Palestinian man dies in detention as Israeli West Bank operation continues
The body bore signs of beatings and torture, the director of the Wissam Bakr hospital says
Israeli troops handed the body of a Palestinian man arrested hours earlier in the occupied West Bank to Palestinian health authorities on Monday, as a major operation in the flashpoint city of Jenin continued for a sixth day.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said it had received the body of 58 year-old Ayman Rajeh Abed from the village of Kafr Dan, just outside Jenin after he was arrested around dawn on Monday. The director of the Wissam Bakr hospital in Jenin said the body bore signs of beatings and torture.

The Israeli military said Abed had been detained during counterterrorism operations and experienced a "cardiac event" on arrival at a detention facility. He was given initial treatment by medical staff from the military, before being evacuated to the hospital in Jenin.

DR Congo government says 129 killed in attempted prison break
Some 59 others are wounded in a mass escape attempt at the central Makala prison in the capital Kinshasa, the govt says
Democratic Republic of Congo's government said at least 129 people were killed while trying to escape from the central Makala prison in the capital Kinshasa late on Sunday, adding that the situation was now under control.

In a statement posted on X early on Tuesday, Interior Minister Shabani Lukoo said a fire had also broken out in the jail's administrative building, its food depots and a hospital. Some 59 people were wounded, he added.

Biden says Netanyahu not doing enough to secure hostage deal
The US is close to presenting a final proposal to negotiators working on a ceasefire, the US president says
President Joe Biden said on Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not doing enough to secure a deal for the release of hostages held in Gaza by Hamas and the US was close to presenting a final proposal to negotiators working on a hostage and ceasefire agreement.

Biden was speaking to reporters at the White House after Israeli forces over the weekend recovered the bodies of six hostages, including 23-year-old American-Israeli Hersh Goldberg-Polin, from a tunnel in Gaza. Israel's military said they had been recently killed by Palestinian Hamas militants.

Russian missile strike kills 41 people in Ukraine's Poltava, Zelensky says
Russian forces strike with two ballistic missiles, damaging a building of the Military Institute of Communications

WHO surpasses polio vaccination targets in Gaza children
Rik Peeperkorn, WHO representative for the Occupied Palestinian territories, told reporters that it had vaccinated over 161,000 children under 10

Netanyahu says 'shameful' of UK to halt some arms export licences to Israel
The decision, made a day after the recovery of six hostages' bodies from a Gaza tunnel, is swiftly condemned by Israeli ministers
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that the British government made a "shameful decision" when it suspended some arms export licences to Israel.

Britain's foreign minister David Lammy said on Monday that the government had suspended 30 of 350 arms export licences with Israel due to a risk the equipment could be used to commit serious violations of international humanitarian law.

The decision, which came a day after Israeli forces recovered the bodies of six hostages from a tunnel in Gaza, was quickly denounced by a number of Israeli ministers.
"This shameful decision will not change Israel's determination to defeat Hamas, a genocidal terrorist organisation that savagely murdered 1,200 people on Oct 7, including 14 British citizens," Netanyahu said in a social media post.

"Hamas is still holding over 100 hostages, including 5 British citizens. Instead of standing with Israel, a fellow democracy defending itself against barbarism, Britain’s misguided decision will only embolden Hamas," Netanyahu said.

"With or without British arms, Israel will win this war and secure our common future."

Soon after Britain's Labour Party won an election in July, Lammy said he would update a review on arms sales to ally Israel to ensure these complied with international law.

British exports amount to less than 1 percent of the total arms Israel receives, and the minister said the suspension would not have a material impact on Israel's security and Britain continued to support its right to self-defence.

Both Israeli and Palestinian leaders are being investigated for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in the wake of the Oct 7 attacks by Hamas in southern Israel which killed 1,200 people, by Israeli tallies.