The closed-door meeting was requested by Algeria, a non-permanent member of the Security Council, diplomatic sources told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Monday night.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, last week ordered Israel to suspend its offensive and any other action in the Rafah province that could cause “irreparable damage” to the Palestinian people in Gaza.

The rulings of the UN court, based in The Hague, Netherlands, are binding, but the ICJ has no means of enforcing them.

Israeli shelling of a camp for the displaced in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip killed at least 50 people on Sunday, according to Palestinian officials.

The Israeli strike came hours after eight rockets were fired at Tel Aviv from Rafah.

The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas said it had fired “a heavy barrage of rockets in response to the Zionist massacres against civilians”.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the strike in Rafah “targeted a Hamas compound from which senior operatives” of the Islamist group “were operating”.

On Monday, the Israeli government promised to investigate the strike by its forces.

“We will look into it. It was indeed a serious incident. Any loss of life, civilian life, is grave and terrible,” Israeli government spokesman Avi Hyman told a press conference, insisting that Israel continued to try to “minimize civilian casualties”.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the airstrike, which has been widely condemned by the international community, “a tragic incident”.

On October 7, 2023, an unprecedented Hamas attack on Israeli territory left some 1,200 dead and two hundred hostages, according to Tel Aviv.

The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said on Monday that the number of people killed by Israeli fire since October 7 had risen to 36,050, while the number of wounded had climbed to 81,026.

In addition, the ministry says that more than 10,000 bodies remain buried in the rubble, with no access for ambulances or rescue workers.

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