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Here’s where things stand on Tuesday 22 July 2025:
- More than two dozen countries have called for an immediate end to the war on Gaza, saying that suffering there had “reached new depths” in the latest sign of allies’ sharpening language as Israel’s international isolation deepens.
- Israeli allies the United Kingdom, France, Australia, Canada and 21 other countries, plus the European Union, said in a joint statement that the war “must end now”.
- The Israeli military killed more than 60 Palestinians, including 11 aid seekers, in attacks across Gaza as it launched a ground invasion of central Deir el-Balah for the first time during the 21-month war.
- Deadly malnutrition was reported throughout the Strip by the UN, international organisations, local authorities, and footage from hospitals. The Israeli blockade has also led to an acute shortage of drinking water.
- Hamas said it is talking to other Palestinian factions and that it hopes an “honourable” ceasefire agreement can be reached as quickly as possible, which would end the “suffering of Palestinians”.
- Israel’s government dismissed a statement by 25 countries – including the UK, France, Italy and Japan – that called for the immediate end of the war as “disconnected from reality”, while the US ambassador to Israel called it “disgusting”.
- The Israeli army killed another Hezbollah member in southern Lebanon and bombed Yemen’s Hodeidah port. The Houthis launched drones from Yemen towards Israel, which were intercepted.
- Palestinians were arrested during Israeli military raids in the occupied West Bank, which included torching a home in the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem. Settler attacks have also continued in the occupied territory.
UK, France and 23 other nations demand Israel’s war on Gaza ‘must end now’
More than two dozen countries have called for an immediate end to the war on Gaza, saying that suffering there had “reached new depths” in the latest sign of allies’ sharpening language as Israel’s international isolation deepens.
The statement on Monday came after more than 21 months of fighting that have triggered catastrophic humanitarian conditions for Gaza’s more than two million residents.
Israeli allies the United Kingdom, France, Australia, Canada and 21 other countries, plus the European Union, said in a joint statement that the war “must end now”.
“The suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths,” the signatories added, urging a negotiated ceasefire, the release of captives held by Palestinian fighters and the free flow of much-needed aid.
They condemned “the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, seeking to meet their most basic needs of water and food”.
The UN and the Gaza Health Ministry have recorded 875 people killed in Gaza while trying to get food since late May, when Israel began easing a more than two-month total blockade.
“The Israeli government’s aid delivery model is dangerous, fuels instability and deprives Gazans of human dignity,” the countries said. “The Israeli government’s denial of essential humanitarian assistance to the civilian population is unacceptable. Israel must comply with its obligations under international humanitarian law.”
Call for immediate ceasefire
The new joint statement called for an immediate ceasefire, saying countries are prepared to take action to support a political pathway to peace in the region.
Israel and Hamas have been engaged in ceasefire talks, but there appears to be no breakthrough, and it is not clear whether any truce would bring the war to a lasting halt. Netanyahu has repeatedly asserted that expanding Israel’s military operations in Gaza will pressure Hamas in negotiations.
Speaking to Parliament, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy thanked the United States, Qatar and Egypt for their diplomatic efforts to try to end the war.
“There is no military solution,” Lammy said. “The next ceasefire must be the last ceasefire.”
Israel launched the war on Gaza after Hamas led an attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing at least 1,129 people and taking 251 others captive. Fifty captives remain in Gaza, but fewer than half are thought to be alive.
Israel’s military offensive has killed more than 59,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, mostly women and children.
UK admonishes Israel for ‘litany of horrors’ in Gaza
Israel is “tarnishing” its reputation by ignoring calls from dozens of nations for an immediate end to its devastating war on Gaza, the UK’s foreign secretary says.
Palestinians have been subjected to a “grotesque spectacle” and a “litany of horrors”, said David Lammy as he addressed parliamentarians.
The comments come after Israel launched a major ground assault targeting Deir el-Balah, the main hub for humanitarian efforts in the besieged enclave.
