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Here’s where things stand on Monday 21 July 2025:
- Israeli forces continue to pound Gaza a day after killing at least 115 Palestinians, including 79 aid seekers at the Zikim crossing and 13 others at GHF-run sites.
- Gaza’s Health Ministry announces 19 deaths from starvation in the last 24 hours as the UN warns that the hunger crisis in the Palestinian enclave has reached “a new level of desperation”.
- Protesters across the Muslim world, including in Tunisia, Iraq, Turkiye, Morocco, Lebanon and the occupied West Bank’s Ramallah, have taken to the streets of their cities to denounce Israel’s siege of Gaza.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 58,895 people and wounded 140,980. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.
Israeli forces arrest 12 Palestinians in West Bank raids
Israeli forces have arrested nine Palestinians from the Bethlehem governorate of the occupied West Bank this morning, Wafa is reporting.
They also arrested Zarifa Yousef Daoud al-Deek after raiding her home in Kafr ad-Dik, and two brothers from Nablus, in other early morning raids.
Residents flee as Israeli ground forces attack Deir el-Balah
The situation remains extremely dangerous and precarious.
There has been further mobilisation of Israeli ground forces in the eastern parts of Deir el-Balah. We can see that the entire city is under Israeli attack.
We literally did not manage to sleep at night. There has been an ongoing Israeli bombardment. Israeli jets, tanks, and naval gunboats continue to strike multiple residential areas. Three more squares were destroyed in the city, and then residential houses were flattened.
At the moment, I can hear the sound of gunfire from Israeli tanks.
We are very close to where there are many residents who are using donkey carts and other modes to flee.
More than 650,000 children in Gaza out of school: UNICEF
Hundreds of thousands of school-age children in Gaza have been denied access to education since Israel’s war began, according to UNICEF.
It comes after education was suspended in October 2023, when schools were turned into overcrowded shelters as hundreds of thousands fled Israeli bombardment.
The closures have stripped children of a vital lifeline as they endure war, hunger and displacement.
Older students have lost access to graduation exams and college applications, with nearly 40,000 unable to sit university entry exams for the first time in decades.
Many children in shelters and camps now spend their days searching for food, water and firewood, while the Israeli army has killed tens of thousands and displaced 90 percent of the population.
WFP says Israeli gunfire killed countless people at its convoy in Zikim
As we’ve been reporting, at least 92 Palestinians were killed at aid sites in Gaza yesterday.
The World Food Programme said on Sunday that shortly after crossing through the northern Zikim crossing into Gaza, its 25-truck convoy encountered large crowds of civilians waiting for food supplies.
“As the convoy approached, the surrounding crowd came under fire from Israeli tanks, snipers and other gunfire,” it said on X, adding that the incident resulted in the loss of “countless lives” with many more suffering critical injuries.
“These people were simply trying to access food to feed themselves and their families on the brink of starvation. This terrible incident underscores the increasingly dangerous conditions under which humanitarian operations are forced to be conducted in Gaza.”
At least 79 Palestinians were reported killed in that incident.
Israeli-Canadian soldiers fear fallout from war crimes probe
The Times of Israel (ToI) is reporting that Israeli soldiers who hold Canadian citizenship are afraid of returning to Canada after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) launched what it called a “structural investigation” into possible war crimes in the “Israel-Hamas conflict”.
Nati Hubberman, a dual citizen from the Canadian city of Toronto who carried out reserve duty on Israel’s northern borders, told the media outlet he was scared.
“A lot of us asked ourselves: Is it safe for me to fly to Canada? Will I be arrested at the border?” he said.
A leading Canadian Jewish organisation expressed concern over the RCMP’s inquiry, but has said the Canadian police have confirmed that a criminal investigation is not under way at present.
David Cooper, CIJA’s vice president, told ToI that the RCMP’s involvement began with “investigations into Canadians that were murdered by Hamas” and said his organisation has urged the Canadian government to maintain that focus.
The RCMP’s investigation comes as calls grow for accountability for Israeli atrocities in Gaza, which experts say amount to a “genocide”.
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for PM Netanyahu for war crimes in Gaza, including using starvation as a weapon of war.
Israeli forces kill 2 Palestinians in Deir el-Balah
Israeli shelling has killed two Palestinians south of Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, Wafa is reporting. Their bodies were taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
Israel issued a new forced evacuation threat for Deir el-Balah yesterday as it expanded its ground operation in central Gaza.
UN says staff to remain in Deir el-Balah despite Israeli evacuation threats
The UN humanitarian agency (OCHA) has described Israel’s latest forced displacement threat as “yet another devastating blow” to Palestinians in Gaza.
According to OCHA, “initial estimates indicate that between 50,000 and 80,000 people” were in the area affected by the threat, with at least 1,000 families fleeing the area already.
“The newly-designated area includes several humanitarian warehouses, four primary health clinics, four medical points, and critical water infrastructure,” OCHA added in a statement.
“Any damage to this infrastructure will have life-threatening consequences. UN staff are remaining in Deir al Balah, spread across dozens of premises.”
The UN relocated its aid operations in Gaza to Deir el-Balah in mid-2024, after Israel’s ground invasion of Rafah.
In a separate post on social media, the head of OCHA, Tom Fletcher, said the UN will “stay to help” even as Israeli air strikes are “intensifying” in Deir el-Balah.
Israeli forces kill 7 in Gaza, including family sheltering in tent
Sources at the Nasser Medical Complex say an Israeli attack has killed five members of the same family who were sheltering in a tent in al-Mawasi in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis.
Another attack killed two others in Jabalia in the north of the Gaza Strip, sources at al-Shifa Hospital said.
Israeli forces also fired drones at Palestinians sheltering in a school in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.
There were no immediate reports of casualties.
Israeli forces kill Palestinians waiting for food near Gaza’s Zikim crossing
For the second day in a row, Israeli forces have killed more than 100 Palestinians in Gaza.
At least 79 Palestinians were killed near the Zikim crossing, where crowds were shot at while waiting for food trucks.
The World Food Programme (WFP) says one of its aid convoys came under fire in northern Gaza earlier today, after a large crowd of civilians gathered in hopes of receiving food assistance. In a statement, the WFP said the convoy of 25 trucks had entered through the Zikim crossing and was headed to areas facing “extreme food insecurity”.
Several of the wounded from the Zikim attacks were taken to al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
A recap of recent developments
- Israeli forces have killed at least 115 Palestinians, including 92 aid seekers at the Zikim crossing and aid points run by the notorious United States-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
- This comes as Gaza’s Health Ministry said at least 18 people have died of hunger in the past day.
- The World Food Programme (WFP) condemns Israel’s attack that killed 79 aid seekers at Zikim, saying that”Gaza’s hunger crisis has reached new levels of desperation” and that “people are dying from lack of humanitarian assistance”.
- Protesters across the Muslim world, including in Tunisia, Iraq, Turkiye, Morocco, Lebanon and the occupied West Bank’s Ramallah, took to the streets of their cities to denounce Israel’s siege of Gaza.
- Israel blocked a visa extension for the head of the UN’s humanitarian office in Gaza, Jonathan Whittall, after he testified about catastrophic conditions in the enclave and at aid distribution sites run by the GHF.
- Pope Leo has reiterated a call for the end of the “barbarity of war” during a service on Sunday as he spoke of his hurt after an Israeli attack on Gaza’s only Catholic church on Thursday.
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