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Here’s where things stand on Friday 4 July 2025:

• Israel issues new forced displacement threats for parts of parts of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, as attacks across the besieged territory kill dozens of Palestinians.
• The number of Palestinian aid seekers killed by Israeli forces since May 27 in the besieged Gaza Strip has reached 613, according to the UN, as a report says US contractors ostensibly guarding controversial aid distribution sites have been using live ammunition and stun grenades.
• Hamas says consultations have begun on a latest proposal for a temporary 60-day ceasefire in Gaza; will submit its response to mediators.
• Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 57,268 people and wounded 135,625, 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 put 85 percent of Gaza under forced evacuation orders, militarised zones: UN

The UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) reports that 85 percent of Gaza is now within Israeli-militarised zones or under forced evacuation orders.

More than 714,000 Palestinians have been displaced yet again since Israel violated the ceasefire in March, according to the agency’s latest report, which also warned that the fuel crisis in Gaza is deepening since no fuel has entered the enclave for more than four months.

“The health response in the Gaza Strip continues to face severe operational challenges, including extensive damage to health facilities, obstacles to safe movements and restrictions on the entry of medical supplies and fuel.”

‘Be their lifesaver’: Families of Israelis held in Gaza appeal to Trump to end war

Families of Israelis held by Hamas in Gaza have gathered in front of the US Embassy branch office in Tel Aviv, calling on US President Donald Trump to push for a ceasefire that would lead to the return of their loved ones.

The protest, held as Americans observed their independence day holiday, called on Trump to intervene to bring an end to the war in Gaza, as he had done in Israel’s war with Iran.

Photos showed the families and their supporters gathered on the beach in front of the embassy building, carrying posters bearing portraits of the captives. “Mr President, be their lifesaver,” read a banner at the protest.

As Israeli violence disrupts education, Palestinian students push forward

For many years, education in the occupied Palestinian territory has remained accessible to all.

But now, Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip and escalating violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have shattered that, too.

Watan Sabanneh, 17, from the West Bank town of Qabatiya, near Jenin, was arrested by Israeli forces just hours before his exams.

“The army stormed our house at dawn,” he told Al Jazeera. “They detained me and my father. I wasn’t released until after midnight. I barely had any time to sleep before my first exam.”

Where do the Gaza ceasefire efforts stand?

Months after Israel torpedoed the previous Gaza ceasefire deal with Hamas, the two sides again appear close to reaching a potential agreement.

As we reported earlier, US President Donald Trump has said he expects an answer by the Palestinian armed group within 24 hours.

This comes after he said earlier this week that Israel had accepted the “necessary conditions to finalise” a 60-day ceasefire in the besieged enclave, during which efforts will be made to end the war. On Thursday, Trump said Hamas was studying the “final proposal” for a ceasefire that is backed by Washington.

Hamas has emphasised that it is looking for an agreement that would end the war and ensure the withdrawal of invading Israeli troops from Gaza, something Israel has repeatedly rejected. Meanwhile, far-right Israeli ministers like National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir have been calling for full occupation of the enclave.

Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are slated to hold a meeting in the White House on Monday to discuss the ceasefire, as well as Iran.

IAEA inspectors left Iran. How did we get here?

As we reported earlier, all IAEA inspectors left Iran today and “safely” arrived at the agency’s headquarters in the Austrian capital, Vienna. The pull-out was the latest episode in a spat between the UN nuclear watchdog and Tehran. How did we get to this point?

• On May 31, the IAEA issued a damning report saying Iran carried out secret nuclear activities, with material not declared to the UN agency, at three locations that have long been under investigation.
• The IAEA concluded that “these three locations, and other possible related locations, were part of an undeclared structured nuclear programme carried out by Iran until the early 2000s and that some activities used undeclared nuclear material”, the report said.
• Iran’s Foreign Ministry and the Iranian nuclear agency rejected the report as “politically motivated”.
• The report led to a resolution by the IAEA’s 35-nation Board of Governors declaring Iran in breach of its non-proliferation obligations.
• Iranian authorities say the resolution paved the way for Israel to bomb Iran on June 13.
• Since then, IAEA inspectors have not been able to inspect Iran’s facilities.
• IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said he stands by the report and denied it provided diplomatic cover for military action.
• Iran’s parliament passed a law suspending cooperation with the IAEA until steps such as ensuring the safety of its nuclear sites are taken.

Netanyahu hoping ‘to avoid committing to permanent end to Gaza assault’

Menachem Klein, professor emeritus at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, says it remains an open question whether the Israeli prime minister would be willing to agree to a permanent halt to the war on Gaza.

