about 1,000 more went missing under the rubble.

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05:47Jonathan Conricus, an international spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), said that the IDF estimated that about 500,000 people had left northern Gaza.

05:44 US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken flatly rejected the possibility of expelling Palestinians from Gaza, which he said was a “doomed idea”, arguing that Gazans should be able to stay while Israel fights Hamas

05:30Israel’s military spokesman Jonathan Conricus said Friday’s attack on a convoy of Gazans heading south of the Strip was a “false flag” operation by Hamas. “If you think logically about who will benefit from these horrific images of children and civilians going south and getting killed, who can benefit from it? One organization: Hamas,” Conricus said.

At least 70 people, mostly children, were killed in the attack, which took place on a route Israel says should be used to exit Gaza. Another 200 people were injured.

05:25Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, said Israel has no intention of reoccupying Gaza after its ground invasion. “We are not interested in occupying Gaza or staying in Gaza, but since we are fighting for our survival and the only way, as the president himself has determined, is to destroy Hamas, we will have to do everything in our power,” he said. he to CNN’s Caitlan Collins.

05:10Biden Says Israel Must Eliminate Hamas, But Occupying Gaza Would Be ‘Big Mistake’

04:45 The Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza is scheduled to open at 9 a.m. (0600 GMT) on Monday, NBC News reported, citing a Palestinian official. According to other media, the checkpoint will open for a few hours on Monday. Earlier, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, after a meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, said the checkpoint would be reopened, without giving details.

04:00 After Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reportedly told his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolás Maduro over the phone that the actions and policies of Hamas do not represent the Palestinian people, the official Palestinian Authority news agency Wafa removed a direct reference to Hamas.

The original article said: “The president also emphasized that Hamas’ policies and actions do not represent the Palestinian people, but the policies, programs and decisions [Organizației pentru Eliberarea Palestinei] represents the Palestinian people as their sole legitimate representative.”

A few hours later, the news was corrected: “President Abbas also emphasized that the policies, programs and decisions of the PLO represent what the Palestinian people represent as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people and not the policies of any other organization. ”

23:45Why hasn’t Israel launched a ground offensive yet?

11:30 in the eveningPalestinian Civil Defense: Over 1,000 missing under Gaza rubble

More than 1,000 people are currently missing under the rubble of buildings in Gaza hit by Israeli airstrikes, the Palestinian Civil Defense said on Sunday.

In a press release, the civil defense team said that many more people had been pulled alive from the rubble 24 hours after the buildings were hit, Reuters reported.