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Here’s where things stand on Tuesday 15 July 2025:
- Israel has launched air attacks on Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon, killing at least 12 people, as well as in Syria’s Suwayda.
- Meanwhile in Gaza, Israeli forces have killed at least 30 people, a day after killing at least 78 Palestinians across Gaza.
- Settlers in the occupied West Bank have set fire to Palestinian land and vehicles in the village of Burqa, hours after church leaders and diplomats from more than 20 countries gathered in the town of Taybeh to call for an end to the violence.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 58,479 people and wounded 139,355, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, attacks and more than 200 taken captive.
UN expert urges EU to suspend agreement with Israel
Francesca Albanese is pressing the European Union to suspend its association agreement with Israel, warning that continuing trade makes the bloc complicit in “genocide”.
In a series of posts on X, Albanese wrote the EU is “legally bound” to suspend the deal, adding defending Israel’s conduct in Gaza is “not only superfluous – it is grotesque”.
She demanded “justice and accountability” for Israeli war leaders.
Albanese said the EU is Israel’s top trading and investment partner, nearly double the size of the US, and “trade with an economy inextricably tied to occupation, apartheid and genocide is complicity”.
EU foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss possible action against Israel.
Nearly 900 killed in Gaza trying to get food: UN
At least 875 Palestinians are confirmed killed while attempting to secure food from US-Israel-backed aid distribution sites since May, the United Nations says.
“As of 13 July, we have recorded 875 people killed in Gaza while trying to get food; 674 of them were killed in the vicinity of GHF sites,” said Thameen al-Kheetan, a UN human rights office spokesperson.
The GHF is the US- and Israel-backed group that has bypassed UN-led humanitarian operations.
Al-Kheetan said the latest deadly incident happened on Monday, with reports indicating the Israeli army “shelled and fired towards Palestinians seeking food” at the GHF site in al-Shakoush area, northwestern Rafah.
“Our teams on the ground … have spoken to survivors of these killings, these starving children included, who were shot at while on their way to pick up very little food,” said Juliette Touma, UNRWA’s director of communications.
‘Dozens’ of people cross into Syria, says Israeli army
The Israeli army says “dozens” of civilians crossed the border into Syria from the Majdal Shams area in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
In a statement on Telegram, the army said troops were working to safely return those who crossed into the territory.
The announcement comes hours after Israel targeted Syria government forces after days of clashes between Bedouin tribes and the Druze community in the city of Suwayda.
Israel cannot retreat from Syria ‘buffer zone’: Minister
Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says an attack on the Druze community in southern Syria proves the interim government is composed of “violent and cruel extremist Islamists, and the West must not be deceived by their suits and ties”.
“The state of Israel cannot afford to retreat under any circumstances from the buffer zone and the Hermon peak, which are essential for the defence of the Golan Heights settlements, and it will continue to protect the Druze in southern Syria to the best of its ability,” Smotrich wrote on X.
As we reported earlier, Israel launched air attacks on Suwayda, southern Syria, after Syrian government forces entered the Druze city.
Israel has pledged to protect Syria’s Druze, regarding the minority as a potential ally.
Netanyahu manoeuvres after ultra-Orthodox party splits
Gideon Levy, a columnist with Haaretz newspaper, says the loss of an ultra-Orthodox party in the right-wing coalition over mandatory military service is unlikely to affect the government.
“Yes, Netanyahu has a problem, but he was talented enough to postpone it now for three months. Because by the end of the week, the parliament goes for a summer vacation. So for three months, he now has a guarantee no one can make his government fall,” Levy said.
“And you know three months is an eternity in Israel. He’s gaining time; maybe his popularity will increase. The operation in Iran did raise his popularity, but not enough.”
Levy said all the polls show Netanyahu is still the most popular politician, but he doesn’t have a majority in the Knesset, “and that’s why he’s so scared of elections”.
Syrian labourers among 12 killed as Israel pounds Lebanon
This is the deadliest day since November when the ceasefire that was supposed to end more than a year of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah came into force.
But since then, Israel carried out hundreds of strikes targeting what it calls Hezbollah’s military infrastructure and personnel.
According to local authorities, 12 people were killed today. There were more than a dozen Israeli air strikes targeting three locations. In one of those strikes, seven Syrian labourers were killed. Some were members of the same family.
