Israel-Hamas war updates and latest news on Gaza conflict

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin spoke with King Abdullah II of Jordan as the ongoing crisis intensifies.

“The two leaders agreed on the importance of ensuring that civilians have access to humanitarian aid,” Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh wrote in a readout of the call.

“The secretary reaffirmed the strength of the U.S.-Jordan partnership and reiterated the U.S. commitment to Jordan’s security,” Singh added.

— Amanda Macias

Donald Trump said that if elected president again in 2024, he would widen the travel bans from his first term in office to include residents from Gaza and “anywhere else that threatens our security.”

“I banned refugees from Syria, I banned refugees from Somalia, and from all the most dangerous places in the world — and in my second term, we are going to expand each and every ban to keep America safe,” Trump announced at a campaign stop in Iowa, according to remarks prepared for the event.

Trump in those remarks also vowed to implement “strong ideological screening” for all U.S. immigrants and “aggressively deport resident aliens with jihadist sympathies.”

He also said that his administration would send immigration officers to “pro-jihadist demonstrations to enforce our immigration laws and remove the violators from our country.”

The speech in Iowa shows Trump, the top contender in the Republican presidential primary, reacting to the Israel-Hamas war by ratcheting up his hard-line views on immigration.

The Trump administration in 2017 issued an executive order restricting travel to the U.S. from seven majority-Muslim countries, among other measures. The Supreme Court narrowly upheld that order in 2018.

In 2020, the administration expanded the travel ban to include six additional nations.

President Joe Biden revoked those bans on his first day in office.

— Kevin Breuninger

The Pentagon has placed approximately 2,000 U.S. troops on preparation to deploy orders to the Middle East, a Defense official confirmed to NBC News.

The U.S. servicemembers will likely deploy to neighboring countries in support of Israel.

— Amanda Macias

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside of the White House urging President Joe Biden to call for a ceasefire in Israel and Gaza, including actor Wallace Shawn.

The protest was organized by If Not Now and Jewish Voices for Peace, two Jewish organizations advocating for equality for Israelis and Palestinians.

Shawn, known for his role in The Princess Bride, held a sign that read “My grief is not your weapon.”

— Emma Kinery

Secretary of State Antony Blinken was forced to shelter in place for a second time during his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to a note from press traveling with the State Department.

During the first air raid sirens, Blinken and Netanyahu waited in a bunker for approximately five minutes.

— Amanda Macias

United Nations Secretary-General spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that humanitarian teams have supplies that are ready to be moved into southern Gaza through the Rafah crossing.

Dujarric added that a World Health Organization aircraft arrived in Egypt near the Rafah passage with additional supplies. Meanwhile, the World Food Program is working to reach approximately 225,000 displaced people in at least 19 United Nations shelters throughout the Gaza Strip.

— Amanda Macias

Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were forced to shelter in a bunker for at least five minutes, State Department spokesman Matt Miller said.

Miller said a meeting between the two in Tel Aviv was interrupted by sirens. Over the weekend, a congressional bipartisan delegation also had to shelter in place during meetings in Israel.

— Amanda Macias

Martin Griffiths, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, will travel to the Middle East as the conflict between Israel and Hamas intensifies.

Griffiths, who is expected to stay in the region for a few days, will begin in Egypt with a possible stop in Israel.

The trip was announced by United Nations Secretary-General spokesman Stéphane Dujarric during a daily press briefing.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has previously called for a ceasefire and immediate humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip.

— Amanda Macias

The direct market impacts stemming from geopolitical are typically short-lived, according to Principal Asset Management chief global strategist Seema Shah. However, she believes that the impacts on the macroeconomy can linger.

“The key macro concerns from the developments in Israel lie with the threat of upward pressure on oil prices, and how its corresponding effect on core inflation could potentially prompt central bank action. … The indirect impacts via inflation and economic growth can be more persistent,” Shah said.

The strategist believes the critical macro concerns lie with the oil market. While Brent crude prices have not risen as much as had been expected initially following the outbreak of the attack, an escalation in tensions would likely put further upward pressure.

“Higher oil prices can work their way into core inflation and inflation expectations if sustained,” said Shah. “Safe haven flows have contributed to a sharp fall in bond yields this week. Yet, if oil prices rise further and price pressures do re-emerge, expectations of additional monetary action from policymakers could threaten a renewed bond rout.”

— Hakyung Kim

Read more about the war’s effect on markets and the global economy at CNBC’s markets live blog.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced that the U.K. will make available £10 million (about $12 million U.S.) in humanitarian aid for civilians impacted in Gaza.

“An acute humanitarian crisis is unfolding, to which we must respond. We must support the Palestinian people – because they’re victims of Hamas, too,” Sunak in a speech before the House of Commons.

The funding will go to providing critically needed items and services like, emergency shelters, food and water.

— Amanda Macias

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were briefed by their national security team on the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, a White House official said.

Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, who oversees America’s intelligence agencies, ran the briefing alongside National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Bill Burns.

