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Here’s where things stand on Tuesday 1 July 2025:
- Doctors in Gaza warn that thousands of babies could die, as baby formula supplies run dry under Israel’s blockade.
- At least 95 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks throughout Gaza, including more than a dozen desperate people seeking food at US-Israel-backed aid distribution sites.
- In the deadliest single strike of the day, Israeli fighter jets bombed an internet café with a children’s birthday party under way, killing at least 39 people.
- A senior Hamas official told Al Jazeera, “we are determined to seek a ceasefire that will save our people”, and accused Israel of “sabotaging the negotiations”.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 56,531 people and wounded 133,642, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7 attacks and more than 200 taken captive.
More aid seekers hit by Israeli attack in Gaza
There has been yet another Israeli attack on aid seekers in Gaza.
Nasser Medical Complex reported that 15 Palestinians were wounded by an Israeli attack on east of Khan Younis.
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Here’s a quick recap of the latest developments:
- At least 65 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks on Gaza today, with deadly air strikes reported in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City to the north and al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis in the south.
- Two more Palestinians, including a 15-year-old child, were killed by Israeli soldiers in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank, where Israeli authorities are carrying out forced demolitions of Palestinian homes.
- President Trump said he hopes for a Gaza ceasefire deal “sometime next week” when Netanyahu is slated to visit the White House.
- More than 165 international aid organisations called for the immediate end of the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, created by Israel and the US to push aside international aid to the besieged enclave.
- The UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said 82 percent of Gaza is under forced evacuation orders.
UK set to ban Palestine Action, 2 other groups
Palestine Action is among three groups set to be banned by the UK government.
“Palestine Action, Maniacs Murder Cult and Russian Imperial Movement set to be banned following advice from cross-government experts,” the Labour-led UK government said in a statement.
The announcement came after Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said a draft order had been laid in Parliament to ban the groups.
The move comes after some Palestine Action activists broke into Brize Norton, the largest station of the British air force in Oxfordshire, and sprayed two military planes with red paint to protest against the government’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza.
The move to ban them has prompted criticism from human rights organisations and triggered protests.
Israeli soldiers targeted in southern Gaza
Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, said its fighters fired mortar shells at Israeli soldiers and vehicles stationed north of Khan Younis.
Israeli army admits Palestinians killed by ‘inaccurate, uncalculated’ artillery fire
Israeli media outlet Haaretz is reporting that senior Israeli officers have admitted that Palestinians had been killed due to “inaccurate and uncalculated” artillery fire by the army.
The report said that the Israeli army “confirmed that in the most serious incident involving shelling of civilians, between 30 and 40 people were targeted – some killed, others wounded to varying degrees”.
Last week, Israeli soldiers told Haaretz that they received orders to shoot at civilians gathering to collect aid at distribution sites in Gaza. More than 600 aid seekers have been killed by Israeli forces.
Israeli attack on Gaza’s Zeitoun neighbourhood kills 8
A source at the al-Ahli Arab Hospital has told Al Jazeera that eight Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack.
The attack hit Kashko Street, located in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City.
Pro-Palestinian protesters in Lithuania decry ties with Israel
Dozens of pro-Palestinian activists gathered outside Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry in the capital to protest against the visit of Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar.
The demonstrators rallied on Juozo Tumo-Vaizganto Street in Vilnius, waving Palestinian flags and holding placards, Lithuanian public broadcaster LRT reported.
They chanted “While Europe finances, Israel bombs”, “Let Gaza live”, and “Since when has Lithuania supported the occupier?”
The protest coincided with a meeting between Saar and Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys, who were expected to discuss bilateral ties, Russia’s war in Ukraine, and the Middle East.
Police were present at the scene, but the protest remained peaceful.
Last week, President Gitanas Nauseda described the humanitarian situation in Gaza as “catastrophic”, stressing that Europe must act to prevent more civilian casualties.
Israeli troops kill 2 Palestinians in occupied West Bank
The Palestinians, including a 15-year-old, were killed in separate incidents, the Health Ministry says.
The Israeli military had no immediate comment on the teen’s shooting. In the second incident, it said, a “suspicious individual” was seen trying to cross into Israel from the southern West Bank, prompting soldiers to open fire.
Israel is attacking the refugee camps in Jenin, Tulkarem, Nur Shams, Far’a and Nablus, causing mass displacement.
It has used some of the same tactics it deployed in Gaza, such as laying a complete siege on the camps and uprooting most of the inhabitants, according to Forensic Architecture, a research group that investigates and monitors human rights abuses.
Israeli authorities force Palestinians to demolish their own home in the West Bank
Israeli authorities in the occupied West Bank forced a Palestinian family in East Jerusalem to demolish their own home in Silwan, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The Jerusalem Governorate reported that the Israeli municipality forced the owner to demolish his home, which was built five years ago and housed seven people.
North of Jerusalem, it said, Israeli forces destroyed another home in Beit Hanina, displacing five Palestinians.
According to the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, Israeli authorities carried out 23 demolition operations in the Jerusalem Governorate during May.
