LIVE UPDATES: Number of Palestinians starved to death in Gaza rises to 122

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Here’s where things stand on Friday 25 July 2025:

• Gaza hospitals have recorded nine new deaths due to starvation and malnutrition over 24 hours, raising the total number of starvation deaths to 122, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
• Gaza will run out of the specialised therapeutic food needed to save the lives of severely malnourished children by mid-August, UNICEF and humanitarian agencies say.
• Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney calls Israel’s denial of humanitarian aid to Gaza a “violation of international law”.
• French President Emmanuel Macron says his country will formally recognise the State of Palestine in September at the UN General Assembly.
• Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 59,676 people and wounded 143,965. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attacks and more than 200 were taken captive.

Protesters condemn Gaza starvation in front of Egyptian embassies in Finland, Norway

In the Finnish capital, Helsinki, activists have demonstrated in solidarity with Palestinians in front of the main gate of the Egyptian embassy to express their rejection of the closure of the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.

Footage posted by pro-Palestinian accounts showed activists placing pictures of Netanyahu and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on the ground in front of the embassy gate and pouring red paint on them. Police arrived to secure the embassy entrance.

Activists closed the iron gates of the Egyptian embassy in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, in protest against the starvation of the people of Gaza. Embassy security personnel tried to intervene.

Armed Israeli settlers launch more attacks across occupied West Bank

Footage circulating online, which has been verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking Sanad agency, shows Israeli settlers, protected by soldiers, storming the village of al-Tuwani in Masafer Yatta south of Hebron.

They spread throughout the village, searching Palestinians’ homes amid a heavy military presence in the surrounding areas.

Settlers also attacked the al-Hamma area in the northern Jordan Valley, with the Wafa news agency reporting they fired live bullets near Palestinian tents.

Another settler attack was reported in the village of Kisan, east of Bethlehem. The settlers attacked Palestinian homes and vandalised them. They destroyed solar panels and a water network, and displaced 10 families.

In Nablus, Israeli soldiers in armoured vehicles stormed the al-Lubban Asharqiya and seized a citizen’s vehicle, while another raid took place in Beit Furik.

UNRWA chief says ‘mass starvation in Gaza’ is ‘deliberate’

Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), has appealed for the organisation’s aid stockpiles to be let into Gaza, warning the enclave is suffering from “deliberate mass starvation”.

“Today, more children died, their bodies emaciated by hunger,” said Lazzarini, referencing reports of nine new starvation deaths.

He condemned the US- and Israel-backed GHF, which excludes the UN and other relief agencies from the aid process, calling it a “cruel” politically driven effort that “takes more lives than it saves“.

“The unfolding famine can only be reversed by a political will,” Lazzarini said in a post on X. “Make ‘never again’ a reality. If we fail the Palestinians in Gaza, others are likely to be failed too in the future.”

Israel claims to have killed Hezbollah member in southern Lebanon

The Israeli military says its forces today killed a man in southern Lebanon, claiming he was the personnel officer for Hezbollah’s Bint Jbeil sector, Ali Mohammad Hassan Qoutan.

The army statement published on Telegram said the victim of the attack was “involved in efforts to rehabilitate the terrorist organization in the Bint Jbeil area of southern Lebanon and operated to recruit terrorists during the war”.

UN chief decries ‘lack of humanity’ shown for Gaza

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called out the international community for neglecting Palestinians’ suffering in Gaza, which he said presents a “moral crisis that challenges the global conscience”.

“I cannot explain the level of indifference and inaction we see by too many in the international community – the lack of compassion, the lack of truth, the lack of humanity,” Guterres said at a global assembly of rights group Amnesty International.