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Here’s where things stand on Tuesday 1 July 2025:
- US President Donald Trump says Israel has agreed to “the necessary conditions to finalise” a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza, and urges Hamas to accept the proposal.
- Israeli forces have killed 109 Palestinians across Gaza, including 28 who were shot while waiting for food parcels at the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) sites.
- Officials at al-Shifa, the largest medical centre in northern Gaza, say hundreds of patients are “facing death” as the hospital runs out of fuel amid Israel’s blockade.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 56,647 people and wounded 134,105, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7 attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.
GHF’s operations in Gaza are part of a ‘dark mission’ to expel Palestinians
We have more from Antony Loewenstein, a journalist and author of The Palestine Laboratory.
He said Israel and the US’s push to take over aid distribution from the UN in Gaza, via the GHF, is aimed at pushing out Palestinians from the coastal enclave.
He said Israel loathes the UN’s presence in occupied Palestinian territory because it sees the world body as “perpetuating the Palestinian issue”.
“It’s nonsense. The issue is that there is an occupation that has been going on for decades. That’s what’s perpetuating the situation, not the UN,” Loewenstein said.
He went on to note that a recent study published in the Nature magazine has found that an estimated 84,000 people have been killed in Gaza as a result of Israel’s war.
“These are staggering numbers of people,” he said.
“And in the last five weeks, since this aid operation has begun, there’s been well over 600 killed, and there’s no indication right now that that’s stopping. And it’s worth saying that the goal is also pretty clear. Israel now controls the whole of the Gaza Strip militarily, and Palestinian civilians are in pretty much 20-21 percent of it, meaning that the vast majority of Gaza has no Palestinians or very, very few,” he continued.
“And the fear that I have … is that the so called long term goal here is to, for those Palestinians who stay, who refuse to leave – assuming they’re given any option to do anything else – their life will be essentially misery and intense siege forever, at least for the foreseeable future. And this aid operation is part of that very, very dark mission.”
Law firms call on UK parliament to halt F-35 parts export to Israel
Two law firms challenging British exports of F-35 parts to Israel have described a recent London court ruling on their case as “disappointing”.
Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and Al-Haq say they are considering appealing the decision.
They also said it is now up to the UK parliament to act, after the high court said “it is Parliament’s role, not the court’s” to scrutinise if the “government decision to continue to arm Israel through the F-35 carve-out is consistent with its international law obligations”.
“The court’s decision, which continues to allow the UK to arm Israel, through the F-35 carve-out, is disappointing; however, our teams are looking into whether to appeal the judgment,” GLAN and Al-Haq said in a statement.
“Yesterday’s decision does not affect the UK government’s obligation under international law to prevent genocide and atrocity crimes,” they added.
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Here’s what happened overnight:
- Neither Israel nor Hamas has commented on Trump’s announcement of a 60-day truce in Gaza.
- Israeli forces have killed at least six people in Khan Younis and wounded many more in attacks on Gaza City and Deir el-Balah.
- The US has accused UN expert Francesca Albanese of waging “warfare against” its economy after she released a report detailing the companies involved in Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory.
- More than 100 staff at the BBC have accused the broadcaster of “censorship” and “anti-Palestine racism” when it comes to its coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
- Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and 22 other NGOs have urged Israel to release 185 Palestinian healthcare workers who remain arbitrarily detained.
- The World Food Programme says “the window to push back starvation in Gaza is closing fast” and is renewing its calls for a ceasefire to provide aid to hungry Palestinians.
Why is Israel ramping up attacks on the West Bank?
As the world remains distracted by Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, Israeli forces and settlers have killed at least 1,000 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Residents, experts, and rights groups say the violence is aimed at displacing Palestinians and annexing their land. In 2024 alone, Israel confiscated more Palestinian land in the West Bank than in the previous 20 years combined, according to Peace Now, an Israeli nonprofit tracking land theft in Palestine.
Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has led the charge after assuming control of the newly established “Settlements Administration” in February 2023.
The position allows Smotrich to advance Israel’s de facto annexation of the occupied West Bank by working to extend Israeli civil law over the area, in direct contravention of international law.
Read more here.
Amnesty, HRW, MSF and other NGOs urge Israel to release Palestinian health workers
The group of 25 rights organisations are demanding an end to Israel’s arbitrary detention of healthcare workers in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
“At least 185 healthcare workers from Gaza and the West Bank were estimated to be in Israeli detention as of February 2025,” the group said in a statement. “The conditions of many of those still detained remain unknown. Many of those released have reported severe abuse, while some have died in custody.”
