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Here’s where things stand on Thursday 10 July 2025:
- Israel intensifies air attacks across the Gaza Strip, hitting residential houses and other civilian areas.
- At least 105 Palestinians, including seven aid seekers, have been killed and 530 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24-hour reporting period, according to the territory’s Health Ministry.
- Health officials warn hundreds of patients would die from power outages in hospitals in northern Gaza.
- 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.
Attacked ship sinks off Yemen
A vessel has sunk about 100km (51 nautical miles) west of Yemen’s Hodeidah, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) says, without identifying the ship.
Search-and-rescue operations are ongoing in the area, UKMTO said.
Earlier, rescuers pulled six crew members alive from the Red Sea and 15 are still missing from the second of two ships sunk in recent days in attacks claimed by Yemen’s Houthi militia.
UN envoy for Yemen expresses concern over Red Sea ‘escalation’
We have some comments from Hans Grundberg on what he described the “escalation” in the Red Sea following the two Houthi attacks on ships off the coast of Yemen.
Speaking at a UN Security Council meeting, the UN envoy for Yemen said freedom of navigation in the Red Sea must be “safeguarded and civilian infrastructure must never become a target of conflict”.
“Above all, Yemen must not be drawn deeper into regional crises that threaten to unravel the already extremely fragile situation in the country. The stakes for Yemen are simply too high,” Grundberg added.
Since Israel began its war on Gaza in October 2023, the Houthis have targeted Israeli merchant vessels, saying the attacks are in support of the Palestinians in Gaza.
They have also targeted ships they accused of having ties to Israel, which led to a US-led bombing campaign that ended in May after the US and the Houthis declared a ceasefire.
UN chief renews calls for humanitarian access to Gaza
Antonio Guterres has renewed his call for full, safe and sustained humanitarian access to Gaza, as conditions for civilians in the besieged and bombarded territory continue to deteriorate.
“The UN has a clear, proven plan, rooted in humanitarian principles, to get vital assistance to civilians, safely and at scale, wherever they are,” the UN secretary-general said in a social media post, which also called for the immediate and unconditional release of all captives.
Guterres’s remarks come as Israel maintains tight restrictions on aid deliveries to the besieged enclave.
Responsibility for aid distribution has been handed to the GHF, a controversial US- and Israeli-backed group that has faced serious allegations of coordinating aid drops that leave Palestinians vulnerable to Israeli fire. More than 770 Palestinians have been killed at food distribution sites run by the GHF since late May.
Houthis claim deadly attack on Eternity C vessel in Red Sea
Yemen’s Houthis have claimed responsibility for sinking a Greek-operated, Liberia-flagged vessel called Eternity C in the Red Sea this morning.
“The naval force of the Yemeni Armed Forces targeted the ship [Eternity C],” military spokesman Yahya Saree said.
Saree reiterated the group’s solidarity with besieged Palestinians in Gaza and said the vessel was headed towards Eilat in Israel.
The attack on the vessel killed four of the 25 people aboard before the rest of the crew abandoned ship after being attacked on Monday and Tuesday.
At least 8 Gaza aid seekers gunned down at food sites
Unfortunately, this has become the norm: characterised by the ongoing bombardment and forced starvation and dehydration. People are getting killed trying to get food.
They’ve run out of options. Palestinians are pushed into this area. These aid distribution sites are tainted by the ongoing violence, chaos, and overcrowding. People who walk long distances to these areas are being shot and killed.
These sites set up by the GHF have largely failed to provide any safe corridor to Palestinians who are hungry, traumatised, and displaced five times on average throughout the Gaza Strip.
From day one of GHF operations there’s been an orgy of killing either by the Israeli military or the documented incident of GHF officers opening fire. Witnesses said they cannot save any of the wounded on the ground because of the indiscriminate shooting by machineguns.
Hamas condemns demolition of Palestinian homes by Israeli forces in West Bank
The Palestinian group has said Israel is “continuing its dangerous policies and comprehensive war against the Palestinian presence in the West Bank” with the demolition of “more than a thousand homes” this year alone.
