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Here’s where things stand on Saturday 5 July 2025:
- Sources in Gaza hospitals say 64 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli bombings today, at least 9 of them near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid hub in the north of Rafah, including three children.
- At least 743 Palestinians have died in Israeli attacks at the notorious GHF distribution centres, as Israeli forces continue to target people waiting for food and hospitals struggle to cope with the wounded.
- Hamas says it is ready to start talks “immediately” on a proposal for a 60-day ceasefire, which will allow the desperately needed aid for Gaza.
- Hamas ally Islamic Jihad says it supports plans for talks on a truce with Israel, but demanded “guarantees” that the process would lead to a permanent ceasefire.
- The announcement came after it held consultations with other Palestinian factions and before a visit on Monday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington, where President Donald Trump is pushing for an end to the war, now in its 21st month.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 57,338 people and wounded 135,957, 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.
Pressure on Netanyahu to agree to ceasefire finally seems to be making headway
For the first time in nearly 21 months, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is showing an openness to talks that could potentially end the war.
Pressure had previously come internally from the families of Israeli captives, or from allies within the European Union.
What’s different now is that the pressure is coming from Donald Trump himself. It seems, with the many security consultations that Netanyahu has been holding in recent days, that this push is finally making some headway.
Netanyahu will have another consultation tonight with his cabinet and security chiefs, before he heads to Washington tomorrow to meet discuss a possible ceasefire with Trump.
The cabinet will discuss what Israel wants as part of this deal. The Americans have said that Israel agreed in theory to everything outlined in an initial 60-day ceasefire proposal, and that immediately there would be talks towards ending the war.
Netanyahu has previously said he was against this because Israel had not met its objectives: the captives were not released, Hamas was not destroyed.
So Netanyahu is going to be getting plans from his security chiefs on what Israel can get as part of this deal, and what they can do in those negotiations to help them accomplish those goals.
aIsraeli forces launch more raids across occupied West Bank
The Palestinian Wafa news agency has these updates on a number of new raids across the occupied West Bank:
Israeli forces stormed the town of Anata and its suburb, located northeast of occupied East Jerusalem, raiding homes and vandalising Palestinian property.
Israeli forces stormed the village of Marah Rabah, south of Bethlehem.
Occupation soldiers raided a house near Wadi al-Faraa in Tubas.
Military vehicles were deployed to a neighbourhood and several streets in the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin. They raided homes and posted demolition notices.
UK ban on Palestine Action a bid to suppress public discontent, says doctor
Dr James Smith, an emergency physician who has lobbied the British government to change its stance on Gaza, says its ban on direct action group Palestine Action sends a troubling message about the status of democratic freedoms in the UK.
“What we’ve seen with the proscription of Palestine Action is the latest in a long lineage of state repression in the United Kingdom, wherein laws are introduced to give the police and the state ever greater powers to suppress popular discontent,” Smith, who is also a lecturer in humanitarian policy at University College London, told Al Jazeera.
He said the support for Palestine Action reflected widespread dissatisfaction with the UK government’s stance on Gaza, which was out of step with the values and principles held by a large proportion of the public.
“What we see here is that the imperial core is revealing itself,” he said. “This notion of British values and so forth, we can see through it very clearly.”
He added that the British state had “long been implicated in injustice and violence against the Palestinian people”.
“This is really the latest mark in that really sordid history,” he said.
Photos: Palestinians mourn the loss of loved ones killed in an Israeli attack
UK ban on pro-Palestine group under anti-terror laws ‘deeply worrying’: Doctor
A British emergency physician who spent weeks volunteering on a medical mission to Gaza has told Al Jazeera he is deeply concerned by the UK government’s proscription of a pro-Palestine direct action group under anti-terrorism legislation.
Speaking to Al Jazeera from London, James Smith said the move was hugely concerning to the large numbers of people who were moved to speak out about the ongoing bloodshed in Gaza.
The ban on Palestine Action, which came into place after midnight in the UK, makes support for the group a criminal offense punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
“[I’m] deeply worried about the ways in which the UK government is seeking to suppress any sort of pro-Palestinian or anti-genocide sentiment,” he said.
“It’s the public who are speaking up in opposition to Israel’s genocide and it’s the public that are being silenced.”
As we reported earlier, more than 20 people have been arrested under anti-terror laws in London at a demonstration in support of the group.
Israel says ‘terrorists’ threw grenades inside GHF site in RafahWe reported earlier that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), formed by Israel and the US to kick out the UN and other international agencies, said two US aid workers were injured in Gaza in a “targeted attack”.The Israeli military now says “terrorists threw two grenades” into a GHF compound in southern Gaza’s Rafah, injuring two workers.The Israeli army, which is enforcing the government’s starvation policy for the besieged enclave, said “terrorist organisations operating in the Gaza Strip continue their attempts to sabotage the distribution of humanitarian aid in the designated distribution compounds”.Palestinians gather at an aid distributution point set up by the privately-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF)Palestinians gather at an aid distribution point set up by the privately run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, near the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on June 25, 2025
Al-Quds Brigades releases video of ambush on Israeli tank
The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad has released the video below, which shows its fighters disguising explosives among the rubble of homes destroyed by the Israeli military in southern Gaza, to blow up an incoming tank.
Saraya al-Quds, or the al-Quds Brigades, also showed in the video that it had captured several small drones of the Israeli military.
UK police arrest 20 for supporting Palestine Action
London’s Metropolitan Police say they have arrested more than 20 people under anti-terrorism laws at a protest in support of the banned Palestine Action group.
A ban on Palestine Action, which describes itself as a non-violent direct action movement, came into place today after the group was officially proscribed under the Terrorism Act. A last-minute legal challenge to the ban, which makes support for the group a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison, was denied by a court on Friday.
Supporters of Palestine Action, who say the ban is draconian, held a protest in London today. The Metropolitan Police said in a social media post that it had arrested “more than 20 people on suspicion of offences under the Terrorism Act” at the demonstration and taken them into custody.
“Palestine Action is a proscribed group and officers will act where criminal offences are committed,” said the post.