The detentions are part of a wider assault on Gaza’s health system, the NGOs said.
“Since October 2023, there have been around 700 attacks on health, including aerial bombardments of hospitals, health clinics and ambulances. Over 1,500 health workers and 460 aid workers have been killed.”
Photos: Babies treated for suspected meningitis in Khan Younis
Detained Gaza doctor ‘suffering from critical health conditions’, family says
The family of Hussam Abu Safia, who has been detained by Israel since December, says the doctor has lost 30kg (66 pounds) and is “suffering from critical health conditions”.
His son, Elias, told the Palestinian Information Center that the doctor is enduring “harsh and catastrophic” conditions in the Israeli jail and has been deprived of medication and is being subjected to inhumane treatment.
Abu Safia was awarded the 2025 Nizar Banat Award for human rights defenders by the Palestinian group Lawyers for Justice on Monday.
More than 100 staff accuse BBC of ‘anti-Palestinian racism’
The 107 employees, along with 300 media industry figures, have written to BBC leadership, accusing the broadcaster of “censorship” when it comes to Israel and “performing PR for the Israeli government and military”.
Their letter, published in Deadline, cited in particular the BBC’s recent decision not to air the Gaza: Medics under Fire documentary, saying the move was “just one in a long line of agenda driven decisions”.
“Much of the BBC’s coverage in this area is defined by anti-Palestinian racism,” the employees said.
They also said the BBC has failed to offer any significant analysis of the UK government’s involvement in the war on Palestinians, including weapons sales or their legal implications.
“Since October 2023 it has become increasingly clear to our audiences that the BBC’s reporting on Israel/ Palestine falls short of our own editorial standards. There is a gulf between the BBC’s coverage of what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank and what our audiences can see is happening via multiple credible sources,” they said.
“The BBC’s editorial decisions seem increasingly out of step with reality. We have been forced to conclude that decisions are made to fit a political agenda rather than serve the needs of audiences,” they added.
All the BBC staff who signed the letter did so anonymously, while the industry figures supporting their call included actors Khalid Abdalla and Miriam Margolyes.
Countries at war seeing US, Israeli actions in Gaza ‘as a model to follow’
We’ve been speaking to Antony Loewenstein, a journalist and the author of The Palestine Laboratory, a book on Israel’s arms and surveillance industry.
He told Al Jazeera that he is worried that other countries will see the US and Israel’s militarised aid operations, via the GHF, as a model.
“I’ve written a lot about the issue of Palestine being a model for the surveillance and weapons industry, and it’s now exported globally. What I am already hearing is that what Israel and America is doing in Gaza is looked at by other countries as a model,” Loweinstein said.
“You and I might see this as a disaster – civilians are being murdered at huge rates – but that’s not an impediment to other countries doing the same thing in their own conflicts.
“Why? Because there’s no accountability. There’s been hundreds of Palestinians killed in the last month, but no Israeli soldiers are being held to account, no trial is happening in Israel, and there frankly won’t be.
“Israel investigates itself, and easily finds itself innocent,” Lowenstein added.
“This is what worries me, that what’s happening in Gaza is a model that other countries will follow in the months and years ahead.”
Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital crippled by fuel crisis
Gaza’s largest hospital, al-Shifa, is facing a catastrophic collapse as fuel shortages force critical services to shut down.
Israel’s blockade has cut fuel supplies to the hospital, leaving only backup generators powering urgent care. Those are now running dry. This means kidney dialysis machines have stopped and intensive care units are barely functioning, leaving hundreds of lives at immediate risk.
WFP says the window to push back starvation in Gaza ‘closing fast’
The World Food Programme is warning that the opportunity to push back starvation in Gaza is closing fast as Israel continues to restrict the entry of aid into the besieged enclave.
Samer Abdel Jaber, the WFP’s regional director, said the agency needs three things to address the hunger crisis in Gaza.
These are “multiple points of access and safe routes to reach families that are constantly being displaced; support from the international community to allow and enable humanitarian actors to do their job; and more than anything, we need a sustained ceasefire,” he said.
US senator slams Irish ban on trade with Israeli settlements as ‘hateful’
Jim Risch, the Republican chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has accused Ireland of “blatant” anti-Semitism for its plan to ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements.
“Ireland, while often a valuable US partner, is on a hateful, antisemitic path that will only lead to self-inflicted economic suffering,” Risch said in a post on X.