“These ongoing crimes against our people and their land, which contravene all international laws, require effective international action to halt them, work with all our might to end the occupation, and hold its war criminal leaders accountable for their ongoing violations,” Hamas said in a statement published on Telegram.
According to the Wafa news agency, Israeli forces carried out a wide-ranging demolition campaign earlier today and destroyed eight Palestinian homes and two agricultural structures in the occupied West Bank cities of Ramallah, Jerusalem, and Nablus.
Outrageous’: Amnesty slams Israel’s ‘humanitarian city’ proposal
Human rights organisation Amnesty International has condemned an Israeli proposal for Palestinians to be relocated to a “humanitarian city” on the ruins of Rafah as “outrageous”.
“The remarks are nothing short of a declared intention to commit war crimes [and] crimes against humanity,” the group said in a post on X.
“Relocating” Palestinians within Gaza, or deporting them against their will, would amount to the war crime of unlawful transfer or deportation.
Furthermore, when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack on the civilian population, “it would also constitute a crime against humanity”, Amnesty said.
Countries need to ensure they do not lend support to any unlawful transfer or deportation of Palestinians by Israel, or they “risk complicity in Israel’s international crimes”, it added.
Survivors describe deadly Gaza attacks; mourn loved ones
Despite ongoing truce talks, Israel’s military continues to hammer Gaza including an overnight air strike on southern Gaza’s Khan Younis.
Umm Mohammed Shaaban, a Palestinian grandmother mourning the deaths of three of her grandchildren in the attack, questioned the timing of a proposed ceasefire.
“After they finished us, they say they’ll make a truce?” she said.
In northern Gaza City, people removed debris after another overnight air strike, searching through a three-story house for survivors – to no avail.
One resident, Ahmed al-Nahhal, said there was no fuel for trucks to help in rescue efforts. “From midnight till now, we have been looking for the children,” he said.
Nearby men carried bodies in shrouds while women wept. Some kissed bodies placed in the back of a vehicle.
Qassam Brigades says fighters clashed with Israeli forces, claims soldier killed
The armed wing of Hamas has said its fighters raided a gathering of Israeli soldiers and vehicles in the Abasan al-Kabira area, east of Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
In a statement, Qassam Brigades said it struck a Merkava tank and two Israeli armoured personnel carriers with al-Yassin 105 missiles.
According to the group, its fighters advanced towards Israeli soldiers and “clashed with them with light weapons and attempted to capture one of the soldiers”.
“However, the conditions on the ground did not permit this, so they killed him and seized his weapon. Our fighters monitored the landing of a helicopter for evacuation,” the group claimed.
There was no immediate comment by Israel. On Tuesday, the Israeli military had said that five soldiers, aged between 20 and 28, “fell during combat in the northern Gaza Strip”, while 14 others sustained injuries – two of them “severely wounded”.
‘Everything is turned off’ in Gaza hospital amid fuel shortages
Footage posted to social media shows the desperate working conditions inside a Gaza hospital battling with chronic fuel shortages.
The clip, posted to Instagram by Samir Al-Bouji, shows doctors sweating profusely as they perform a surgery at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
“Everything is turned off here. The air conditioning is turned off. No fans,” says a doctor as he demonstrates conditions in the ward. “All the staff are exhausted(ed), they are complaining (about the) high temperature.”
As we reported earlier, hospitals in Gaza are warning they will be forced to shut down imminently due to critical fuel shortages, as a result of an Israeli blockade on supplies since March.
Gaza City building ‘completely flattened’ during mass bombing
An estimated 20 bombs were dropped by Israel’s army on an area best known as Jaffa Street in the densely populated Tuffah neighbourhood of eastern Gaza City.
These were “quake bombs”, they shook the buildings. There are reports of damage and devastation to many buildings in that area.
Civil defence workers and paramedics are unable to reach the scene to help victims as Israeli quadcopter drones continue to hover in the sky.
Many of the residential areas caught up in the bombing were full of people. We can confirm from one survivor that a four-storey building was hit by at least two missiles and brought to the ground, completely flattened.
