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Here’s where things stand on Wednesday 4 June 2025:
We’ll be closing this live page soon. Here’s a recap of the day’s major developments:
- The Israeli military continued its deadly attacks across the Gaza Strip, including in Jabalia, Deir el-Balah and Khan Younis.
- The United States vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza – the fifth time it has done so in support of Israel since the war broke out.
- Two settler attacks on villages just east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank wounded dozens of Palestinians.
- In a survey, 93 percent of Palestinian and international NGOs operating in Gaza said their existing aid stores in Gaza are completely or nearly exhausted, as Israel continues to impose severe restrictions on the entry of humanitarian assistance into the Gaza Strip.
Freedom Flotilla condemns Israel threats to attack aid ship
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) has denounced Israel’s “threat” to attack its vessel bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza and breaking its blockade.
“Israel has no legal authority to control or enforce a maritime closure on Gaza and, therefore, no lawful basis to intercept the Madleen,” said Huwaida Arraf, human rights attorney and FFC steering committee member.
“Such an act would constitute a blatant violation of international maritime law and a direct defiance of the ICJ’s binding orders requiring unimpeded humanitarian access to Gaza.”
Yasemin Acar, another member on board the ship, said: “We call on people of conscience, institutions, and governments to take action now: demand that Israel refrain from attacking the Madleen and defend life and dignity in Gaza.”
Trump says ‘time is running out’ on Iran nuclear negotiations
The US president said in a social media post discussing a telephone call with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that a deal to curb Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon must be reached quickly.
“We also discussed Iran and the fact that time is running out on Iran’s decision pertaining to nuclear weapons, which must be made quickly! I stated to President Putin that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and, on this, I believe that we were in agreement,” Trump said.
“President Putin suggested that he will participate in the discussions with Iran and that he could, perhaps, be helpful in getting this brought to a rapid conclusion. It is my opinion that Iran has been slow-walking their decision on this very important matter, and we will need a definitive answer in a very short period of time!”
Palestinians being ‘stripped of their human dignity’: Red Cross boss
Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, says humanitarian conditions in Gaza have become worse since April, when the Strip was “hell on Earth”.
“The fact that we are watching people being entirely stripped of their human dignity should really shock our collective conscience,” she said in an interview.
The world is seeing a type of warfare in Gaza that “shows utmost disrespect for civilians”.
Israel’s aid sites are ‘a trap’
At a hospital in southern Gaza, the family of Reem al-Akhras, who was killed in Israel’s mass shooting on Tuesday, mourned her death.
“She went to bring us some food, and this is what happened to her,” her son Zain Zidan said through tears.
Her husband, Mohamed Zidan, said “every day unarmed people” are being killed. “This is not humanitarian aid – it’s a trap.”
More than 100 Palestinian people seeking aid have been reported killed by Israeli forces in the vicinity of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) distribution centres since the organisation started operating in the enclave on May 27.
Irish university to cut ties with Israel over war on Gaza
The Republic of Ireland’s Trinity College Dublin says it will sever all ties with Israel because of its “ongoing violations of international and humanitarian law”.
The decision comes after a series of student protests bringing attention to Israeli military abuses in Gaza and calling for an end to ties with the country.
The news agency AFP reported that the board of the leading university sent an email to students saying it would no longer do business with Israeli firms, would divest from all companies based in Israel, and would decline further mobility agreements with Israeli universities.
‘Deeply disturbing’: UK minister denounces aid site killings
At least 27 people were killed and more than 100 wounded when Israeli troops opened fire near a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation site in southern Gaza on Tuesday. The Israeli military said the incident is under investigation.
The UK called for an “immediate and independent investigation”, echoing a demand from UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
UK Middle East Minister Hamish Falconer said the deaths of Palestinians as they sought food were “deeply disturbing” as he called Israel’s new measures for aid delivery “inhumane”. UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher said, “These are not isolated incidents,” and called for accountability.
The United Nations says the territory’s entire population remains at risk of famine.
Clear surge in Israeli attacks across Gaza
Israeli missiles continue to assail Gaza and there’s been a focus in the past two hours on targeting residential areas in Deir el-Balah.
We have seen different distressing images of Israeli bombings, and we have also recorded a new air strike on the al-Mawasi area. Three Palestinians were killed in the attack, including two children.
