PM says Israel to have 'security responsibility' for Gaza after fighting

BBC updates:

ISRAELI PM Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will have “overall security responsibility" for Gaza once the fighting ends for an "indefinite period".

He resists calls for a ceasefire but says shorter "humanitarian pauses" might be possible.

On the ground, Israel says it attacked Hamas targets in Gaza from the air, sea and on the ground.

Explosions were reported in the southern city of Khan Younis, with pictures showing destroyed buildings.

It's been one month since Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October, killing more than 1,400 people and kidnapping more than 200 others.

The Israeli military responded with air strikes and a ground operation - it says it's targeting Hamas infrastructure and minimising civilian deaths.

More than 10,000 people have been killed in Gaza according to the Hamas-run health ministry, including more than 4,100 children.

In Jerusalem last night, crowds gathered to light 1,400 candles and hostages' faces were projected onto the Western Wall.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will have "security responsibility" for Gaza after the fighting ends.

Here's a reminder of his key quotes from his interview with ABC in the US:

"Israel will, for an indefinite period, have the overall security responsibility. When we don't have that security responsibility, what we have is the eruption of Hamas terror on a scale that we couldn't imagine"

"There will be no ceasefire - general ceasefire - in Gaza, without the release of our hostages. As far as tactical, little pauses - an hour here, an hour there - we've had them before. I suppose we'll check the circumstances in order to enable goods --humanitarian goods - to come in or our hostages, individual hostages, to leave"

As a reminder, Israel withdrew troops from Gaza in 2005 after 38 years there.

Unrwa says its shelters in Gaza are 'overflowing'

Israel's military operation in Gaza is continuing. Since 13 October, it has warned Gazans to leave the north - leading to hundreds of thousands of displaced people heading south.

"Our Unrwa shelters are really overflowing with people," the director of communications at the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees tells the BBC's Newsday programme.

Juliette Touma says the shelters - often repurposed schools - are "holding four times more the capacity that they were planned to do".

In an update on Sunday, the organization said nearly half of the 1.5m people displaced since the war began - 717,000 people - are sheltering in 149 Unrwa sites.