No warning whatsoever was given to the area before this mass bombing of eastern Gaza City.
‘Netanyahu tries to buy time’ amid pressure from Trump
Menachem Klein, a professor emeritus at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, says the second meeting between Netanyahu and Trump did not go well.
“It seems there was a debate between them and Netanyahu left without making any statement to the media. Let’s wait and see whether there will be a third meeting or what happens in the meeting between Netanyahu and Vice President [JD Vance],” he told Al Jazeera from Tel Aviv.
The Israeli leader faces the problem of balancing Trump’s pressure to end the Gaza war “in one way or another” and the pressure coming from his government.
“Netanyahu tries to buy time, but the question is how much time in the interim agreement and whether the conditions in this interim agreement will satisfy either Trump or Netanyahu’s extreme right-wing coalition members,” Klein added.
Heavy Israeli artillery shelling heard in Beit Hanoon
Heavy Israeli artillery shelling has been heard in Beit Hanoon, northern Gaza, our colleague on the ground reports.
The Israeli army launched a major assault in the area today after five soldiers were killed in a surprise Hamas attack on Tuesday.
We’ll bring you more on this as we get it.
‘Achievable’: Israel’s Saar expresses optimism over Gaza ceasefire deal
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar says he believes a ceasefire and returning the captives is “achievable” as Israeli delegation remains in Doha to continue to negotiate indirectly with Hamas.
“If a temporary ceasefire is achieved, we will negotiate on a permanent ceasefire,” Saar told a news conference in Bratislava with his Slovakian counterpart.
On Tuesday, Steve Witkoff, the US’s special envoy to the Middle East, said the number of issues preventing Israel and Hamas from reaching an agreement had decreased from four to one, and expressed optimism for a temporary ceasefire deal by the end of the week.
The highly anticipated agreement is expected to involve a 60-day ceasefire and the release of 10 living and the bodies of nine captives.
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No sign of much-awaited Gaza ceasefire deal – yet
US President Donald Trump and his Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff have said there could be a ceasefire deal announced by the end of the week.
There’s been no sign of it yet, but it’s only Wednesday, which gives them a few more days to get there. Netanyahu is not scheduled to leave until Thursday and often extends his trips. If there is progress, there’s a real possibility of seeing him stay.
As for whether there will be a third meeting between Trump and Netanyahu – well, we didn’t expect there would be a second one on Tuesday. Scheduling seems to be at the whim of the president, so we’ll have to watch and see.
What we do know is that on Wednesday, Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and with evangelical Christian and Jewish leaders. We expect there’ll also be a meeting later today at the White House where families of Israeli captives held in Gaza will be gathering.
There’ve been protests outside the White House, demanding that any ceasefire deal needs to entail the return of the remaining Israeli captives, alive and deceased.
Israel receives bulldozers from US held up by Biden administration over Gaza: Report
Dozens of Caterpillar D9 bulldozers and other equipment has arrived in Israel from the US after months of delays, according to Israel’s Defence Ministry cited by the Times of Israel newspaper.
The report said the shipment for the Israeli army’s ground forces was received at Haifa Port.
In November last year, it was reported that the Biden administration was holding up the sale of the D9 bulldozers due to the Israeli military’s use of them to raze homes in Gaza, the newspaper said.
‘Seven little kids died here. Over there, 10 more. What was their fault?’
Our colleagues on the ground in Gaza have spoken to survivors of an Israeli air attack on the Shati refugee camp that killed at least 30 people and wounded 30 others.
“What happened to us was that we were sitting at home, around midnight. Suddenly, the house collapsed on everyone inside – children, adults, and elderly people in their 70s and 80s,” said Mohamed Jouda, sitting on the rubble as others were trying to remove the piles of concrete from the bombarded site.
“Many were martyred. Thank God, we managed to get the children out, but there are still a few people under the rubble,” he added.
Another survivor, Ismail al-Bardawil, said the air attack “felt like an earthquake”.
“A whole neighbourhood collapsed,” he said from the densely populated camp west of Gaza City, where structures are built right next to each other.
