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Here’s where things stand on Friday 11 July 2025:
- Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, has accused Israel of engineering the “most cruel and Machiavellian scheme to kill” in Gaza, which has become “the graveyard of children and starving people”.
- As the Israeli attacks intensify, signs of hunger become visible everywhere across the forcibly starved territory, according to our team on the ground.
- Several people, including children, have been killed in an Israeli bombardment of the Halimah al-Saadiyah School in Jabalia an-Nazla, in northern Gaza.
- 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.
Palestinians wounded in Israeli settler attacks in occupied West Bank
Palestinians have sustained injuries in attacks carried out by Israeli settlers in two locations in the occupied West Bank, according to reports.
In the village of Susya, south of Hebron, two Palestinians were injured by settlers, the Palestine Red Crescent Society says.
Several Palestinians, including children, were also injured when Israeli settlers, protected by Israeli forces, attacked homes near the village of al-Maniya, southeast of Bethlehem, the Wafa news agency reported.
Trump, Netanyahu exchange confirms two-state solution died ‘long time ago’
An exchange between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington clearly signalled that the US commitment to a two-state solution is dead and buried, Israeli journalist Gideon Levy says.
Asked by a reporter whether there would be a two-state solution, Trump deferred to Netanyahu, who replied that Palestinians should have powers to govern themselves, but not to threaten Israel, “which means that certain powers like overall security will always remain in our hands”.
Levy told Al Jazeera that the exchange was “an official declaration of the death” of the two-state solution, which in effect had died “a long time ago”.
He said there were “some benefits” to dealing with the reality of the situation, rather than continuing with the “masquerade” of a two-state solution, while Israeli settlers continue to occupy “any piece of land in the West Bank”.
“We have to face it: there will never be a Palestinian state and we have to think about the conclusions and the consequences, namely to think about a different vision,” said Levy.
“There is no serious chance for a Palestinian state as long as the occupation continues and above all as long as the settlement project continues.”
‘All Crew Muslim’: Ships look to dodge Red Sea attacks with messages
Commercial ships still sailing through the Red Sea are broadcasting messages about their nationality and even religion on their public tracking systems to avoid being targeted by Yemen’s Houthis after deadly attacks this week.
The Red Sea is a critical waterway for oil and commodities but traffic has dropped sharply since Houthi attacks off Yemen’s coast began in November 2023 in what the group said were in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza war.
The group sank two ships this week after months of calm, and its leader Abdel-Malik al-Houthi reiterated that there would be no passage for any company transporting goods connected to Israel.
In recent days, more ships sailing through the southern Red Sea and the narrow Bab al-Mandeb strait have added messages to their AIS public tracking profiles that can be seen when clicking on a vessel.
Messages have included referring to an all-Chinese crew and management, and flagging the presence of armed guards on board.
“All Crew Muslim,” read one message, while others made clear the ships had no connection to Israel, according to MarineTraffic and LSEG ship-tracking AIS data.
Struck down by malnutrition, pregnant woman in Gaza prays for healthy baby
Fatima Arfa, a six-month pregnant Gaza resident, has told the Reuters news agency that she longed for simple foods like milk, eggs and red meat that could improve her health and increase the chances of delivering a healthy baby.
But just trying to deal with deficiencies is exhausting and highly risky under steady bombardment.
“I’m coming from a faraway place, and on foot too, because I need to have a blood transfusion because of a very big deficiency, malnutrition,” said Arfa, 34, staring at medical image of her unborn baby.
During a consultation with Arfa, Fathi al-Dahdouh, director of external clinics at Al-Helou International Hospital in Gaza City, examines documents about her health.
She has anaemia and hopefully she can receive two units of blood, and needs admission to hospital because she cannot live a normal life with low energy levels, or walk, he said.
“We hope that God will stop this war and open the crossings so that green food supplies, fruits, and vitamins can enter, along with these things,” said al-Dahdouh.
Israeli drone attack kills at least one person in Gaza City
A Palestinian has been killed in an Israeli drone attack in Gaza City, according to a source at the al-Ahli Hospital speaking to Al Jazeera.
The attack took place near the Salah al-Din Mosque in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of the city, the source said.
