Israel-Hamas Conflict: US Strikes Iranian Facilities In Syria; Israel Reopens 7-Hour Gaza Evacuation Passage

Over 3,000 Hamas infrastructure attacked since Gaza ground incursions: IDF

Israeli fighters have attacked around 3,000 terrorist infrastructures, about 300 tunnel shafts, and hundreds of anti-tank missile launching positions since it started ground operations in the Gaza Strip last month, the IDF said Monday.

Israel reopens 7-hour evacuation passage for Gaza civilians

The IDF has reopened a humanitarian corridor for evacuation to allow northern Gaza civilians to move south amid intensifying battles in the northern part of the strip. The "safe passage" will be open from 9 a.m. IST (10:30 p.m. Sunday ET) through 4 p.m. IST (5:30 a.m. Monday ET).

The Israeli army "will make a tactical suspension of military activities during the day today, specifically between ten in the morning and two in the afternoon for humanitarian purposes in the city of Rafah in the area west of Salah Al-Din," IDF spokesperson for Arab media, Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, said in a Google-translated post on X.

Adraee also encouraged Gaza residents to reach out to the IDF at 97250-341-0322 if Hamas "is trying to prevent your movement" or if its operatives "block your way."

The longer the war, the more Hezbollah will intervene: Expert

Ret. IDF Col. Jacques Neriah, a former policy adviser to the assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, said that the longer this war drags on, the more Hezbollah will pressure Israel.

"The longer this war continues, and the possibility of crushing Hamas is getting more and more realistic, Hezbollah will intervene much more," Neriah said, adding that the Lebanese terror group has been "accustoming" Israel to "a war of attrition."

Hezbollah has been firing rockets into Israel in the past weeks. Its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, called the Palestinian Hamas "heroic" and warned the U.S., Israel's ally, that it was not afraid of facing the American fleet deployed to the Mediterranean.

Defense ministry releases video of 'Arrow' interceptor during Swords of Iron operations

The Israeli Ministry of Defense (MOD) on Monday released a video that showed the operational launch of an "Arrow" ballistic missile interceptor that was used during Operation Swords of Iron, Israel's response to the Oct. 7 massacre of its people and the abduction of more than 200 hostages that are still being held by Hamas.

Hamas denies it refused Israel's fuel offer for Al-Shifa Hospital

Hamas has denied Netanyahu's claim that it refused 300 liters of fuel that Israeli soldiers delivered for the use of Al-Shifa Hospital. It also said that the fuel from Israeli troops was not enough to help keep the hospital running.

"The offer belittles the pain and suffering of the patients who are trapped inside without water, food or electricity," the militant group said in a statement. The Palestinian terror group also said Israel's fuel offer "is not enough to operate hospital generators for more than thirty minutes."

Rafah border crossing reopens

More than 80 foreign passport holders and at least seven injured Palestinians arrived in Egypt from the Gaza Strip Sunday after the Rafah border crossing reopened, Reuters reported, citing four Egyptian security sources.

The report came after the border shut down Friday amid air strikes that allegedly hit or targeted medical convoys around the area.

Over 100,000 attend Paris rally to protest against rising anti-Semitism

More than 100,000 people attended a rally in Paris Sunday to protest the rise in anti-Semitism around the world amid the raging Israel-Hamas conflict.

Among the influential people who attended the rally was far-right leader Marine Le Pen and French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne.

Israeli security cabinet approves measures to block media outlet Al-Mayadeen

Israel's security cabinet has approved emergency measures that will allow the blocking of Al-Mayadeen, a Lebanon-based media outlet allegedly affiliated with Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, local media reported.

Following the measures' approval, Israeli communications minister Shlomo Karhi reportedly said the outlet's "fate is to be blocked" as "its reporters serve the heinous terror groups," adding that it was "time to settle a score with them."

Mortars fired from Lebanese territory: IDF

Two mortar launches targeted Israel Monday morning, but both fell in an open area, the IDF said. No casualties were reported and Israeli air strikes hit the source of the artillery.

Israeli army raids outskirts of Shatti refugee camp in Gaza: IDF

Israeli soldiers with the 401^st Brigade's combat team have been carrying out raids on the "outskirts" of the Shatti refugee camp in northern Gaza, the IDF said in a Google-translated post Monday.

As part of the operations, Israeli troops also targeted Hamas infrastructure "located in central government institutions in the heart of a civilian population" that were allegedly embedded near schools, universities, activist residences and mosques.