“Seven little kids died here. Over there, 10 more children. The only adult was an old man, around 70 years old. What was their fault?” al-Bardawil asked.
“There were no fighters here – not a single one. We honestly don’t know what to do. We’re still searching for our children.”
Israel announces Beit Hanoon ground assault after troops killed
The Israeli army announced the Givati Brigade has joined forces in Beit Hanoon, northern Gaza, with Israeli soldiers encircling the area.
Troops are operating to “dismantle terrorist infrastructure and Hamas military capabilities in the area”, a statement said on Telegram.
The announcement comes after the army said on Tuesday that five Israeli soldiers were killed in Beit Hanoon after Palestinian fighters detonated explosive devices and opened fire with automatic weapons in an ambush.
Over the past hour, Israel’s military launched a major air attack on northern Gaza City.
Israeli fuel blockade could cut off water to 44,000 children: Charity
Save the Children warns Israel’s blockade of fuel into Gaza threatens to cut off supplies of drinking water to about 44,000 children within days.
That would increase the risk of outbreaks of waterborne illnesses such as cholera, diarrhoea and dysentery, the group said.
Save the Children relies on fuel to transport safe supplies of clean water to 50 communities across Gaza each day. But shipments have been entirely stopped from entering Gaza since Israeli authorities imposed a total siege in early March.
“Access to safe water is a fundamental human right,” said Ahmad Alhendawi, the charity’s regional director.
“Not only is food and aid being withheld to an entire population on the brink – fuel that powers the systems that are critical for survival has not been allowed in for four months.”
Israeli attack on residential building kills 3 in Gaza City
Three Palestinians, including an infant, were killed after an Israeli air strike targeted a residential apartment near the Shuhada Al-Shati School in western Gaza City, according to medical sources cited by the Wafa news agency.
Gaza’s civil defence agency said more than 20 air strikes hit al-Tuffah area in eastern Gaza City.
Netanyahu makes case for ‘peace through strength’
In media appearances during his time in Washington, Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu has been saying he, like the Trump administration, believes there’s a good chance of having a ceasefire – although he did not say it would be this week.
He said he believes any ceasefire agreement cannot include Hamas governing Gaza in any way. He has compared Hamas to the Nazis, and said they don’t want to build a state – they want to destroy one.
Netanyahu also said he believes there has been a real breakthrough when it comes to Iran because of the recent military strikes launched by his country and the US.
He believes this is an example of Donald Trump’s “peace through strength” approach – something he says is a philosophy that led to him nominating the US president in front of television cameras on Monday for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Israel carpet-bombs eastern Gaza City
It’s been 15 minutes so far since this major attack and black smoke continues to fill the skies after the eastern part of Gaza City was hit.
We heard multiple explosions, massive ones, we had to duck and take cover. We could feel the building we’re in shaking. It seems to be a targeted killing by Israel, but no confirmation yet.
The entire street was hit by these bombs. People who are caught in this have been wounded. We can hear ambulance sirens on the way to the scene. People are scrambling for shelter.
It reminds people of the opening months of the war when Israel carpet-bombed the entire north of the Strip.
Gaza death toll since dawn rises to 39
Since dawn, Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed 39 people, including 19 in northern Gaza, according to medical sources speaking to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
Among those, eight were killed by Israeli army fire while waiting for aid from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the north of Rafah, southern Gaza.
‘Decimated’: Gaza under-five mortality rises 10-fold since war began, says MSF
A survey of Doctors Without Borders (known by its French initials MSF) staff and their families has revealed an “appalling” death rate in Israel’s war on Gaza, the charity says.
The retrospective mortality survey of 2,523 MSF staff and their family members in Gaza found that the mortality rate among Palestinian children under five had increased 10-fold, compared with Ministry of Health estimates before the outbreak of the war.
For babies less than one month old, the mortality rate was six times higher, while among all those surveyed, it was five times higher.
Amande Bazerolle, deputy manager of MSF’s emergency department, condemned Israel’s “disregard for children’s lives”. “The children of Gaza are being decimated,” she said.