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Here is a recap of the latest developments:
- At least 18 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in Gaza since dawn, hospital sources tell Al Jazeera.
- UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini says Israel has turned Gaza into a “graveyard of children and starving people”.
- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the global failure to halt the bloodshed in Gaza shows that the world has not learned from the Srebrenica genocide.
- Nearly 800 Palestinians have been killed at Gaza aid points and convoys, according to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
- Doctors Without Borders says an Israeli advance on western Khan Younis in southern Gaza has led it to evacuate a clinic and has “seriously impacted” operations at another.
Hamas slams US over sanctions imposed on UN expert Albanese
The Palestinian group says “the United States’ imposition of sanctions on the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Palestine, Francesca Albanese, is a blatant expression of the US administration’s blatant bias toward Zionist war crimes”.
“The punitive measures taken by the United States against institutions and individuals performing their professional and moral role in the war of extermination in the Gaza Strip, most recently Albanese, undermine the foundations of international and humanitarian law and encourage the occupation’s war criminal leaders to continue their brutal crimes,” Hamas said in a statement published on Telegram.
The group called on the US administration to reverse its policies, “which position it as a de facto [partner] in the campaigns to kill children and women and destroy civilian life in the Gaza Strip”.
EU says it ‘deeply regrets’ US sanctions on Albanese
We now also have a statement from the European Union on the US’s decision to slap sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territory.
“The European Union strongly supports the United Nations human rights system and we deeply regret the decision to impose sanctions on Francesca Albanese,” said bloc spokesman Anouar El Anouni.
Speaking to Al Jazeera on Thursday, Albanese said she would not be cowed into silence by the US move against her the previous day.
She added that the US’s tactics reminded her of “mafia intimidation techniques” before suggesting that “sanctions will only work if people are scared and stop engaging”.
“I want to remind everyone [that] the reason why these sanctions are being imposed is the pursuit of justice,” Albanese said. “Of course, I’ve been critical of Israel. It has been committing genocide and crimes against humanity, and war crimes,” she added
Israeli forces arrest 10 Palestinians in occupied West Bank raids
The Israeli army has carried out raids in several areas in the occupied West Bank, arresting 10 Palestinians, sources tell Al Jazeera.
Three people were arrested in the Hebron area, including the father of a Palestinian man suspected of having carried out a fatal knife attack on an Israeli in the settlement of Gush Etzion on Thursday.
Israeli forces also arrested three Palestinians in the town of Beitin, east of Ramallah, and made four arrests in raids east of Nablus.
Is direct action for Palestine ‘terrorism’? The UK says it is
The United Kingdom has outlawed Palestine Action – an organisation that disrupts the arms industry in the UK with direct action in the form of strikes and protests – grouping it with ISIL (ISIS) and al-Qaeda.
Supporters of the group now risk up to 14 years in prison, and arrests of protesters opposed to the listing have already begun.
In the episode below, our podcast series The Take examines what the decision reveals about the UK’s approach to protest and civil disobedience, and how it might reshape the wider Palestine solidarity movement.
Israel intends to use Rafah ‘as a staging post to ethnically cleanse Gaza’
British Israeli analyst Daniel Levy says that emerging details about Israel’s proposals to drive Palestinians into southern Gaza indicate efforts to ethnically cleanse them from the territory.
Speaking to Al Jazeera, Levy, the president of the US/Middle East Project, said Israel’s moves to concentrate food distribution for Gaza’s population in southern Gaza had nothing to do with humanitarian goals.
“The crucial thing here is that anyone who thought that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) was just an exercise in cruelty … apparently underestimated what this was about,” he said.
“Because the positioning of these GHF distribution sites is a premeditated part of a plan of social-demographic engineering to move Palestinians – to relocate, displace and kettle them – into this area in the south, previously home to 200,000.”
He said there was “no way” that the location could accommodate the estimated 2 million Palestinians in Gaza, “because that’s not the intention”.
Levy added: “The intention is to use this as a staging post to ethnically cleanse, physically remove, as many as possible Palestinians from the landscape.”
Israel committing ‘perfect crime’ with impunity in Gaza under protection of US
Israel was committing the “perfect crime” under the watch of the international community, as support from the US was allowing it to act with impunity in Gaza, says an analyst.