As we’ve been reporting, the latest proposal that has been put forward involves a 60-day ceasefire.

“He wants to buy time and not commit himself to end the war. He is ready to go for a two-month ceasefire. Nobody knows if he is ready, or very keen and honest, to negotiate … a permanent ceasefire beyond this 60 days,” Klein told Al Jazeera.

Klein also noted that with the Israeli parliament – the Knesset – soon going into summer recess, Netanyahu is seizing on the fact that his shaky government coalition cannot be dissolved.

It also gives the Israeli leader time to get alternative political support if prominent far-right members of his coalition, such as Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, withdraw their parties in anger over a Gaza deal.

“If the ultra-racist, right-wing parties leave the coalition, he can negotiate with the centrist [former Defence Minister Benny] Gantz to join the government and [stabilise] his coalition,” Klein said.

Israel, US could be held liable for war crimes by private military contractors

We’ve spoken to an expert about whether Israel or the US could potentially bear criminal liability under international law for abuses committed by private military contractors in Gaza.

William Schabas, professor of international law at Middlesex University, said that both countries could “certainly” be found to bear responsibility for the actions of private military contractors at aid distribution centres in Gaza, which have been the scene of routine deadly violence against Palestinians. The aid distribution programme is run by the shadowy Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a US-registered entity operating in coordination with Israel’s military.

“We don’t know the level, actually, of genuine complicity of the two governments in the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, but I don’t think there’s any doubt that they’re there with the blessing” of both Israel and the US, he said.

He said that while the private military contractors themselves could be found guilty of war crimes on an individual basis, “more important is the state responsibility for [any] war crimes that are being committed”.

“The fact that this has been contracted out privately is no legal obstacle to finding responsibility and establishing state responsibility for both Israel and the United States,” he said.

138 killed Palestinians brought to Gaza hospitals in last 24 hours: Health Ministry

The Gaza Health Ministry has provided an update on the latest casualty figures in the enclave:

• In addition to the 138 killed Palestinians brought to hospitals in the past 24 hours, another 452 wounded people sought medical care.
• Sixty-two fatalities brought to Gaza’s hospitals in the past 24 hours were killed while seeking aid; Three hundred Palestinian aid-seekers were among those wounded.
• A number of victims remain under the rubble and on roads because emergency crews are unable to reach them.
• Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, 2023, have now killed at least 57,268 Palestinians and injured at least 135,625 others.
• Since Israel broke the ceasefire on March 18, at least 6,710 Palestinians have been killed and 23,584 more injured.

Hamas claims its fighters hit an Israeli command centre in Gaza City

The armed wing of Hamas, Qassam Brigades, has hit an Israeli Merkava tank with a Yassin 105 missile east of Gaza City’s Tuffah neighbourhood, as well as shelling a command centre in the same area.

That’s according to a Hamas statement published on Telegram, which said the attacks took place yesterday.

Snapshot of Israeli settler violence in the West Bank

As we’ve just reported, dozens of Palestinian families have fled the Bedouin community of al-Mleihat, northwest of Jericho in the occupied West Bank, due to repeated attacks by Israeli settlers under the protection of the military.

The forced displacement comes amid a wave of Israeli army and settler violence in the West Bank, in the shadow of Israel’s war on Gaza.

According to the latest figures from the UN’s humanitarian office (OCHA), between the beginning of 2024 and the end of May of this year, at least 2,074 attacks by Israeli settlers resulted in casualties and/or property damage in the West Bank.

Of those, the highest number of settler attacks – 496 – were reported in areas north of Ramallah, followed by 417 incidents near Nablus, in the northern West Bank. Another 383 settler attacks were reported near the southern city of Hebron.

Over the same period, at least 1,038 Palestinians were displaced as a result of settler violence and access restrictions, OCHA said.

More Palestinian families flee Israeli settler attacks on West Bank Bedouin community

Thirty more Palestinian families from a Bedouin community in the occupied West Bank have fled their homes, following repeated assaults and harassment from Israeli settlers under the protection of Israeli forces, the Wafa news agency is reporting.

As we reported earlier, 20 families from the al-Mleihat Bedouin community, located northwest of Jericho in the east of the occupied West Bank, had previously packed up their possessions and fled their homes, following an escalation in attacks by Israeli settlers in recent weeks. Prior to the forced displacement, the community was home to 85 families, numbering about 500 people.