Four killed in Israeli attack on car in southern Gaza’s al-Mawasi area
An Israeli air attack on a car has killed four Palestinians and injured several others in the al-Mawasi area near southern Gaza’s Khan Younis city.
That’s according to a source in the enclave’s ambulance and emergency department speaking to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
British minister ‘appalled’ by Katz’s plan for ‘humanitarian city’ in Rafah
The UK’s minister for the Middle East and North Africa, Hamish Falconer, has slammed an Israeli proposal for a “humanitarian city” to be established in the ruins of Rafah.
Falconer posted on X that he was “appalled by Israeli Defence Minister Katz’s proposal to move Gaza’s population to Rafah”.
“Palestinian territory must not be reduced. Civilians must be able to return to their communities,” he wrote.
Critics have described the plan as a “blueprint for ethnic cleansing”.
Sea of tents among the rubble of destroyed Gaza towers
A videographer in Gaza has shared footage online showing dozens of tents sheltering displaced people among the piles of rubble where the destroyed al-Maqousi Towers in Gaza City once stood.
Ahmed al-Arini’s video, has been verified by Al Jazeera, demonstrates “the harsh reality of displaced families whose homes have been destroyed, leaving them with nothing but a tent to shelter their pain”, reads its caption.
‘War criminal nominates his enabler for Nobel Peace Prize’
Al Jazeera columnist
In the latest instalment of the “can’t-make-this-sh*t-up” contest in global politics and diplomacy, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has nominated United States President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
In other words, the person currently presiding over the genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip has proposed that the world’s top peacemaking prize be awarded to the primary enabler of that genocide – the man who in March, announced that he was “sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job” in Gaza. That “everything” has entailed billions of dollars in lethal weaponry and other assistance.
Read more here.
Israeli opposition leader ‘praying’ Netanyahu strikes ceasefire deal
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has said he hopes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returns from his meetings with the US president in Washington with a deal to end the war.
“We are in a decisive moment, and we all pray that the prime minister returns from Washington with an agreement for the hostages, and also ends the war in Gaza,” he said in the Knesset.
“There is nothing more important to the community than that,” Lapid added.
British consulate in Jerusalem condemns ‘unchecked’ Israeli settler violence in West Bank
The British consulate in Jerusalem has called on Israel to halt “unchecked settler violence” against Palestinians, following a visit with a Palestinian community who have been driven from their land in recent months.
In a post on social media site X, the consulate said its staff had re-visited the Palestinian community of Mughayyir a-Deir, who were now “living in difficult conditions in an industrial area, facing deep uncertainty”, following attacks by Israeli settlers.
“This is not an isolated incident: It is a trend of unchecked settler violence causing displacement, as we have seen this month in Ein Al-Hilweh and Al-Mu’arajat,” said the post.
“Palestinian communities must be protected, not forced to uproot their homes and belongings.”
Israeli military says it destroyed Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon
The Israeli military says it has been acting on intelligence to carry out operations dismantling Hezbollah infrastructure in southern Lebanon.
In a statement, it said reservist troops from the 300th Brigade had destroyed a compound in Jabal Blat containing weapons depots. In another operation, it said, reservists from the 9th Brigade had identified a Hezbollah weapons cache in the Labbouneh area.
There was no immediate comment by Hezbollah.
Israel continues to attack parts of southern Lebanon in violation of a November 2024 ceasefire that it reached with the group.
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Let’s bring you up to speed with the latest developments:
- The number of Palestinians killed at the controversial US- and Israeli-backed GHF sites has surpassed 770.
- The GHF’s only food distribution point in central Gaza has been shut, forcing tens of thousands of Palestinians to eventually move south in search of food.
- Health officials warn hundreds of patients would die from power outages in hospitals in northern Gaza.
- In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces have brought in mobile housing units in Hebron that activists say could be used to house settlers.
- UN expert Francesca Albanese says the torture of Palestinian prisoners has become commonplace since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza.
Number of aid seekers killed near Rafah rises to 8: Medical source
We have reported earlier that Israel shot six people waiting for aid near an aid centre north of Gaza’s southern city of Rafah.