Tamer Qarmout, an associate professor in public policy from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, told Al Jazeera there was ample evidence of “the perfect crime happening under our eyes, under the watch of the international community”.
He added that because Israel was “protected and they can afford doing this because of the support they’re getting from the US, they will continue doing it”.
“If it was not for US support, I believe this war would have ended a long time ago,” he said. “This is sadly a very well-coordinated war with the US, and both Israel’s and the US’s interests are intertwined.”
He said it remained to be seen whether an Israeli proposal to relocate Palestinians to the south of Gaza would be a temporary arrangement.
“The main question is: will Israel allow people to go back to their neighbourhoods in Gaza or just keep them isolated in the south and suffering until they are forcibly displaced or moved somewhere else?”
Relocating Palestinians to Rafah appears to have been Israel’s plan from ‘day one’
Israel’s proposal to relocate Palestinians in a so-called “humanitarian city” in southern Gaza is merely the latest disclosure about a plan that appears to have been in place since “day one” of the war, says an analyst.
Tamer Qarmout, an associate professor in public policy from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, told Al Jazeera that it appeared that “the plan has been there from the beginning”.
“Now, we are just witnessing the operational aspects of it being implemented on the ground,” he said.
He said it was unclear whether Israel’s intention was to concentrate Gaza’s estimated two million people in the ruins of southern Gaza, or to use the site as a staging point for mass displacement of Palestinians beyond Gaza’s borders.
“It could be either,” he said. “Everything they say has to be taken seriously, because this government has crossed all the lines.”
Global inaction over Gaza shows little changed since Srebrenica, says Erdogan
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said the global failure to halt the bloodshed in Gaza shows the world has not learned the lessons of the Srebrenica genocide.
In a video message marking the 30th anniversary of the killings in Srebrenica, in which more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were systematically executed, Erdogan noted that just as the international community had failed to act then, it was now a bystander to Israel’s atrocities in Gaza.
He said the Israeli government will be held accountable “sooner or later” for its actions.
Israel turned Gaza into ‘graveyard of children and starving people’: Lazzarini
Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), has accused Israel of engineering the “most cruel and Machiavellian scheme to kill” in Gaza, in an outraged response to the killing of nine children who were in line for food supplements.
In a post on social media platform X, Lazzarini said that Gaza had become “the graveyard” of children [and] starving people”.
“No way out. Their choice is between 2 deaths: starvation or being [shot] at,” he said. “The most cruel & machiavellian scheme to kill, in total impunity.”
The international community’s norms and values were “being buried” in Gaza, he said, warning that inaction would “bring more chaos”.
Lazzarini was reacting to the Israeli military’s killing of 15 people, including nine children and four women, as they waited in line for nutritional supplements in the city of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza yesterday.
Satellite images show apparent Israeli preparations for ‘concentration camp’ in Rafah
Al Jazeera has seen satellite images that reveal Israeli plans to create a concentration camp in southern Gaza – an alarming scheme to carry forward Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
The images show large tracts of land being cleared of buildings, seemingly in preparation for the forced transfer of Palestinians.
Israel’s defence minister has said that eventually the entire population of Gaza will be moved there – that’s more than two million people.
More on 10 aid seekers killed in new Israeli attack at GHF distribution point
We have received disturbing reports in the past hour, suggesting that 10 Palestinians have been killed and 16 wounded near the GHF aid centre – the only functioning distribution point located in Rafah.
They were transported to the nearby Nasser Hospital after being shot at by Israeli snipers.
We have heard from locals that a great deal of panic erupted at the site of the aid centre during the attack.
Later, the security contractors, along with the Israeli military, started to shoot to disperse hungry crowds.
The climbing death toll reflects a blatant Israeli strategy to cause more harm to Palestinians who are trying to get food supplies.
People keep taking the risk just to feed their families, despite the fact that aid seekers have been shot at around these centres.
18 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in Gaza since dawn
Eighteen Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in Gaza since dawn, hospital sources tell Al Jazeera, with more than half of them aid seekers.
As we reported earlier, 10 people seeking aid were killed, and more than 60 wounded, near a GHF aid distribution hub northwest of Rafah, in southern Gaza.