This reflects a very confusing Israeli strategy. The military has been calling residents, telling them to move to al-Mawasi. Families packed up and started to set up tents in this very tiny strip of land that continues to be bombarded by Israeli ground and air forces.
There has been a clear surge of attacks, the latest on Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, where the water system has been critically destroyed.
UNICEF spokesman ‘shocked’ by extent of malnutrition in Gaza
UNICEF spokesman James Elder, currently in Gaza, has described the “horrors” he witnessed within just 24 hours.
Speaking from al-Mawasi, Elder told Al Jazeera that Gaza’s hospitals and streets are filled with malnourished children. “I’m seeing teenage boys in tears, showing me their ribs,” he said, noting that children were pleading for food.
He described people so desperate they walk kilometres to aid centres – despite knowing “massacres” have recently taken place there.
“Imagine knowing there’d be a massacre, but being so desperate to feed your family that you still go,” he said, blaming the Israel-US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation for enabling the violence and then shutting down operations without delivering enough aid.
UN humanitarian chief says aid must be let into Gaza at scale
Tom Fletcher says a series of “deliberate choices” have deprived more than two million people of life-saving assistance in Gaza.
“Open all of the crossings. Let in lifesaving aid at scale, from all directions. Lift restrictions on what and how much aid we can bring in. Ensure our convoys aren’t held up by delays and denials,” he said.
“Release the hostages. Implement the ceasefire. Let us work.”
Photos: Palestinians flee Khan Younis after Israeli evacuation orders
NGO survey finds increased restrictions on movement in occupied West Bank
A report detailing the results of a survey of 29 non-governmental organisations operating in the occupied West Bank has found many aid groups have reduced or suspended operations there and are facing greater restrictions on movement.
The report said “93 percent of surveyed NGOs in the West Bank report a sharp increase in movement restrictions throughout the reporting period”, and noted that 86 percent reported that things such as increased waiting time at Israeli checkpoints have hindered efforts to distribute aid.
About 72 percent of NGOs also said violent attacks by Israeli settlers are affecting their areas of operation.
What is the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation?
- Officially independent, the GHF is an Israel-and-US-backed body that began distributing aid in the Gaza Strip on May 27.
- Under increasing international pressure to allow in humanitarian relief, Israel sought to find a solution it says prevents aid from falling into the hands of armed Palestinian groups.
- Humanitarian organisations say the vast majority of food and other supplies reach Gaza’s civilian population and are not diverted to fighters.
- While the previous UN-led distribution network operated about 400 sites across the Strip, the GHF – guarded by armed private security contractors working for a US company – has set up only four “mega-sites” for Gaza’s population of 2.3 million Palestinians.
- The UN and aid groups say the GHF does not abide by humanitarian principles, accusing it of weaponising aid and warning it could serve to depopulate northern Gaza, as planned by the Israeli military.
- Israel killed 32 Palestinians waiting to get food at two GHF aid distribution sites in Gaza and wounded more than 200 others.
- Gaza’s authorities report more than 100 aid seekers have been killed since the GHF started operating.
Human Rights Watch says US strike on Yemeni port likely a war crime
The international human rights watchdog says an April 17 US attack on Ras Issa Port in Hodeidah should be investigated as a war crime.
The group said the attack, carried out as part of a US campaign against the Houthi rebel group, resulted in dozens of civilian casualties and seriously damaged port infrastructure.
“The US government’s decision to strike Ras Issa Port, a critical entry point for aid in Yemen, while hundreds of workers were present demonstrates a callous disregard for civilians’ lives,” said Niku Jafarnia, Yemen and Bahrain researcher at Human Rights Watch.
“At a time when the majority of Yemenis don’t have adequate access to food and water, the attack’s impact on humanitarian aid could be enormous, particularly after Trump administration aid cutbacks.”
UNRWA chief says restrictions in aid entering Gaza must end
Philippe Lazzarini says no safe, dignified, or significant humanitarian aid has entered Gaza for three months during Israel’s blockade, and the UN is the only organisation with the experience and resources necessary to dramatically ramp up distribution.
“We have got to and must go back to bringing in aid at scale to people wherever they are and deliver it safely. The only way to do this is through the United Nations, including UNRWA,” he said in a social media post.