“If this legislation is implemented, America will have to seriously reconsider its deep and ongoing economic ties,” Risch added.
Irish Deputy Prime Minister Simon Harris said last week that Ireland had become “the first country in Europe to bring forward legislation to ban trade with the Occupied Palestinian Territories”.
“Ireland is speaking up and speaking out against the genocidal activity in Gaza,” Harris said.
The Israeli Settlements Bill, approved by the Republic of Ireland’s cabinet last month, would make it an offence under the Customs Act to import goods from illegal Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory.
What are the sticking points in Israel-Hamas truce talks?
We’ve been reporting on a new push by the US for a 60-day ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
The Axios news website is reporting that Trump’s announcement came after talks between his envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer at the White House. It said the two discussed “an updated ceasefire and hostage proposal put forward by Qatar”.
There has been no comment from Doha yet.
Here’s a reminder of the hurdles in previous rounds of talks:
- Permanent ceasefire: Hamas has called for guarantees for any temporary truce to lead to an end to Israel’s war and the withdrawal of all Israeli troops from Gaza. Israel, however, has refused to provide such a commitment. It abandoned the three-phase ceasefire deal agreed to in January and resumed bombarding Gaza after rejecting negotiations on ending the war.
- Disarming of Hamas: Israel wants Hamas to lay down arms, cede control of Gaza and exile its leaders out of the Strip, but the Palestinian group has previously called this a “red line”, saying it will not disarm as long as Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory continues.
During the last round of indirect talks in June, Israeli media reported that the US proposed a 60-day ceasefire, the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza, the release of 10 living Israeli captives and the bodies of 18 others, in exchange for 1,100 Palestinians held in Israeli jails.
The US proposal said Israeli forces would pull back from Gaza based on maps to be agreed upon, and that negotiations would also begin on a permanent ceasefire, the release of the remaining captives and Israeli “redeployment and withdrawals”.
Hamas issued a counterproposal, asking for the negotiations on a permanent ceasefire to begin on day one of the truce, and for the Trump administration to guarantee the talks to reach a final settlement to the war.
UN report lists companies complicit in Israel’s ‘genocide’: Who are they?
We’ve been reporting on the US response to a UN report that maps the corporations aiding Israel in the displacement of Palestinians and its “genocidal” war on Gaza.
The report by the UN expert on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, names 48 corporate actors, including US tech giants Microsoft, Alphabet Inc, Google’s parent company, and Amazon.
A database of more than 1,000 corporate entities was also put together as part of the investigation.
“[Israel’s] forever-occupation has become the ideal testing ground for arms manufacturers and Big Tech – providing significant supply and demand, little oversight, and zero accountability – while investors and private and public institutions profit freely,” the report said.
“Companies are no longer merely implicated in occupation – they may be embedded in an economy of genocide,” it said, in a reference to Israel’s ongoing assault on the Gaza Strip.
The report stated that its findings illustrate why Israel’s “genocide” continues – “Because it is lucrative for many.”
Read more here.
US says UN expert is waging ‘warfare against the American economy’
The US Mission to the UN has accused Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese of committing “political and economic warfare against the American and worldwide economy” after she released a new report mapping the corporations aiding the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory.
The mission accused Albanese of using “deeply flawed legal arguments to support extreme and unfounded accusations” that “dozens of entities worldwide, including major American corporations”, are “complicit in gross human rights violations, apartheid, and genocide”.
The mission called for UN Chief Antonio Guterres to condemn Albanese’s activities and for the removal of the independent rapporteur, who was appointed to her role by the UN Human Rights Council, a body made up of 47 member states.
Photos: Palestinians search the rubble after Israeli attack in Khan Younis
Israel threatens to turn Gaza ‘into dust’ if Hamas fails to agree a truce: Report
Israeli officials have warned that the country’s military will escalate its operations in Gaza if negotiations on a ceasefire and captive exchange deal do not advance soon, according to the US-based Axios news outlet.
Israel on Monday ordered civilians in additional areas of Gaza City to evacuate south, signalling preparations for a potential expansion of the army’s ground offensive.
“We’ll do to Gaza City and the central camps what we did to Rafah. Everything will turn to dust,” the outlet quoted a senior Israeli official as saying.
“It’s not our preferred option, but if there’s no movement toward a hostage deal, we won’t have any other choice.”
The report comes as Trump said Israel had agreed to the “necessary conditions” to finalise a 60-day truce and urged Hamas to accept the deal.
