🔴 Live: Netanyahu calls Israel’s deadly strike on Rafah tent camp a 'tragic mistake'

A Palestinian man walks past a destroyed building in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 26, 2024. © Eyad Baba, AFP

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu acknowledged a “tragic mistake” after an Israeli strike killed dozens of people in the southern Gaza city of Rafah on Sunday night in a speech before parliament on Monday. Netanyahu said Israel was investigating the strike. Read our liveblog for all the latest developments on the Israel-Hamas war.

Summary:

• French President Emmanuel Macron voiced outrage on Monday over deadly Israeli strikes on a tented camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah and called for an "immediate ceasefire" in the Gaza war.

• The death toll from the Israeli strikes on a camp housing displaced Palestinians near Rafah rose to 45, according to Gaza’s health ministry. The Israeli military said it was investigating reports of civilian casualties. 

• EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Monday said an International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling telling Israel to stop its offensive in Gaza's Rafah must be implemented.

• Israel said Monday it had told Spain's consulate in Jerusalem to stop offering consular services to Palestinians from June 1, as a "punitive" measure for Madrid's recognition of a Palestinian state.

• At least 35,984 Palestinians have been killed and 80,643 wounded in Israel’s war in Gaza, according to the last official death toll given by the territory's Hamas-run health ministry. Including the health ministry's latest figure given for those killed in Rafah, the toll has now topped 36,000. Some 1,170 people were killed in the Hamas-led October 7 attacks and 250 people were taken hostage, according to Israeli figures, with 132 still missing.

Yesterday's key developments:

• Aid trucks from Egypt began entering the Gaza Strip on Sunday through the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing, state-linked media Al-Qahera News reported. Egypt has refused to coordinate aid through the crossing at Rafah as long as Israeli troops control the Palestinian side.

• The prime minister of the Palestinian Authority expressed hope on Sunday that Spain, Ireland and Norway's recognition of a Palestinian state would encourage other European countries to do the same.

• Scuffles between Israeli police and protesters erupted in Tel Aviv on Saturday after thousands gathered to demonstrate against the government and demand that it bring back the hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza.

• The United Nations has warned of looming famine in besieged Gaza, where most hospitals are no longer functioning.

About casualty figures from Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry:

Gaza’s health ministry collects data from the enclave’s hospitals and the Palestinian Red Crescent. For more on the health ministry’s casualty figures, click here.

(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP & Reuters)