“We have the expertise, experience and resources. We demonstrated tangible impact during the ceasefire when obstacles were lifted. Delaying the decision to properly respond to the deepening hunger will further push down people in Gaza to an endless bottom and deepen dehumanization.”
Israeli hardliners try to block aid from entering Gaza
A hardline Israeli group has tried to stop aid trucks from entering Gaza as malnourished Palestinians face a suspension of aid distribution by the Israel-US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
About 20 activists from the group Tsav 9 attempted to block aid shipments at the Kerem Shalom (Karem Abu Salem) border crossing, Israeli media reported.
The protest came as the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation suspended aid distribution for a day. The move – to allow for “renovation, reorganisation and efficiency improvement work” – followed days of bloodshed in which Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinian aid seekers near a distribution site.
Tsav 9 has previously blockaded aid trucks bound for Gaza, saying it harms Israel’s objectives in the war.
“Aid to the enemy is one of the main reasons for our faltering in the war. Aid prolonged it and hurt us badly,” the group wrote on X in a post on Tuesday, calling on supporters to join the blockade.
Israeli arms exports hit all-time high last year: Ministry
Israel exported a record-high $14.7bn worth of arms in 2024, according to its Defence Ministry.
Nearly half of the weapons sales involved missile, rocket and air defence systems.
Defence Minister Israel Katz attributed the uptick to the Israeli military’s combat “successes” in Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen and elsewhere.
At the same time, numerous states, including traditional allies such as Spain, Italy, Canada and France, have suspended or sharply limited arms sales to Israel due to its ongoing attacks in Gaza.
More than 90% aid stocks nearly exhausted in Gaza
A survey of 46 Palestinian and international aid groups working in Gaza has found 93 percent reported their existing aid stocks are totally or nearly exhausted because of Israel’s devastating restrictions on humanitarian assistance.
About two-thirds also reported being unable to deliver services to communities in some parts of the Strip, and one-third said staff members had been wounded or killed in Israeli attacks.
“The government of Israel’s systemic obstruction of aid and the deterioration of the operating environment have severely affected the provision of assistance to communities in need,” a snapshot of the survey results said.
12-year-old boy among two killed near Khan Younis: Report
An Israeli aerial attack has killed two people and injured others to the west of Khan Younis, reports the Wafa news agency.
One of those killed is a 12-year-old boy, it said.
Attack victims were rushed to the Kuwaiti Field Hospital in Khan Younis for treatment, said the agency.
It comes after two other children were killed earlier by an Israeli drone attack in southwestern Gaza City.
Photos: Palestinian children struggle to find food in Gaza
Hospitals struggle to treat patients with heavy bleeding after drone attacks
We are at the point where we can’t really keep up with the drone strikes. In the span of just 30 minutes, three drone strikes targeted people across Gaza City, as well as tents in central Gaza.
Civilians in the eastern part of Gaza City – particularly near the Shujayea neighbourhood – also reported quadcopters chasing them as they headed to the west.
The attacks have caused numerous civilian casualties. The drone missiles [people were targeted with] are quite fatal. When they explode, shrapnel and pieces of metal packed inside fly out at a high speed, piercing through bodies and causing severe bleeding.
Due to the huge influx of injured people [suffering from such bleeding] and a shortage of medical supplies, staff at al-Shifa Hospital and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital have been unable to intervene properly.
Elderly man from Gaza dies in Israeli custody
A 70-year-old man from Gaza has died in Israeli custody, Palestinian prisoners’ rights groups say.
Muhammad Ibrahim Hussein Abu Habl died on January 10, the Commission for Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said in a statement.
The groups were recently notified of his death by the Israeli military. No cause was specified.
Abu Habl, a father of 11 children, was arrested at a checkpoint in November 2024.
Israel destroyed 60 percent of equipment in Gaza’s blood banks, labs: Ministry
Gaza’s Health Ministry says most equipment in hospital labs and blood banks has been destroyed, with the remainder poorly maintained and lacking spare parts.
“Sixty percent of the equipment has been destroyed, deliberately damaged” by Israeli forces, said the ministry, warning that labs urgently need supplies to test and treat the wounded.
