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Here’s where things stand on Monday 4 August 2025:
- The Israeli military killed at least 92 Palestinians, including 56 aid seekers, in attacks across the Gaza Strip on Sunday.
- Gaza’s Government Media office says that more than 22,000 humanitarian aid trucks are waiting outside the Gaza Strip, as just 36 trucks entered the enclave on Saturday.
- Hamas says it is open to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delivering aid to Israeli captives in Gaza if Israel opens “humanitarian corridors” to deliver aid to all people in Gaza.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 60,839 people and wounded 149,588. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023 attacks and more than 200 were taken captive.
What is happening in the occupied West Bank?
Israeli military raids, killings, mass arrests and land grabs in the occupied West Bank have become a near-daily occurrence since the Hamas-led October attack in 2023. Here’s a recap:
- According to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), at least 982 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the war in the Palestinian territory.
- The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society says more than 10,700 Palestinians are currently in Israeli jails, including about 3,600 who are detained without charge.
- Since October 7, 2023 and as of May 31, 2025, 6,463 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced following the demolition of their homes by Israeli forces, according to OCHA.
- That figure does not include the approximately 40,000 Palestinians who have been displaced from three refugee camps in Jenin and Tulkarem, as a result of heavily militarised Israeli operations in the north of the occupied West Bank since January 2025.
- Israel continues to expand and consolidate illegal settlements across the West Bank as part of the steady integration of these territories into the State of Israel. Earlier this month, Israel’s parliament passed a symbolic vote to apply sovereignty to the West Bank. While the motion has no legal implications, it could place the issue of annexation on the agenda of future debates in parliament.
Israeli attacks kill several civilians in Gaza City and Beit Lahiya
Palestinian media reports that four people have been killed in an Israeli air attack that targeted civilians in the Shujayea neighbourhood of Gaza City.
Meanwhile, Al-Aqsa TV reports that a Palestinian was killed and others were injured when Israeli forces attacked a group of residents in the city of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza.
At least eight Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn on Monday, including two aid seekers, according to hospital sources.
Israeli opposition figure says Netanyahu ‘sacrifices everything’ to maintain power
Avigdor Lieberman, the leader of Israel’s ultranationalist Yisrael Beiteinu party, has launched a scathing attack on Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing him of dismantling Israel’s democratic foundations and isolating the country on the world stage.
In an interview with Israel’s Maariv newspaper, Lieberman said Netanyahu had “led us to political collapse worldwide”, asking: “How can a just war be turned into a war where all Israelis are outcasts in the world?”
His remarks come as Netanyahu faces increasing domestic unrest over his handling of the war on Gaza, and growing international scrutiny over war crimes and aid obstruction into the besieged enclave.
“There is an attempt to turn the state of Israel into an undemocratic state,” Lieberman warned, before questioning the government’s failure to return captives held in Gaza. “This is complete madness.”
He accused Netanyahu of sacrificing national values for political survival, saying that “the prime minister … sacrifices everything for his political survival.”
Photos: Israelis protest over settler killing of Awdah Hathaleen
Israeli forces kill two Palestinians near Jenin
Israeli forces have killed two Palestinians in a raid near the Qabatiya neighbourhood south of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, sources have told Al Jazeera.
Their bodies were taken away by the Israeli military, the sources said.
In videos posted on social media and verified by Al Jazeera, Palestinian residents are seen inspecting the aftermath of an Israeli army attack on an agricultural barn near Qabatiya.
US ambassador to Israel repeats disputed claims about Gaza aid
Mike Huckabee has claimed that the “real story of starvation in Gaza” lies not with the civilian population but with captives being held by Hamas.
“Will France, UK, & Canada condemn this?” the US ambassador to Israel wrote on X. “Why isn’t the massive amounts of food going in not shared with the very well fed members of Hamas?”
Huckabee also shared a graphic that stated “there is no policy of starvation in Gaza,” and that “Israel does not limit the amount of aid entering Gaza and has, in the past, facilitated the entry of up to 700 aid trucks per day, depending on UN and NGO supply.”
However, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has previously said that between 500 and 600 trucks of aid are required each day to meet minimum needs, yet that figure has rarely been reached.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a global hunger monitoring body, has also warned that the “worst-case scenario of famine” is now unfolding in Gaza. UN experts have accused Israel of using starvation as a weapon of war – a view echoed by rights groups, including Human Rights Watch.
The graphic shared by Huckabee further claimed that “UN-led aid distribution has stagnated after an initial increase, and the vast majority of it is diverted by Hamas.”
A USAID assessment in July found little evidence to support the assertion that humanitarian aid is being widely diverted by Palestinian armed groups.