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Here’s where things stand on Saturday 12 July 2025:
- Medical sources in Gaza say 108 Palestinians have been killed, including 34 aid seekers, in Israeli attacks in the besieged enclave since dawn.
- Israel unleashes intense bombardment on Beit Hanoon in northern Gaza with approximately 40 air strikes reported.
- The UN says 86.1 percent of the Gaza Strip now falls within Israeli “militarised zones” under forced evacuation orders.
- Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank are intensifying their attacks against Palestinian communities, killing at least two people, including a US citizen over the past 24 hours.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 57,882 people and wounded 138,095, 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.
Israeli attacks kill 110 across Gaza
It has been another bloody day in Gaza amid non-stop Israeli attacks. Medical sources tell Al Jazeera that the Palestinian death toll has risen to 110 since dawn.
Footage shows brutal arrest at pro-Palestine demonstration in Berlin
Videos circulated on social media show police brutally detaining a protester at a demonstration in support of Gaza in the German capital.
The clip, posted on Instagram and verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency Sanad, shows police officers forcefully pulling a man from a crowd in Alexanderplatz, central Berlin, and marching him from the area with an officer’s arm around his neck.
The officer then covers the detained man’s mouth and nose with his hand, before covering his eyes, while another officer grabs his arm. Other officers shove aside bystanders as they pass.
The incident is not an anomaly. Since the start of the war on Gaza, German officers have regularly detained and roughed up activists. Berlin has also shut down several events critical of Israel and banned some Palestinian rights advocates from entering the country.
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Here is a recap of the latest developments:
- At least 34 Palestinians were killed while trying to get aid delivered by the controversial US- and Israeli-backed GHF in Rafah.
- Israel has been pounding the area of Beit Hanoon in northern Gaza, with Al Jazeera Arabic reporting that about 40 air strikes have targeted the area.
- Israel plans to construct 2,339 units in the occupied West Bank, a major expansion of illegal settlements, according to a statement by the PLO’s National Office for the Defence of Land and Resistance of Settlement.
- London’s Metropolitan Police say they have detained 42 people at a demonstration in support of the banned group Palestine Action in the British capital.
- Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad have claimed several attacks against Israeli forces in Gaza City and Khan Younis.
Canary Mission: How US uses a ‘hate group’ to target Palestine advocates
The United States government has acknowledged its use of Canary Mission — a shadowy pro-Israel website — to identify pro-Palestine students for deportation, sparking anger and concern by rights advocates.
Activists have long suspected that the Trump administration is gathering information from the Canary Mission website to target students and professors.
But this week, that suspicion was confirmed when a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official testified in a court case challenging Trump’s efforts to deport pro-Palestinian student protesters.
Peter Hatch, an agent with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said the department had assembled a specialised group — dubbed a “tiger team” — to work on removing pro-Palestine college students from the country.
Read more here about Canary Mission and how it works to demonise Palestinian rights supporters.
Hamas, PIJ claim more attacks against Israeli forces
- Hamas’s Qassam Brigades says it fatally sniped an Israeli soldier in Khan Younis.
- The Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s al-Quds Brigades says it detonated a highly explosive device against an Israeli tank in the Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza City.
- Al-Quds Brigades also says it destroyed another Israeli tank northeast of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.
Palestinian death toll rises to 108 today
Medical sources tell Al Jazeera that Israeli attacks have killed at least 108 Palestinians, including 34 aid seekers, across Gaza since dawn.
Protesters arrested in London for signs declaring: ‘I support Palestine Action’
Footage posted on social media shows protesters in London being detained for holding up handwritten signs stating: “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action.”
More than 40 people were arrested at a demonstration in central London in support of Palestine Action, which was proscribed under UK “anti-terrorism” laws last week.
The ban makes expressing support for the group a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in jail, with police warning such expressions could include “chanting, wearing clothing or displaying articles such as flags, signs or logos”.
Last Saturday, 29 people were arrested in a demonstration against the ban on the group, with police detaining protesters who had held signs bearing the same phrase.
Israel seeks to build 2,339 illegal housing units in West Bank: PLO
Israel plans to construct 2,339 units in the north, south, and central parts of the occupied West Bank, according to a statement by the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s National Office for the Defence of Land and Resistance of Settlement.