Israel’s latest actions in Gaza ‘intolerable’: UK’s Starmer
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has criticised Israel’s attack on Gaza as “appalling” and “intolerable” as protesters outside Parliament called for an embargo and sanctions.
“Israel’s recent action is appalling and, in my view, counterproductive and intolerable,” he told lawmakers. “We have strongly opposed the expansion of military operations and settler violence and the blocking of humanitarian aid.”
Starmer pointed out his government recently scrapped free trade negotiations with Israel, and said it will consider further action, alongside allies, including sanctions.
“I’ve said that we are strongly opposed and appalled by Israel’s recent actions, and have been absolutely clear in condemning them and calling them out, whether that’s the expansion of military operations, settler violence, or the dreadful blocking of aid, it’s completely unacceptable,” he said.
“We must see a ceasefire, hostages must be released, and there must be aid into Gaza.”
Israel kills two Palestinians in northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic, citing a source at al-Shifa Hospital, report that two Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli attack on the Jabalia refugee camp in the north of the Gaza Strip.
We will bring you more information as we get it.
Photos: London protesters call for sanctions on Israel
Armed wing of Hamas claims to have attacked Israeli tank in Gaza
Qassam Brigades says its fighters hit an Israeli tank south of Khan Younis on Tuesday with a Yassin 105 missile.
The attack that came in the Maen area of the southern city in Gaza caused a fire inside the military vehicle, the group said on Telegram, adding that its fighters saw an Israeli helicopter land in the area to evacuate the victims.
It did not elaborate on the number of dead or injured soldiers.
No Other Land filmmaker raises alarm over Israeli raid on Palestinian co-director’s village
Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham says Israeli forces have again stormed the occupied West Bank village of his Palestinian colleague Hamdan Ballal, with whom he co-directed the Oscar-winning film No Other Land.
In a post on X this morning, Abraham said Israeli forces entered Susya and set up an “outpost” right in front of the home of Ballal, who fears for his and his neighbours’ safety.
Back in March, as we reported, Ballal was arrested by Israeli forces after being beaten by Israeli soldiers and settlers. The attack took place just three weeks after he won an Oscar in Hollywood.
British charity calls Israel’s US-backed aid mechanism in Gaza an ‘atrocity in action’
Action for Humanity, a British humanitarian organisation that operates in Gaza, has blasted the Israeli-conceived Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) for failing to bring aid to most of Gaza’s population while subjecting civilians to deadly violence near aid sites.
“Today, this system – the GHF – has shuttered: depriving thousands of aid access, while Israeli forces escalate military operations in civilian areas and declare aid distribution points as ‘combat zones’,” the organisation wrote in a statement. “An entire population has been denied, humiliated and traumatised by this negligent and insufficient system.”
“Beyond the countless casualties since the programme launch, according to its own data, the GHF has reached only 13 percent of Gaza’s population with food aid – a catastrophic failure by any standard,” it added. “This isn’t a solution; it’s an atrocity in action.”
Israeli army promotes officer accused of ordering attack on people with white flag in Gaza: Report
An unnamed Israeli military officer who soldiers say issued a shoot-to-kill order against two people carrying a white flag in Gaza has been promoted to the rank of a battalion commanding officer, according to Israel’s Haaretz newspaper.
The publication reported on the incident in December last year through an op-ed written by an Israeli soldier, Haim Har-Zahav, who said he witnessed it in the so-called Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza earlier that year.
The order to shoot was countermanded by another officer, and the men who were waving their hands above their heads were not shot.
Following the publication of the op-ed, Israeli military police called on Har-Zahav to give a statement. But they have not summoned the accused officer for questioning, Haaretz reported, instead awarding him command of an infantry battalion.
Norway’s parliament to vote on divesting from Israeli firms operating in occupied areas
Lawmakers are set to debate whether Norway’s $1.9 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, should divest from all companies with activities in the occupied Palestinian territories.
A formal vote was expected at about 13:00 GMT.
The minority Labour government has for months been resisting pressure from pro-Palestinian campaigners to instruct the fund to divest from all firms with ties to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
“We have an established ethical regime for the fund,” Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg told the chamber in a debate on several aspects of the way the fund is run. “We divest from the companies that contribute to Israel’s breach of international law, but we do not divest from all companies that are present on the ground.”