US strikes training facility and safe house in Syria

The U.S. Defense Secretary said Sunday that U.S. warplanes struck a training facility in Iraq and a "safe house" near the cities of Abu Kamal and Mayadin in eastern Syria near the border with Iraq. The air strikes were conducted "in response to continued attacks against U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria," the Pentagon said in a statement.

The said facilities were allegedly being used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and other Iranian proxies.

Gantz opposes calls to unseat Netanyahu during raging war: Report

Minister without portfolio Benny Gantz reportedly opposed calls to remove Netanyahu from the Israeli government's leadership as it was "not the time to change" the government's head, local KAN Israeli Public Broadcasting Corp. reported Monday. The retired IDF general reportedly said conversations about unseating the Israeli Prime Minister at this time were "nothing more than a delusion."

Gantz did reportedly acknowledge that there will be time to investigate the government's leaders in relation to the surprise attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, as per people close to the minister.

International Business Times could not independently verify the report.

Weapons found in 'children's room' in home of senior PIJ member: IDF

Israeli reserve soldiers from the 551^st Brigade raided the home of a senior member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) "and found many weapons inside the children's room," the IDF said Monday in a Google-translated post on X.

3-year-old American orphan being held by Hamas: Biden

U.S. President Joe Biden told Qatar's Amir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, wherein the former revealed that a 3-year-old American toddler "whose parents were killed by Hamas" on Oct. 7 was abducted by the terror group, according to a statement from the White House.

The leaders talked about how Gaza civilians can be protected and ongoing efforts to step up the continuous flow of humanitarian assistance for the enclave. Biden also "affirmed his vision for a future Palestinian state where Israelis and Palestinians can live side by side with equal measures of stability and dignity."

2 Commando Brigade soldiers die in northern Gaza: IDF

Two soldiers with the IDF's Commando Brigade that is dedicated especially for special operations, were killed Sunday in northern Gaza as the Israeli army continues to move deeper into the besieged enclave, the IDF announced early Friday on its tribute page for fallen soldiers who were killed in battle since the war started on Oct. 7.

• Maj. Natan Issachar (combat officer), 28 – from Kirit Malachi
• Sgt. Itay Shoham, 21 – from Rosh Ha'Ein

Israel 'under a multi-front attack': IDF

As the Israel-Hamas war rages on, Israel is "under a multi-front attack," IDF international spokesperson Lt. Col. Richard Hecht said in a video message Sunday. Aside from defending itself from Hamas rockets, Israel has also been attacked by Syria in a drone strike that hit a school in the port town of Eilat.

From the northern border with Lebanon, "hundreds of anti-tank missiles, mortars and rockets" have been fired in the past days, Hecht said. "You can only imagine the level of death and destruction if we didn't have world leading missile defense systems," he said.

While Israel's only war is against Hamas, "the war against us is being waged by terror organizations across the Middle East," and despite attacks from the "north, south, and the east," the IDF will continue to defend its people, he concluded.

Hamas rejected fuel offer for Al-Shifa Hospital: Netanyahu

Netanyahu told NBC News Sunday that Israel offered fuel for Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest health facility in the Gaza Strip, but Hamas rejected the much-needed fuel to keep the hospital's electricity and other equipment running.

"We offered, actually, last night, to give them enough fuel to operate the hospital, operate the incubators and so on because we have, obviously, no battle with patients or civilians at all...they've refused it," he said.

He added that he has offered to build field hospitals in coordination with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and French President Emmanuel Macron as well as other countries and the United Nations, so patients can be "moved out of these Hamas command posts."

The Israeli leader went on to reiterate that Hamas "hiding in the hospitals" do not want the fuel to be delivered to the hospitals," but they wanna get fuel that they'll take from the hospitals to their tunnels, to their war machine" to fire rockets against Israel.

Israeli soldiers "risked their lives to hand-deliver 300 liters of fuel to the Shifa hospital for urgent medical purposes" but "Hamas forbade the hospital from taking it," the IDF said in a post on X late Sunday. The post included a video that showed soldiers carrying gallons into a facility.

The Israeli government and army have repeatedly said Hamas built a tunnel complex below the Al-Shifa Hospital that houses Hamas terrorists and is being used as a storage for the terror group's weapons and artillery.

At least 18 people, mostly civilians, injured in Hezbollah strikes

Seven Israeli soldiers were injured when Iran-backed Hezbollah fired missiles into Israel Sunday, multiple outlets reported. The rest of the wounded were Israeli civilians.

At one point during the day, 15 launches were identified from Lebanon in just one hour, the IDF said. While four of the said rockets were intercepted, the rest of the missiles fell on open areas.

In response to the launches, Israel struck the source of the rockets, the IDF said.