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Here’s where things stand on Tuesday 8 July 2025:
- Israel intensifies deadly attacks across the Gaza Strip, as five of its soldiers are killed and 14 wounded in an explosion in the besieged territory’s north.
- US President Donald Trump has held talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, with both leaders touting their controversial proposal to push besieged Palestinians into neighbouring countries.
- Their meeting comes as Israeli negotiators and Hamas held indirect talks in Qatar for a ceasefire in Gaza.
- The Houthis in Yemen have damaged a second ship in as many days in the Red Sea, targeting a vessel with rocket-propelled grenades.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 57,523 people and wounded 136,617, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023 attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.
Hamas mourns six freed Palestinian prisoners killed in Israeli attack on Gaza
Senior Hamas official Abdul-Karim Hanini says Israel has killed six freed Palestinian prisoners in an attack on Gaza, calling it evidence of Israel’s continued “policy of revenge and systematic killing against those who resisted”.
“As we mourn with pride and honour our martyrs who ascended as a result of a treacherous Zionist assassination crime, we affirm that this crime will not undermine the resolve of our people, its prisoners, and its liberators to continue on the path of freedom,” Hanini said.
He added that this will not be forgotten and that the deaths of Palestinians by Israeli attacks will escalate the resistance to confront Israeli forces.
“All the arrogance of the occupation will not succeed in swaying us from our principles and our choice to confront this occupation until it is eliminated,” he said.
Gaza death toll rises
At least 49 Palestinians, including eight aid seekers, have been killed and 262 others injured in Israeli attack across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
Three bodies were also recovered from the rubble of previous Israeli attacks, the Ministry said in a statement published on Telegram.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed a total of 57,575 people and injured 136,879 others since October 7, 2023, the statement said. That includes a total of 766 aid seekers killed and more than 5,044 injured.
Central Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital to run out of fuel ‘within hours’
The management of central Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital has issued a statement saying the hospital is suffering from a severe fuel shortage and will run out of fuel within hours.
On the ground, this has started to be reflected in many medical wards in Al-Aqsa Hospital.
It is one of the barely functional hospitals left in the central area, and this chronic shortage will have severe repercussions on the lives of many patients who are receiving treatment inside, and will lead to the potential suspension of a number of medical services, including kidney dialysis treatment.
The hospital has been appealing to the international community to intervene immediately to force Israel to send an adequate amount of fuel to ensure the continuity of medical services for the population.
This is not the first time a hospital has been suffering from an acute fuel shortage; there have been similar cases in the al-Shifa medical facility in the north and Nasser Hospital in the south.
Hamas, Israel begin indirect truce ‘framework’ talks in Doha
The delegations from Hamas and Israel are in Doha for the indirect talks mediated by Qatar, Majed al-Ansari, spokesman for Qatar’s Foreign Ministry, says.
“What is being talked about is a general framework paper, and detailed talks have not yet begun. We seek to bridge the gap for the negotiating framework and to find a suitable environment,” he said at a news conference.
“It’s too early to talk about any details, but there are positive impressions. The process takes time and cannot provide a clear schedule to reach results,” he added.
Here are some other points he made:
- The efforts of the mediators are focused on reaching a stage to end the war, and to reach that stage, a negotiation framework is currently being discussed before the start of the final stage, which is a discussion that would require a detailed proposal.
- We provide a framework and preliminary principles; after agreeing on them, we hope to move on to the stage of discussing the proposal.
- The negotiation process needs to be calm, and leaks lead to a media flow that may affect the course of the negotiation. Leaks are irresponsible behaviour.
- Regarding the powers of the Israeli delegation, this cannot be talked about accurately, but the level of involvement is positive.
- We do not set schedules for negotiations, but they continue until positive results are reached.
Israel issues latest forced evacuation threat in Khan Younis
The Israeli army’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, has issued the latest forced evacuation order for civilians living in nine areas in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
Adraee said the army was expanding its operation and “intensifying sudden and concentrated firepower” and called on residents to evacuate westwards.
So-called Israeli safe zones, including al-Mawasi in Khan Younis, are routinely attacked despite the army forcing Palestinians to move to those areas.
Hamas says Israel ‘utterly failed to break Gaza’s will’
The Palestinian group says the facts of Israel’s “war of extermination” are clear and the army has “utterly failed to break Gaza’s will or subdue its resistance”.
“The slogans of ‘crushing defeat’ and ‘complete eradication’ of Hamas have fallen at the doorstep of explosive tunnels and complex resistance ambushes. The illusion of ‘liberating prisoners by force’ has been shattered by successive blows,” Hamas said in a statement.