One woman, Alia al-Mleihat, told Wafa that her family was forced to flee to the Aqbat Jabr refugee camp, south of Jericho, after armed settlers threatened her and other families at gunpoint.

Hassan al-Mleihat, general coordinator of the Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights, said the remaining families were also preparing to leave amid the escalating aggression from Israeli settlers, which included beatings, theft and poisoning of livestock, blocking of roads and destruction of tents. The harassment was carried out under the protection of Israeli authorities, he said.

Photos: Wide-scale destruction after Israeli attack on Gaza City camp

How Israel’s forced evacuation orders push Palestinians out of their homes

As we’ve been reporting, the Israeli military has issued new forced displacement orders for parts of Khan Younis, including the area that is home to Nasser Hospital.

This is not the first such order by Israel in recent weeks for the southern Gaza city: satellite imagery reviewed by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency this week found that the military has issued force evacuation orders for 83.5 percent of Khan Younis since March 18.

That amounts to an area of nearly 89sq km (34sq miles).

Overall, Sanad found that Israel has pushed Palestinians into a 74.4sq-km (28.7sq-mile) area of the Gaza Strip, representing about 20 percent of the enclave.

“In contrast, approximately 290.4 square kilometres, which account for 80 percent of the total area of the besieged Strip, have been marked as hazardous red zones,” it said.

Israeli army says soldier killed in Gaza

The Israeli army has said one of its soldiers was killed in the Strip.

Asaf Zamir, 19, was killed while fighting in southern Gaza, the military said. Two others were seriously injured, it added.

He is the second soldier whose death was announced today.

Israeli army reports ground, air operations across Gaza

The Israeli army has said its air forces struck about 100 “terror targets” across Gaza in the past day.

Meanwhile, Israeli ground troops targeted Hamas infrastructure, weapons and fighters in Khan Younis and Rafah in the south of the enclave, the military said.

In the north, Israeli soldiers also demolished weapons storage facilities, explosive devices and eliminated “terrorists both above and below ground”, it added.

As we reported earlier, Israeli attacks have killed at least 41 people in the enclave since dawn. Our correspondent said the targets of the attacks included makeshift tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in the al-Mawasi area in the south of the enclave.

Israel’s forced displacement orders push more people to ‘death trap’ al-Mawasi area

The Israeli army’s latest forced evacuation orders for Gaza target the central and northeastern parts of Khan Younis, key areas of the city that are densely populated. Many people who fled other areas are staying there.

This happened after reported tense clashes between Palestinian resistance and invading Israeli forces in the area. It was followed by five hours of intense bombardment.

Many people will be forcefully displaced again and pushed towards the al-Mawasi area, which itself is not safe and has become a death trap.

At least 15 people are reported killed in the latest attacks on al-Mawasi, half of them from the same family. This has happened numerous times, to the point where we can’t keep up with the attacks on these supposedly “humanitarian” areas.

The Israeli military also launched many more attacks, including on the Tuffah neighbourhood, and on Jabalia city in northern Gaza.

Many of the casualties were transferred to al-Shifa Hospital, which is now operating at less than half of its former capacity. The resources are not enough to deal with the injuries that are pouring in.

Family recounts how Israeli snipers shot 12-year-old eating pizza in Jerusalem

Occupied East Jerusalem – A pizza box and a bullet hole. That was the only evidence left on al-Hardoub Street of the gruesome June 16 sniper attack on Uday Abu Juma’, 21, and Iyas Abu Mufreh, 12, in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of at-Tur, after authorities swept the scene the following day.

Just before midnight, cousins Uday and Iyas had gathered with family members outside their grandfather’s home in at-Tur. The Abu Juma’ extended family had come together to celebrate their grandmother’s return from the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. A daughter in the family had also scored highly on the Palestinian national “tawjihi” exams.

Days before, Israeli authorities had placed roadblocks on the two main entrances into the neighbourhood, at the start of the 12-day conflict with Iran on June 13. But according to family members, that night, all was quiet in the neighbourhood.

Iyas and Uday were sitting near a car, eating pizza, when suddenly, they and their family members were fired on. Of 10 shots fired, two struck Iyas and Uday, and blood spilled over the pizza.

Read more here.

EU says violence at Gaza food centres ‘untenable’

The European Union has criticised the situation surrounding the food distribution sites operated by the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

“What’s happening around those distribution centres, the situation is untenable. It should not be tolerated, and the violence should cease immediately,” EU Commission spokesperson Anouar El Anouni told a briefing in Brussels.

