LIVE UPDATES: Israel kills 23 in attacks since dawn as five starve to death in Gaza

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Here’s where things stand on Wednesday 6 August 2025:

• Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip continued in the early hours of Thursday morning, with at least 23 people killed in attacks across the enclave since dawn, medical sources tell Al Jazeera.
• At least 44 Palestinians were killed across the enclave on Wednesday, including 18 aid seekers. The number of people who have died from starvation and malnutrition rose to 193, with five new confirmed hunger-related deaths in the past day.
• The UN said Israel’s blockade of Gaza means the lives of more than 100 premature babies are in “imminent danger”, as a lack of fuel impedes “life-saving” operations in hospitals.
• Slovenia has announced a ban on all imports from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
• Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 61,158 people and wounded 151,442. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.

Ex-Israeli military spy chief speaks out against full Gaza occupation

Former Israeli military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin says he opposes a full-scale occupation of Gaza, warning it would require astronomical resources and likely “doom” the Israeli captives still held in the enclave.

“We’re talking about two million people and military rule; desperate people with destroyed homes, no hospitals or schools,” Yadlin, who served as the military intelligence head in 2011-2012, told Israel’s Maariv newspaper. “The responsibility for them will fall on us.”

“If I were in the cabinet today, I would lay out the implications of occupying Gaza,” he added. “In my view, it would doom the hostages. After 22 months, the [Israeli military] knows how to conquer above-ground Gaza, but it doesn’t know how to conquer underground Gaza or rescue the hostages.”

Another Palestinian child starves to death

A child from Khan Younis has died of malnutrition, the latest hunger-related death in Israel’s war on Gaza, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic have quoted Nasser Hospital as saying.

The latest death adds to at least 193 hunger-related deaths in the enclave.

Israeli forces arrest 5 Palestinians in occupied West Bank: Report

Israeli forces have carried out another wave of arrests across the occupied West Bank, a near-daily occurrence since the Gaza war began.

One raid targeted the Balata refugee camp near Nablus, where Israeli special forces stormed several homes and arrested one man, according to the Wafa news agency. Two others were detained in the nearby town of Burin, the agency said.

Elsewhere, Israeli forces arrested two men near Hebron and another in Beitunia, near Ramallah, Wafa said.

Israeli drone attack kills 6 displaced people in southern Gaza’s al-Mawasi

At least six Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli drone attack on a displaced people’s tent in the al-Mawasi area, west of Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis.

That’s according to a Nasser Hospital source speaking to Al Jazeera Arabic.

As we have reported earlier, Israeli attacks have already killed 17 Palestinians in the enclave since dawn.

The latest count raises the day’s death toll to 23.

Israel demolishes Palestinian prisoner’s family home in Hebron: Report

Israeli forces have stormed Hebron’s Abu Katila neighbourhood and raided the family home of a Palestinian prisoner before demolishing it, according to the Wafa news agency.

During the operation, Israeli forces sealed off roads in the area and fired stun grenades, tear gas and bullets in the area, the report said.

Rights groups have long criticised Israel’s policy of demolishing homes of some Palestinian prisoners as a form of “collective punishment” that may amount to war crimes.

Suspect in murder of Israel embassy staffers in US indicted for hate crime

A man accused of shooting dead two Israeli embassy staff members in Washington, DC, in May has been indicted on federal hate crime and murder charges, as President Donald Trump suggested he may call on the National Guard to bring down crime rates in the United States capital.

Court documents filed in federal court in Washington and unsealed on Wednesday show that defendant Elias Rodriguez has been charged with nine counts, including a hate crime resulting in death.

The 30-year-old is accused of shooting dead Israeli embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, a young couple who were about to become engaged, as they left an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, in May.

Rodriguez, who witnesses described as pacing outside the museum before the attack, approached the couple and opened fire.

Human Rights Watch condemns ‘widespread carnage’ at Gaza’s schools

During the war in Gaza, Israeli air attacks have hit more than 500 school buildings, many serving as shelters for displaced people, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in its report.

In two of the school strikes it investigated – which hit the Khadija girls’ school in Deir el-Balah on July 27 last year, killing at least 15 people, and the Zeitoun C school in Gaza City on September 21 last year, killing another 34, HRW found “no evidence of a military target”, thus making them “unlawfully indiscriminate”.

“Israeli strikes on schools sheltering displaced families provide a window into the widespread carnage that Israeli forces have carried out in Gaza,” said Gerry Simpson, associate crisis, conflict and arms director at HRW.

“Other governments should not tolerate this horrendous slaughter of Palestinian civilians merely seeking safety,” he added.

Death toll rises for Israeli attacks across Gaza

As we have been reporting, the Israeli military has continued its deadly assault on Gaza over recent hours, killing at least 13 people.

Citing medical sources in the besieged enclave, Al Jazeera Arabic now reports that at least 17 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli military attacks in the early hours of Thursday morning.

We will bring you further updates when we have them.

Are sovereign wealth funds dumping Israeli investments?

The Norwegian government is reviewing its sovereign wealth fund’s investment in Israel after it was revealed that the nearly $2 trillion fund had a stake in an Israeli company aiding Israel’s war on Gaza.

Norway’s leading newspaper, Aftenposten, identified the company as the Bet Shemesh Engines Ltd (BSEL) group, which provides parts to Israeli fighter jets.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said the investment was “worrying”.

“We must get clarification on this because reading about it makes me uneasy,” Stoere said.

Israeli military carries out deadly attacks across Gaza

As we have been reporting, Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Thursday morning have killed at least 13 people so far.

Attacks over recent hours include:

• An Israeli air strike on a residential apartment in the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, has killed at least four people, including a child.
• In the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, north of Gaza City, an Israeli air strike on an apartment has killed at least three people.
• A drone strike on a tent housing displaced Palestinians west of Khan Younis, southern Gaza, killed at least two women.
• An Israeli aircraft has attacked a group of Palestinians in al-Ma’askar, west of Khan Younis, wounding several people.

We will bring you further updates when we have them.

Israel bombs UN clinic where hundreds of displaced Palestinians were sheltering

Israeli fighter jets bombed a UN clinic-turned-shelter in Gaza City for the third time on Wednesday.

Hundreds of displaced Palestinians were sheltering inside at the time of the attack, which injured dozens of people. The strike followed forced evacuation orders issued by Israeli forces, prompting many families to flee.

A recap of recent developments

Here’s what you need to know:

• The Israeli military has carried out several deadly attacks across Gaza over recent hours, killing at least 13 people, medical sources in the besieged enclave told Al Jazeera.
• Israeli attacks across Gaza on Wednesday killed 44 Palestinians, including 18 aid seekers, while five more people died of starvation caused by Israel’s blockade of humanitarian aid.
• Hamas has called for global protests in the coming days to demand that Israel open all border crossings to allow aid to enter Gaza.
• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the Israeli leader would convene his security cabinet on Thursday night to discuss the next steps in his war on Gaza.
• Sixteen media organisations and press freedom groups, including Al Jazeera Media Network and the Committee to Protect Journalists, have called for an end to Israel’s “forced starvation and targeting of journalists in Gaza”.
• Israel said it targeted Hezbollah infrastructure after launching air strikes across southern Lebanon, which killed an 11-year-old child and injured three other people.

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You can find all our updates from Wednesday, August 6, here.