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Here’s where things stand on Monday 15 July 2025:
- At least 47 people killed across Gaza today, including Palestinians gathered near aid centre.
- Israeli forces continue bombarding Gaza a day after killing 95 Palestinians across the Strip.
- Criticisms of Israel’s plan to set up an internment camp in Gaza are growing, with Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid saying it would amount to a “concentration camp” if Palestinians there are not allowed to leave.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 58,026 people and wounded 138,520, 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.
Al-Quds Brigades claims attack on Israeli forces in Khan Younis
The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad says its fighters have destroyed an Israeli military vehicle with an explosive device before clashing with troops.
The group said on Telegram the Israeli force suffered casualties in the ambush that took place in the Abasan al-Kabira area, east of Khan Younis, last Wednesday.
Israeli rescue teams using helicopters arrived in the area to evacuate the dead and wounded soldiers, it said.
Church leaders, international envoys to visit West Bank
Church leaders and diplomatic envoys are due to visit Taybeh, east of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.
The representatives, made up of more than 20 countries, including the UK, Russia, China, Japan, Jordan, and the European Union, will visit the town where King Abdullah of Jordan, the custodian of the Holy Land, will deliver a speech.
The heads of Palestinian churches have demanded that the settlers be held accountable for their attack on Taybeh and have asked to know why Israeli police did not respond to requests from residents to protect them.
On Friday, Israeli settlers killed two men in Taybeh, beating one man to death and shooting the other in the chest.
Gaza death toll for the day rises to 47
Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed 47 Palestinians since dawn, medical sources say.
Among them are 27 people killed in strikes on central and southern Gaza.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 58,026 people and wounded 138,520, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
Israeli forces blow up residential block in Rafah
The footage below, taken by Israeli soldiers and released by local media, shows the demolition of a residential block in the Saudi neighbourhood of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip.
‘Humanitarian city’ could be ploy to put effort on Hamas to secure ceasefire
Israeli affairs analyst, Dan Perry, says the plan to build a “humanitarian city” would involve “by all indications a very long process” to build and maintain, while the country does not have the “funds or the energy or the desire” to do so.
“I think this has to be viewed in the context of the current negotiations where the very reporting of such a plan might be an effort to put pressure on Hamas to show more flexibility,” Perry told Al Jazeera.
“I agree with [opposition leader Yair] Lapid that it is a security, political and logistical nightmare. I would add that it’s ethically inadmissible,” he added.
Since the plan was announced by Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz last week, it has received immense backlash both domestically and internationally.
Israeli soldiers use civilian drones to target Palestinian children
As we reported earlier, the Israeli army has admitted to using civilian drones to strike targets in Gaza.
In a report by the Israeli outlets 972 Magazine and The Local Call, it was found that the army was using China-made drones that are operated manually by soldiers on the ground to force Palestinians out of their homes or to forcibly prevent them from returning to areas they have been displaced from.
According to one soldier, named S, Israeli forces were using the drones, which are sold commercially for about $3,000, to specifically target children.
“There was a boy who entered the [off-limits] zone. He didn’t do anything. [Other soldiers] claimed to have seen him standing and talking to people. That’s it – they dropped a grenade from a drone,” S said.
Read more here.
From Srebrenica to Gaza, why ‘never again’ keeps failing
With constant bombardment, man-made famine and tactics like declaring a safe zone and then bombing it, experts say what Israel is doing in Gaza amounts to genocide.
In the Bosnian War from 1992 to 1995, Bosnian Serb forces killed some 68,000 Bosniaks, rounding people up based on ethnicity.
On July 11, 1995, Serb fighters rounded up and killed more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys in a United Nations-declared “safe zone” in the town of Srebrenica.
That was the only legally recognised genocide of the Bosnian War.
Al Jazeera spoke to Iva Vukusic, assistant professor in international history at Utrecht University, and Nimer Sultany, Palestinian legal scholar at the University of London, about the parallels between the two.
Read more here.
Fuel blockade continues to worsen Gaza’s water crisis
Gaza’s water crisis has intensified since Israel blocked nearly all fuel shipments into the enclave on March 2. With no fuel, desalination plants, wastewater treatment facilities and pumping stations have largely shut down.
Families, many of them with children, are spending hours each day under the scorching sun searching for a few litres of water just to survive.
Asem Alnabih, a spokesperson for Gaza’s municipality, said yesterday that only 12 of more than 70 municipal wells remain operational.
“We’re on the verge of death. Water can reach only 50 percent of the city,” Alnabih told Al Jazeera, adding that the rest get nothing.
Aya Fayoumi, a displaced Palestinian, says her family doesn’t get enough water for their basic needs.