His comments come as the UN human rights office said more than 610 people have been killed at the GHF-run aid points and near humanitarian convoys since late May.

Reiterating the EU’s longstanding position, El Anouni stressed that humanitarian aid must never be “politicised or militarised”, and should be delivered in line with core humanitarian principles under the coordination of the UN.

“As the European Union, we do not finance this initiative. We are not financing this initiative, and we’re also not cooperating with it,” he added.

IAEA inspectors pulled out of Iran

The UN nuclear watchdog, IAEA, has said that a team of its inspectors left Iran today “safely” to return to the agency’s headquarters in Vienna, Austria.

Its director, Rafael Grossi, reiterated the “crucial importance of the IAEA discussing with Iran modalities for resuming its indispensable monitoring and verification activities in Iran as soon as possible”.

His comments come after Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed a bill suspending cooperation with the IAEA after Israel and the US struck nuclear facilities across the country last month. According to the new law, UN inspectors will not be allowed to visit nuclear sites without approval from Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.

Ties between Iran and the IAEA got sour after the UN agency issued a damning report that led to a resolution by the IAEA’s 35-nation Board of Governors on June 12 declaring Iran in breach of its non-proliferation obligations. Iranian officials maintain that such a move effectively paved the way for Israel to bomb Iran the day after.

Protesters say UK ban on Palestine Action would stifle legitimate protest

As we reported earlier, hundreds of protesters have gathered outside London’s High Court as a judge hears a last-minute legal challenge to the government’s decision to outlaw Palestine Action as “a terrorist group”.

Protesters who spoke to Britain’s PA Media outside the court said the decision to proscribe the pro-Palestinian activist group under anti-terrorism laws was a farcical step that would stifle freedom of protest.

“The government are desperate to stifle free speech, which is trying to point out the truth,” said David Cannon, chairman of the Jewish Network for Palestine. “It’s a desperate action, and it may well backfire.”

Even a pro-Israeli counter-protester told PA Media that designating Palestine Action as a terrorist group was wrong.

“We don’t actually support proscribing Palestine Action,” said Mark Birkbeck, member of a pro-Israel group called Our Fight. “We don’t think they are a terrorist organisation and in fact, our argument is that it makes a mockery of what terrorism is.”

Five female Palestinian prisoners subjected to severe assaults in Israeli prison: Media Office

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office (ASRA) has denounced the conditions under which female Palestinian prisoners are held inside northern Israel’s Damon prison.

Five female prisoners, including minors, were subjected to severe assaults, including solitary confinement, threats, verbal insults and spitting, the monitor said.

It also reported cases where the administration used tear gas and police dogs against prisoners or imposed humiliating measures during transfers between cells.

Pregnant prisoners and those suffering from cancer are being detained in rooms lacking most basic sanitary conditions, it added.

Two Palestinians killed in Israel drone strike in central Gaza

Two Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli drone strike west of the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, according to sources at al-Awda Hospital speaking to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

Others were injured in the attack, the sources said.

At least 41 killed in Gaza since dawn

The death toll from today’s attacks across Gaza continues to rise.

Sources told Al Jazeera that at least 41 people were killed in Israeli raids on several areas in the enclave since dawn.

Israel issues new forced displacement threats for parts of Khan Younis

The Israeli army has issued new forced displacement threats for several areas of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.

The warnings for parts of the city’s east and centre include the area where Nasser Hospital is located.

All you need to know about Palestine Action

Members of parliament in the United Kingdom voted overwhelmingly this week to proscribe the campaign group, Palestine Action, as a terrorist organisation under anti-terrorism laws, putting the group on a par with armed groups such as al-Qaeda and ISIL (ISIS).

A draft order to amend the Terrorism Act 2000 to do this, brought by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, passed through the House of Commons on Wednesday by 385 votes to 26.

But what has the group actually done?

Read more here.

Starvation in Gaza ‘amounts to a form of structural genocide’

The catastrophe unfolding in Gaza cannot be understood solely through the lens of humanitarian crisis. What we are witnessing is not just a tragic consequence of war, but the deliberate use of starvation as a tool of political and demographic control. This strategy, designed to dismantle Palestinian society, amounts to a form of structural genocide.

The Israeli military and political leadership, in its pursuit of dominance and the erasure of Palestinian national aspirations, has moved beyond the tactics of bombardment and physical destruction. Today, its methods are more insidious. They target the core of Palestinian survival: Food, water, and the means to endure.