Lawmaker Ingrid Fiskaa from the small Socialist Left opposition party told the chamber: “Without Norwegian oil fund money, it would be more difficult for Israeli authorities to demolish the homes of Palestinian families.”
Three killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza City, Deir el-Balah
Our colleagues have shared reports of several more deadly attacks in the central Gaza area.
One attack took place near a university branch to the west of Gaza City, killing at least two people, they reported, quoting a medical source at the nearby al-Shifa Hospital.
A second attack hit a tent housing displaced people in Deir el-Balah, killing one person and injuring others, they quoted a health official at the city’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital as saying.
The latest casualties bring today’s death toll to 41, they report.
British public supports embargo, sanctions against Israel, poll shows
A new survey of 2,050 people in the United Kingdom has found 57 percent support for a full arms embargo on Israel, with only 13 percent of the respondents opposing it.
About 54 percent of people said they were in favour of sanctions against Israel’s ultra-nationalist Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who has called for the mass displacement of Palestinians from Gaza.
Meanwhile, 53 percent of respondents supported expelling Israel from the United Nations over its devastating campaign in Gaza, with just 16 percent opposing the move.
The survey was conducted in recent days on behalf of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign – organisers of the “red line” protest in London.
London protesters demand full arms embargo, sanctions on Israel
I’m here at the start of a slightly different protest from the kind we see week-in, week-out in London. The aim is to form what they’re calling a “red line” all around parliament, demanding a full arms embargo and sanctions on Israel. The aim is to have about 8,000 people stretching across the Thames and back, forming a loop around parliament itself.
They’re doing that while Keir Starmer is going to be inside doing Prime Minister’s Question Time. Why are they doing this? They say the UK government should have had numerous red lines with Israel over Gaza.
It should have had red lines over 20 months of devastation, over 54,000 deaths, over the number of homes and hospitals destroyed. Over the International Court of Justice rulings on genocide and illegal occupation of the West Bank, and over the ICC arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant.
The organisers acknowledge that the UK government’s position has changed recently – that its language has toughened, that it has ditched trade negotiations with Israel. But they say that’s not enough. They’re asking: What are the UK’s red lines if it’s not starving children in Gaza?
At least 10,400 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails: Monitor
As we’ve reported, Israeli forces have carried out near-daily waves of arrests across the occupied West Bank during the Gaza war.
The campaign has brought the total number of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody, excluding those held in military camps, to at least 10,400, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society.
The figure includes 440 minors and 49 women, according to the group.
It added that more than one-third of the total prisoners are being held without charge under “administrative detention”, Israel’s extensive use of which has been slammed by rights groups.
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PIJ’s armed wing claims to have struck Israeli soldiers near Jabalia
The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the al-Quds Brigades, says its fighters have “confirmed their success” in hitting a group of Israeli soldiers east of northern Gaza’s Jabalia area with two missiles.
The attack came two days ago, on Monday at 6pm (15:00 GMT), the statement published on Telegram said.
What we know about Sunday’s attack on Rafah aid seekers
On Sunday morning, Palestinians gathered near GHF-run food distribution sites in Rafah were fired on, killing and wounding dozens.
Conflicting claims have emerged about what happened.
Gaza’s Health Ministry, journalists on the scene and other witnesses say Israeli drones and tanks were responsible for the deadly assault.
However, the Israeli military has denied its troops shot at civilians in or near aid distribution areas.
Activist-led humanitarian aid ship en route to Gaza
The Madleen ship, launched by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), is on its way to Gaza carrying humanitarian aid and rights activists protesting Israel’s illegal blockade of the Strip.
If there are no disruptions, the ship and its 12-person crew, including climate activist Greta Thunberg, are expected to reach the enclave on June 7.
Follow our live coverage of the flotilla’s journey here.
Ultra-Orthodox party poised to quit Israeli government over conscription dispute
Israel’s government has been thrown into turmoil by an ultra-Orthodox party’s threat to dissolve the ruling coalition amid a dispute about compulsory military service.
Senior rabbis have instructed their representatives in the United Torah Judaism alliance, which holds seven seats in Israel’s parliament, to pull their support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government, the DPA news agency and Israeli media reported.