The Wafa news agency reported that, in a community southeast of Yatta in the Hebron governorate, Israeli authorities handed out demolition notices to a school and a house, and ordered construction halted on five other Palestinian homes and a water pipeline.
Hamas slams Israel amid spread of diseases, lack of baby formula in Gaza
Hamas has released a statement on the deteriorating healthcare situation in Gaza:
- A new disaster is threatening children with the spread of meningitis amid the collapse of the health system.
- We call on the international community to intervene immediately to save the children of Gaza, who are facing an unprecedented humanitarian tragedy.
- The siege and concentrated targeting by the [Israeli] occupation have led to the collapse of the health system, exacerbated famine, and a shortage of baby formula.
Critical services at al-Shifa Hospital have stopped or will cease shortly
Critical services at al-Shifa Hospital have either stopped or will stop in the coming hours as backup generators are running out of fuel.
The dialysis department that once represented a lifeline for many patients has now stopped working, and patients are at risk of dying.
This hospital was once the largest healthcare facility in Gaza, but has slowly turned into a waiting room for death, not just because of the war wounds, but because of a lack of fuel that keeps everything running.
This shows that survival in Gaza is not just about escaping the air strikes, but also about keeping the power on so patients can survive.
Israeli attacks continue across Gaza. People are now being attacked simply for walking in the streets looking for food, or gathering in places like the seaside cafe that was bombed.
Trump expected to push Netanyahu for a Gaza deal
Trump and Netanyahu will use this meeting to address their bases, presenting what they see as a success in the war with Iran and framing it as a historic victory.
However, the agenda also includes the issue of ending the war on Gaza and the inescapable chatter around possible normalisation deals between Israel and its neighbours, including Syria, which has recently become a focus of Israeli media and speculation.
From an Israeli perspective, it is expected that Trump will urge Netanyahu to leverage this atmosphere of perceived victory and strength to make way for a deal in Gaza, one that involves the release of captives.
This would be an additional victory for Trump, and it would be difficult for Netanyahu to get away from that.
So it will be interesting to see how these two men manoeuvre their own self-interest while trying to also not upset their respective bases.
More than 60 people killed in Gaza today
At least 65 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, hospital sources have told Al Jazeera.
Among those killed were 16 aid seekers, the sources added.
Trump says hopes for Gaza ceasefire ‘sometime next week’
Trump said the US is pushing for a truce in Gaza by “sometime next week”.
He was was asked by reporters if a ceasefire could be in place before a visit by Netanyahu to the White House, set for July 7.
“We hope it’s going to happen, and we’re looking for it to happen sometime next week,” Trump responded as he departed Washington for Florida.
Trump has previously urged Israel to “make the deal in Gaza,” but on the ground, Israel has continued to pursue its offensive across the Palestinian territory.
The news comes just a day after the Trump administration approved a $510m arms deal to Israel.
Israel has killed 1,000 Palestinians in occupied West Bank since October 2023
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has escalated its violence in the occupied West Bank, killing at least 1,000 Palestinians.
As the world was distracted by Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, which has killed more than 56,331 people and uprooted nearly the entire population of 2.3 million, Israel ramped up its violent raids on the West Bank, as well as its silence as Israeli settlers attack and kill Palestinian villagers.
The most recent casualty was Samer Bassam al-Zagharneh, a young man who was shot by Israeli soldiers on July 1.
Read our explainer here.
Palestinian boy describes killings and chaos at GHF aid site
A 13-year-old Palestinian boy has described how Israeli forces shot at him and others waiting for food from the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, killing people right beside him.
Trump to discuss Gaza, Iran with Netanyahu next week
President Trump says he will discuss the situations in Gaza and Iran when he meets Netanyahu at the White House on Monday.
Pro-Palestine activists protest at UK branches of Israel’s Elbit Systems
Activists with the UK-based Palestine Action group have demonstrated at buildings belonging to Elbit Systems, which manufactures weapons being used to kill Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Footage verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency showed a sit-in in front of the company’s factory in Kent, where protesters sprayed red paint on the main road leading to the factory, symbolising Palestinian blood that has been shed.
In Bristol, activists blocked the only road leading to the company’s headquarters using a truck they climbed onto and chained themselves to.
Protesters also climbed onto the roof of the headquarters of Gardtek, a main supplier to Elbit. British police arrived at the sites, but the sit-ins continued.
More than 82 percent of Gaza under Israeli displacement orders: UN
The UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) reports that more than 82 percent of the total area of the Gaza Strip is currently under Israeli forced evacuation orders, and people have nowhere to go.
The organisation, which Israel wants dismantled, claiming that it “assists terrorism”, also said the Israeli army attacked another one of its schools-turned-shelters for displaced Palestinians in Gaza early on Monday.
Israeli warplanes have destroyed many dozens of such schools since the start of the war, massacring large numbers of Palestinians sheltering inside.
More than 165 aid groups call for end to US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
More than 165 major international charities and nongovernmental organisations have called for an immediate end to the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the secretive entity set up by the US and Israel to push aside the UN and established international aid groups.