Breaking the will of a people by denying them the ability to feed themselves is not collateral damage. It is policy. According to reports from independent international bodies, more than 95 percent of Gaza’s farmland has been destroyed or rendered unusable. That figure is not just an economic loss; it is the intentional dismantling of food sovereignty, and with it, any hope of future independence.

Read more here.

Time for a recap

Let’s bring you up to speed with the latest developments:

• The Israeli army says a soldier has been killed in northern Gaza, without elaborating on the time or circumstances.
• In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces have stormed several neighbourhoods in Nablus, while army and settler attacks have driven about 20 Palestinian families from their homes in the Bedouin community of al-Mleihat.
• In Iran, state media says the first international flight since the end of the country’s 12-day war with Israel has landed at Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran.
• Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz says the army is preparing an enforcement plan to “ensure that Iran cannot return to threaten Israel”.

Saudi foreign minister says Gaza ceasefire kingdom’s priority

Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud has said Saudi Arabia’s current priority is getting a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.

The kingdom’s foreign minister made the comments during a visit to Moscow, when asked by a reporter about the prospect of normalising ties with Israel, according to Reuters.

The US has been pushing for a normalisation of relations between the countries, building on the 2020 Abraham Accords that established regular diplomatic relations between Israel and a number of Arab states.

But Saudi Arabia has insisted that could not happen without a resolution in the Palestinian issue and unless an independent Palestinian state is recognised on 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.

London’s High Court hears legal challenge to UK’s ban on Palestine Action

I’m outside the High Court in central London, where a last-minute challenge to the government’s decision to ban pro-Palestinian activist movement Palestine Action as a “terrorist group” is being heard.

Around me, there’s a lively show of support from people who have turned up to show their solidarity with Palestine Action.

There was a slightly tense moment earlier when a counter-protester unfurled an Israeli flag, but it was dealt with efficiently by the police.

British Home Secretary Yvette Cooper’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act has been the source of much consternation for many who support the Palestinian cause here in the UK.

That move stems from a protest last month when Palestine Action activists broke into a military airbase in the UK and sprayed red paint on refuelling aircraft.

Opponents of the ban say the decision to proscribe the group has very serious ramifications for issues of civil disobedience, the right to dissent and its potential meaning for other groups in the UK.

More from the WHO’s Palestine representative

We have some more lines from our interview with the WHO’s Rik Peeperkorn, following his visit to Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

The UN health agency’s representative in Palestine said most of the patients were treated for bullet wounds. “And it’s everywhere; it’s in the head, the neck, the chest, the abdomen and the knees,” he added.

Peeperkorn highlighted the cases of a 13-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy who are fighting for their lives after being shot while attempting to get much-needed aid.

“Their families … had doubts to send out their children to get the so-called food boxes from these so-called ‘safe’, non-UN food distribution sites – and this is what happened, they got shot,” he said.

“I mean it’s insane, people who are desperate for food, that getting a little bit of food supply – no one should have to risk their lives, get killed or get injured,” Peeperkorn added.

“Gaza needs to be flooded by food. It needs to be flooded by water, essential medicines and medical supplies and a regular flow of fuel. And above all, of course, we need a ceasefire – and we need it now.”

More from the WHO’s Palestine representative

We have some more lines from our interview with the WHO’s Rik Peeperkorn, following his visit to Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

The UN health agency’s representative in Palestine said most of the patients were treated for bullet wounds. “And it’s everywhere; it’s in the head, the neck, the chest, the abdomen and the knees,” he added.

Peeperkorn highlighted the cases of a 13-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy who are fighting for their lives after being shot while attempting to get much-needed aid.

“Their families … had doubts to send out their children to get the so-called food boxes from these so-called ‘safe’, non-UN food distribution sites – and this is what happened, they got shot,” he said.

“I mean it’s insane, people who are desperate for food, that getting a little bit of food supply – no one should have to risk their lives, get killed or get injured,” Peeperkorn added.

“Gaza needs to be flooded by food. It needs to be flooded by water, essential medicines and medical supplies and a regular flow of fuel. And above all, of course, we need a ceasefire – and we need it now.”

‘A lack of everything’ at Gaza’s Nasser Hospital: WHO

As we’ve reported, the World Health Organization has described conditions at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis as “one massive trauma ward”.

Rik Peeperkorn, the WHO’s representative in Palestine, said the hospital is seeing a daily influx of dozens of patients who are all wounded at the controversial food sites that are not run by the United Nations.

“The hospital is completely overflown with patients,” Peeperkorn told Al Jazeera from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, after visiting the facility yesterday.

