Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Ban Ki-moon: "In the name of humanity, the violence must stop" 
 
 UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged an immediate halt to violence in Gaza, saying the Palestinian territory is in a "critical condition". 
 
 "In the name of humanity, the violence must stop," he told reporters. 
 
 Shortly after he spoke, there were reports of two explosions in Gaza City - one in a children's playground and one near Gaza's main hospital. 
 
 Israel launched an offensive against Hamas militants in the territory three weeks ago after a surge in rocket fire. 
 
 More than 1,030 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and 43 Israeli soldiers and two Israeli civilians have been killed. A Thai national in Israel has also died. 
 
 Police and health officials said separate Israeli airstrikes had hit the compound of Gaza City's main hospital and a nearby playground on Monday afternoon, causing casualties. 
 
 But a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces said both explosions were caused by misfired rockets that were launched from Gaza by "terrorists". 
 
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Martin Patience in Gaza: "Many Palestinians will think there isn't a great deal to celebrate" 
 
 Mr Ban, who spoke at UN HQ in New York after returning from a visit to the region, was critical of both sides for firing into civilian areas of the small coastal strip. 
 
 He said Hamas had fired missiles into civilian areas of Israel, while Israeli forces had used high-explosive weapons in the crowded Gaza Strip. 
 
 Mr Ban said the people of Gaza had nowhere to run to, and he emphasised that participants in conflicts had a responsibility to protect civilians. 
 
 He reiterated the UN's call for an immediate, unconditional humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza during the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday, which marks the end of Ramadan. 
 
 Both sides had behaved in an irresponsible, "morally wrong" fashion, Mr Ban said, in allowing the violence to continue despite the efforts of the UN and US Secretary of State John Kerry. 
 
 "It's a matter of their political will. They have to show their humanity as leaders, both Israeli and Palestinian," he told reporters at UN HQ. 
 
 Image copyright AP Image caption Palestinian children play at a UN school in Gaza's Jabaliya refugee camp 
 
 Image copyright AP Image caption More than 100,000 Palestinians have been displaced from their homes 
 
 Image copyright AFP Image caption Palestinian women visit a grave in Gaza 
 
 Image copyright AFP Image caption An Israeli soldier asleep on the border with Gaza on Monday 
 
 Image copyright EPA Image caption Empty shells beside an Israeli tank near the Gaza border 
 
 There were no Israeli air strikes overnight though they resumed on Monday morning after a rocket hit the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. 
 
 Israel's military launched three air strikes on rocket sites after the rocket attack on Ashkelon. A boy aged four was killed in one of the strikes, Gaza's health ministry said. 
 
 Rockets were also fired at the Sdot Negev and Eshkol districts of Israel, Israel's Haaretz newspaper reports. 
 
 An Israeli soldier was wounded in northern Gaza where the military wing of Hamas, the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, said it had "clashed" with Israeli infantry. 
 
 'Widespread support' 
 
 On Sunday night, the UN Security Council called for a "durable" truce based on an Egyptian initiative, under which a pause in hostilities would lead to substantive talks on the future of Gaza, including the opening of Gaza's border crossings. 
 
 The Palestinian representative at the UN, Riyad Mansour, said the statement did not go far enough and that a formal resolution was needed demanding that Israel withdraw its forces from Gaza. 
 
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Orla Guerin reports on Israel's response to rocket attacks 
 
 Israel's ambassador Ron Prosor accused the Security Council statement of bias for not mentioning Hamas and the firing of rockets at Israel. 
 
 Opinion polls published at the weekend suggest there is still widespread support among Israelis for the military operation. 
 
 Israel launched its military offensive on 8 July with the declared objective of stopping Hamas, the Islamist group which controls Gaza, firing rockets from Gaza into Israel. 
 
 On 18 July, it extended operations with a ground offensive, saying it was necessary to destroy tunnels dug by militants to infiltrate Israel. 
 
 Are you in Israel or Gaza? How are you affected by the situation? Email your experiences to haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk using the subject 'Israel Gaza'. ||||| Israel will press its air and ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday, preparing his country for a longer and bloodier campaign and dashing hopes that the three-week-old conflict would end soon. 
 
