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Here’s where things stand on Sunday 27 July 2025:
- At least 71 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since dawn on Saturday, including 42 aid seekers.
- Israeli-imposed hunger kills five people in Gaza, as the total number of starvation deaths in the territory rises to more than 127, including more than 85 children.
- The Israeli government says aid airdrops will resume tonight, while the UN has called them ineffective and even dangerous for starving Palestinians.
- A former US soldier who worked for the notorious GHF in Gaza tells BBC that he had “without question … witnessed war crimes” in the killing of civilians seeking food aid.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 59,733 people and wounded 144,477. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attacks and more than 200 were taken captive.
‘Every one of my colleagues is hungry’, says humanitarian in Gaza
Caroline Willemen, a Gaza City-based project coordinator with MSF, says the hunger crisis in the enclave extends even to her own colleagues.
“Every single one of my colleagues is hungry,” she told Al Jazeera. “Last week, there were a few days where there was absolutely nothing in the market. Many of them [my colleagues] came to work not having eaten for 24 or 48 hours.”
“Even [for people who have a salary], when there is nothing in the market, there is nothing you can do,” she said.
While a community kitchen her colleagues can access has begun offering a small portion of rice in recent days, Willemen said they are likely to give most of that food to their hungry children. “I know for a fact that many of my colleagues will not eat that rice because they have hungry children at home, so they will take that rice and feed their children instead,” she said.
Jordanian king urges end to war on Gaza in call with Trump
King Abdullah II has stressed “the need to exert all efforts to stop the war on Gaza and ensure the flow of humanitarian aid to all areas of the Strip” in a call with US President Trump, according to a readout of the talks shared by the Jordan News Agency.
“The King commended the efforts of the US and President Trump to de-escalate the situation in the region,” the news agency said.
He also noted that Jordan “will continue to work alongside the United States and other active partners to achieve peace that guarantees the security and stability of the entire region”.
‘Horrors upon horrors’: How US Congress responded to mass hunger in Gaza
The images of emaciated children coming out of Gaza have moved some of Israel’s staunchest supporters in the US Congress to decry the humanitarian situation in the besieged territory ravaged by Israeli-imposed starvation.
Some Democratic lawmakers pointedly condemned Israel over the past few days, slamming the US and Israeli-backed GHF food distribution mechanism that has led to the killing of more than 1,000 Palestinian aid seekers.
But so far, there does not appear to be a significant push to impose actual consequences on the Israeli government for its forced mass hunger campaign in Gaza.
Just last week, the US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to approve $500m in missile defence support to Israel.
Read more about how US Congress members have responded in recent days in our story here.
Gaza aid airdrops to begin tonight: Israeli military
An Israeli army spokesperson has said the airdrop will include seven aid parcels containing flour, sugar, and food preserves provided by international organisations.
“In addition, it was decided that humanitarian corridors will be defined that will allow safe movement of UN convoys and aid organisations to bring food and medicine to the population,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
The military also said it was “prepared for humanitarian pauses in areas where there are population concentrations” in Gaza.
As we’ve been reporting, UN officials and top humanitarian groups have said airdrops will not meet the needs of Palestinians in Gaza who are suffering under the Israeli-imposed blockade and policy of starvation.
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) also said earlier today that airdrops will not reverse starvation in Gaza. “They are expensive, inefficient & can even kill starving civilians. It is a distraction,” Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X.
Israeli army says soldier died after being wounded in southern Gaza
The military says the soldier, 32, was seriously injured in fighting in southern Gaza on July 19.
Children so malnourished that ‘feeding no longer helps’
Caroline Willemen, project coordinator at an MSF clinic in Gaza City, says a quarter of the children screened there are malnourished, with 25 new cases admitted for urgent care each day.
The malnourished children are given fortified peanut paste – a nutrient-rich, low-cost emergency food – to help them “gain some strength”, Willemen told Al Jazeera. But in severe cases, “just feeding them is not enough.”
“Their body will have shut down to such an extent that normal feeding no longer helps, so they need specialised care that at the moment we are not equipped to give, unfortunately,” she explained. “It’s extremely difficult to help, especially the small children who have already gotten to that point.”
“I never could have considered when I arrived a month ago [to Gaza] that a situation that was already apocalyptic … would get even worse,” Willemen said.
Israelis protest in Tel Aviv, Haifa
Groups of Israeli protesters have taken to the streets of Tel Aviv, Haifa and other areas of northern Israel protesting Netanyahu’s government and demanding the return of the captives in Gaza.
Footage of one of the demonstrations in Haifa seen by Al Jazeera shows the protesters holding up a banner saying “We are not our government” and calling for snap elections.
In Tel Aviv’s Habima Square, hundreds of antiwar protesters also rallied, with many holding up photographs of the remaining captives.
What happened the last time an aid ship tried to reach Gaza?