“The ‘Gideon’ vehicles in Beit Hanoon and Khan Younis have been burned, and those inside have been killed,” the group added, referencing a deadly attack on Israeli soldiers in Beit Hanoon yesterday evening.
Hamas said Israel’s “relentless attempts” to displace Palestinians and ethnically cleanse the land have been met with “the legendary steadfastness of our people”.
“This complex failure – militarily, politically, and morally – exposes the falsity of the Zionist propaganda machine and proves once again that our battle has never been merely a battle of missiles and weapons, but rather a battle of awareness, will, and patience,” the group said.
Israel claims to have killed two Hezbollah members in southern Lebanon
We reported yesterday that at least one person was killed in a suspected Israeli air attack on a van in the town of Deir Kifa in southern Lebanon.
Now, the Israeli army confirmed the attack was carried out by its forces and killed Ali Abd al-Hassan Haidar.
The Israeli military described him as a commander in Hezbollah’s Radwan Force, claiming that he “advanced numerous terror attacks” against Israeli civilians as well as troops.
“In recent months, the terrorist was involved in efforts to reestablish Hezbollah’s terrorist infrastructure sites in southern Lebanon. Haidar’s activities constitute a blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon,” the statement published on Telegram said in English.
“Approximately two hours later, an additional Hezbollah terrorist was eliminated in the area of Beit Lif in southern Lebanon,” it added, without naming the victim.
Israeli attacks kill 41 people across Gaza
Israeli attacks have killed at least 41 people across Gaza since dawn, including 24 in the southern areas of the enclave.
Medical sources at al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic that one person was killed and others were wounded after an Israeli attack on a tent housing displaced people in the town of az-Zawayda in central Gaza.
Moreover, hospital sources told our colleagues that six released prisoners were killed in Israeli shelling in the central and southern Gaza Strip.
Over 18,000 students killed in Gaza, West Bank since war began: Ministry
The Palestinian Education Ministry says at least 18,243 students and staff members, including teachers, have been killed and 31,643 wounded in Gaza and the occupied West Bank since Israel began its war in October 2023.
According to the ministry, more than 17,175 students were killed and 26,264 injured in Gaza, while 140 students were killed and 927 wounded in the West Bank.
Among teachers and administrative staff, 928 people were killed and 4,452 wounded across Gaza and the West Bank.
During the period, 768 students were arrested in the West Bank, as well as 199 teachers and administrative staff.
At least 252 public schools in Gaza have suffered severe damage, including the destruction of 118.
In the West Bank, 152 schools, eight universities and colleges were raided and damaged, with fences at several schools in Jenin, Tulkarem, Salfit, and Tubas also destroyed.
Number of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons reaches 10,800: Monitors
More than 450 children and 50 women are among about 10,800 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, according to a joint statement by the Palestinian prisoners’ institutions via the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).
The number, which is the highest recorded since 2000, does not include detainees held in Israeli military camps, the document published on Telegram said.
It also said the number of administrative detainees reached 3,629 as of the beginning of July.
Palestinian detainees are stripped of any legal rights under this type of detention, which can be extended for months or even years by Israeli authorities, without providing any evidence or access to adequate legal representation.
Israeli attacks kill 11 in Gaza City, Rafah
At least five people have been killed in an Israeli attack on a tent housing displaced people in the Remal neighbourhood of Gaza City, medical sources told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
Elsewhere, six people were killed, including three children, by Israeli shooting near an aid centre, north of Rafah city, a source in the Nasser Medical Complex told our colleagues.
Trump-proposed Palestinian expulsion ‘integrated into Israeli war plan’
Ever since US President Donald Trump in February spoke about the controversial, possible forcible relocation of Palestinians out of Gaza, the Israeli government has adopted it as policy.
We keep hearing intermittently from different Israeli officials about how the military operations, the attacks in Gaza, the starvation of the population all serve the ultimate goal of what Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz described as voluntary emigration.
Now what we heard in more detail from the Israeli minister is how this will be implemented – and according to the reporting, Israel Katz told journalists Israel plans to concentrate all of the population of Gaza – starting with 600,000 – on the ruins of Rafah and build a tent city.
Israeli forces will be screening who enters that tent city; once they enter, they won’t be able to leave, they will be there “deradicalised”, according to the Israeli minister and then allowed, pushed, encouraged, or nudged to leave the Gaza Strip, in implementation, according to him, of the Trump plan.
We also heard a reference to that by Netanyahu, when he met Trump overnight at the White House, with the Israeli prime minister saying Palestinians should be allowed to leave and that countries that want to see them have a better life should take them in.
So this is not really a new development in Israeli policy; it’s one that has been integrated into the Israeli war plan ever since February.