Five Lebanese were also killed. Local authorities did not identify them, but security sources say they are members of Hezbollah.
The Israeli army says it is targeting weapon depots, and it will continue as long as “Hezbollah continues to plot to restore its military capability”.
We also heard from the Israeli defence minister, putting more pressure on the Lebanese government to fully disarm Hezbollah.
It hasn’t done so yet. It has been treading carefully, preferring dialogue with the group instead of a confrontation.
But no doubt Lebanon is at a crossroads. Many fear these Israeli attacks are just going to increase pressure on the Lebanese state to act against Hezbollah.
Israeli forces target area of Wadi Gaza bridge
Israeli forces have targeted the vicinity of the Wadi Gaza bridge in central Gaza with artillery shelling, Palestinian media sources told our colleagues on the ground.
Since dawn, intense Israeli attacks across the enclave have killed at least 30 people, including 25 in Gaza City.
Bodies of 3 children recovered after Israeli attack
The bodies of three children have been recovered after an Israeli air strike on a house in the Shati refugee camp, a source at al-Shifa Hospital told Al Jazeera.
Since dawn, Israeli strikes have killed at least 30 people across Gaza.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 58,386 people and wounded 139,077 since October 2023, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
Attacks on Palestinians intensifying in occupied West Bank: UN
As we reported earlier, Israeli settlers and security forces have intensified their killings, attacks and harassment of Palestinians in recent weeks in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, the United Nations human rights office warned.
The UN body’s warning came as the Palestinian death toll in the West Bank inches closer to 1,000 since October 7, 2023.
At least 964 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and settlers in the West Bank since that day, according to the UN. At least 2,907 home demolitions were also carried out by Israel during the same period.
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Israeli army claims to destroy tunnel in Khan Younis
The Israeli army claimed it destroyed a tunnel in the Khan Younis area, adding that it housed sleeping quarters used by Palestinian fighters as well as weapons.
Israeli attacks across Gaza kill 30
Israeli attacks since dawn have killed at least 30 people, including 25 in Gaza City, medical sources say.
The bodies of four people were brought to the al-Ahli Hospital after an Israeli air strike on a house in the Zeitoun neighbourhood.
The death toll continues to rise a day after Israeli attacks killed at least 78 Palestinians across Gaza.
Israel not yet fully implemented Gaza aid agreement: EU
European Union aid chief Hadja Lahbib says Israel has not yet fully implemented an agreement between the bloc and Israel, but that there have been “some positive developments”.
“We have [seen] some positive developments. It’s true that we have trucks that are able to enter, but we don’t know exactly how many. And what is clear is that the agreement is not fully implemented,” she told reporters ahead of a meeting EU foreign ministers in Brussels.
Last week, the EU reached an agreement with Israel to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza, including increasing aid trucks and opening crossing points and certain aid routes.
On Monday, Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said that the flow of aid into Gaza has not increased despite the deal. “Nothing has changed [on the ground],” he told reporters.
Three people killed in Tuffah neighbourhood
A source at the al-Ahli Hospital has told our colleagues on the ground that at least three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on the vicinity of Shaaban al-Rayyes School in Tuffah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City.
Another 14 people are trapped under the rubble of a destroyed house in the same area.
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Here are the day’s major developments:
- Israeli air forces have hit Suwayda in southern Syria.
- At least 12 people were killed by an Israeli air strike on a refugee camp in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon’s state media reported.
- The Israeli army has issued another forced evacuation threat for civilians living in 16 areas in northern Gaza.
- The United Nations rights office has said it had recorded at least 875 killings within the past six weeks at aid points in Gaza run by the US- and Israel-backed GHF and convoys run by other relief groups, including the UN.
- Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said negotiations for a ceasefire have not stopped but are still in the early stages. Israeli and Hamas delegations are both in Doha, it added.
- There has been an increase in killings of and attacks against Palestinians by settlers and security forces in the occupied West Bank in recent weeks, according to the UN human rights office.
- The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) says that malnutrition rates in Gaza are increasing, with one in 10 children screened being malnourished.
- The administrative court of Berlin has ruled that an order imposed on Palestinian doctor Ghassan Abu-Sittah preventing him from speaking in Germany is unlawful.