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Here’s where things stand on Monday 15 July 2025:
- Israeli forces continue bombarding Gaza a day after killing 95 Palestinians across the Strip, including seven children waiting for water and 17 people at a busy market in Gaza City.
- Criticisms of Israel’s plan to set up an internment camp in Gaza are growing, with Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid saying it would amount to a “concentration camp” if Palestinians there are not allowed to leave.
- Eight United Nations agencies in Gaza say they may have to stop their operations in Gaza entirely “without adequate fuel” as UNRWA said another infant has died of malnutrition in the Strip on Sunday.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 58,026 people and wounded 138,520, 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 says it hit Gaza more than 100 times in last 24 hours
The Israeli army said its warplanes attacked Gaza more than 100 times in the past 24 hours, claiming “terrorist organisations” are the targets.
It added that ground advances are also continuing across the besieged enclave, especially in its northern part.
The Israeli army said fighting is ongoing in the mostly destroyed Shujayea and Zeitoun neighbourhoods of north Gaza, as well as Beit Hanoon and Jabalia.
Israeli attack kills 2 people near aid centre
At least two people have been killed and many wounded in an Israeli attack near an aid centre northwest of Rafah in southern Gaza, ambulance and emergency services tell our colleagues on the ground.
What’s happening in Gaza right now?
In the past few hours:
- The Nasser Medical Complex says a Palestinian has been killed and many wounded when an Israeli drone bombed a tent for displaced people west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
- Invading Israeli forces continue to shell the eastern areas of Gaza City.
- Israeli artillery shelling accompanied by gunfire has targeted an area west of Khan Younis.
- The Israeli army has carried out a demolition operation against a residential area in the Saudi neighbourhood, west of Rafah in southern Gaza.
- Explosions have been reported in Jabalia in northern Gaza.
Israeli soldiers arrest Palestinians during raids on West Bank
Israeli forces have launched more raids across the occupied West Bank, arresting Palestinians, including former detainee Muhammad Nafeh Duweikat, who was rearrested during a dawn operation at his home in Nablus, the Wafa news agency reports.
Two more young Palestinians were arrested from Rammun and Ein Arik in the Ramallah and el-Bireh governorate after their homes were searched and ransacked, Wafa said.
In Yabad in the Yenin governorate, soldiers attacked a young man and were accused of stealing his money. They also raided several homes and allegedly seized more money and gold, the report said.
Former Israel PM says ‘humanitarian city’ in Rafah would be a concentration camp
Israel’s former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sats the so-called “humanitarian city” that the Israeli government wants to build on the ruins of Rafah would be a concentration camp.
“It is a concentration camp. I am sorry,” he told the Guardian newspaper.
“If they [Palestinians] will be deported into the new ‘humanitarian city’, then you can say that this is part of an ethnic cleansing. It hasn’t yet happened,” Olmert said.
“When they build a camp where they [plan to] ‘clean’ more than half of Gaza, then the inevitable understanding of the strategy of this [is that] it is not to save [Palestinians]. It is to deport them, to push them and to throw them away. There is no other understanding that I have, at least,” he added.
Israel ‘not taking enough steps’ to protect civilians in Gaza
Jessica Dorsey, an assistant professor at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, has dismissed Israeli claims it killed children at a water collection point in Gaza by mistake, saying Israel’s military does not take enough measures to protect civilians in the Strip.
“Mistakes do happen in war, but at a certain point, given the pattern of civilian harm that we’ve seen over the last 21 months, you have to question calling this a mistake and, in fact, actually interrogate whether this is indeed a modus operandi,” she told Al Jazeera.
“Especially with this kind of advanced capability that they possess, then we should be seeing more precision, not less responsibility, and unfortunately, that’s not the case,” she said.
The professor, who is also an international lawyer, said the Israeli military is “less interested in upholding the law here than bending it to serve their own political objectives”.
“We’re seeing that again across patterns of targeting civilians, aid workers, civilian infrastructure, hospitals, journalists, and unfortunately, that list is very long, and it’s not a deviation. Unfortunately, it seems to be a doctrine.”
Dorsey added that Israel’s policy in Gaza is aimed at “not protecting civilians” because the precautions the military “must take to minimise civilian harm just don’t seem to be in place”.
“They’re not taking enough steps, but they’re legally obligated to do. And so when you layer that policy with the technology, then you see these kinds of atrocious effects at speed and scale,” she said.
Israeli gunfire wounds one person in occupied West Bank
One person has been wounded by Israeli gunfire near the separation wall in al-Ram town, north of Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank.
According to a Wafa news agency report quoting security sources, Israeli forces opened fire on Mohammed Wael Zaki Taha while he was near the separation wall, shooting him in the foot.
Taha was taken to the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah.
Trump says he hopes for a Gaza deal within a week
United States President Donald Trump has again expressed optimism about the possibility of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the coming days.
“We are talking, and hopefully, we’re going to get that straightened out over the next week,” Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews, a military base in Maryland outside Washington, DC.
Earlier, his Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, said he, too, remained “hopeful” about the talks. He also said he would be meeting Qatari mediators on the sidelines of the FIFA Club World Cup Final in the US.
The comments came as a US-backed proposal for a 60-day ceasefire remains bogged down in disagreements as Hamas and Israel blame each other for delays.
One person killed, several wounded in Israeli attack on southern Gaza
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli forces have bombed tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis, killing at least one person and wounding several.
We’ll bring you more when we have it.
A recap of recent developments
- Israeli forces have killed at least 95 Palestinians in Gaza, including seven children queueing for water in the Nuseirat refugee camp and 17 others at a bustling market in northern Gaza City.
- The death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza has now passed 58,000, with 138,520 others wounded, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the enclave.
- Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) say any talks with Israel must result in a complete end to the war on Gaza, a full Israeli withdrawal from the territory and the reopening of border crossings for humanitarian aid.
- Lawyers say Israeli forces beat Dr Hussam Abu Safia severely on June 24, and his health has deteriorated significantly in Israeli custody. The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital has lost more than 40kg (88 pounds) since he was taken from Gaza in December.
- Eight United Nations agencies in Gaza say they may have to stop their operations in Gaza entirely “without adequate fuel”, as UNRWA said a seven-month-old infant died of malnutrition on Sunday.
- Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has criticised the government’s plans to set up a so-called “humanitarian city” on the ruins of Rafah, saying if Palestinians are not allowed to leave, the plan amounts to creating a concentration camp.
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