The alliance’s withdrawal would leave Netanyahu’s right-wing, religious government with just 61 seats in the 120-member parliament.
The split has come amid a debate over compulsory military service for Israel’s ultra-Orthodox minority, known as the Haredim. The ultra-Orthodox have for decades been granted an exemption from compulsory military service, but that exemption lapsed last year.
Netanyahu’s government has not passed a law exempting the ultra-Orthodox from the draft, despite pressure from the community to do so. Many ultra-Orthodox Jews see military service as incompatible with their beliefs.
Israel’s militarised aid takeover creates ‘absurd theatre’ in Gaza
Mads Gilbert, an emergency medicine coordinator who has worked extensively in Gaza, has slammed the Israeli-conceived Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) for sidelining established aid groups and putting starving Palestinians in the line of fire.
“Israel has made a whole new set of rules, in which they exclude the common UN mechanism of distributing help to people in need and replace it with a militarised type of distribution,” he told Al Jazeera.
Pointing to recent deadly attacks on aid seekers in Rafah, Gilbert said Israel had created an “absurd theatre” in which desperate people are forced to risk their lives for parcels of food.
“What needs to happen is for Israel to keep its hands off the distribution of humanitarian aid,” said Gilbert. “We need robust sanctions and a stop to Israel’s outrageous killing of starving people.”
Israeli gunboats ‘kidnap’ fisherman from Lebanese waters
A Lebanese security source has told Al Jazeera that four Israeli gunboats surrounded a Lebanese fishing boat in Lebanon’s territorial waters off the coast of the southern town of Naqoura, kidnapping one of the fishermen.
Lebanese local media posted the picture of the fisherman Ali Fneish, from the southern town of Ma’roub, from his boat off Naqoura. They said he was taken to the occupied Palestinian territory.
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Here are the latest developments:
- About 50,000 pregnant and nursing women are at “serious risk” in Gaza due to shortages of food and essential medicines, according to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central city of Deir el-Balah.
- Separately, Gaza’s Health Ministry says Israeli forces have hit the roof of an administration building at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital as part of a “systematic policy of undermining” the enclave’s health system.
- Dr Mohammed Abu Salmiya, director of Gaza City’s devastated al-Shifa Hospital, has made an urgent appeal for the entry of blood units into the war-ravaged enclave, saying large numbers of wounded were dying each day due to blood shortages.
- An Israeli reserve soldier has been killed in fighting in northern Gaza, the Israeli military says.
- Israeli forces have arrested 19 Palestinians, including activists, in dawn raids in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office (ASRA).
Israeli air raid kills at least 1 in Gaza City beach camp
We are getting reports of another deadly air attack near Gaza City.
The air strike hit the Shati refugee camp by the coast, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report.
At least one person was killed and others injured, they said, quoting a health worker at al-Shifa Hospital.
We’ll bring you more information as we have it.
Gaza death toll rises
At least 95 Palestinians have been killed and 440 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
Two bodies of people killed in previous Israeli attacks were also recovered from the rubble in the war-torn territory, the ministry said.
The total death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza has risen to 54,607 killed and 125,341 injured since October 7, 2023, it said.
Israel has killed 4,335 Palestinians and injured 13,300 since breaking a ceasefire in March this year.
Mujahideen Brigades says leading member killed in Israeli attack
The Mujahideen Brigades, a smaller Palestinian armed faction active in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, has issued a statement mourning one of its senior members, who it says was killed in an Israeli “assassination”.
The group identified him as Mahmoud Abu Nar, a member of its military council and the head of its Central Governorate Brigade.
The Mujahideen Brigades serves as the military wing of the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement, which split from the Palestinian Fatah movement in the mid-2000s.
About 50,000 pregnant women, nursing mothers at ‘serious risk’: Gaza hospital
The war in Gaza is having a devastating effect on pregnant women and nursing mothers, with an estimated 50,000 at serious risk due to shortages of food and essential medicines, according to a hospital in central Gaza.
Khalil al-Daqran, spokesperson for Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, said rates of miscarriage had increased sixfold since the outbreak of war and had been accompanied by a large rise in premature births, Wafa reported.
That had left Gaza’s embattled neonatal units overwhelmed, he said.
