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Here’s where things stand on Tuesday 29 July 2025:
- Israeli forces killed at least 92 Palestinians across Gaza on Monday, including 41 aid seekers, despite “pauses” in fighting to deliver essential humanitarian aid.
- An Israeli settler has shot dead Palestinian activist and teacher Odeh Muhammad Hadalin in Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank.
- Israeli human rights groups B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights release reports saying Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 59,921 people and wounded 145,233. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attacks and more than 200 were taken captive.
Doctor warns that risks from malnutrition persist even as food becomes available
Tanya Haj Hassan, a doctor with MSF, explains the severe impact of malnutrition on the body, which means that serious health risks remain even after food becomes available again.
“The reality is the problem doesn’t end when the food arrives … malnutrition impacts all aspects of the body’s function,” Hassan told Al Jazeera.
“All of the cells in your body are altered by this. In the intestines, the cells die. That results in issues with absorption, with bacteria. Your pancreas struggles, absorbing fats is difficult.
“Your heart cells become weak and thinned. The connections are impacted, the heart rate slows. These children often die of heart failure, even when they’re being re-fed,” he added.
“They also have life threatening shifts in salts, these can also lead to fatal heart rhythms. They’re more prone to sepsis and shock,” the doctor said, in a reference to oral rehydration salt solutions which are usually administered to people suffering from malnutrition.
“[Patients can face] low blood pressure, skin lesions, hypothermia, fluid overload, infection, vitamin deficiencies that can effect vision and bone.”
Freedom Flotilla says US activist Chris Smalls assaulted in Israeli custody
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) says US labour activist Chris Smalls has been physically assaulted in Israeli custody.
“Seven uniformed individuals … choked him and kicked him in the legs, leaving visible signs of violence on his neck and back,” the FFC said in a post on social media.
“When his lawyer met with him, Christian was surrounded by six members of Israel’s special police unit. This level of force was not used against other abducted activists,” the group said.
FFC condemned the “discriminatory treatment” towards Smalls and called for accountability.
Smalls, the former president of Amazon Labor Union, was one of the 21 activists and journalists from 10 countries on board the Handala when it was intercepted by Israeli forces in international waters as it approached Gaza.
Israeli forces kill 34 people across Gaza since dawn
Sources in Gaza hospitals tell Al Jazeera that at least 34 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn today.
Netherlands declares two Israeli ministers ‘persona non grata’
The Netherlands has declared two far-right Israeli ministers, Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, persona non grata for inciting settler violence and calling for ethnic cleansing in Gaza, Dutch media AD reports, citing a statement from Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp.
The move comes as Dutch authorities are pushing for the EU to take tougher measures against Israel, the report said.
“Agreements with the EU need to be honoured, or measures will have to follow,” said a separate statement published by Veldkamp on X, in reference to the EU-Israel Association Agreement.
The Dutch government has long supported a review of the trade deal, saying Israel is not complying with its article 2, which qualifies “respect for human rights and democratic principles” in “internal and international policy” as an “essential element” of the agreement.
The EU is Israel’s biggest trading partner, and suspending the trade pillar of the agreement would reinstate tariffs on bilateral trade.
Israeli attack kills at least 30 overnight in Gaza
Medical sources at the al-Awda Hospital have told Al Jazeera that at least 30 Palestinians were killed in Israel’s bombing of homes north of Nuseirat in central Gaza.
Israeli forces kill two Palestinians in northern Gaza
Gaza’s Civil Defence said two Palestinians were killed and others injured in an Israeli attack on a residential building in Gaza City.
Israeli settler kills West Bank activist who worked on Oscar-winning film
An Israeli settler has shot and killed Palestinian activist and teacher Odeh Muhammad Hadalin in the village of Umm al-Khair, in Masafer Yatta, in the occupied West Bank, local officials and journalists said.
Hadalin was well known for his activism, including helping the creators of the Oscar-winning film No Other Land, which documents Israeli settler and soldier attacks on the Palestinian community of Masafer Yatta.
“My dear friend Awdah was slaughtered this evening,” said Basel Adra, the co-director of No Other Land.
“He was standing in front of the community centre in his village when a settler fired a bullet that pierced his chest and took his life,” Adra said.
“This is how Israel erases us – one life at a time.”
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A recap of recent developments
Here’s what you need to know:
- Israeli forces killed at least 92 Palestinians in Gaza on Monday, including 41 people seeking food.
- The Government Media Office in Gaza accused Israel of “engineering starvation” through “systematic disorder” in Gaza.
- Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has condemned the use of airdrops to deliver aid to Gaza, calling the approach “futile” and “cynical” amid the worsening humanitarian crisis.
- US President Trump and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer discussed the “appalling scenes” in Gaza and agreed that “urgent action” is needed to end the humanitarian disaster.
- Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said his country “will not hesitate to react in a more decisive manner” if US and Israeli “aggression is repeated”.
- World leaders discussed a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict on the first day of a conference in New York, but Israel and the US boycotted the event.
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