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Israel vows 'hurricane' of strikes on Gaza to force Hamas to accept surrender demand

CAIRO (Reuters) -Israel said it would ramp up airstrikes on Gaza on Monday in a "mighty hurricane", to serve as a last warning to Hamas that it will destroy the enclave unless fighters accept a demand from U.S. President Donald Trump to free all hostages and surrender.

Residents said Israeli forces bombed Gaza City from the air and blew up armoured vehicles in its streets. Hamas said it was studying the latest U.S. ceasefire proposal, delivered on Sunday with a warning from Trump's that it was the militant group's "last chance".

FILE PHOTO: Military vehicles stand on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza, in Israel September 5, 2025. REUTERS/Shir Torem/File Photo

Israeli military spokesperson issues evacuation warning for residents in Gaza City

CAIRO (Reuters) -The Israeli military's Arabic spokesperson on Sunday issued a new evacuation warning for residents in a building in Gaza City and surrounding tents, as Israel called again for Hamas to surrender.

It was the second warning for the same building and tents housing displaced families in little over 24 hours.

(Reporting by Jaidaa Taha and Muhammad Al GebalyEditing by Tomasz Janowski)

A missile falls towards a house during an Israeli airstrike, in Gaza City, September 7, 2025. REUTERS/Khamis Al-Rifi

Rules of war being 'shredded' amid global rights violations, says UN human rights chief

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.

FILE PHOTO: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk holds a press conference in Damascus, Syria January 15, 2025. REUTERS/Yamam Al Shaar/File Photo

Spain to ban Israel-bound shipping, aircraft carrying weapons from its ports, airspace

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.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speaks at a press conference in Kunshan, Jiangsu province, China September 11, 2024. REUTERS/Xihao Jiang

Palestinian gunmen shoot dead six people in east Jerusalem attack: foreign minister

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.

The shooting was one of the deadliest incidents of its kind since the war in Gaza began after Hamas's October 2023 attack on Israel

Israeli PM tells Gaza City residents to 'leave now'

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.

An injured man carries a toddler after a school in Gaza City being used to shelter displaced Palestinians was hit by an Israeli strike

Cyprus talks to UAE over European subsea cable project, president says

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.

FILE PHOTO: Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides attends a European Union leaders summit to discuss Ukraine and European defence, in Brussels, Belgium March 6, 2025. REUTERS/Stephanie Lecocq/File Photo

Spain, Israel spar after Madrid moves 'to stop Gaza genocide'

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.

Sanchez is an outspoken critic of the Israeli military offensive in Gaza

Teen arrested after two Turkish police officers shot dead

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.

After the police station attack, security forces fanned out across Balcova just west of the resort city of Izmir

Afghan earthquake survivors refuse to return to villages, fearing landslides

(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.

FILE PHOTO: A boy stands in front of houses damaged by a deadly earthquake that struck Afghanistan's Kunar and Nangarhar provinces, at Masud village in Nurgal district, Kunar province, Afghanistan, September 4, 2025. REUTERS/Sayed Hassib/File Photo