Israel-Hamas war live: Gaza strikes to intensify, Israeli military says; West Bank mosque hit

Israel will ‘deepen our attacks to minimise the dangers to our forces in the next stages of the war’, military spokesman says; one reported killed in Israeli strike on ‘terror operatives’ at Jenin mosque

• Hamas and Israel at war: what we know on day 16

Hello and welcome back to our rolling live coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. This is Adam Fulton and here’s a snapshot of where things stand, including the latest developments on day 16.

Israel said it planned to intensify its attacks on Gaza from Saturday night, while Israeli commanders visited frontline units to rally troops who have massed on the border with Gaza.

Israel said its aircraft struck Hezbollah targets in Lebanon on Saturday and that one of its soldiers was hit by an anti-tank missile, in cross-border fighting that the Iran-backed group said killed six of its fighters. A security source in Lebanon said one Hezbollah fighter was killed in the Lebanese area of Hula, opposite the Israeli community of Margaliot, which Israel said was the target of an anti-tank missile attack. The Israeli army said it fired back. Hezbollah, which claimed attacks on Israeli military positions throughout Saturday, later said five other members were killed.

Israel says it killed “terror operatives” from Hamas and Islamic Jihad who were planning attacks, in an air strike on a mosque in Jenin on the West Bank. The strike hit the Al-Ansar mosque, which the Israeli military said on Sunday “was used by the terrorists as a command centre to plan the attacks and as a base for their execution”. It did not specify the number killed. The director of the Red Crescent in Jenin, Mahmoud Al-Saadi, said one person was killed and three injured.

Two Palestinians were killed and several wounded in earlier Israeli shelling on the Jenin refugee camp, the Palestinian Red Crescent said.

Hamas claimed it had planned to release two more hostages “for humanitarian reasons” but that Israel refused, a Hamas spokesperson said on Saturday. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said that “we will not refer to false propaganda by Hamas” and would “continue to act in every way to return all the kidnapped and missing people home”. Abu Ubaida, a spokesperson for the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam brigades, had said it informed Qatar on Friday of Hamas’s intention to release the two hostages.

Hezbollah is “in the heart of the battle”, the deputy leader of the Iran-backed militant group in Lebanon said. Sheikh Naim Kassem vowed that Israel would pay a high price whenever it started its ground offensive in Gaza.

Gaza’s healthcare system is “facing collapse”, Médecins Sans Frontières has said. The international medical organisation said on Saturday that Gaza’s hospitals were “overwhelmed and lacking resources”.

Doctors in Gaza have warned that 130 premature babies are in “imminent danger due to a lack of fuel”. “The world cannot simply look on as these babies are killed by the siege in Gaza,” said Melanie Ward, the chief executive of Medical Aid for Palestinians.