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Here’s where things stand on Sunday 19 July 2025:

• At least 54 people, including 51 aid seekers, killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza.
• Two more Palestinians, including a 35-day-old infant, have died of malnutrition at Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital.
• Tens of thousands of people marched in Tel Aviv, urging US President Donald Trump to reach a deal to end the war and bring back about 50 captives remaining in Gaza.
• Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 58,765 people and wounded 140,485. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023 attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.

Israeli attacks on Gaza kill 54, including 51 aid seekers

Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed 54 people, including 51 aid seekers, since dawn, medical sources told our colleagues on the ground.

Nine people were killed and 55 wounded by Israeli fire near an aid centre in northern Gaza.

Five Palestinians were killed near an aid centre north of Rafah, southern Gaza.

Three WHO trucks to enter Gaza with medical supplies: Health Ministry

Gaza’s Health Ministry says three World Health Organization (WHO) trucks carrying medical supplies are scheduled to enter the enclave today.

The ministry said in a statement that the trucks, which contain no food, are of “great importance and [an] urgent” support to the enclave’s medical facilities in continuing to provide life-saving care during the war.

“The Ministry of Health urges the honourable citizens, all dignitaries, families, and concerned parties to make every effort to protect the convoy by not approaching the trucks, and to enable their safe arrival at the hospitals to save the lives of patients and the wounded,” the statement added.

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Let’s bring you up to speed with the latest developments:

• Israeli attacks have killed at least 25 people, including 19 aid seekers, across Gaza since dawn.
• Razan Abu Zaher, a four-year-old Palestinian, has died of complications from malnutrition and hunger in Gaza.
• The Israeli army has dropped leaflets over a residential area in Deir el-Balah warning residents to leave the area.
• Families of Israeli captives have expressed concern and anxiety over the Israeli army’s expansion of its ground operation in Deir el-Balah.
• In the occupied West Bank, Palestinians say Israeli settler attacks on water supplies are making it harder to stay in their villages.

People of Gaza are being starved: UNRWA

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees warns that Israel is “starving civilians”, including one million children, in Gaza amid an ongoing siege on crucial aid deliveries into the enclave.

In a post on X, UNRWA called on Israel to lift the siege and allow the agency to bring food and medicines into Gaza.

Currently, food aid is distributed by the US- and Israel-backed GHF at four points across the enclave. However, aid seekers, who are attempting to receive the desperately needed packages, are being shot at.

Since late May, when the GHF was established, nearly 900 people have been killed.

Doctors at central Gaza hospital receiving malnutrition cases every hour

A 35-day-old baby in Gaza City and a four-month-old child in Deir el-Balah have died of malnutrition at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.

The mother was touching her body, saying, “I am sorry I could not feed you. I had no other options than to see you dying in front of my eyes.”

These are not the only two cases. There have been more in the past 72 hours. According to doctors at the hospital, they are receiving malnutrition cases every hour.

Parents go to the GHF distribution sites to risk getting killed or leave their children starving. There is no option in the market. Everything is very expensive.

Parents say they are hungry and unable to secure a meal for their children.

We met a mother who said she is giving her children water to fill up their stomachs because she can’t afford flour. Even when she could, she did not find it.

There are many stories on how Palestinians are struggling. But the situation remains the same.

Gaza death toll rises to 25

Since dawn, Israeli attacks have killed 25 people, including 19 aid seekers, medical sources told our colleagues on the ground.

Israel drops leaflets demanding residents leave areas in Deir el-Balah

As we reported earlier, Israeli forces issued their latest forced displacement orders in seven blocks, including those within tents in Deir el-Balah.

In footage verified by Al Jazeera, the army dropped leaflets over residential areas in Deir el-Balah, demanding that Palestinians leave due to an imminent attack.

While the army routinely orders Palestinians to forcibly relocate, the areas it claims are “safe zones” are also under attack, rendering no area in the enclave safe from Israeli fire.

Captives’ families demand guarantees of safety amid military operation in Deir el-Balah

The families of Israeli captives held in Gaza have expressed concern and anxiety over the Israeli army’s announcement that it was expanding its ground operation in Deir el-Balah.

“Can anyone promise us that this decision will not come at the cost of losing our loved ones?” read a statement from the families.

The group added that it expects Netanyahu, the defence minister, and senior military officials to explain what is being done to protect the captives inside the Strip.