A source at Nasser Hospital in nearby Khan Younis told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic that the toll rose to eight.
More about killing of six aid seekers in southern Gaza
We’re getting reports that six Palestinians were killed near the GHF aid centres as they were approaching to get food aid. Their bodies were taken to Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis.
What is adding to the danger and confusion is that GHF did not share any information about times and locations where aid distribution would take place. So, Palestinians continued to gather near these aid centres in the early hours.
The GHF’s only aid site in central Gaza has now suspended operations, in a move that is expected to last at least a week. The GHF says this is part of an effort to improve the capacity of its warehouses.
The three aid hubs that remain operational are in the south, meaning that for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in central Gaza, the route to get aid will be a lengthy, dangerous trip on foot.
This concentration of aid in the south corresponds to what Israel is outlining under its proposal for a so-called “humanitarian city” amid the ruins of Rafah, which would see the transfer of Palestinians from other parts of Gaza. Palestinians are saying they fear Israel might forcibly prevent them from returning.
Fuel supplies must be brought into Gaza immediately: UN
The spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Office has called for fuel to be let into Gaza immediately, amid warnings that the territory’s already devastated hospitals could shut down imminently due to shortages.
Thameen al-Kheetan told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic that supplies of fuel and other aid needed to be brought into the Strip urgently and urged countries with influence over Israel to pressure it to act.
As we reported earlier, hospitals in Gaza are facing critical fuel shortages, with health officials warning that hundreds of vulnerable patients would die when their generators stop working.
Israeli shelling kills at least one Palestinian near central Gaza’s Nuseirat
At least one person has been killed and several others injured in an Israeli shelling north of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to a source at al-Awda Hospital speaking to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
The team also reported that, based on medical sources, at least 30 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across the enclave since dawn.
Israeli forces place mobile housing units in Palestinian-controlled area of Hebron
Israeli forces have helped transport mobile housing units on to an empty plot of land in the Tel Rumeida area of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank.
The trucks transporting the housing units were accompanied by Israeli military vehicles.
Issa Amro, coordinator of the Youth Against Settlements group, has told Al Jazeera that the mobile housing units were placed in territory designated H1 – referring to the section of Hebron that is under the civil and security control of the Palestinian Authority.
He said this was the first time this had happened in Hebron, adding that it was a dangerous development.
Israeli forces make arrests after ‘incident’ in West Bank’s Surif city
The Israeli military claims several Palestinians from the occupied West Bank city of Surif, whom it referred to as “terrorists”, hurled rocks and set vehicles on fire overnight near the illegal Israeli settlement of Bat Ayin.
“Subsequently, the forces began a counterterrorism operation in the area of Surif, during which they apprehended two individuals suspected of involvement in the attack and conducted searches at dozens of sites in the area,” the military statement published on Telegram in English said.
“Following the incident, an inquiry was opened by the Israel Police. Efforts to locate additional terrorists and secure the area are ongoing,” it added.
Palestinians firmly rejecting Katz’s forced transfer plan
The closure of the major GHF distribution point in central Gaza is fundamentally affecting the ability of Palestinians to endure this humanitarian crisis.
Palestinians in desperate need of food aid will be forced to make the long and dangerous journey to the remaining operational GHF centres in Rafah, in southern Gaza.
The route to Rafah is always monitored by Israeli drones and the risks are extremely high.
Many Palestinians who attempt the journey return empty-handed, given the limited amount of food aid and the chaotic and unregulated delivery system. But families are running out of options.
It’s possible that in the long run, this could help Israel to depopulate Palestinians from certain parts of the Strip and relocate them in southern Gaza.
This aligns with what Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has said is his government’s intention to replace the ruins of Rafah with a so-called “humanitarian city”. Palestinians are completely rejecting this concept, saying they will never be relocated there.
Israeli plan for city on Rafah ruins ‘aimed at ethnic cleansing’
“The diabolically named ‘humanitarian city’” proposed by Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz to concentrate 600,000 Palestinians in southern Gaza’s Rafah “is a plan for ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people,” says analyst Adel Abdel Ghafar.
