Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen tweeted this morning that he is canceling his planned meeting with António Guterres, roughly an hour after the U.N. chief said that the Hamas terror attack on Israel "did not happen in a vacuum" and accused the Israeli government of mistreating Palestinians for decades.

"I will not meet with the UN Secretary General. After October 7, there is no place for a balanced approach. Hamas must be wiped out," Cohen said in a post on X, which was written in Hebrew and translated by NBC News.

Guterres, speaking this morning at a U.N. Security Council meeting about the war between Israel and Hamas, said that the "Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation ... their economy stifled, their people displaced and their homes demolished."

"But the grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the appalling attacks by Hamas, and those appalling attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people," he went on to say.

Danny Danon, Israel's former ambassador to the U.N. and the chairman of the international wing of Netanyahu's party, Likud, called on Guterres to retract his remarks or resign from his post.

"The U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres today said that the horrific crimes of the Hamas terrorists 'did not take place in a vacuum.' By saying this he is wrongfully legitimizing and justifying the gruesome massacre of men, women, children and babies, and the savage kidnapping of over 222 innocent babies, children and civilians who are still being held by Hamas," Danon said. "The U.N. Secretary General should be ashamed of himself."

Blinken, speaking to the U.N. Security Council this morning, confirmed that 33 Americans have been killed in Israel amid the country's war with Hamas.

The State Department previously said that 32 Americans were dead, with another 11 Americans unaccounted for.

Hospitals in Gaza are hours away from being out of service because of a lack of fuel and the large numbers of injured people, according to Palestinian Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qudra.

“We are talking about a complete collapse of the health system, which has become unable to deal with the large number of wounded arriving at hospitals, with limited capabilities to treat the wounded, in addition to the rapid depletion of fuel, which will lead to a power outage,” he said. “We are only a few hours away from hospitals being out of service, and this was confirmed by international organizations familiar with the health situation in the Gaza Strip.”

On Sunday, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA, said it will run out of fuel that is critical for its humanitarian response in the Gaza Strip in three days.

“Without fuel, there will be no water, no functioning hospitals and bakeries,” UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said in a statement today. “Without fuel, aid will not reach those in desperate need. Without fuel, there will be no humanitarian assistance.”

Al-Qudra said Israeli airstrikes in Gaza were very severe yesterday, killing about 704 people, impacting 400 residential communities and causing "47 massacres." NBC News could not independently verify these claims.

Most of the dead are women, children and the elderly, Al-Qudra said. In addition, 1,023 people were injured.

A total of 5,600 people have been killed and more than 16,600 injured in Gaza since Oct. 7, Al-Qudra said.

The health system in Gaza is overwhelmed, according to him.

On Sunday, Al-Qudra said Gaza’s hospitals are in crisis amid a lack of fuel, which could put the lives of 1,100 kidney failure patients at risk, including 38 children.

The IDF has killed three Hamas deputy commanders with help from the country's security agency, Shin Bet, spokesperson Daniel Hagari said on his X account.

NBC News did not independently verify these claims.

Hagai shared a black and white video of what appeared to be an airstrike along with the news.

TEL AVIV — Sirens rang throughout a large swath of central Israel early this evening in what appeared to be one of the largest rocket barrages fired from Gaza in the past two weeks.

The alarms rang — both on streets and via open source alert apps — from Ashkelon near the border with Gaza to Kfar Saba, a city just north of Tel Aviv — and a reporter for NBC News was among hundreds of thousands of people directed to head to air raid shelters.

Most missiles fired at Israel are intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system but a small number get through.

There have been eight attacks on health care facilities in Israel, resulting in seven deaths, the World Health Organization said in a statement published yesterday.

Overall, the health system in Israel is coping, said Michel Thieren, WHO special representative in Israel.

Thieren visited a hospital in the city of Ashkelon where many of the injured are being treated. Most of the victims did not want to speak about themselves, but about the people they'd seen die in front of them.

“Almost every one of those survivors had seen someone else die before they themselves were injured. They are absolutely haunted by this. It is dominant in their thoughts. So many need urgent mental health support.”

Many of the 200 hostages taken by Hamas, Thieren says, have "pre-existing health conditions requiring continuity of care." WHO is calling for their release.

“From what I am seeing, mental health problems appear to be rapidly spreading among the country’s population. The human suffering is immense," Thieren said. "People just don’t feel safe anymore, and this is a complete change in their recent history.”

Thieren also visited military bases where bodies of the victims are being kept in refrigerated containers.

“Doctors and forensic experts are still working to identify the bodies. They are all wrapped in plastic bags. There are obviously adult bodies and children’s bodies, but the vast majority of bags are misshapen," he said.

Only 700, barely half of the 1,400 victims, have been identified so far.

Google Maps and Waze, which is owned by Google, are no longer offering live traffic updates around Israel and the West Bank, a spokesperson said today.

“As we have done previously in conflict situations and in response to the evolving situation in the region, we have temporarily disabled the ability to see live traffic conditions and busyness information out of consideration for the safety of local communities. Anyone navigating to a specific place will still get routes and ETAs that take current traffic conditions into account,” the spokesperson said.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said that American officials have sent the regime two messages regarding the Israel-Hamas war in the hopes of keeping the conflict from spreading.

The messages included a request for the Iranian regime to show "self-restraint" and a disinterest in spreading the war, he said during a meeting yesterday with emissaries from Russia, Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan. He criticized the U.S. for its foreign policy in support of Israel.

“Despite their claims [about being opposed to further spread of war], the Americans have been fanning the flames of war on Gaza during the past two weeks by sending thousands of arms consignments [to Israel] and supporting the regime,” Amirabdollahian said.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, speaking this morning at a Security Council meeting on the war between Israel and Hamas, repeated his calls for an immediate cease-fire, raised concerns about a widening conflict in the Middle East and condemned the Hamas terror attack.

He added that the Oct. 7 assault on southern Israel "did not happen in a vacuum," however, lamenting the Israeli government's treatment of the Palestinian people over successive administrations.

"Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation" by the Israeli government, Guterres said. "Their economy stifled, their people displaced and their homes demolished."

"But the grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the appalling attacks by Hamas, and those appalling attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people," he added.

Guterres went on to say that the world must be vigilant about combating a rise in antisemitism and Islamophobia amid the war.