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Here’s where things stand on Saturday 12 July 2025:
- Sources at Gaza hospitals say 17 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli raids on the Strip since dawn.
- At least 10 Palestinians were killed on Friday while waiting for rations in Gaza, adding to nearly 800 similar deaths in the last six weeks, according to the United Nations, with Israel’s army saying it issued new instructions to troops following repeated reports of fatalities.
- Israeli officials have signalled they want the UN to remain the key avenue for humanitarian deliveries in Gaza, the deputy head of the World Food Programme said, noting the work of a controversial US aid group, GHF, was not discussed.
- The US State Department says it is aware of the reported death of a US citizen in the Israeli-occupied West Bank after reports emerged of Israeli settlers fatally beating a Palestinian American.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 57,762 people and wounded 137,656, 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 were taken captive.
Israel’s defence minister celebrates Gaza destruction
Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz has published a picture of the ruins of Gaza, saying, “After Rafah, Beit Hanoon”.
Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city that borders Egypt, has been almost entirely destroyed by the Israeli army. Beit Hanoon is a major city in the northern part of the enclave, which is now under heavy siege by Israeli forces.
Israeli authorities plan to displace most Palestinians from northern Gaza and force hundreds of thousands into a concentration camp that will be built on the ruins of Rafah.
Criminal psychopathy shown by Israeli politicians requires psychoanalysis
Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara has called Israel’s plan to concentrate Gaza’s population in Rafah a government-backed policy of displacement amounting to war crimes.
Bishara emphasised Defense Minister Israel Katz’s hardline views and suggested these actions reflect the broader agenda of Netanyahu’s coalition.
More on the deadly Israeli settler attack in occupied West Bank
A spokesman for the Palestinian Authority, Anas Abu el-Ezz, told the AFP news agency that 23-year-old Saif al-Din Kamil Abdul Karim Muslat “died after being severely beaten all over his body” by settlers in the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah.
“The young man was injured and remained so for four hours. The army prevented us from reaching him and did not allow us to take him away,” said Abdul Samad Abdul Aziz, from the nearby village of al-Mazraa al-Sharqiya. “When we finally managed to reach him, he was taking his last breath.”
AFP footage from Ramallah showed the young man’s body being carried through the streets draped in a Palestinian flag and flanked by about 100 mourners.
More on the deadly Israeli settler attack in occupied West Bank
A spokesman for the Palestinian Authority, Anas Abu el-Ezz, told the AFP news agency that 23-year-old Saif al-Din Kamil Abdul Karim Muslat “died after being severely beaten all over his body” by settlers in the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah.
“The young man was injured and remained so for four hours. The army prevented us from reaching him and did not allow us to take him away,” said Abdul Samad Abdul Aziz, from the nearby village of al-Mazraa al-Sharqiya. “When we finally managed to reach him, he was taking his last breath.”
AFP footage from Ramallah showed the young man’s body being carried through the streets draped in a Palestinian flag and flanked by about 100 mourners.
Four killed in Israeli strike on Gaza petrol station
The Israeli army has bombed the Baraka petrol station in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, killing at least four people, the Quds News Network and the Shehab news agency report.
Israeli forces have also bombed tents housing displaced Palestinians west of Rafah in southern Gaza, wounding several people.
UN says Israel wants it to remain key Gaza aid channel
Carl Skau, deputy executive director of the World Food Programme, said Israeli officials signalled their desire for the UN to “continue to be the main track for delivery, especially should there be a ceasefire, and they asked us to be ready to scale up”.
“I think there were rumours of the UN being pushed out, but it was very clear in my engagement that they want the UN to continue to be the main track in delivery,” Skau told reporters on Friday, after visiting Gaza and Israel last week.
Skau said the controversial GHF “did not come up” in conversations he held with Israeli authorities.
US confirms Iran hit key communications dome at Qatar base in June
An Iranian attack on the military air base in Qatar hit a geodesic dome housing equipment used by the US for secure communications, satellite images analysed by The Associated Press showed.
Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell also acknowledged that an Iranian ballistic missile had hit the dome.
The attack on Al Udeid Air Base just outside of Doha, Qatar’s capital, on June 23 came as a response to the US bombing of three nuclear sites in Iran – and provided Iran a way to retaliate that quickly led to a ceasefire brokered by Trump, ending the 12-day Iran-Israel war.
State Department says it is aware of US citizen death in West Bank attack
We have been reporting on an Israeli settler attack on Friday in the occupied West Bank town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, in which two Palestinians were killed and several others injured.
The US State Department confirmed on Friday it was aware of the death of Palestinian American, Seif al-Din Muslat, who was fatally beaten by Israeli settlers during that attack.
It declined to comment on the death of Musalat – who was from Tampa, Florida – “out of respect for the privacy of the family and loved ones”.
Read more here.
Israeli raids target several areas across occupied West Bank
According to several Palestinian news platforms, Israeli forces stormed the town of Tuqu, southeast of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli forces also stormed the town of Halhul, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied territory.
Meanwhile, videos published by local Palestinian platforms showed Israeli soldiers storming the village of Tayasir, east of Tubas.
There were no immediate reports on detentions.
At least 17 Palestinians reported killed in Israeli air strikes across Gaza: Sources
Sources from across Gaza hospitals said that 17 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli raids on the Strip since dawn.
Among those killed were three people from the same family living in a tent in the city of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, according to our colleagues from Al Jazeera Arabic, citing sources from Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
Four other people were also reported killed in separate strikes in the Remal and Sheikh Radwan neighbourhoods of Gaza City, according to sources from al-Shifa Hospital.
Meanwhile, four more people were killed and 10 injured in an Israeli bombing of a house on Jaffa Street in the Tuffah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, a source from the al-Ahli Hospital said.
Gaza food aid sites under attack, UN says nearly 800 killed
The UN Human Rights office says nearly 800 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since May as they try to get humanitarian aid.
Most of the deaths are at sites run by the notorious GHF – a group backed by the US and Israel. On Friday alone, 10 people were killed at a GHF site in Rafah, southern Gaza.
The UN Human Rights Office spokesperson, Ravina Shamdasani, expressed grave concern over potential atrocity crimes, highlighting the impossible choice people face between starvation and being shot.
Muhanad Seloom, assistant professor of critical security studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, joined Al Jazeera to discuss the implications.
A recap of recent developments
- Israel has continued its relentless assault on Gaza, killing at least 45 Palestinians in attacks on Friday, including at least 10 aid seekers.
- Nearly 800 Palestinians have now been killed at Gaza aid points and convoys, according to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
- Palestinians told Al Jazeera they would rather die where they were than bow to Israel’s plans to concentrate a vast percentage of Gaza’s population into a camp in Rafah.
- Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, has accused Israel of engineering the “most cruel and Machiavellian scheme to kill” in Gaza, which has become “the graveyard of children and starving people”.
- The UN World Food Programme warned the hunger crisis in Gaza has reached an unprecedented level, with humanitarian efforts crippled by access restrictions.
- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the global failure to halt the bloodshed in Gaza shows that the world has not learned from the Srebrenica genocide.
- Two Palestinians were killed and several others injured following an Israeli settler attack on the occupied West Bank town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah. One of the deceased was a dual US citizen.
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