The director of the Foreign Policy programme at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs told Al Jazeera that it is not clear how serious this plan is since Jordan and Egypt refused to receive any Palestinians forced out of Gaza since they believe Israel will never allow them back in the enclave.
“If it is serious, it is a blueprint for ethnic cleansing,” he said.
Gaza death toll rises
At least 105 Palestinians have been killed and 530 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
The toll included seven aid seekers killed and more than 57 injured, the statement published by the ministry on Telegram said.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed a total of 57,680 people and injured 137,409 since October 7, 2023, the ministry said.
The total number of aid seekers killed since the US- and Israel-backed aid mechanism was introduced on May 27 has reached 773, with more than 5,101 Palestinians waiting for aid also injured.
Hundreds of patients will die due to fuel shortages: Gaza field hospitals chief
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic have spoken to Dr Marwan al-Hams, director of field hospitals in Gaza, about the effect of critical fuel shortages on the territory’s devastated medical sector.
He warned that hundreds would die from power outages in hospitals in northern Gaza, as a result of a longstanding Israeli blockade on fuel that hospitals use for generating electricity.
He expected that dozens of premature babies would die within the next two days if fuel supplies were not urgently brought in. Dialysis and intensive care patients would also lose their lives, he said, adding that the injuries of the wounded were worsening amid deteriorating conditions, while diseases like meningitis were spreading.
As we reported earlier, Muhammad Abu Salmiya, the director of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, says the facility is experiencing power outages due to the lack of fuel. He told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic that the hospital would be out of service within hours.
Released Palestinian prisoners detail torture and abuse in Israeli jails
The number of Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons has hit its highest number in a quarter of a century.
Rights groups say there are 10,800 Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jails. At least 50 are women, and more than 450 are children. More than 3,600 are held without charge or trial. Their detention can be extended indefinitely.
These figures don’t include all detainees arrested from Gaza and held in the Israeli army’s military camps.
At least 73 Palestinians have died in prisons and military detention facilities since October 2023. Rights groups accuse Israeli forces of abuse, torture and medical negligence.
Israeli torture of Palestinian prisoners ‘widespread and systematic’: UN expert
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, says the torture of Palestinian prisoners has become commonplace since October 7, 2023.
On social media platform X, Albanese responded to a post about the 2024 gang-rape of a Palestinian prisoner by guards at the Sde Teiman detention facility by saying the assault was “not an isolated case – it’s part of a pattern”.
“Since October 7, torture against Palestinian prisoners has become widespread and systematic. Both male and female detainees have been subjected to sexual violence, including rape,” she said.
Albanese said this was not only a matter of “cruelty: inflicting severe physical or mental harm on members of a group ‘as such’ is a constitutive element of genocide”.
“How much more evidence do people need to understand what is happening?”
Israeli forces detain over 30, including children, in occupied West Bank raids
More than 30 people, including two children aged nine, have been arrested in Israeli army dawn raids across the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office (ASRA) says.
The raids took place in Bethlehem, Salfit, Jerusalem, Qalqilya, Hebron, Nablus and the Balata refugee camp on the latter city’s outskirts, according to the group.
Former prisoners were among those arrested.
Israel signalling plans for occupation of Gaza ‘in the long term’: Ex-Israeli envoy
We’ve spoken to Alon Liel, former director general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, about Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz’s controversial proposal for a “humanitarian city” on the ruins of Rafah. Critics say the plan for forced displacement amounts to a blueprint for war crimes.
Liel, a former Israeli ambassador, said that it was clear that Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu was insisting on Israeli control of Gaza “in the long term”.
“This ‘humanitarian city’ is one of the spins, one of the ideas that will prolong the stay of Israel there,” he said. “He’s postponing the discussion of Gaza ‘the day after’, because he doesn’t want any Palestinian involvement in the future of Gaza.”
He said Netanyahu did not “care what the world is saying” in response to the proposal. “There is no world, there is only Washington, only Trump,” Liel added.