Updates: Hamas-Israel ceasefire holds

The United Nations has said that Israeli forces have imposed a curfew on 25,000 Palestinians living in Hebron’s H2 area. 

The operation has shut bakeries, the UN's supply shops, and schools, disrupting access to food, medicine, and education. 

A prolonged electricity cut has further worsened the crisis, leaving families confined with limited basic services.

Palestinian‑British activist Dr Rahmeh Aladwan says that UK authorities are criminalising standing in solidarity with Palestine by framing it as a national security issue. 

The Palestinian-British recounts facing repeated detention, harassment, and arrests despite escalating threats against her. 

Aladwan describes Britain as a “captured state” aligned with Israeli security interests, leaving activists vulnerable.

The United Nations clarified that the Security Council has authorised the “Board of Peace” solely for work related to Gaza. 

The spokesman stressed the Board cannot replace the UN or the Council, noting the Secretary‑General has not been invited to join the body so far. 

The UN welcomed the initiative only as a limited mechanism to support the ceasefire, leaving participation decisions to states.

France "does not intend to answer favourably" to an invitation to join US President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace", a source close to President Emmanuel Macron told AFP on Monday.

The board was originally conceived to oversee the rebuilding of war-torn Gaza, but the charter does not appear to limit its role to the occupied Palestinian territory.

Its charter "goes beyond the sole framework of Gaza", the source close to the French president said.

"It raises major questions, particularly regarding respect for the principles and structure of the United Nations, which under no circumstances can be called into question," they added.

France is a permanent member of the UN Security Council.

Earlier Monday, its foreign ministry issued a statement reiterating France's commitment to the UN.

"This remains the keystone of effective multilateralism, where international law, the sovereign equality of states, and the peaceful settlement of disputes prevail over arbitrariness, power politics and war," it said.

Morocco's King Mohammed VI has accepted US President Donald Trump's invitation to join his "Board of Peace" as a founding member, the Moroccan foreign ministry said on Monday.

"Welcoming President Donald Trump's commitment and vision to promoting peace," the monarch "has graciously accepted this invitation", the ministry said in a statement published by MAP news agency, adding the country would "ratify the charter establishing this board".

Canada will not pay to be on US President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace", a government source told AFP on Monday, after Prime Minister Mark Carney indicated he would accept an invitation to join the body.

"Canada will not pay for a seat on the board, nor has that been requested of Canada at this time," the government source said, referring to Trump's demand that countries pay $1.0 billion for a permanent spot on the board, initially conceived to oversee the rebuilding of Gaza.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to shut a US-led multinational coordinating centre that supports President Donald Trump’s plan to end the Gaza war.

"The time has come to dismantle the headquarters in Kiryat Gat," said Smotrich, far-right cabinet minister, in remarks shared by his office to media, referring to the Israeli city northeast of Gaza where the centre is based.

Smotrich said that Hamas should be given a "very short" ultimatum to disarm and go into exile, and once that ultimatum expires, the military should storm Gaza with "full force" to destroy the resistance group.

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney said he had agreed to US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace for Gaza in principle although details are still being worked out.

Carney said Trump raised the idea with him a few weeks ago and Carney said Canada will do what it can to relieve suffering in Gaza.

"We haven't gone through all the details of the structure, how it's going to work, what financing is for, etcetera," Carney told reporters in Doha. "We will work through those in the coming days."

US President Donald Trump invited India to be a part of the board of peace for Gaza, ANI news reported, citing sources.