As we’ve been reporting, the Handala vessel is nearing the Gaza Strip as activists try to break Israel’s blockade and bring much-needed aid into the territory.
This isn’t the first time the Freedom Flotilla Coalition has tried to break the siege.
Last month, another vessel – the Madleen – attempted to bring humanitarian supplies into Gaza, but it was intercepted in international waters by Israeli forces.
The 12 international activists on board that ship, including climate advocate Greta Thunberg, were taken to Israel and detained for varying periods of time before being sent back to their home countries.
For more on what happened to the Madleen activists, check out our June explainer here.
UAE starting Gaza aid airdrops ‘immediately’, says foreign minister
Emirati Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan has announced the UAE will begin airdropping aid into Gaza “immediately”, saying the humanitarian crisis there “has reached a critical and unprecedented level”.
“We will ensure essential aid reaches those most in need, whether through land, air or sea. Air drops are resuming once more, immediately,” said al-Nahyan in a post on X. “Our commitment to alleviating suffering and providing support is resolute and unwavering.”
Plans for airdrops – typically a last resort in crisis zones – have drawn criticism from aid officials urging Israel to allow more trucks in instead.
Earlier, as we reported, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini called airdrops an expensive, inefficient “distraction” that would “not reverse the deepening starvation”. He called for Israel to “lift the siege, open the gates [and] guarantee safe movements [and] dignified access to people in need”.
Macron pushed UK, Canada to recognise Palestinian state but they balked: Report
Reuters is reporting that French President Emmanuel Macron had been pushing to have France and its G7 allies, the UK and Canada, recognise Palestinian statehood.
But the news agency, which cited three diplomats, said London and Canada “did not want to face the wrath of the United States”, which left France to unilaterally announce plans for recognition.
Macron said this week that he would formally make the announcement at the UN General Assembly in September, a move that has been condemned by Israeli leaders, as well as the Trump administration.
“It became increasingly apparent that we could not wait to get partners on board,” a French diplomat told Reuters.
Gaza is starving as ‘abundance of food’ sits nearby
We’ve spoken to Bushra Khalidi, Oxfam policy lead in the occupied Palestinian territory, about the starvation gripping Gaza.
Hamas armed wing says targeted Israeli forces in Gaza’s Khan Younis
The Qassam Brigades say they targeted two Israeli army personnel carriers with explosive devices, setting the vehicles on fire.
Hamas’s armed wing also said it fired a missile at a third personnel carrier in the Khan Younis area of southern Gaza.
“Our fighters observed a military excavator burying the vehicles to extinguish the fires, and a helicopter landing to evacuate,” the group said in a post on Telegram.
Israeli forces raid more West Bank towns, back settler incursions
Israeli forces have stormed the town of Turmus Aya northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank after groups of settlers attacked the outskirts of the town.
Another raid took place in Wadi al-Fara south of Tubas, with local sources cited by the Wafa news agency saying they fired tear gas canisters before withdrawing to a military checkpoint nearby.
At the entrance to the village of Wadi Fukin west of Bethlehem, Israeli forces set up a new military checkpoint to check Palestinians’ identification documents and searched their vehicles.
The Israeli army is also carrying on with its months-long attacks on Tulkarem and its Nur Shams refugee camp, raiding and vandalising homes.
US congressman suggests Israel’s starvation of Gaza is genocidal
Congressman John Garamendi has suggested Israel’s “dangerous and willful failure to enable humanitarian aid” in Gaza amounts to genocide.
Only a handful of Democratic, progressive US lawmakers have accused Israel of genocide in Gaza – saying they are trying to destroy the Palestinian people.
However, leading rights groups and UN experts have concluded over the past year that the Israeli military campaign is genocidal.
“Israel has the ability and the means to deliver adequate food to the Palestinians,” Garamendi, of California, said in a statement. “They also have the obligation under international law to deliver it; its the choice of Prime Minister Netanyahu not to feed Gaza.”
Gaza death toll rises again
At least 71 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across since dawn today, hospital sources tell Al Jazeera.
That figure includes 42 people who were killed while seeking desperately needed aid.
Starved baby in Gaza weighed less at death than birth
The five-month-old girl who died of malnutrition in Gaza today, Zainab Abu Haleeb, weighed just two kilogrammes (4.4 pounds) at the time of her death – smaller than her birth weight of more than three kilos (6.6 pounds), and less than a third the average weight of an infant her age.
Dr. Ahmed al-Farah, head of the paediatric department at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, where she was examined, said Zainab had suffered from vomiting and diarrhoea without access to the specialised baby formula she needed. As her immune system collapsed, she developed a bacterial infection and sepsis, causing her to rapidly lose weight, he said, according to The AP news agency.
Zainab’s mother fears that her daughter could be just one of many babies to die due to malnutrition. “Their names are on a list that no one looks at. They are just names and numbers. We are just numbers,” she said.
