Another communications blackout is compounding the danger for Palestine Red Crescent Society teams as Israel bombards Khan Younis, where its Al Amal hospital is located, the organization said.

"Ambulance teams face significant difficulties in reaching the wounded and injured due to the continuous bombardment in the governorate," PRCS said on X today. "The latest updates from our teams in the #Gaza operations room indicate ongoing interference and continuous disruptions in wireless communication."

Earlier today, telecommunications company Paltel said services were down for the 10th time since the war began.

A representative for the State Department said officials were "devastated" over the fatal shooting of Tawfic Hafeth Abdel Jabbar, a 17-year-old Palestinian who was killed on Friday in the West Bank.

George Noll, chief of the Office of Palestinian Affairs, visited Jabbar's family and offered condolences on behalf of the United States, State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said during a briefing today.

Officials have been speaking with Israeli counterparts and urged an investigation into the shooting, according to Patel. He added that he was "not able to speak to the circumstances around his death" but that the department has asked Israel's government for all pertinent information into the case.

"We also have been clear for quite some time over the tragic escalation in violence in the West Bank and call on all parties to avoid escalations," Patel said.

TEL AVIV — Two people were arrested over an alleged plot to carry out a terrorist attack in Jerusalem, according to a joint statement from Israel police and Shin Bet, the country's internal security service.

The two people involved had sworn allegiance to the Islamic State militant group, known as ISIS, the authorities said. They allegedly purchased chemicals in order to prepare explosives in an attack on civilians and police in the Jerusalem area.

"The police and the Shin Bet revealed their intentions, and arrested them before they carried out the attacks," the joint statement said. "Today, an indictment will be filed against them by the prosecutor's office."

JERUSALEM — Iran is “very directly involved” in ship attacks that Yemen’s Houthi rebels have carried out, the U.S. Navy’s top Mideast commander said Monday.

Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of the Navy’s 5th Fleet, stopped short of saying Tehran directed individual attacks by the Houthis in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

More than 50,000 tons of household and medical waste has overflowed into the streets and beaches of Gaza City, the local government's municipality office said in a statement today.

Combined with a significant water shortage, the situation was contributing to a “humanitarian disaster” for residents of the city in the northern Gaza Strip, the statement said.

It added that the amount of waste could lead to “the spread of many serious diseases and epidemics that are difficult to treat if not addressed urgently.”

The office also flagged “the dangerous situation” in a rainwater collection pond, where “the destruction of power generators, facilities and fences by the occupation has exacerbated the problem.”

Families of Israeli hostages camped out by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s house in Caesarea and said they plan to stay there until he meets with them.

"We will not leave him until the hostages are back," said Eli Shtivi, whose son Idan remains in Hamas captivity.

TEL AVIV — The IDF condemned a protest reported to have been held by military reservists criticizing the decision to pull them out of Gaza before a clear “resolution” to the war had been reached. 

A row of armored vehicles can be seen in footage of the incident with signs saying: “We too were released without resolution,” The Times of Israel reported. 

The IDF said in a statement Monday that it was investigating footage released of "reservists protesting during active reserve duty using military equipment."

"The actions seen in the video are contrary to IDF policy and have no place in the IDF, neither in routine nor in war," it said.

TEL AVIV — A Chicago doctor who is in Gaza to provide treatment to civilians described a "horrible day" after the Palestinian Health Ministry said at least 50 people were killed and more than 100 injured in Israeli strikes on Khan Younis.

Dr. Zaher Sahloul, president of MedGlobal, an organization that provides a medical response to humanitarian crises, said most medical staff and patients had fled Al Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, while many newly injured patients were brought in after the strikes and had "no staff to treat them."

"Many injured are under the rubble and no way to reach them," he said in a WhatsApp message to NBC News.

Sahloul described a "mass exodus" of hundreds of people from the hospital and the city, sharing video of families fleeing south to Rafah.

"Roads are crowded with families leaving by all means," he said.

Danish shipping giant Maersk will divert vessels away from the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden and around the Cape of Good Hope, the company said in an advisory to clients today.

Maersk's ME2 container service links Italy and the western Mediterranean Sea to the east coast of India and the United Arab Emirates.

The announcement comes amid escalating attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea by Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen and retaliatory strikes by Washington and its allies.

The strikes by the Houthis, who say they are carrying them out in support of the people of Gaza, have disrupted global trade and raised fears that Israel's war with Hamas could spread across the Middle East.