There has been no official word from Israel or Hamas yet.
Several killed, wounded as Israeli forces attack Gaza City, Deir el-Balah
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic say there have been several attacks that have killed and wounded several people in northern and central Gaza.
In northern Gaza City, several people were killed and wounded in an Israeli attack on a house on Jaffa Street. Several more were wounded, also in Gaza City, in a drone attack on the al-Karama neighbourhood.
In central Deir el-Balah, at least 10 others were wounded in an Israeli attack on tents sheltering displaced people.
We will bring you more when we have it.
Death toll from Israeli attacks at GHF sites rises to 600
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza says at least 600 people have been killed and more than 4,278 others wounded at GHF sites since the group began operations in late May.
As we’ve been reporting, global criticism of the US and Israel-backed initiative has been mounting with the rising toll.
Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), said in a post on X that the scheme “provides nothing but starvation and gunfire to the people of Gaza”.
Israel yet to comment on Trump’s 60-day proposal
There hasn’t been any sort of official confirmation from the Israelis just yet, because it is around 3am local time there.
It is important to note that the Israelis had previously accepted a 60-day proposal that was brought forth by the Americans back in March.
It was presented by the American envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, who said that this was a 60-day proposal only, but it had guarantees for Israel to return to the fighting, and that was the main reason why Hamas decided not to accept that proposal.
This has been a huge sticking point throughout these negotiations.
Reports within Israeli media indicated tonight that for the first time in more than 20 months, Benjamin Netanyahu had signalled a willingness to negotiate an end to the war.
Netanyahu, up until this point, has said that Israel has a lot of different goals and that the war on Gaza will only end when they achieve “total victory”.
Now what the US president is saying is that Israel has agreed to the necessary conditions to finalise this 60-day ceasefire. He also said that mediators are going to be giving this final draft to Hamas.
Israel has not sent the negotiating team to the Qatari capital or the Egyptian capital for some time, but has been doing this sort of shuttle diplomacy with the Americans to try and finalise something.
And even though there is momentum towards this sort of deal, the Israelis still have not confirmed anything on their end.
Israeli forces kill 6 Palestinians in south Gaza
Sources at the Nasser Medical Complex say Israeli forces have attacked the city of Khan Younis as well as the so-called humanitarian zone of al-Mawasi, killing at least six people.
We’ll bring you more when we have it.
Trump’s announcement comes days before he hosts Netanyahu at the White House
We’re still waiting to see what these final conditions are.
There’s been a lot of reporting about the return of captives from Hamas in exchange for prisoners released by the Israelis.
And essential to this deal, according to Trump, is that during the 60-day ceasefire there, that is when these two parties – Israel, Hamas – would then begin talking about a permanent end to the war.
This was a major hurdle that has really sunk previous ceasefires and progress towards a ceasefire.
We know that Israeli official Ron Dermer was in Washington, DC today. He was meeting with US Vice President JD Vance, as well as the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, talking about these terms.
And Trump is now making this announcement, which really came quite quickly.
It was just earlier today that Trump was telling reporters that he was going to push Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, when he comes to DC next week, to accept the terms of this ceasefire.
So it seems that a lot of ground has been paved prior to Netanyahu’s arrival in Washington. Trump has been laying on the pressure, at least in these public statements towards Israel, really building on the momentum since he helped negotiate the ceasefire between Iran and Israel.
There was a lot of frustration from Trump that the ceasefire has been so elusive between Hamas and Israel.
He’s now saying that this ceasefire proposal has been accepted by the Israelis, but also being a little bit realistic, saying that he hopes that Hamas will also accept the terms, saying that it will only get worse, and that this deal is the best that Hamas could hope for.
A recap of recent developments
- US President Trump says that Israel has agreed “to the necessary conditions” to finalise a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza, and says he hopes that “Hamas takes this deal”.
- Israeli forces have killed at least 109 people in Gaza on Tuesday alone, including several in a strike on a residential square in Gaza City.
- The director of al-Shifa Hospital says hundreds of patients are “facing death” because it has run out of fuel for its main generators amid Israel’s blockade.
- More than 165 aid organisations have called for the immediate end to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s (GHF) operations as Israeli forces continue to gun down Palestinians waiting for food parcels at sites run by the US-backed group.
- Israeli forces have killed at least 28 Palestinians at the GHF’s sites on Tuesday.
- Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz threatens the Houthi rebels after the country’s military intercepted a missile launched from Yemen.
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