 Rebuffing appeals from President Obama, the United Nations and others for an immediate cease-fire, Netanyahu said in a televised address, “We will not finish the mission, we will not finish the operation, without neutralizing the tunnels” through which Hamas fighters have sought to infiltrate Israel. The tunnels, he said, “have the sole purpose of destroying our citizens, killing our children.” 
 
 Israel’s antagonist, the Islamist militant organization Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, continued to unleash deadly mortar and rocket fire, triggering air raid sirens across Israel. 
 
 In Gaza City, explosions Monday rocked a neighborhood and left at least 10 people dead, including children playing on a street, as a brief lull on one of Islam’s holiest days gave way to fresh attacks and tragedy. 
 
 Palestinian health officials said the deaths were among 18 reported in Gaza on Monday, the start of the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday capping the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. They said 70 people were injured. 
 
 Hamas officials blamed Israeli airstrikes for the blasts at the al-Shati camp, also called Beach Camp. A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces denied firing at the neighborhood and attributed the explosions to failed rocket launches from Gaza militants. 
 
 Reporters said that a shell or rocket also crashed into a medical facility in the Shifa Hospital compound in Gaza City but that there was no serious damage and that it was unclear whether there were any deaths or injuries from that strike. Hamas and the Israeli military each denied responsibility for the blast. 
 
 In a text message to journalists, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri called the strike on Beach Camp “a massacre” and vowed that “this crime will not break our will, and the occupation will pay a price.” 
 
 Later, Hamas militants fired three rockets into southern Israel, as revenge, they said. 
 
 Early Tuesday morning, Israeli military said that five soldiers were killed Monday evening when militants from Gaza infiltrated southern Israel via a tunnel from the Gaza Strip. A gunfight broke out, leaving at least one militant dead, as well as five soldiers, bringing to 10 the total number of soldiers killed in combat Monday. 
 
 Early Tuesday, an Israeli aircraft fired a missile at the house of Ismail Haniyeh, the former Hamas prime minister of Gaza, causing damage but no casualties, Reuters reported, citing Gaza’s Interior Ministry. An Israeli military spokeswoman had no information on the report but was checking for details. Haniyeh’s son said on his Facebook page that the house was empty. 
 
 Hamas said that its al-Aqsa TV station was also targeted but that the station continued to broadcast. 
 
 The latest bloodshed occurred as international efforts to end the devastating war had been intensifying. Early Monday, the U.N. Security Council called for an “immediate and unconditional humanitarian cease-fire.” 
 
 The conflict has killed more than 1,060 people in Gaza, more than 70 percent of them civilians, according to the United Nations. Israel has lost 53 soldiers, the largest toll since its 2006 war with Lebanon. Hamas mortar and rocket attacks from Gaza have killed two Israeli civilians and a Thai worker in Israel. 
 
 At Shifa Hospital, the best-equipped in the coastal enclave, chaotic scenes unfolded as the dead and the wounded arrived, some by ambulance, some carried in the arms of relatives. One woman was shaking uncontrollably and screaming, “My brother, my brother!” One man was crying in front of the mangled corpse of his father. 
 
 Naji al-Deen was seated on a chair, staring blankly, his clothes covered in blood. 
 
 Like hundreds who had come to the hospital, he was from the al-Shati camp, a seaside neighborhood filled with the families of refugees from the 1948 war that created the Israeli state. On Monday, it was a death zone. Children had been playing on a portable swing set brought in to celebrate the holiday, as well as in the narrow, tree-lined street, witnesses said. About 4:30 p.m., the blast occurred. 
 
 “It was Eid, and the children wanted to play,” said Deen, his voice cracking. “Then we heard the explosion. I saw my son running covered in blood. There were kids torn to pieces.” 
 
 Deen said he carried his son to the hospital, where he was being treated for his injuries. At least seven children were killed, witnesses said. 
 
 There were signs of rising hostilities Monday evening. Israeli media reported that militants had sneaked into southern Israel via a tunnel. The reports said that there was an exchange of fire and that five militants were killed. 
 
 Sirens sounded across southern, central and northern Israel, warning people to seek shelter from incoming Gaza rockets. 
 
