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Here’s where things stand on Thursday 10 July 2025:
- Israeli forces intensify air and ground attacks on Gaza, killing at least 82 Palestinians, including nine aid seekers, across the besieged territory in 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
- UN expert Francesca Albanese tells Al Jazeera she considers the controversial Trump administration sanctions against her “obscene” and says she will not be bullied into halting her advocacy work.
- The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees slams Israeli plans for the mass displacement of Palestinians towards Rafah in southern Gaza.
- Doctors at Gaza’s largest hospitals say the lives of more than 100 premature babies and 350 dialysis patients are at risk because of fuel shortages caused by Israel’s ongoing siege.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 57,762 people and wounded 137,656, 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.
Macron calls for France and UK to recognise Palestinian state
The French president called for an act of joint recognition alongside the UK, stating that such acts are “the only hope for peace” in the region and that he hopes to “initiate this political dynamic” regarding Palestinian statehood.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the recognition of Palestine the “longstanding policy” of the Labour Party and his government.
“I do not think it’s possible to have a lasting peace in the Middle East if we don’t have a two-state solution. But the focus now has to be unrelentingly on getting the ceasefire that will allow the space for the politics to take over from the fighting, and allow the space for the aid to get in and for the hostages to get out.”
Quds Brigades reports Gaza ambush, hails West Bank attack
The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad reports a new explosive ambush in Gaza, saying a pre-planted bomb was detonated by its fighters.
Quds Brigades said the attack took place on June 7, and “destroyed” an Israeli military vehicle in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City.
The group also praised the two Palestinians who earlier today launched a stabbing and shooting attack in the occupied West Bank’s Gush Etzion settlement, killing an Israeli soldier before being gunned down. Israeli media reports say the man was a supermarket security guard and a reservist.
“This operation came as a natural and legitimate response to the annexation and displacement plans carried out by the enemy in the West Bank and its camps, and the ongoing war of extermination against our people in the Gaza Strip,” Quds Brigades said, calling on fighters in the occupied territories to escalate attacks.
UNICEF says it is ‘appalled’ by killing of children waiting for aid in Gaza
UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell has released a statement after an attack on Palestinians waiting for aid in Deir al Balah killed at least 15 people, nine of them children, and injured 30 more, 19 of them children.
Israeli attacks on Palestinians waiting for humanitarian aid in the strip have become routine, killing hundreds of people over the last several weeks.
Russell says that aid was being provided by Project HOPE, a UNICEF partner organisation, when the attack took place.
“These were mothers seeking a lifeline for their children after months of hunger and desperation. Among them was Donia, whose 1-year-old boy, Mohammed, was killed. She said he spoke his first words to her just hours earlier. Donia now lies in a hospital bed, critically injured by the blast, clutching Mohammed’s tiny shoe. No parent should have to face such tragedy,” the statement reads.
“This is the cruel reality confronting many in Gaza today after months of insufficient aid being allowed into the territory, and parties to the conflict failing to uphold basic responsibilities to protect civilians.”
Deal between Israel and EU could bring more aid into Gaza
The details of the agreement hammered out between the European Union (EU) and Israel stretch to the sorts of measures that need to be imposed on the ground level, say EU and Israeli sources.
That means the resumption of the delivery of items that people have been calling for. So, in concrete terms: more crossing points from the north and the southern areas so that more food and non-food aid can be brought into Gaza. The protection of aid workers, something that many agencies have been calling for. The facilitation of works such as water desalination and the resumption of power supply.
These are all part of the deal. The question is, how quickly will it be imposed?
Israeli army says Hezbollah commander killed in motorcycle strike
The Israeli military has released aerial footage of its attack earlier today on a motorcycle in the Mansouri area of Tyre in southern Lebanon.
It said in a statement that it killed a “terrorist” who acted as the artillery commander for the coastal sector of Hezbollah. The assassinated man was alleged to have been responsible for numerous attacks on Israel during the war.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry said the attack killed one person and injured two others.
Doctors operate in darkness as Gaza hospitals struggle with power crisis
Doctors in Gaza have been forced to operate in darkness as hospitals struggle with a power crisis due to Israel’s bombardment and blockade of fuel for electricity generators.
Two of Gaza’s largest hospitals have issued desperate pleas for help, warning that the medical centres will be turned into “graveyards”.
Palestinian hospital workers face dire choices as Israel blocks fuel
As Israeli restrictions on the entrance of aid into Gaza continue to deprive medical facilities of much-needed fuel, Palestinian doctors say that they are scrambling to save the lives of children through improvisational methods.
“We are forced to place four, five, or sometimes three premature babies in one incubator,” said Dr Mohammed Abu Selmia, the director of Al Shifa Hospital. “Premature babies are now in a very critical condition.”
Dr Muneer Alboursh, the director of the Gaza Ministry of Health, told the news agency Reuters that the lack of fuel was the result of “neither an airstrike nor a missile — but a siege choking the entry of fuel”, which he said is turning the hospital into “a silent graveyard”.
Abu Selmia added that without fuel, the facility will not be able to perform core functions. The dialysis department has already closed down to conserve electricity for intensive care and operating rooms.
“Oxygen stations will stop working. A hospital without oxygen is no longer a hospital. The lab and blood banks will shut down, and the blood units in the refrigerators will spoil,” Abu Selmia said.
UN warns Gaza services will shut down unless fuel allowed in
Stephane Dujarric, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s spokesman, has told reporters that the UN brought 75,000 litres of fuel into the Gaza Strip yesterday in the first such delivery in 130 days.
But Dujarric said the UN and its humanitarian partners need hundreds of thousands of litres of fuel each day “to keep essential, life-saving and life-sustaining operations going”.
That means “the amount entered yesterday isn’t sufficient to cover even one day of energy requirement. Fuel is still running out and services will shut down if greater volumes do not enter the Gaza Strip immediately”, Dujarric said.
“One partner, for instance, reported to us this week that, in a matter of days, fuel shortages could cut off supplies to clean drinking water to about 44,000 children that depend on that water source”, he said.
Israel has maintained a strict blockade on the Gaza Strip, blocking deliveries of sufficient fuel, food, water and other critical supplies.