“Palestinians in Gaza face an impossible choice: starve or risk being shot while trying desperately to reach food to feed their families. The weeks following the launch of the Israeli distribution scheme have been some of the deadliest and most violent since October 2023,” the group said in a joint news release, adding that GHF brings “nothing but starvation and gunfire to the people of Gaza”.
The UN and other aid groups have repeatedly emphasised that they are capable of delivering sustainable aid to the people of Gaza, if Israel lifts its blockade that has brought more than two million Palestinians to the brink of famine.
About 600 Palestinians have been killed in or near the GHF aid sites since they started in late March.
The GHF responded in a statement, saying established aid groups should stop “bickering and throwing insults from the sidelines” and join the group headed by an evangelical leader, Johnnie Moore Jr, who is a close ally of Donald Trump.
Gaza death toll rises
Gaza’s Ministry of Health says at least 116 bodies and 463 wounded people arrived at hospitals across Gaza over the past 24 hours.
Since Israel broke the ceasefire with Hamas on March 18, at least 6,315 Palestinians have been killed and more than 22,064 wounded.
Since the start of the war in October 2023, at least 56,647 people have been killed and 134,105 wounded by Israeli attacks on Gaza.
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Here’s a quick look at the recent developments:
- The Israeli army has killed dozens of Palestinians in Gaza since dawn, including at least 16 aid seekers.
- It attacked Gaza City in the north, Khan Younis and its al-Mawasi area in the south, and the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
- The Israeli army said it attacked Gaza more than 140 times in the past 24 hours, claiming all those hit were “terror targets” and “militants”.
- The father of an Israeli captive held in Gaza has accused Netanyahu of “trying to evade trial at the expense” of the captives, as families called for an end to the war.
- Israel’s Supreme Court has suspended a hearing about the attorney general’s decision that Netanyahu cannot appoint a new Shin Bet chief due to a conflict of interest, after a Likud lawmaker interrupted proceedings.
- Israel has injured two people, including a child, in a drone attack on southern Lebanon.
Israel has killed more than 50 people in Gaza since morning
At least 51 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, hospital sources have told Al Jazeera.
US revokes Bob Vylan visas after Glastonbury chants
The US has revoked the visas of British punk-rap duo Bob Vylan.
The duo had led chants of “Death to the IDF” against the Israeli army during their performance at the Glastonbury Festival on Saturday.
The band was due to begin a US tour in October.
Israeli army says it expanded attacks in Gaza’s Khan Younis
The Israeli military says its Paratroopers Brigade continues to expand its ground invasion of Khan Younis in southern Gaza under the command of the 36th Division.
It claimed in a report that “dozens of terrorists” were killed in close-quarter combat and much infrastructure was destroyed, including apartment buildings.
The army said it destroyed a tunnel and published clips of two large explosions, as well as of its soldiers advancing amid the rubble of Khan Younis.
Netanyahu says will depart for US next week to meet Trump, top officials
At the start of a government meeting, the Israeli PM says he is expected to leave next week for meetings in the US with President Trump, following what he called the “great victory” achieved during attacks on Iran.
Netanyahu said he will also meet Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff.
He added that trade talks will also be part of the trip, as will meetings with the heads of Congress and security meetings in Washington, DC.
Death toll in Israeli attack on southern Gaza home rises to 10
Earlier, we reported on an Israeli attack targeting a home in Khan Younis, killing five people.
Sources at Nasser Medical Complex now say the death toll has risen to 10.
Gaza resident says Israeli forces demolishing homes across enclave
Health authorities say Israeli forces destroyed clusters of houses in Gaza City’s Shujayea and Zeitoun districts, east of Khan Younis and in Rafah, according to Reuters.
Ismail, a resident of the Sheikh Radwan suburb of Gaza City, told Reuters that newly displaced families were setting up tents on the road after fleeing from areas north and east of the city and finding no other space.
“We don’t sleep because of the sounds of explosions from tanks and planes. The occupation is destroying homes east of Gaza, in Jabaliya and other places around us,” he said via a text message, asking that his surname be withheld for his security.
Casulaties following Israeli attack on central Gaza
A source at al-Awda Hospital has told Al Jazeera that a Palestinian was killed and others were injured when in an Israeli strike west of the Nuseirat camp.
Thousands of babies face starvation in Gaza as milk supplies run dry
Doctors in Gaza are warning of a “silent catastrophe” that threatens the lives of thousands of babies and infants.
Israel’s blockade of Gaza means supplies of formula milk have run out, while starving mothers are unable to breastfeed their children.
Netanyahu ‘trying to evade trial at expense of captives’: Father of captive
The father of Nimrod Cohen, who is being held captive in the Gaza Strip, addressed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a demonstration in front of his office in West Jerusalem.
“You are trying to evade your trial at the expense of my son,” he said through a loudspeaker. “Complete the trial, release my son and all the kidnapped first.”
He pointed to comments by the chief of staff of the military, who said no more military objectives can be achieved in Gaza.
The families of the remaining Israeli captives demanded a “comprehensive” agreement with Hamas that would bring back all captives and end the war.