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Here’s where things stand on Wednesday 9 July 2025:
- United States President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have met for the second time in 24 hours about a ceasefire in Gaza, but there appears to be no breakthrough.
- Israeli forces continue to pound Gaza, hitting a refugee camp after a day of attacks that killed at least 95 Palestinians.
- The UN has warned that the fuel crisis in Gaza due to the Israeli blockade has reached a “critical point” and will cause further deaths and suffering in the besieged Palestinian territory.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 57,575 people and wounded 136,879, 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.
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Israel claims to have arrested 11 ‘terrorists’ in occupied Palestinian territory
The Israeli army says its forces apprehended “a terrorist” in the occupied West Bank’s Jenin governorate, claiming the person was planning to establish “a terrorist network” in the town of al-Yamoun.
Also in the governorate of Jenin, the Israeli soldiers detained four people the army claimed were armed with six weapons in the village of Bir al-Basha.
In the Israeli settlement of Etzion, south of Jerusalem, six others “wanted for terrorist activity” were apprehended on Monday, the army statement published on Telegram said.
Netanyahu says talks with Trump ‘focused efforts to free hostages’
The Israeli prime minister has issued a statement on X, detailing the topics he discussed with Trump during their meeting at the White House on Tuesday evening.
“We focused on the efforts to free our hostages. We are not relenting on this for a moment, and this is made possible due to the military pressure exerted by our heroic soldiers. Regrettably, this effort comes at painful costs, with the loss of our finest sons,” Netanyahu said.
“But we are determined to achieve all our goals: the release of all our hostages – both the living and the fallen, the elimination of Hamas’s military and governing capabilities, and thereby ensuring that Gaza will no longer pose a threat to Israel. We also discussed the implications and possibilities of the great victory we achieved over Iran. Opportunities are opening here to expand the circle of peace, to broaden the Abraham Accords. We are working on this with full vigour,” he said.
Rome Statute countries must explain why Netanyahu flights allowed in airspace: UN expert
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, says the governments of Italy, France, and Greece “must explain why they provided airspace and safe passage” to Netanyahu, even though he is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
“Italian, French and Greek citizens deserve to know that every political action violating the international legal order, weakens and endangers all of them,” Albanese wrote in a post on X.
The countries, which are all parties to the Rome Statute, are “obligated to arrest” the Israeli prime minister, she said.
The United States, which is currently hosting Netanyahu, is not a party to the statute.
The Trump administration recently sanctioned four ICC judges, accusing them of taking “illegitimate and baseless actions” against the US and its allies, including Israel.
Death toll from Israel’s attacks on Gaza rises to 16
The figure represents the number of people killed in Israeli attacks since the early hours of this morning.
It includes eight people who were killed in an attack on Shati refugee camp, two killed in the bombing of a house in Deir el-Balah, and two killed in a drone attack on tents in Khan Younis.
France’s Macron calls for UK support on Gaza
French President Emmanuel Macron, who is paying a state visit to the United Kingdom, has addressed both houses of the British parliament and called for an unconditional ceasefire in Gaza.
He then urged the UK to work together with France on recognising a Palestinian state, calling it “the only path to peace”.
“With Gaza in ruin and West Bank being on a daily basis attacked, the perspective of a Palestinian state has never been put at risk as it is,” Macron said. “And this is why this solution of the two states and the recognition of the State of Palestine is … the only way to build peace and stability for all in the whole region.”
Exhausted Palestinians in Gaza beg for action as Israeli strikes continue
As ceasefire negotiations continue in Qatar, the people of Gaza are enduring intensified Israeli air strikes and dire humanitarian conditions.
Displaced Palestinians are desperate for a lasting peace, not just a temporary truce.
They are also calling for unrestricted humanitarian access, the right to return to their homes, and an end to what they describe as the systematic destruction of civilian life.
Israeli forces kill 8 Palestinians in attack on Gaza refugee camp
Israeli forces have bombed a house in the Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza City, killing at least eight people, according to sources at al-Shifa Hospital.
More than 30 others were wounded in the attack earlier this morning.
We’ll bring you more when we have it.
A recap of recent developments
- Israel’s military continues to bombard Gaza, killing at least 95 Palestinians on Tuesday alone, as talks on a 60-day ceasefire continue in Qatar.
- The UN’s humanitarian agency (OCHA) has warned that the fuel crisis in Gaza has reached a “critical point” as Al-Shifa Hospital warns it will run out of fuel supplies by Wednesday morning.
- US President Donald Trump has met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House for the second time in 24 hours to discuss a ceasefire in Gaza, but there has been no apparent breakthrough.
- Hamas says “Gaza will not surrender” after Netanyahu said he will free the Israeli captives remaining in the war-torn enclave and defeat the Palestinian group.
- Israel’s military has claimed attacks on several vehicles in northern and southern Lebanon, saying one strike killed a “key” Hamas commander in Tripoli.
- French intelligence chief Nicolas Lerner says “the Iranian nuclear programme as we know it has been very, very delayed” by US and Israeli strikes.
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