The report said Israel plans to build 1,352 units in Qalqilya, 430 units in northeast Ramallah and northwest of the occupied East Jerusalem, 407 units in Bethlehem, and 150 units in the west of Ramallah.
The plan also includes the establishment of the “Samaria National Park” in the Palestinian town of Sebastia, north of Nablus.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled that Israeli presence in the occupied West Bank is illegal.
Israeli army continues demolitions in Tulkarem: Report
Israeli forces have continued carrying out demolitions of Palestinian homes in the Tulkarem refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency.
Heavy bulldozers have been working since the morning to demolish more residential buildings in the al-Foul and al-Murabba’a neighbourhoods, as part of the plan to destroy 104 buildings comprising 400 homes.
Last Sunday, the Israeli authorities announced their intention to begin implementing large-scale demolition orders in the Tulkarem camp, disregarding the Israeli Supreme Court’s earlier decision to freeze these orders.
Meanwhile, in the occupied West Bank’s Nour Shams camp, the army set several homes on fire, Wafa said, adding that troops prevented civil defence vehicles from reaching the camp to extinguish the fire.
Rights advocates have expressed concern that Israel is trying to replicate its policy from Gaza in the West Bank in an effort to eventually displace all Palestinians in the occupied territory.
Rights group calls for Trump to be prosecuted over aid seeker killings
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has called for US President Donald Trump to face criminal prosecution for complicity in genocide for his support of the GHF aid distribution mechanism in Gaza.
In a statement, the Geneva-based organisation urged international bodies to hold Trump accountable for supporting GHF in Gaza, which operates sites where hundreds of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces over the past weeks.
The monitoring group said that testimony from the field indicated the involvement of private US security contractors in the attacks on aid seekers, alongside Israeli soldiers.
It said Trump’s administration had also provided “an umbrella of comprehensive military, financial, political, and diplomatic support” for Israel’s war in Gaza.
Israeli jets striking Beit Hanoun: Israeli military
The Israeli military says it is carrying out air strikes on Beit Hanoon in northeast Gaza.
In a statement, the Israeli military said that dozens of fighter jets have carried out attacks in the area, striking Hamas targets.
It said more than 35 Hamas targets had been hit, including underground infrastructure. Al Jazeera Arabic reported earlier that approximately 40 air strikes have targeted the area.
Five Israeli soldiers were killed in an ambush in Beit Hanoon last week.
‘Israeli military squarely targeted hungry crowds without prior warning’
Conditions on the ground remain very fluid after a series of deadly incidents in Gaza.
We understand that at least 34 Palestinians were killed while trying to get their hands on aid delivered by the controversial US- and Israeli-backed GHF in Rafah in the south of the enclave.
The foundation keeps only one aid centre operational in Rafah, forcing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to move to the southern part of Gaza to get food aid.
Witnesses report that the Israeli military squarely targeted hungry crowds without prior warning, causing a great deal of panic and fear along with chaotic scenes that erupted following the shooting.
The latest attack on aid seekers underscores how no place in Gaza is safe and no act of survival is spared from Israeli strikes.
Palestinian youth injured in beating by Israeli soldiers in occupied West Bank
A young Palestinian from the occupied West Bank has been hospitalised after Israeli forces severely beat him, the Wafa news agency reports.
The assault took place during an Israeli military raid on the village of Fahma, south of the northern city of Jenin.
Israel ‘will struggle’ to find international partners for ‘humanitarian city’
British-Israeli analyst Daniel Levy says Israel will struggle to find international partners willing to support its controversial proposal for a so-called “humanitarian city” in southern Gaza – a plan that critics have likened to establishing a concentration camp.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has outlined a plan to concentrate Palestinians amid the ruins of southern Rafah, saying the Israeli army would secure the perimeter, but would not be in charge of the zone, with international partners sought to manage the project.
But Levy, the president of the US/Middle East Project, told Al Jazeera he did not believe other countries would be willing to be involved in the hugely controversial proposal, which advocates have warned would amount to a war crime.
“I don’t think you will get other state actors, other major actors who will come in and do this,” he said.
“I don’t think you have the money to be poured into this.”
