Hello and welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of the Israel-Gaza war and the wider crisis in the Middle East.

The UN said it had to halt the movement of aid supplies and workers within the Gaza Strip on Monday as Israel issued a new evacuation order for the Deir al-Balah area, which had become a hub for aid workers.

A senior UN official had previously said that UN operations in the Gaza Strip had been completely suspended, but officials later clarified that operations would continue “on the ground” and “with the involvement” of the local population.

According to the official, the UN had moved most of its operational personnel to Deir al-Balah after an evacuation order was issued for Rafah several months ago.

The Israeli military said on Monday it was targeting “terrorists” in Deir al-Balah and working to destroy the remaining “infrastructure” of Hamas, whose attack on southern Israel on October 7 sparked the war in Gaza. The Israeli military called on the population to evacuate immediately.

According to the United Nations Humanitarian Agency (OCHA), 15 buildings housing aid workers and four warehouses in or near the area ordered to be evacuated were affected.

After it appeared that the UN had suspended its operations in the Gaza Strip, Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for Secretary-General António Guterres, clarified that the UN agency for Palestinian refugees was continuing its work, albeit under restrictions.

More on that in a moment, but first here is a summary of the other important news of the day:

• The new evacuation orders forced many families and patients to leave Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza.where hundreds of thousands of residents and displaced people had sought refuge for fear of Israeli bombs. Gaza’s Health Ministry called for the protection of the 100 patients at the hospital and the medical teams caring for them there.

• The United Nations World Food Programme warned that the food distribution centres and community kitchens it supports in Gaza were increasingly disrupted. by Israeli evacuation orders.

• Five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on the occupied West Bank on Monday in the Nur Shams refugee camp near the city of Tulkarm.the Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement. The Israeli military said its planes struck a militant operations center in the camp and troops separately blocked roads and conducted searches following reports of a kidnapping in the West Bank.

• Israeli settlers shot dead one Palestinian and wounded three others in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem.The Israeli military said it was investigating reports of the settler attack, it said.

• Some Israeli officials and media reacted with satisfaction on Monday after a long-awaited rocket attack by the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement appeared to have been largely thwarted by preemptive Israeli strikes. in southern Lebanon. Israeli government spokesman David Mencer said Hezbollah had suffered a “devastating blow” from the Israeli attacks, but that a longer-term solution was still needed.

• Benjamin Netanyahu faced political criticism in Israel over the limited nature of air strikes on Hezbollah on Sunday.amid calls for a wider offensive in Lebanon. The fiercest criticism came from the far-right wing of the prime minister’s fractious coalition, which is also increasingly divided over the status of Jerusalem’s holiest site.

• The United States continues to believe that the threat of an attack on Israel by Iran and its proxy groups remains, the Pentagon said on Monday.after Hezbollah fired hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel in retaliation for the killing of a senior Hezbollah commander. “I would point you to some public statements by Iranian leaders and others … we continue to believe there is a threat of attack,” Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder told reporters.

• The brother of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike, called for the prosecution and punishment of those responsible for his sister’s death.. Frankcom, a 43-year-old from Melbourne who worked for World Central Kitchen in Gaza, was one of seven people killed in April when a car convoy was hit by an Israeli airstrike. The Israel Defense Forces launched an investigation into the incident, which led to the dismissal of two officers and the reprimand of three others. Mal Frankcom told ABC he did not believe this was an appropriate response.