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Here’s where things stand on Sunday 27 July 2025:
- Israel began “tactical pauses” in fighting for “humanitarian purposes” from 10am to 8pm (07:00-17:00 GMT) in al-Mawasi, Deir el-Balah and Gaza City, starting on Sunday.
- Despite the pauses, Israeli forces have killed at least 53 Palestinians in attacks on Gaza since the early hours of Sunday, as six more Palestinians starve to death.
- They have seized the Freedom Flotilla’s Handala ship, detaining its 21 crew members, as they attempted to break the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 59,733 people and wounded 144,477. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.
Israeli NGO says aid concessions far from an ‘adequate response’
Gisha, an Israeli organisation that advocates for freedom of movement for Palestinians in Gaza, says Israeli concessions to allow more aid into the Strip are steps to bring about a “minimal” increase in humanitarian assistance.
“The ‘humanitarian pauses’ in certain areas recently announced by Israel, as well as the resumption of airdropping a minimal amount of aid – are far from providing an adequate response to the humanitarian catastrophe Israel has created in the Gaza Strip,” the group said in a social media post. “This disaster could and should have been prevented.”
Red Cross says healthcare system in Gaza in ‘catastrophic’ condition
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says it has been treating Palestinians shot while waiting to receive aid and the Strip’s healthcare services are in “catastrophic” condition.
“I spoke to a mother who had gone with her 15-year-old daughter to try and access food for their family. Many of these women are now the main provider for their extended families,” Felicity Gapes, the ICRC’s deputy health coordinator in Gaza, said in a statement.
“This young girl saw her mother shot and bleeding on the ground. They told me they thought it would be safe, but now they know ‘nowhere in Gaza is safe.’”
Gapes added that Gaza’s healthcare system is in “catastrophic” condition and requires “a rapid increase in supplies, equipment, and personnel”.
US ambassador says pressure to let in aid has ’emboldened Hamas’
US diplomat to Israel Mike Huckabee has said that bodies and organisations such as the UN, The New York Times, and Hamas have used “lies and propaganda” to discredit the GHF and sow chaos in Gaza. Experts and international organisations overwhelmingly attribute growing famine and the breakdown of civil society in Gaza to Israel’s blockage of nearly all food entering the enclave.
“Is the UN, NY Times, and Hamas all happy now?” Huckabee, a longtime Israel supporter and evangelical minister, said in response to a video of hungry people in Gaza climbing onto a truck bringing aid into the Gaza Strip.
“I’m sure Hamas is. Their lies and propaganda destroyed the cease-fire deal, tried to discredit safe and functioning GHF effort, emboldened Hamas and will result in this complete balagan [chaos]! Most sad for hostage families-grief prolonged.”
UNRWA chief says aid diversion claims were part of effort to discredit humanitarian groups
Philippe Lazzarini has said that discredited Israeli claims that Hamas was stealing large quantities of aid were part of a wider campaign by Israel to box out humanitarian organisations like the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and seize greater control over aid distribution.
“No proof of aid diversion in Gaza,” he said in a social media post.
“Claims were only aimed at tarnishing the reputation of the humanitarian community & attempting to replace it with a diabolic and politically motivated distribution scheme. It’s time for principled and at scale humanitarian response including through UNRWA.”
Israelis feel international community ‘has lost patience’
Meron Rapoport, journalist and editor at Local Call and +972, says Israeli society feels mounting pressure over the Israeli government’s blockage of humanitarian aid to the Strip.
“People are feeling that the international community has lost patience with Israel,” Rapoport told Al Jazeera, adding that they see reports on international media regarding the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Strip and see the growing number of incidents involving confrontations of Israeli tourists around the world.
“There are also people in Israel who say this [what is happening in Gaza] will harm Israel for decades,” Rapoport said, noting that there is a growing number of demonstrators taking to the streets to end the war.
Pauses in fighting not enough to alleviate suffering in Gaza: UK foreign minister
While the United Kingdom’s Foreign Minister David Lammy welcomed today’s announcements from the Israeli military, he said that they were “long overdue”.
“Access to aid must therefore be urgently accelerated over the coming hours and days,” Lammy said.
“This announcement alone cannot alleviate the needs of those desperately suffering in Gaza,” he added. “We need a ceasefire that can end the war, for hostages to be released and aid to enter Gaza by land unhindered.”
“Whilst airdrops will help to alleviate the worst of the suffering, land routes serve as the only viable and sustainable means of providing aid into Gaza,” Lammy continued. “These measures must be fully implemented and further barriers on aid removed. The world is watching.”
Photos: Desperation in Gaza City amid mass hunger
‘Now is the time for action,’ says WFP chief
The executive director at the UN’s World Food Programme, Cindy McCain, says now is the time for action amid pauses in Israeli fighting to allow the increase of urgent aid deliveries in the enclave.
In a post responding to a statement by the WFP calling for a ceasefire and stressing the importance of food aid, McCain said that the new Israeli measures were necessary to allow for a surge in food assistance.
“[The] WFP has teams on the ground and enough food to reach people in need across the Gaza Strip at scale,” McCain wrote.
More than 300 Israeli academics call for end to ‘atrocities’ in Gaza
The senior academics – numbering 341 in total – said they could not “stand idly by while actions leading to a global-scale disaster are carried out in our name”.
Their message, as reported by the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, was addressed to the Israeli government, the Israeli army, and the general public.
“Stop the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. Medical aid, food, and water must be allowed in immediately, and the firing on unarmed civilians must cease,” they said.