Lammy said ignoring the international community is “tarnishing greatly the reputation of Israel”.
“I utterly condemn the killing of civilians seeking to meet their basic needs. I firmly believe the Israeli government’s actions are doing untold damage to Israel’s standing in the world, and undermining Israel’s long-term security.”
Starving to death in Gaza as Israel blocks aid
Gaza is now in an acute hunger crisis, with people starving to death each day.
Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif breaks down after a woman on the street collapsed from hunger.
WHO says staff residence in Gaza raided by Israeli troops
The World Health Organization (WHO) says its staff residence and main warehouse in Deir el-Balah were attacked three times by Israeli forces.
Two WHO staff and two family members were detained, said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO’s director-general.
Three were later released, while one staff member remains in detention.
“Israeli military entered the premises, forcing women and children to evacuate on foot toward al-Mawasi amid active conflict,” said Tedros. “WHO demands the immediate release of the detained staff and protection of all its staff.”
Israeli tanks and troops pushed into southern and eastern districts of central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah city for the first time during the 21-month war on Monday.
US President Trump ‘caught off-guard’ by Israeli air strikes on Syria
US President Donald Trump was “caught off-guard” by Israeli strikes on Syria and the bombing of a Catholic church in Gaza last week, the White House says.
“In both accounts, the president quickly called the prime minister [Benjamin Netanyahu] to rectify those situations,” spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told reporters.
“The president enjoys a good working relationship with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and stays in, you know, frequent communication with him. When it came to Syria, we saw a de-escalation there.”
Netanyahu called Pope Leo on Friday to express regret at the attack on the Catholic church in Gaza, blaming a “stray missile”.
Hamas says Israeli tank hit by explosive device in Deir el-Balah
The Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, says it ambushed invading Israeli troops in the city of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.
Fighters detonated a “powerful landmine” in the Umm Dhahir area south of the city as a Merkava tank advanced, it said in a short statement. It is unclear if there were any casualties.
Earlier, the Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, also said it detonated a pre-planted explosive near an incoming Israeli armoured vehicle southeast of Deir el-Balah.
The Israeli military began pushing last night into the area, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are displaced and several captives in Gaza are believed to be held.
‘Systemic destruction project’ as Israel clears Gaza of Palestinians
A columnist for Israel’s Haaretz newspaper says the ethnic cleansing happening now in Gaza is comparable to what the Nazis did in their early years, and it must be immediately stopped.
“There’s now a very systemic destruction project of whole towns and villages, one after the other,” Gideon Levy told Al Jazeera. “Israel is doing things that the Germans did in the early years of the Third Reich, which Israelis don’t see any similarity.”
He said Israeli politicians and the media are giving “unbelievable explanations and legitimisations”, such as fighting Hamas to justify the total destruction and emptying of Gaza.
“Killing 27,000 children is self-defence. At the same time, nobody is looking backward to their own family’s experience,” said Levy.
“I must remind all of us: The extermination of the Jews in the Holocaust started with evacuating people to the east [of Europe]. Same plan. That’s the first stage. We should stop it here. But Israel doesn’t see its own image. We don’t look in the mirror.”
MSF aid workers among thousands affected by Deir el-Balah offensive
Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, says the forced displacement threat that preceded the Israeli army’s ground invasion of Deir el-Balah has already displaced up to 80,000 Palestinians.
Among them were 36 staff members of the medical aid group, who worked in the al-Mawasi clinic and had to abruptly leave a busy health facility while treating an influx of patients wounded near distribution sites run by the notorious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
In a statement, the MSF also pointed out that the forced evacuation also impacted one of the main lifelines for water distribution in southern Gaza.
“Today water distribution trucks could not reach the plant, and these orders will put at risk anyone who tries to distribute water from here in the near future,” it said.
Forced displacement areas by the Israeli army now encompass 87 percent of the enclave, said the MSF.