“Unfortunately, despite all the spin and false promises, many families have already learned firsthand the meaning of expanding the fighting in the shadow of negotiations and the lack of a clear war plan,” the statement said, referring to the recovery of six captives’ bodies last August.

Back then, the Israeli army said it was “highly probable” that their deaths were related to a strike near the location where they were held.

Captives’ families have repeatedly called for the government to halt the fighting and seal a deal for the return of those still held in Gaza.

Two people killed in Israeli attack on aid seekers

Israeli attacks have killed at least two people and wounded many waiting for aid northwest of Gaza City, a source at al-Shifa Hospital says.

Israeli attacks on aid seekers have become a common occurrence at aid distribution sites run by the GHF.

Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary, reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, said more than 900 Palestinians have been killed at aid sites since the GHF began food distributions in late May.

The UN and humanitarian aid agencies have long denounced the GHF for its “weaponisation” of aid in Gaza and called on Israel to allow the entry of other humanitarian assistance, which has been blocked from entering Gaza.

Juliette Touma, UNRWA’s director of communications, said last week that the agency had 6,000 trucks waiting at the border with Egypt and Jordan, and the food would expire soon if UNRWA were not allowed to deliver it to Palestinians.

Gaza death toll rises

Since dawn, at least 15 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza, including nine aid seekers, medical sources tell our colleagues on the ground.

Palestinians left with zero options after new evacuation threat

We are a couple of blocks away from where the evacuation order has been issued for. These are areas in the heart of Deir el-Balah and are densely populated.

Palestinians say they have nowhere else to go, and there is no space because most western areas or al-Mawasi are full of people and tents with no extra space.

They are left with zero options.

Palestinians here are refusing to leave and say they are going to stay in their houses because even the areas designated as safe by the Israeli army have been targeted.

Al-Mawasi is a large agricultural land with no water, food, health facilities, or sanitation.

‘No life without water’: Settler attacks threaten West Bank communities

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank say Israeli settler attacks on their water supplies are making it harder for them to stay in their villages.

“The settlers came, and the first thing they did was break the pipeline. And when the pipeline is broken, we have to stop pumping,” says Subhil Olayan.

“There is no life without water, of course,” added Olayan, who oversees a system of wells, pumps and pipelines supplying water to Palestinian villages, some of which exclusively rely on the Ein Samiyah spring, which was recently attacked by settlers. “The water just goes into the dirt, into the ground.”

The spring is the source of water for some 110,000 people, according to the Palestinian company that manages it.

Issa Qassis, its chairman, said he viewed settler attacks on water supplies as a tool for Israeli land grabs and annexation.

“When you restrict water supply in certain areas, people simply move where water is available,” he said. “So, in a plan to move people to other lands, water is the best and fastest way.”

Rubio says US ‘heavily involved’ in talks on southern Syria

The secretary of state says the US has been speaking to Israel, Jordan and Syria over the last three days about “the horrifying and dangerous developments in southern Syria”.

“If authorities in Damascus want to preserve any chance of achieving a unified, inclusive and peaceful Syria free of ISIS and of Iranian control they must help end this calamity,” Marco Rubio wrote in a post on social media, using another name for ISIL.

He added that Syrian forces should “prevent ISIS and any other violent jihadists from entering the area and carrying out massacres”.

“Furthermore the fighting between Druze and Bedouin groups inside the perimeter must also stop immediately,” he said.

The Syrian government said its forces have cleared Bedouin fighters from the predominantly Druze city of Suwayda after President al-Sharaa ordered a new ceasefire between Bedouin and Druze groups.

‘Death trap’: More Palestinians killed at food aid site

Israel has continued targeting Palestinians seeking aid at GHF sites in southern Gaza.

Yesterday, at least 38 out of the 116 people it killed were aid seekers.

“The tanks started moving towards us, we thought they came out to organise us so we can get aid,” Mohammed al-Khalidi, one of those trying to get food at a GHF site, said.

“Suddenly, we saw the jeeps coming from one side, and the tanks from the other, and they started shooting at us. It wasn’t shots that were to scare us or to organise us, it was shots that were targeted to kill us.”

Another witness, Mohammed al-Barbaray, said: “This is not a site for aid, this is a trap, a death trap, anyone can get killed.”

“More than 900 Palestinians have been killed near sites run by the notorious GHF since it began operating in May,” said Al Jazeera’s Hing Khoudary, reporting from Deir el-Balah. “But unless Israel allows more food into Gaza, Palestinians have no choice but to risk their lives just for something to eat.”