GENEVA (Reuters) -The United Nations human rights' chief warned on Monday that "disturbing trends", including the glorification of violence and the retreat of some states from the multilateral system, are undermining human rights and the international order worldwide.

"Rules of war are being shredded - with virtually no accountability," said Volker Turk, who heads the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights(OHCHR), in his opening address to the 60th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain will increase pressure on Israel by banning Israel-bound ships and aircraft carrying weapons from calling at Spanish ports or entering Spanish airspace, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Monday.

Spain will also increase aid to the Palestinian authority and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and will impose an embargo on goods made in Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, he said.

Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a bus stop in east Jerusalem on Monday, killing six people and wounding others, according to Israel's foreign minister, in one of the deadliest attacks on Israel since the start of the Gaza war.

"Palestinian terrorists murdered six Israelis," Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said, adding that one of the dead was a recent immigrant from Spain.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told residents of Gaza City on Monday to evacuate, as the military ramped up its deadly assault on the Palestinian territory's largest urban centre.

Israel has been intensifying its bombardment of the city in preparation for an operation to conquer it, despite repeated entreaties from Western nations and aid agencies to stop.

Gaza's civil defence agency meanwhile said at least 39 people had been killed by Israel, including 25 in Gaza City, on Monday.

NICOSIA (Reuters) -Cyprus has approached the United Arab Emirates for possible cooperation on an EU-financed subsea power cable linking Europe to the eastern Mediterranean region, it said on Monday, reaffirming its commitment to the project.

European prosecutors said last Thursday that they had launched an investigation into possible criminal offences relating to the 1.9 billion euro ($2.2 billion) cable to link Greece with Cyprus and later to Israel, a project all three countries say they support despite a series of delays.

Spain on Monday recalled its ambassador from Tel Aviv after Israel's top diplomat accused premier Pedro Sanchez of antisemitism and barred two government ministers from entry.

The spat came after Sanchez unveiled measures he said aimed to "stop the genocide in Gaza", marking a new low in relations over the devastating Israeli offensive, launched after an unprecedented Hamas attack in Israel in 2023.

Two officers were killed and two others wounded in a shooting attack on a police station near the Turkish city of Izmir on Monday, with a 16-year-old suspect arrested, officials said.

Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said the "heinous" attack on the police station in Balcova, just west of the resort city, left two officers dead and a third "seriously injured".

"The suspect in the incident, 16-year-old E.B., has been arrested and an investigation has been opened," he wrote on X.

(Corrects time of occurrence of the two quakes to ...since around midnight on Aug. 31... not on Sept. 1, in paragraph 4)

By Mohammed Yunus Yawar and Sayed Hassib

MASUD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Haunted by the fear that aftershocks could bring rocks crashing down from the mountains, the survivors of Afghan earthquakes vowed not to return to destroyed villages but camp in fields and on riverbanks instead, even without tents to keep off the rain.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Netblocks, a global internet monitor, said on Monday that access to online platforms including X, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and WhatsApp has been restricted in Turkey on multiple networks.

Netblocks said the access blockage came as the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) called for rallies after police set up barricades in areas around the party's headquarters in Istanbul.

By Charlotte Greenfield

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -The World Health Organization has asked Taliban authorities to lift restrictions on Afghan female aid workers, allowing them to travel without male guardians and help women struggling to access care after a powerful earthquake killed 2,200 people in eastern Afghanistan.

"A very big issue now is the increasing paucity of female staff in these places," Dr Mukta Sharma, the deputy representative of WHO's Afghanistan office, told Reuters.