The UN Security Council is meeting on Tuesday to vote on a call for a ceasefire in Gaza.

The vote was delayed to give diplomats more time to respond to US objections to the drafting of the resolution. The US said it could not support a “ceasefire” but could accept “their suspension”.

Arab countries negotiating the text said they were encouraged that the White House was apparently trying to find language to support — as opposed to simply vetoing — the resolution.

British Petroleum has suspended all oil and gas shipments through the Red Sea due to an increase in attacks on cargo ships. The British oil company said it had suspended supplies to the region indefinitely, citing a “deteriorating security situation” amid tensions in the Middle East.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin held talks with Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defense counterpart Yoav Gallant, in Tel Aviv on Monday. The talks focused on Israel’s transition from large-scale air and ground operations in the Gaza Strip to a strategy focused on precisely targeting Hamas leaders, the US official said.

According to reports, Israeli forces forced displaced Palestinian civilians sheltering at Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City to evacuate the facility and arrested medical staff. Richard Sewell, dean of the Anglican-run St George’s College in Jerusalem, said most of the hospital’s staff had been detained and medical sources told Al Jazeera that the hospital was currently closed.

The United States has expressed concern to Israel after an Israeli military sniper reportedly killed a mother and daughter at a church in Gaza City, the White House said. Two women were killed on Saturday at the Holy Family Parish in Gaza City, the Jerusalem Patriarchate reported. The IDF denies responsibility for the death.

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07:36 An Israeli TV channel says Israeli negotiators are trying to convince the head of Hamas in Gaza to accept a deal that does not include a ceasefire.

Israel believes that Hamas’s decision to release videos of Israeli prisoners is aimed at intensifying negotiations, Channel 12 reports.

In recent days, the head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency held talks with the director of the CIA and Qatar’s foreign minister to discuss the possible resumption of talks on the release of prisoners in exchange for Palestinian prisoners. Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani met with the heads of the CIA and Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency on Monday to discuss a possible new deal, but a Palestinian source familiar with the talks told the BBC that talks on another temporary ceasefire “have been completed “. not yet started.”

01:31 Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel said “time is running out” after Hamas released a video showing three elderly men it is holding hostage, Sky News reported.

The kibbutz said that the situation of the hostages is “worsening every day, especially for the elderly.”

He urged US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who is visiting Israel, to intervene. The hostages “must be returned to their families now, before it’s too late,” the kibbutz said.

The US urges Israel to plan the “transition to the next phase” of the war in Gaza

01:17 Hamas released a video of three elderly Israeli hostages demanding the release of Israel. Elderly people aged 79 to 84 were taken hostage in Nir Oz, the Israeli press writes. IDF condemns “video of criminal terror”

In this recording, titled “Don’t Let Us Grow Old Here,” three bearded men sit on chairs and one of them sends a message to the Israeli authorities asking them to do so in order to secure their release.