“There’s never any water in the toilets. There’s barely enough drinking water. So we have nothing left for personal hygiene or to wash clothes,” she said.
According to the International Rescue Committee, most people in Gaza now receive far less than the World Health Organization’s emergency minimum of 15 litres per person per day.
Hamas official says Al-Aqsa Flood shattered Israeli deterrence ‘forever’
The spokesperson of Hamas’s Qassam Brigades, Abu Obeida, said the October 7 attack on Israel, dubbed Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, permanently broke Israel’s deterrence and unified the region’s focus on Palestine.
In a statement marking one year since the death of Mohammed Deif, the group’s top military commander, Abu Obaida said the operation “delivered the harshest blow in the enemy’s history and brought the Palestinian cause back to the forefront”.
He described Deif, who was killed last year in an Israeli strike, as a symbol of decades of armed struggle and sacrifice, whose blood was “mingled with that of our people and our nation”.
“Deif will remain, like other great leaders, a beacon for all the free people of the world,” Abu Obeida said, adding that his comrades continue to inflict “strategic losses” on Israel and that his legacy remains a “nightmare haunting war criminals and occupiers”.
Children among more than 700 people killed while waiting to get water
The Government Media Office in Gaza says attacks on people waiting in line for water have killed more than 700 Palestinians as part of a “systematic thirst war”.
The Israeli army has targeted 112 freshwater filling points and destroyed 720 water wells, putting them out of service. This has deprived more than 1.25 million people of access to clean water, the office said in a statement.
“We affirm that this racist policy constitutes a full-fledged war crime under the Geneva Conventions, and a grave violation of international humanitarian law and human rights law.”
The office said Israel has prevented the entry of 12 million litres of fuel monthly, the amount necessary to operate the minimum number of water wells, sewage treatment plants, garbage collection vehicles and other vital services. This ban has “caused near-total paralysis of water and sewage networks and worsened the spread of diseases, especially among children”, the office said.
On March 9, Israel cut off the last power line feeding the last water desalination plant in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah, halting the production of large quantities of drinking water and further deepening the enclave’s water crisis.
Israeli settlers set up tents, uproot olive trees in West Bank
Israeli settlers have set up tents and uprooted hundreds of olive trees in al-Maniya village, southeast of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.
Head of the village council, Zayed Kawazba, told Wafa news agency that a group of settlers stormed al-Qarn in the centre of al-Maniya, set up four tents and uprooted approximately 1,500 olive saplings belonging to families from the al-Motawer and Jabarin clans.
In the first half of 2025, settlers established 23 new outposts, with full protection from the Israeli army.
During the same period, settlers carried out 2,153 recorded attacks, killing four Palestinians.
Father of Israeli captive says ceasefire talks ‘stagnant’
The father of an Israeli captive held in Gaza says he had travelled to Washington, DC, with “hope” of a ceasefire but has returned to Israel to a “reality of stagnation that is difficult to bear”.
Kobi Kalfon, father of Segev Kalfon, told Israeli public radio that he and the other family members of captives were in a “race against time” as their loved ones remained in captivity.
“At the timing we are going through, you expect a breakthrough. Last week, we were in Washington, and I clung to a certain hope. Then we returned to the country, and the negotiations are stuck,” Kobi Kalfon said.
He added that in the US, the “feeling” was that a ceasefire was about to be reached.
“When is it supposed to happen?” he asked.
Israeli jets target Tuffah and Sabra neighbourhoods of Gaza City
Israeli jets have launched air strikes on a house near the al-Shurafa Roundabout in the Tuffah neighbourhood in eastern Gaza City, our correspondent on the ground reports.
Jets also targeted a home in the Sabra neighbourhood in southern Gaza City, where one person was wounded.
At the same time, an ambulance and emergency source told our colleagues that one person was killed due to the bombing of a house in Sabra.
Israeli forces demolish Palestinian’s home in Bethlehem
Israeli soldiers have demolished the house of a Palestinian in al-Maara village, which is south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.
Footage below, published by Palestinian platforms and verified by Al Jazeera, shows bulldozers bringing down the four-storey house as Israeli attacks continue to escalate in the area.
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Here are the latest developments from today:
- At least 28 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza today, including two aid seekers.
- The Israeli army says its jets targeted Gaza more than 100 times in the past 24 hours.
- Criticism grows on the potential plan to build a “humanitarian city” in Rafah, with Israel’s former PM Ehud Olmert calling it a “concentration camp”.
- Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad reiterate that any indirect negotiations with Israel must result in a complete end to the war on Gaza and a full Israeli withdrawal.