 The Israeli military made cellphone calls and sent text messages to thousands of Palestinians living in the Shijaiyah, Zeitoun and Jabalya neighborhoods, warning them to evacuate immediately and head for Gaza City. Similar mass messages have preceded large strikes and incursions by Israel recently. 
 
 “If the terrorist organizations in Gaza think they can break Israel and its citizens, they will come to understand in the next few days that this is not the case,” said Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon. 
 
 The day started quietly, with many Palestinians hoping to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, typically a joyous time of parties. Israel mostly held its fire overnight, shelling only a site in the northern Gaza Strip in response to rocket fire there. But it turned out to be the briefest of respites in Gaza. 
 
 In an emergency meeting that stretched into early Monday, the U.N. Security Council urged Israel and Hamas to “accept and fully implement the humanitarian cease-fire into the Eid period and beyond,” allowing for the delivery of urgently needed assistance to Palestinians, who cannot leave the territory. 
 
 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon again appealed to Israel and Hamas to end the bloodshed. 
 
 Netanyahu heaped scorn on the U.N. statement, saying it focused on “the needs of a murderous terrorist organization that is attacking Israeli civilians and does not address Israel’s security needs, including the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip.” 
 
 In a telephone conversation, Netanyahu told Ban that the United Nations had ignored Hamas attacks on Israeli civilians and the group’s use of civilians as human shields. 
 
 On Sunday, Obama had also urged an immediate humanitarian cease-fire, according to the White House. 
 
 In Washington on Monday, U.S. officials confirmed that Israeli authorities had detained a 15-year-old American citizen for allegedly taking part in violent protests in East Jerusalem this month. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the U.S. government was urging a quick resolution of the case of Mohamed Abu Nie, arrested July 3. Israeli officials alleged that he had a knife and threw rocks and attacked police during a protest, Psaki said. She added that the U.S. government was concerned about reports that he had been beaten while in custody. 
 
 Raghavan reported from Gaza. ||||| Image copyright Reuters Image caption Photos have emerged purporting to show the aftermath of a strike on Gaza City after the truce began 
 
 Israel's "humanitarian window" for parts of Gaza has ended, having slowed violence over its seven-hour period. 
 
 Israel had said the truce would not apply to Rafah in the south and its troops would respond if attacked. 
 
 Palestinian officials said Israel broke the truce shortly after it began, hitting a house in Gaza City. 
 
 In Jerusalem, Israeli police said a Palestinian construction vehicle driver was shot dead after an attack on a bus that killed an Israeli passer-by. 
 
 Israeli media later said one person - reportedly a soldier - had been seriously injured in a suspected drive-by shooting in Jerusalem's Mt Scopus area. 
 
 As the truce ended, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement vowing to continue operations in Gaza until calm was restored. 
 
 Tunnels 
 
 The truce followed an attack near a UN-run school in Gaza on Sunday that sparked international outrage. Palestinian officials said at least 10 people died. 
 
 Earlier, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that they had begun withdrawing some troops from Gaza, saying they were "extremely close" to completing their mission to destroy a network of tunnels. 
 
 Health officials in Gaza say 1,800 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed and more than 9,000 injured since the conflict began nearly four weeks ago. 
 
 Sixty-seven Israelis have died, all but three of them soldiers. A Thai national working in Israel was also killed. 
 
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Martin Patience in Gaza and Bethany Bell in Jerusalem on reports of attacks after the start of the latest ceasefire 
 
 Martin Patience, BBC News, Gaza 
 
 Previous ceasefires and truces have all come and gone in Gaza. Most have crumbled within a matter of hours. And while Israel has announced a "humanitarian window", nobody here has any faith in it. 
 
 Israel says that it will continue its military operations close to the southern town of Rafah. Just minutes after the ceasefire got under way, Palestinians say Israel carried out in airstrike inside Gaza city - an area that was supposed to be covered by the truce. 
 
 We heard the explosion at our Gaza bureau. A BBC team saw a house that had been destroyed - locals say that at least one person died and others were injured in the attack. There's yet to be any word from the Israeli military. But it's for this reason that Palestinians say that no place in Gaza is safe - ceasefire or not. 
 
