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Here’s where things stand on Monday 21 July 2025:
- The Israeli military killed at least 115 Palestinians, including 92 aid seekers and two civil defence aid workers, and wounded more than 200 people as famine reached its peak in Gaza, and children are dying of Israeli-imposed starvation.
- The Gaza Health Ministry said that 18 people had died of hunger in its last 24-hour reporting period.
- The Israeli army dropped leaflets over a residential area in Deir el-Balah, warning residents to leave the area as its military chief visited Shujayea in the north and touted plans to continue the war.
- Protesters across the Muslim world, including in Tunisia, Iraq, Turkiye, Morocco, Lebanon and the occupied West Bank’s Ramallah, took to the streets to denounce the Israeli siege of Gaza.
- Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar confirmed blocking a visa extension for the head of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Gaza and the occupied West Bank because he testified about “weaponised hunger” in Gaza.
- In the occupied West Bank, Palestinians say Israeli settler attacks on water supplies are making it harder to stay in their villages.
Reports of intense Israeli bombardment near Deir el-Balah
Heavy Israeli bombardment has been reported in areas near Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.
Footage shared by the Quds News Network shows large plumes of smoke rising from the area.
Earlier, our colleague on the ground reported that Israeli air attacks and artillery shelling are targeting the southern area of the city.
Deir el-Balah, home to thousands of displaced Palestinians, has come under increasing fire in recent weeks.
Israeli army attacks area near Red Crescent hospital
Palestinian media are reporting multiple casualties resulting from Israeli attacks on the al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis, where the Palestine Red Crescent has a field hospital.
The Israeli army designated the area a safe zone in the early days of its war on Gaza, but it routinely attacks the many tents housing displaced people there.
Photos: Israeli forces attack Gaza from land and air
Israel’s energy minister mocks Iran over water shortages
Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen has posted an image of himself on X holding a glass of water and telling the Iranian people: “I know you don’t have enough drinking water.
“This is because your oppressive regime, instead of investing in providing drinking water, has diverted water resources to its failed nuclear programme, which has now ended up in the dustbin of history,” he wrote in Farsi, in reference to the water shortages in Iran amid a heatwave.
“To the people of Iran: The day this oppressive regime is overthrown, your lives will be much better – and you, too, will be able to benefit from Israel’s water technologies.”
Why is Israel attacking so many Palestinian religious sites?
Gaza’s only Catholic church has been hit, and Muslim cemeteries have been desecrated.
Hundreds of mosques have also been damaged or destroyed.
In the occupied West Bank, attacks on Christians and Muslims are increasing.
Why is this happening?
Israeli army spokesman targets journalists after mass hunger reports
The Israeli military’s Arabic-language spokesman, Avichay Adraee, has released a video attacking Gaza journalists reporting on the starvation of Palestinians, including Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif.
He claimed the reports are “a fabricated and deceitful Hamas theatrical performance”.
Al-Sharif wrote in a post on X that this is another attempt by Israel to silence the truth and “cover up a genocide unfolding in real time”.
Protests in cities across Muslim world denounce Gaza starvation and demand ceasefire
Protesters gathered on Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis to express solidarity with Gaza and condemn what they called Israel’s “systematic starvation war” against Palestinians.
Demonstrators demanded a ceasefire and the immediate opening of border crossings to allow the entry of food and medical aid.
Similar protests are also being held in Baghdad, Iraq, and in Ankara, Turkiye today.
Meanwhile, large crowds marched through the streets of Rabat, Morocco’s capital, in a separate show of support for Gaza. Footage shared on social media showed thousands rallying against what they described as a war of genocide and starvation.
Israel’s Saar confirms blocking UN aid official’s visa
Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has confirmed reports in Israeli media that has has blocked a visa extension for Jonathan Whittall, the head of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
In a Hebrew post on X, he said the decision was made “due to biased and hostile conduct against Israel, which distorted reality, presented false reports, slandered Israel, and even violated the UN’s own rules on neutrality”.
“Whoever spreads lies about Israel – Israel will not work with them.”
This comes after Whittall testified about catastrophic conditions in Gaza and at aid distribution sites of the so-called GHF, which he said were “created to kill” and are assisting the “weaponised hunger” created by Israel.
Protesters in West Bank, Lebanon condemn starvation of Gaza
For a second day, there was a major march in the occupied West Bank’s Ramallah to denounce the Israeli massacres and starvation policy in Gaza.
Israeli forces launch more raids across occupied West Bank
Israeli soldiers in armoured vehicles stormed the town of Qabatiya in the occupied West Bank’s Jenin, firing live ammunition at civilians, with no injuries reported so far.
The Wafa news agency reported that a number of Palestinian children were tear gassed during an Israeli raid on the town of Tuqu, located southeast of Bethlehem. The Israeli forces had positioned themselves in several neighbourhoods before advancing.
South of Tubas, Israeli forces stormed the Wadi al-Fara area and took up positions on a main street in the area. Another raid was reported in the town of al-Mazaraa ash-Sharqiya, located east of Ramallah.