Hamas and Israel at war: what we know on day 10

• Israel has activated a plan to evacuate residents within 2km (1.2 miles) of Lebanon, the military said on Monday. It follows exchanges of fire with Hezbollah in parallel to the conflict in southern Israel with Hamas. In a statement, the Israel Defence Forces and the ministry of defence said the plan had been approved by the defence secretary, Yoav Gallant, and included the evacuation of 28 communities. Residents will be moved to state-subsidised guesthouses.

• The Israeli military said it had confirmed that Hamas was holding 199 hostages in Gaza. The hostages were seized on Saturday 7 October when Hamas fighters broke through the Israeli border fence in southern Israel and attacked a music festival and multiple other locations, killing more than 1,300 Israelis.

• The Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari said: “There is a top national priority effort for the issue of the abductees and we are focused on this effort as a national top priority. The IDF is working around the clock to return the abductees.” He added that the IDF had notified the families of all 199. Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Catholic patriarch of Jerusalem, has offered himself in exchange for child hostages.

• Benjamin Netanyahu told the Knesset that the nation of Israel was united in its goal of victory, while conceding that there would be an investigation into the intelligence and security failures that had allowed Hamas to mount such a devastating attack. He called on the world to unite and fight Hamas.

• Gaza’s health ministry said at least 2,750 Palestinians had been killed and 9,700 wounded in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip since 7 October. The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said Israel had killed 11 Palestinian journalists in its airstrikes on Gaza.

• The UN relief and works agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) has said there are not enough body bags for the dead in Gaza. Its latest situational report noted that Gaza had been without electricity for five days, there was limited access to clean drinking water, and more than 1 million people had been displaced.

• The Egyptian foreign minister, Sameh Shoukry, said on Monday that the Israeli government had yet to take a stance that allowed the crossing between Egypt and Gaza to open. There was some movement of UN-flagged fuel trucks at the border on Monday morning, but despite speculation of a local ceasefire and a limited opening, the crossing has remained closed.

• The UN aid chief, Martin Griffiths, said on Monday he would be travelling to the Middle East on Tuesday to support negotiations on getting aid into the blockaded Gaza Strip. Griffiths said his office was in “deep discussions” with Israel, Egypt and other parties.

• Lebanon’s Hezbollah said it targeted five Israeli positions in northern Israel. The IDF said it was returning fire over the “Blue Line” that has marked the boundary between Israel and Lebanon since 2000.

• Half of the hotel rooms in Israel are being used to house families evacuated from communities near the Gaza Strip, the head of the Israel Hotel Association said on Monday.

• Israel and Hamas have made claim and counter-claim about whether Israel has resupplied water to Gaza. Israel said water was being supplied near Khan Yunis in southern Gaza. The Hamas interior ministry spokesperson Eyad al-Bozom said it was not.

• The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has arrived back in Israel, his second visit since the Hamas attack. US citizens were boarding an evacuation ship at the port of Haifa which would take them today to Limassol in Cyprus.

• Joe Biden has cancelled a planned trip to Colorado, opting to stay in Washington DC to focus on national security meetings.

• Leaders of all 27 countries in the EU have called for the “immediate and unconditional” release of all the hostages. The leaders will tomorrow meet via video link for an emergency summit called over the weekend as fears rise across the EU over the volatility in the Middle East. In a strongly worded statement, the European Council president, Charles Michel, said the EU defended Israel’s right to defend itself but said it must be “in full compliance with international law and international humanitarian law”.

• Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said on Monday in a televised press conference that “Iran considers that the US is already militarily involved in the conflict”.

• China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, has called for a ceasefire, saying: “The UN security council must take action, and the major powers should play an active role. It is imperative that a ceasefire be put in place, that the two sides be brought back to the negotiating table, and that an emergency humanitarian channel be established to prevent a further humanitarian disaster.”

• Rishi Sunak has said six British nationals have been killed in Israel and a further 10 are missing, some of whom are believed to have been killed. He described the Hamas attack as a pogrom.

• Visiting a Jewish school in north London, Sunak said: “Israel has been very clear that Hamas is the entity that’s responsible for this and what they want to do is ensure that their people are safe and that this doesn’t happen again, and that the focus of the attention of self-defence is on Hamas. I’ve raised with the Israeli prime minister the need to minimise the impact on civilians as best we can. I’ve raised the humanitarian situation. We will continue to do that with other allies around the region as well.”

• Denmark has decided to send a navy frigate to join Nato’s naval force in the eastern Mediterranean to prepare for possible evacuations.

• Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, will travel to Israel on Tuesday.