Israel says Hezbollah ‘terrorist’ killed in southern Lebanon
The Israeli military has confirmed it was behind the drone strike in southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh that killed a person travelling on a motorcycle.
The unnamed individual was a Hezbollah operative who attempted to “rehabilitate terrorist infrastructure” in the area of Bint Jbeil, where he was killed, the army said in a statement.
Under a November ceasefire, Hezbollah was to pull its fighters back north of the Litani River, 30km (18 miles) from the Israeli frontier.
Israel was to withdraw its troops from Lebanon, but has kept them deployed in five areas it deemed “strategic” and has breached the ceasefire on a near-daily basis with deadly strikes.
Pressure should be on Hamas ‘savages’ not Israel: US envoy
Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, says the move by 25 countries, including Israel’s Western allies, to condemn Israel for horrific conditions in Gaza is “disgusting”.
He said in posts on X that 25 nations “put pressure on Israel instead of savages of Hamas”, and alleged Gaza is suffering because Hamas is rejecting truce proposals.
Huckabee also backed Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar’s argument that since Hamas welcomed the condemnation of Israel, those who denounced Israel are “doing evil”.
Israeli soldier killed, another wounded in Gaza blast
The Israeli military confirmed a soldier with the 13th Battalion of its Golani Brigade was killed earlier in Gaza’s southern Khan Younis.
An officer with the same brigade was seriously wounded in the attack that involved an explosion. It has not officially released further details yet.
Hamas says ending Palestinians’ suffering a ‘top priority’ in truce talks
Hamas says it’s working around the clock and engaging mediators “in order to stop famine and stop this criminal war”.
These comments come after Israeli media cited unnamed Israeli sources as saying Hamas is behind the delay in the mediated ceasefire talks in Qatar, because negotiators have not been able to contact leaders in Gaza for several days.
Israel is engaging in “blackmail” as it seeks to commit massacres against Palestinians to gain what it has failed to impose at the negotiating table, Hamas said in a statement.
“We affirm we are proceeding with responsibility and rationality, and with the utmost urgency, to complete our consultations and contacts with Palestinian forces and factions, in order to reach an honourable agreement that leads to ending the aggression, halting the genocide, achieving our people’s goals of reconstruction, lifting the siege, and ensuring a dignified life for our people in the Gaza Strip.”
Prominent Gaza doctor wounded during arrest by Israeli troops
We earlier reported that Dr Marwan al-Hams, who led a hospital in southern Rafah and was manager of field hospitals in Gaza, was detained by Israeli forces.
Gaza’s Health Ministry now says al-Hams was wounded in the leg during his arrest by an Israeli special forces unit, and he remains in detention.
Witnesses confirmed the injury and expressed deep concern for al-Hams’s health. The ministry said it holds Israeli authorities fully responsible for his safety.
Palestinian injured in settler attack near Hebron
A Palestinian man sustained wounds after Israelis from illegal settlements attacked homes in the village of al-Rakeez, part of the Masafer Yatta area, in the occupied West Bank.
Activist Osama Makhamra told the Wafa news agency that settlers from a nearby illegal outpost – built on privately owned Palestinian land east of Yatta – stormed the village under the protection of Israeli forces and assaulted residents.
One man from the al-Amour family suffered bruises and injuries as a result.
Israeli forces detained several residents and fired live rounds, stun grenades and tear gas during the raid.
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Here are the latest developments:
- The Israeli military has killed at least 61 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip since dawn as more than two million Palestinians in the enclave starve and there is an acute water shortage.
- Israel’s government rejected a statement by 25 countries – including the UK, France, Italy and Japan – that called for an immediate end to the war, calling them “disconnected from reality”.
- At least one person was killed in southern Lebanon in what appeared to be another Israeli assassination.
- Yemen’s Houthis said they launched five drones at Israeli targets and “successfully” achieved their goal.
- The families of captives held in Gaza expressed concern that the Israeli military’s unprecedented ground assault on Deir el-Balah in central Gaza could endanger their relatives.