 Bethany Bell, BBC News, Jerusalem 
 
 The news that the Israeli army has redeployed some of its troops along the Gaza border and announced a partial humanitarian ceasefire for a few hours, has prompted some speculation that it may be trying to wind down the military operation unilaterally, without an agreed ceasefire with Hamas. 
 
 But it is by no means clear that an end to the fighting is in sight. The offensive around Rafah, near the Egyptian border, continues, possibly to try to make it harder for Hamas to re-arm in future. And the army may be searching for more cross border tunnels that it has not yet identified. 
 
 There is intense international pressure on Israel to negotiate a long-term ceasefire. For now, Israel appears to be ignoring those calls, but it hasn't ruled out a possible diplomatic solution. 
 
 Image copyright EPA Image caption Palestinian officials claimed a child died in the attack on Gaza City minutes after Monday's ceasefire began 
 
 Image copyright AFP Image caption Israel earlier said the "humanitarian window" would allow displaced Palestinians return to their homes 
 
 Image copyright EPA Image caption One Israeli passerby and the Palestinian driver of an excavator were killed in Jerusalem 
 
 Image copyright AP Image caption The Israeli death toll now stands at 67, with all but three of them members of the Israel Defense Forces 
 
 Violation of truce? 
 
 Hamas responded to the truce with suspicion, accusing the IDF of trying to "divert the attention from Israeli massacres". 
 
 Palestinian health officials said Israel carried out an air strike on a refugee camp inside Gaza City just minutes after the ceasefire began. 
 
 BBC correspondents there said they heard the explosion and saw a house that had been destroyed in the attack. 
 
 Reports suggest the strike killed a young girl and injured at least 15 others, many of them women and children. 
 
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption "The UN says Israel has killed around 330 Palestinian children in under 30 days", reports Orla Guerin in Gaza 
 
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The BBC's James Reynolds: "This does not yet look like the end of war" 
 
 Israel's temporary ceasefire - aimed at allowing Palestinians to return to their homes - did not include Rafah because there was an "Israeli military presence" there and "clashes were still ongoing", the IDF said. 
 
 The truce began at 10:00 local time (07:00 GMT) and ended at 17:00 (14:00 GMT). 
 
 In attacks before the truce came into effect, an Islamic Jihad commander in northern Gaza, Daniel Mansour, was killed when his home was hit. 
 
 In Jerusalem, a construction vehicle driven by a man, identified by police as a Palestinian from east Jerusalem, overturned a bus in an ultra-Orthodox neighbourhood. 
 
 A passer-by was killed and several people were injured before police shot dead the driver. 
 
 Israeli media also reported that dozens of rockets had been fired from Gaza on Monday. 
 
 'Disgraceful shelling' 
 
 More than a quarter of the 1.8 million residents in the Palestinian territory have been displaced in the most recent hostilities. 
 
 Many of those who have fled their homes have taken refuge in UN shelters across Gaza, including the UN-run school in Rafah which was hit on Sunday. 
 
 The IDF said it had targeted three Islamist militants near the school. 
 
 UN chief Ban Ki-moon described the Israeli strike as "a criminal act" and the US said it was appalled by the "disgraceful shelling". 
 
 Mr Netanyahu said Israel was "sorry for any attack that unintentionally hits civilians", but accused Hamas of turning UN facilities into "terrorist hotspots". 
 
 The IDF says 2,560 rockets and mortars fired from Gaza have landed in Israel since 8 July, and that its Iron Dome defence system has intercepted another 556 rockets. 
 
 Image copyright Reuters Image caption Israel's army says it is "extremely close" to achieving its mission in Gaza and has begun withdrawing troops
– Explosions have hit Gaza City's main hospital and a nearby park, killing at least nine children and an adult in the latter, reports the AP. But the source of those explosions is anybody's guess: Hamas claims they were Israeli airstrikes, while the Israeli Defense Force says they were misfired Hamas rockets. Camera crews were prevented from filming the area of impact at Shifa Hospital, but CNN notes that Hamas-run television is showing live images that reportedly show at least one dead body in what appears to be an emergency room. The report follows a UN Security Council call for an "immediate" ceasefire, the BBC notes. Hamas also managed to briefly infiltrate an Israeli village today, reports Reuters. Hamas says it killed 10 Israeli soldiers in the incursion; Israel claims it killed five militants.