Al-Daqran said Israel’s targeting of the healthcare system had brought it to the brink of collapse, with far-reaching impacts on patients in Gaza.
More than 23 hospitals had been put out of action, with those that remained only partly functioning, as a result of severe shortages of medical supplies and fuel, he said.
That meant more than 12,000 cancer patients were left without treatment, resulting in about five deaths a day, while dialysis patients were also dying through a lack of essential treatment.
Photos: Gaza City residents survey aftermath of strikes, mourn loved ones
G️aza’s Health Ministry accuses Israel of striking hospital building in Deir el-Balah
In a statement, the ministry says Israeli forces have hit the roof of an administration building at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza’s central city of Deir el-Balah.
The attack, it said, caused “fear and confusion among medical staff, patients and their companions”.
The ministry condemned Israel for continuing a “systematic policy of undermining” Gaza’s health system and called for the “urgent … protection of health facilities”.
Battlefield losses in Gaza build pressure on Israeli government
This morning, the Israeli army made an official announcement about the killing of a soldier. It comes a day after three Israeli soldiers were killed in combat.
This is happening as Israeli forces are advancing their ground operation into Gaza, as a way, they say, to put pressure on Hamas to accept US envoy Steve Witkoff’s proposal for a ceasefire.
Hamas says it wants more guarantees that this ceasefire would lead to a permanent truce, and not just a 60-day one.
But, as you see, Israel is not really finding it easy to push forward inside Gaza. And four soldiers’ deaths in two days are mounting pressure on the government, which is already struggling.
There are concerns that captives are being subjected to danger from the Israeli military pressure inside Gaza, and also that Israel could lose even more captives as its soldiers advance further into the territory.
Israel demolishes 15 homes in Bedouin village: Report
Bulldozers have torn down 15 homes in the village of Arab al-Mask, home to a community of more than 100 Bedouins in southern Israel’s Negev region, according to the Wafa news agency.
The demolitions have displaced the community of the village, which Israel does not recognise, said Wafa.
As we’ve previously reported, Israel regularly demolishes Arab homes that it claims are built without official authorisation, which Bedouins say is nearly impossible to secure.
Gaza death toll since dawn rises to 26
Medical sources have told our colleagues that Israeli raids on several areas in the Gaza Strip have killed at least 26 people since dawn.
We have reported earlier that at least 18 killings took place in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis.
We now know that hospitals in Gaza City received seven bodies, and one more body was received by al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza’s Nuseirat.
Casualty toll rises ‘by the hour’ after intense overnight Israeli attacks
The worst of the attacks happened overnight in Khan Younis, where a school was targeted in an Israeli air attack, killing at least 18 people. The school was housing displaced families, many newly displaced from eastern Khan Younis. This highlights the illusion of safe zones, security zones, or even shelters.
There are more attack victims in the northern part of the Strip – both in Jabalia and here, in Gaza City.
In southwest Gaza City, a very crowded area, three people – a man and his children – were killed in a drone attack as they were leaving the house they were sheltering in. Two other people in Jabalia were struck by a drone.
The casualty toll is rising by the hour.
Many people who have been brought to hospitals have had to wait a long time for doctors to treat them, given how overcrowded and lacking in supplies the facilities are.
At least 19 Palestinians arrested by Israeli forces in occupied West Bank
Israeli forces have arrested 19 Palestinians, including activists, in dawn raids in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office (ASRA).
The arrests were largely made in the town of Tammun and the Far’a refugee camp in the northern West Bank, the ASRA report published on Telegram said.
Among those arrested were at least five former prisoners, ASRA said, while the wife of a former prisoner was also arrested and detained for hours at a checkpoint east of Nablus.
It says the raids are part of Israel’s escalated targeting of released prisoners and their families through night raids and arrests.
Private sector aid mechanism in Gaza ‘clearly not working’
“If you look at the chaos and anarchy on the ground, you know there has to be a better, more efficient way of getting food to people who are clearly starving,” Colin Clarke, the director of research for the Soufan Group, a consultancy firm, has told Al Jazeera.
“This is all part and parcel of the Israeli counterinsurgency strategy to push people into the south, but … the optics of this to the world are becoming quite clear,” he explained.
