Dozens dead in Gaza, short-term ceasefire talks in Doha

IN BRIEF

• Israeli military strikes killed at least 36 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, most of them in the north of the enclave, Palestinian health officials said. READ MORE BELOW

• At least five people were killed and 13 wounded on Sunday in an Israeli strike on Sidon (Saida) in southern Lebanon, the country's health ministry said.

• Dozens of people were injured on Sunday when a truck struck a bus stop at a major intersection in central Israel, Israeli rescue workers said. READ MORE BELOW

• Iranian officials should determine how best to demonstrate Iran's power to Israel after the Israeli attack on Iran two nights ago, Iran's official IRNA news agency cited the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as saying on Sunday. READ MORE BELOW

• Israel's military said it had "eliminated over 40 terrorists" in the Jabalia area in the past 24 hours, as well as dismantling infrastructure and locating "large quantities of military equipment."

• The Israeli military urged residents of 14 villages in southern Lebanon on Sunday to evacuate immediately and move north of the Awali river.

• Israeli forces withdrew from a hospital complex in northern Gaza on Saturday, a day after storming it, and the Palestinian enclave's health ministry said the troops had detained dozens of male medical staffers and some of the patients.

• The directors of the CIA and Israel's Mossad will meet Qatar's prime minister in Doha on Sunday to begin negotiations for a new short-term Gaza ceasefire deal and the release of some hostages by Hamas in exchange for Israel's release of Palestinian prisoners, an official briefed on the talks told Reuters.

IN DETAIL

At least 36 killed in Gaza

Israeli military strikes killed at least 36 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, most of them in the north of the enclave, Palestinian health officials said. 

At least 34 of those killed on Sunday were in northern Gaza, where Israeli troops have returned to root out Hamas fighters who it says have regrouped there.

Twenty people were killed following an airstrike on houses in Jabalia, the largest of the Gaza Strip's eight historic refugee camps, which has been the focus of an Israeli military offensive for more than three weeks, medics and the Palestinian official news agency WAFA said.

An Israeli air strike on a school sheltering displaced Palestinian families in Shati camp in Gaza City, killed four people and wounded 20 others, many in critical condition, medics said.

Dozens injured as truck strikes bus stop in central Israel

Dozens of people were injured on Sunday when a truck struck a bus stop at a major intersection in central Israel, Israeli rescue workers said.

"Currently, the circumstances surrounding the incident are under investigation," the police said in a statement.

Israel's Magen David Adom ambulance service said it was treating dozens of people at the site, at least four of them with serious injuries.

Iranian officials to determine how to respond to Israel, Supreme Leader says

Iranian officials should determine how best to demonstrate Iran's power to Israel after the Israeli attack on Iran two nights ago, Iran's official IRNA news agency cited the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as saying on Sunday.

"The evil committed by the Zionist regime (Israel) two nights ago should neither be downplayed nor exaggerated", IRNA cited Khamenei as saying.

Iran on Saturday played down Israel's overnight air attack against Iranian military targets, saying it caused only limited damage, as U.S. President Joe Biden called for a halt to escalation that has raised fears of an all-out conflagration in the Middle East.

Scores of Israeli jets completed three waves of strikes before dawn against missile factories and other sites near Tehran and in western Iran, Israel's military said.

Khamenei said Iran's power should be demonstrated to Israel, adding that the way to do so should be "determined by the officials and that which is in the best interest of the people and the country should take place."