Israel-Hamas War Day 234: What's happening in Gaza?

Israel is investigating the deaths of Palestinians captured during the Gaza war as well as a military-run detention camp where a human rights group has alleged abuses of inmates, the armed forces' chief prosecutor said on Monday.

Citing accounts by former inmates and a doctor from the Sde Teiman base, the Physicians for Human Rights group said last month that detainees had suffered severe violence causing fractures, internal bleeding, and even death.

Palestinians have also accused Israeli soldiers of illegal killings during the almost eight-month-old Gaza war.

"To date, 70 military police investigations have been opened into incidents that have raised suspicion of criminal offenses," Major-General Yifat Tomer Yerushalmi, the military advocate-general, told a conference hosted by the Israel Bar Association.

"These investigations also address allegations raised about the incarceration conditions at Sde Teiman detention center and the deaths of detainees in IDF custody. We are treating these allegations very seriously and are taking action to probe them."

Saudi Arabia is concerned by Israel’s refusal to accept a two-state resolution to its conflict with the Palestinians, Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan told reporters in Brussels as he lauded the three European countries that have unilaterally recognized Palestinian statehood.

“I firmly believe,” Prince Faisal said on Sunday night, “that a two-state solution with the establishment of a credible Palestinian State serves … the interest of the Palestinians and delivers [on] their right to self-determination. 

“It is also in the interest of Israel and delivers the security that Israel needs and deserves.

Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said on Monday that he will ask the other 26 European Union member states to issue official backing to the International Court of Justice and take steps to ensure Israel respects its decisions.

"I am going to ask the other 26 partners to declare the backing of the International Court of Justice and its decision, and also, if Israel continues to pursue against that opinion of the Court, we would try to take the right measures to enforce that decision," he told reporters in Brussels during a joint news conference with his Irish and Norwegian counterparts.

A UAV struck a motorcycle in the area of Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon on Monday, Israeli media reported citing Lebanese reports.

Later on Monday, the IDF stated jets had carried out a strike in the Aynata area in southern Lebanon, killing a Hezbollah terrorist who had been identified in the area from which launches had been fired into the area of the northern Israeli town of Malkia earlier that day.

The military further noted jets attacked a Hezbollah military in the Aitaroun area of southern Lebanon. 

The European Union aims to agree in principle on Monday to press ahead with an EU border mission at Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza Strip, the bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday.

Speaking before a monthly meeting of EU foreign ministers, Borrell also accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of using false claims of antisemitism against the International Criminal Court (ICC) for his own political ends.

The bloc is considering reviving its European Union Border Assistance Mission (EUBAM) Rafah, which has not been operational since 2007 when the Palestinian Islamist terror group Hamas seized full control of Gaza.

The Rafah crossing is the main entry point for aid from Egypt and has been closed since Israeli forces took control of it from the Gazan side nearly three weeks ago.

In an effort to reduce instances of friendly fire for troops operating in combat scenarios in crowded areas of the Gaza Strip, the IDF is testing new means of target identification, Israel's army radio reported on Monday.

Israel Air Force jets struck a military building in the Yaroun area of southern Lebanon in which a Hezbollah terror squad operated, the military said on Monday morning. 

In the area of Houla, jets targeted an additional terror squad. 

The IDF further stated that during the night, jets had carried out additional strikes on Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon, among which were a weapons storage facility and a Hezbollah military structure in the Meiss El Jabal area and a terror infrastructure in the Khiam area.

Jets also carried out strikes on military structures in the Houla area of southern Lebanon, the IDF noted.

Security officials said Monday morning that before its airstrike in northwestern Rafah, the IDF carried out "several operations" to ensure that there were no Palestinian civilians in the area.

According to Palestinian reports, at least 35 people were killed in the incident.

According to the sources, a flare-up occurred, and the fire spread to a tent complex and a building. The cause of the fire that broke out is being investigated by the IDF and other security forces.

US forces successfully intercepted a UAV launched by the Yemeni Houthi terrorist group, the United States Central Command announced on Monday overnight.

An anonymous US official told the Washington Post that the Biden administration was considering sanctioning far-right settlers who had blocked humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza Strip.