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Here’s where things stand on Monday 27 July 2025:
- UN says Israel has eased some restrictions in Gaza, allowing 100 truckloads of aid to be collected, but warns the amount is not enough to “stave off famine and a catastrophic health crisis”.
- Authorities in Gaza say six more Palestinians, including two children, have starved to death, bringing the total toll from hunger to 133 since Israel’s war began.
- Israeli forces have killed 63 people in Gaza, despite announcing plans for what it called daily humanitarian pauses to allow aid in. The victims included 34 aid seekers.
- 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.
Gaza needs 250,000 cans of baby formula per month
The Government Media Office in Gaza says the enclave needs 600 trucks of aid per day and 250,000 cans of baby formula per month to meet the minimum needs of its starving population.
It said in a statement on Telegram that the “radical and urgent solution” was to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza and opening the crossings unconditionally.
Netanyahu rejects reports of Israeli attacks on Christians
The Israeli PM has addressed an audience of evangelical Christians in Jerusalem, in a speech heavily focused on what he said were “bold-faced” lies about Israel.
Netanyahu focused on solidarity between Christians and Jews in his speech, claiming Christians are protected in Israel “as nowhere else in the Middle East”, a “truth” he said that “is being reversed, put on its head by a campaign of lies”.
His comments come amid wide condemnation of Israeli attacks on Christians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Most recently, an Israeli attack on the Holy Family Church in Gaza City on July 17 killed at least three people.
Speaking at the event hosted by evangelical television network Daystar, with White House faith adviser Paula White, Netanyahu said: “I can think of no one who can carry this battle alongside us. We have fought this battle together; we shall win it together.”
Netanyahu also accused the UN of lying in his 10-minute speech, saying, “Stop lying. Stop finding excuses … There is no starvation in Gaza, no policy of starvation in Gaza.”
But Church leaders in Jerusalem, who visited Gaza last week, have condemned the situation in Gaza as “morally unacceptable”. The Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, told reporters that people were starving in Gaza and that “humanitarian aid is not only necessary; it is a matter of life and death”.
Israeli attacks kill 63 in Gaza despite ‘pauses’, hunger crisis deepens
As we’ve been reporting, Israel has continued to bomb Gaza despite implementing “humanitarian pauses” in certain areas.
On Sunday, Israeli forces killed 63 Palestinians, including 34 aid seekers.
And while some aid did trickle in, it is not enough to stem the starvation crisis gripping the enclave.
Casualties as Israeli forces shoot at aid seekers in Gaza
We are getting reports that Israeli forces have opened fire on Palestinians waiting for food aid near the Netzarim Corridor in northern Gaza.
There were several casualties.
We’ll bring you more when we have it.
Australian legislator urges government to recognise Palestinian statehood
Ed Husic, a federal member of parliament from the governing Labour Party, has urged the Australian government to recognise the state of Palestine.
In an op-ed published in the Guardian Australia, Husic hailed France’s plan to recognise Palestinian statehood and wrote: “This is the moment for our nation to take a similar stand.”
“The fact that only over the weekend the Netanyahu government is allowing ‘minimal’ aid into the territory demonstrates that the actions of the French government mattered, they made a difference,” added the lawmaker, who was until recently a minister in the Australian Labor government.
Husic’s article comes after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Australia is not planning to “imminently” recognise Palestinian statehood, even as he acknowledged that Israel is “quite clearly” breaching international law by stopping food from reaching Gaza.
Countries that don’t pressure Israel ‘may be complicit’ in Gaza carnage, UN rights chief says
Volker Turk, the UN human rights chief, is urging participants in an upcoming conference on Palestinian statehood in New York to ramp up pressure on Israel to end the “carnage” in Gaza.
“Every day, we are watching the unspeakable tragedy in Gaza and the West Bank with horror and frustration,” Turk said in a video statement.
“I urge governments to use the opportunity of this conference for concrete action that puts all possible pressure on the Israeli government to end the carnage in Gaza permanently,” he said.
“Countries that fail to use their leverage may be complicit in international crimes,” he added.
The conference, co-chaired by France and Saudi Arabia, will begin in New York on Monday and continue until Wednesday.
Woman killed in Israeli attack on central Gaza
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital says a Palestinian woman has been killed and several others wounded in an Israeli attack on the Al Basa area of central Deir el-Balah.
We’ll bring you more when we have it.
Obama slams ‘travesty’ of starvation deaths in Gaza
Former US President Barack Obama has taken to social media to call for immediate action to prevent innocent civilians from starving to death in Gaza.
In a post on X, he said that a “lasting resolution to the crisis in Gaza must involve a return of all hostages and a cessation of Israel’s military operations”. But recent reports of the hunger crisis in the Palestinian enclave “underscore the immediate need for action to… prevent the travesty of innocent people dying of preventable starvation”, he said.
“Aid must be permitted to reach people in Gaza. There is no justification for keeping food and water away from civilian families,” he added.
Israeli forces kill 10 Palestinians in southern Gaza
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli forces have launched attacks on a residential building and tents housing displaced people in the al-Yabani and al-Mawasi areas of Khan Younis.
Hospital sources said the attacks killed at least 10 and wounded 40 others.
The Israeli military designated al-Mawasi as a “safe zone”, but regularly launches deadly attacks there.
A recap of recent developments
- Israeli forces killed at least 63 Palestinians, including 34 aid seekers, in Gaza on Sunday, despite announcing plans to implement what it calls “humanitarian pauses” to allow aid trucks to enter the shattered enclave.
- The UN’s relief chief, Tom Fletcher, says Israel appears to have eased some restrictions in Gaza, allowing more than 100 truckloads of aid to be collected, but warns the amount is nowhere near enough to stave off the famine there.
- Earlier, authorities in Gaza said some 73 aid trucks entered the Strip on Monday, far short of the 600 needed daily. “What is happening is a farce in which the international community is complicit through false promises or misleading information,” it said.
- Gaza’s Health Ministry has recorded six more deaths from malnutrition over the past day, including two children, bringing the total number of starvation deaths to 133.
- Israel continues to detain 11 of the 21 foreign activists on board the Freedom Flotilla’s Handala ship after seizing the vessel that was attempting to raise awareness of the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip, and to bring aid.
- Yemen’s Houthi rebels say they will attack any ships belonging to companies that do business with Israeli ports, regardless of their nationalities, as part of what they call the fourth phase of their military operations against Israel.
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