When the Hamas gunmen rushed in, smashing and setting fire to the country home where Danielle Alony was spending a holiday weekend with her daughter Emilia, she hugged the five-year-old close and said: "I'm sorry, my love. We're going to die."
Two relatives of the director of Al Jazeera's Gaza bureau were killed in an Israeli air strike on Monday, the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory and family members said.
Israel Defense Forces troops operating in Gaza City's Daraj and Tuffah districts said they discovered components used by Hamas to produce precision-guided missiles and other strategic weapons with direct assistance from the Islamic Republic of Iran.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday said Israel must do more to protect civilians in Gaza and that Palestinians displaced by the ongoing war must "return home".