Clarke said that, according to some assessments, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation may not be able to continue its operations after the Boston Consulting Group terminated its contract with them.
“There’s the conventional wisdom says that the private sector is inherently more efficient when it comes to certain logistics, but this is a very specialised aid mechanism, delivery of food to starving people in a conflict zone, that should be left to the people and organisations that do this for a living, the neutral and impartial organisations like the United Nations,” he said.
At least 2 Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on Gaza City home
A source at Gaza City’s al-Ahli Hospital has told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic that Israel attacked a home in the city’s Sabra neighbourhood.
Bodies of at least two people killed in the attack were received at the hospital, the source said, adding there were some injured people as well, whose number was not known.
Hospital chief appeals for urgent entry of blood units into Gaza
Dr Mohammed Abu Salmiya, director of Gaza City’s devastated al-Shifa Hospital, has made an urgent appeal for the entry of blood units into the war-ravaged enclave, saying large numbers of wounded were dying each day due to blood shortages.
“We are completely unable to provide blood units for the wounded and sick,” he said. “Young men and women come to us to donate blood, only to discover that they themselves need blood transfusions due to severe malnutrition.”
He said medical staff were “losing a large number of wounded people every day due to the lack of blood units, amid a continuous and massive influx of casualties every minute”.
Abu Salmiya added: “We are asking nothing from the world except for the immediate entry of blood units into the Gaza Strip … now, not tomorrow.”
Israel kills 18 Palestinians in attack on school in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis
At least 18 people have been killed, including children, in an Israeli air attack on a school sheltering displaced people in the southern city of Khan Younis, according to a medical source at Nasser Hospital quoted by our colleagues.
Residents said air raids and shelling had ramped up in parts of the city, after leaflets were dropped instructing people to leave and head west. The leaflets said Israeli forces would be attacking Hamas fighters in the area.
Palestinians recall Gaza aid massacre horror
Yazan Musleh, 13, lies in a hospital bed set up in a tent on the grounds of Nasser Hospital, his T-shirt pulled up to reveal a large white bandage on his thin torso.
Beside him, his father, Ihab, sits fretfully, still shaken by the bloodied dawn he and his sons lived through on Sunday when Israeli forces opened fire on thousands of people gathered to receive aid from the Israeli-conceived, and United States-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
Ihab, 40, had taken Yazan and his 15-year-old brother, Yazid, from their shelter in al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, to the Rafah distribution point that the GHF operates.
They set out before dawn, walking for about an hour and a half to get to the al-Alam Roundabout in Rafah, near the distribution point. Worried about the size of the gathering, hungry crowd, Ihab told his sons to wait for him on an elevation near the GHF gates.
“When I looked behind the hill, I saw several tanks not far away,” he says. “A feeling of dread came over me. What if they opened fire or something happened? I prayed for God’s protection.”
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Israel names soldier killed in northern Gaza
An Israeli reserve soldier has been killed in fighting in northern Gaza, the Israeli military says.
In a statement, the Israeli army named the soldier as Alon Farkas, a 27-year-old reservist from Kabri, a kibbutz in northern Israel, who fought in the 6646th Reconnaissance Battalion.
The military said another reservist from the same unit had been seriously injured in clashes and taken to hospital for treatment.
UNSC set to vote on resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire, aid access
The UN Security Council will vote at 20:00 GMT on a resolution calling for a ceasefire and unrestricted humanitarian access in Gaza, a measure expected to fail due to a US veto.
It is the 15-member body’s first vote on the subject since November last year, when the United States – a key Israeli ally – also blocked a text calling for an end to fighting.
The new resolution “demands an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza respected by all parties”. It also calls for the “immediate, dignified and unconditional release of all hostages held by Hamas and other groups”.
Underlining a “catastrophic humanitarian situation” in the Palestinian territory, the resolution additionally demands the lifting of all restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza.
US-backed GHF suspends Gaza aid for full day
The United States- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) will suspend aid distribution in the war-torn territory on Wednesday, a day after Israeli forces again opened fire on Palestinian aid seekers near a GHF distribution site, killing at least 27 and injuring more than 100.
Israel’s military also said that approach roads to the aid distribution centres will be “considered combat zones” on Wednesday, and warned that people in Gaza should heed the GHF announcement to stay away.
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