— Amanda Macias

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant warned Secretary of State Antony Blinken that the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas “will be a long war.”

“Mr. Secretary, this will be a long war. The price will be high, but we are going to win for Israel, for the Jewish people and for the values that both countries believe in,” Gallant said alongside Blinken in Tel Aviv.

Blinken’s visit to Israel, his second in the past week, follows a series of high-profile meetings in the region. The top U.S. diplomat is slated to meet again with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

— Amanda Macias

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois on Monday opened a federal hate crimes investigation into the fatal stabbing of a 6-year-old Palestinian-American child in Chicago, a spokesperson tells NBC News.

Joseph Czuba, 71, was arrested and charged by the Will County Sheriff’s Office on Saturday for allegedly stabbing the child and his mother because they were Muslim and because of the ongoing situation in Israel.

President Joe Biden in a statement on Sunday said he and First Lady Jill Biden were “shocked and sickened” by the murder.

“This horrific act of hate has no place in America, and stands against our fundamental values: freedom from fear for how we pray, what we believe, and who we are,” Biden said.

“As Americans, we must come together and reject Islamophobia and all forms of bigotry and hatred. I have said repeatedly that I will not be silent in the face of hate. We must be unequivocal. There is no place in America for hate against anyone.”

— Emma Kinery

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday said attacks carried out last week by Palestinian militant group Hamas were tantamount to a pogrom.

“We should call it by its name: it was a pogrom,” Sunak said of the attacks against Israel on Oct. 7.

At least 1,400 people were killed in Israel following the attacks, while nearly 2,700 people have been killed in Gaza as a result of Israel’s retaliatory offensive.

Among those killed in Hamas’ attack on Israel were at least six Britons, Sunak told the House of Commons, adding that a further 10 were still missing.

— Karen Gilchrist

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday likened Israel’s war against Palestinian militant group Hamas to an existential battle between light and darkness.

Addressing the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, Netanyahu said that Hamas and other allied groups represented a new form of “Nazism,” the Times of Israel reported.

“Hamas is part of the evil axis of Iran and Hezbollah. They aim to plunge the Middle East into an abyss of chaos,” he said, dubbing the groups “dark forces.”

“Now, many around the world understand who Israel is facing. They comprehend that Hamas represents a new version of Nazism. Just as the world united to defeat the Nazis and Isis, so it must unite to defeat Hamas,” he added.

— Karen Gilchrist

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Monday and emphasized the United States’ promise to support Israel.

“Secretary Blinken reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to provide Israel with the assistance it needs to protect its citizens,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement.

Blinken and Herzog also discussed protecting civilians impacted by Hamas and the continuing push to free the hostages.

— Emma Kinery

The U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said it has received reports that a group of people with trucks on Sunday removed fuel and medial supplies from its compound in Gaza City.

The individuals purported to be affiliated with the Ministry of Health of Gaza.

UNRWA staff evacuated the compound on Oct. 13, and the agency has not had access to the site since.

Its “fuel & other types of material are kept for strictly humanitarian purposes – any other use is strongly condemned,” the UNRWA said Monday on social media.

CNBC could not independently verify the reports.

The Gaza Strip has been under complete siege by Israel since the start of last week, deprived of Israel’s water, electricity, fuel and food supplies, following the Oct. 7 terrorist offensive of Palestinian militant group Hamas. Amid fears of an impending ground incursion, Israel at the end of last week instructed the residents of Gaza City to evacuate south of the Wadi Gaza river.

The Gaza ministry of health has repeatedly warned that electricity and supply shortages are critically straining the local health system.

— Ruxandra Iordache

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said predicting the consequences of the Israel-Hamas war on the global economy was premature.

“I think it’s too early to speculate on whether or not there will be significant consequences,” Yellen told CNBC’s Wilfred Frost.

“I think, importantly, it depends on whether the hostilities extend beyond Israel and Gaza and that’s certainly an outcome we’d like to avoid.”

Yellen who is currently attending the Eurogroup Finance Ministers Meeting in Luxembourg, added that the Treasury Department is “monitoring the situation at this point.”

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—Chelsey Cox

A White House official is hoping that the Rafah crossing bridging Egypt and the Gaza Strip can be opened for a few hours over the course of Monday to allow the safe passage of some civilians before an anticipated Israeli ground incursion.

“Right now it’s still closed,” said National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, in Reuters-reported comments from a CNN interview. “We’re hoping, hoping, that sometime later today, it can be open for a period of hours. But again, we just have to kind of wait and see how this goes.”

He signaled that hopes of the crossing — the only point of transit out of the besieged Gaza Strip, which is otherwise enclosed by Israel and the sea — being open over the weekend were “dashed.”

The White House is currently present at the top level in Israel, with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arriving earlier in Tel Aviv.

Earlier in the day, Israel appeared to contradict reports of a humanitarian corridor that would facilitate the passage of foreign nationals out of the Gaza Strip through the Rafah route. Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry later in the day said that Israel had yet to take a stance that allowed the opening of the crossing, Reuters reported.

— Ruxandra Iordache