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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.
Israel’s military says it has struck more than 100 targets in Gaza
As Israel continues its assault on Gaza, its military says it has destroyed Hamas targets throughout the territory, claiming to have destroyed a cache of explosives and mines hidden in civilian infrastructure.
In a statement, the Israeli military said it had been operating in Gaza City’s Shujayea and Zeitoun neighbourhoods in recent days, eliminating a cell of fighters, dismantling military structures and striking a Hamas weapons facility.
In southern Gaza, it added, Israeli troops had eliminated another cell and dismantled fighting infrastructure in the al-Jnaina area in the city of Rafah.
Medical sources have told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic that at least 18 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli raids on the enclave since dawn today, including 11 in Gaza City.
Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital warns hundreds of lives at risk due to power outage
There is no letup in the pace and intensity of Israeli ground and aerial attacks in Gaza. Casualties continue to arrive in barely functional, but still operating, hospitals across Gaza, including al-Shifa medical facility in Gaza City.
Muhammad Abu Salmiya, the director of al-Shifa Hospital, says they are facing critical hours as the facility is experiencing a power outage due to the lack of fuel for electricity generators.
The implications have become painfully clear as the life-saving equipment in the ICUs, operating rooms and kidney dialysis units is grinding to a halt.
Dr Abu Salmiya warns that hundreds of lives now hang in the balance.
In Nasser Hospital, the largest medical facility in southern Gaza, medical teams have told us that the remaining fuel will only last for the next 24 hours.
Photos: Israeli soldiers force Palestinians to leave their homes in West Bank’s Jenin
Israel claims to have killed senior Hezbollah figure near Lebanon’s capital
The Israeli military says it has killed Hussein Ali Muzhir, the head of fire coordination for Hezbollah’s Badr Unit in the Zahrani sector, in a strike on the municipality of al-Babliyah, about 60 km (40 miles) southeast of Beirut, last night.
The statement claimed Muzhir had directed numerous attacks towards Israel and Israeli troops, and had recently been actively working to rebuild Hezbollah’s artillery capabilities in southern Lebanon.
It said Muzhir’s actions had been a violation of “understandings” between Israel and Lebanon, and said it would continue to remove any threats posed to Israel.
‘Where is the world?’: Palestinians in Gaza demand action, end to war
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have spoken to Al Jazeera about their hopes for an end to the bloodshed and to what they call a systematic destruction of civilian life.
“We are sleeping in the street. We want the ceasefire and the truce to happen as soon as possible, even if it means going back to the rubble of our homes,” said Khaled Shabat, a displaced Palestinian from Beit Hanoon.
“We are waiting for the ceasefire and the truce so that the price of flour can decrease. We are hoping and praying for the safety and wellbeing of everyone, and there will be a truce today, not tomorrow.”
Abudallah al-Shawa said people “are tired and fed up with words”.
“We want to see actions. There is death every day. Hunger is everywhere. We are consuming unhealthy food and it is largely unavailable. We are drinking contaminated water. We lost our homes and lives!”
Another displaced person, Samar Nofal, said people want a ceasefire and to be able to return to their neighbourhoods.
“We want to go back to our homes even if they are rubble,” she said. “Let aid and food come in. We are exhausted. This is not a day or two of our lives; these are almost two years of brutal war! Where is the world to help us?”
Macron urges UK to work with France on recognising Palestinian state
French President Emmanuel Macron has called for British support to recognise the state of Palestine and help defend Ukraine, as he arrived in the United Kingdom for the first state visit by a European leader since Brexit.
Macron, in a rare address to both houses of the British parliament on Tuesday, celebrated the return of closer ties between France and the UK and said the two countries must work together to end “excessive dependencies” on the United States and China.
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