He said there is “a lack of everything, including beds” at the hospital, which is running at nearly double its capacity. “There used to be an intensive care unit with only 15 patients – now there are more than 60 patients on the ICU.”

The desperate situation has led to the creation of makeshift, ad hoc units to treat those in need, Peeperkorn added.

“We saw patients on the floor being intubated, on the stretchers, etc,” he said. “It’s incredible.”

Israel using private military contractors at aid points to ‘outsource genocide’

Military analyst Yusuf Alabarda has discussed with Al Jazeera why Israel is using private military contractors at aid distribution centres in Gaza, which have been the scene of routine deadly violence against Palestinians seeking aid.

Speaking from Ankara, Alabarda said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was using private security contractors in a “kind of outsourcing [of] the genocide”.

He said the private contractors at the aid distribution centres were playing a role in “ethnic cleansing and changing the demography inside Gaza”.

“One of the biggest advantages of using private military contractors [is] they are not responsible to anyone and they are under-regulated,” he said. “For this reason, many countries have used private military contractors for their dirty work to be done.”

Alabarda said Netanyahu did not want to implicate the Israeli military “in all the genocide”.

“He wants to use the private contractors in the food distribution centres in order to collect intelligence, in order to shoot defenceless people, and for many different purposes.”

At least 613 killed at GHF hubs and near humanitarian convoys: UN

The United Nations human rights office has said it had recorded at least 613 killings at aid points run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and near humanitarian convoys.

“We have recorded 613 killings, both at GHF points and near humanitarian convoys – this is a figure as of June 27. Since then … there have been further incidents,” Ravina Shamdasani, the spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, told reporters in Geneva.

First international flight since 12-day war lands at Tehran airport

Earlier today, the first international flight since the end of the 12-day war with Israel landed at the Imam Khomeini airport, the country’s IRNA state news agency has reported.

The landing of a Flydubai plane from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) marked the resumption of international flights since Iranian authorities had closed the airspace on June 13, following Israel’s attacks.

Israeli forces kill 27 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn: Medical sources

At least 27 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza since dawn, according to medical sources speaking to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

At least five of the victims were killed by Israeli fire near an aid centre north of Rafah in southern Gaza, hospital sources said.

As we reported earlier, at least 15 people were killed when Israeli jets bombed tents housing displaced Palestinians in the al-Mawasi area, near the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

Israeli forces kill 27 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn: Medical sources

At least 27 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza since dawn, according to medical sources speaking to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

At least five of the victims were killed by Israeli fire near an aid centre north of Rafah in southern Gaza, hospital sources said.

As we reported earlier, at least 15 people were killed when Israeli jets bombed tents housing displaced Palestinians in the al-Mawasi area, near the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

Gaza’s Nasser Hospital ‘one massive trauma ward’: WHO

Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis city is operating as “one massive trauma ward” due to an influx of patients injured at non-United Nations food distribution sites, the World Health Organization has said.

“They’ve seen already for weeks, daily injuries … and (the) majority coming from the so-called safe non-UN food distribution sites. The hospital is now operating as one massive trauma ward,” Rik Peeperkorn, WHO representative in the Palestinian territory, told a media briefing.

‘What is our sin?’ Palestinian girl mourns brother killed getting food aid in Gaza

Footage on social media shows emotionally charged scenes as a young Palestinian girl mourns her 19-year-old brother who was killed by Israeli fire while trying to get food aid for his family.

The video, posted by freelance Palestinian photojournalist Doaa Albaz, shows the young girl crying and screaming as she mourned her older brother, who she said had gone to get flour so the family could eat.

“What is our sin that we die of hunger?” she says, as she is flanked by older women comforting her. “My big brother, the soul of my heart. Forgive me, my brother, if I ever upset you.”

The girl said her brother had been in his final year of high school. The footage has been verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency.

Israeli demand to dismantle Hamas ‘nearly impossible’

Israel’s reported red line that Hamas must be dismantled for any ceasefire to take place in Gaza “is the most difficult part of the discussions” and would be “nearly impossible”, says Tamer Qarmout, an associate professor in public policy from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.

He told Al Jazeera that, while there could be an agreement for Hamas to surrender its weapons to another party, to “dismantle Hamas and end its political life in Palestinian society, I think that’s not achievable”.

“Hamas could transform itself to a different political party, [but] the ideology remains because the occupation remains,” Qarmout said.

“My point is, as long as there’s no bigger vision to end the conflict … then I think again, it’s going to be another wasted opportunity.”