The Times of Israel is liveblogging Monday’s events as they happen.
Rocket alerts sound in towns near Gaza
Sirens sound once more in Israeli communities near Gaza.
There is no immediate word on impacts.
Palestinians earlier reported Israeli strikes in northern Gaza, including the area of the Indonesian Hospital.
Head of Knesset defense panel reprimands PM over home front management
MK Yuli Edelstein, head of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, has criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for not designating a single body to oversee the home front amid the ongoing war in Gaza.
Noting that he’d asked last week that Netanyahu name the National Security Council as the body to oversee the home front’s “security, finance, education, welfare, etcetera,” Edelstein said earlier that no progress had been made on the matter.
“Given this situation, I find it difficult to see how I can continue to approve the ‘special situation’ in the home front without receiving clear answers, and without understanding who is responsible for managing the entire economic-civil aspect of the war.”
Iran’s former IRGC chief: New war fronts could open against Israel
The former head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps has warned that “new war fronts” could open if Israel continues its offensive in Gaza.
Mohsen Rezaee, now the head of the Supreme Council for Economic Coordination, told the Hezbollah-affiliated Al Mayadeen: “The axis of resistance will play a bigger role in the future and the Zionist regime will definitely lose in this war.”
He said he believed the war will cause the downfall of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and “in the coming years we will witness the downfall of the Zionist regime.”
Rezaee argued that the deeper Israel goes into Gaza, the deeper it will sink into a quagmire.