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Here’s where things stand on Saturday 5 July 2025:
- Israel has killed at least 42 Palestinians in Gaza, hospital sources tell Al Jazeera, as Israeli forces again 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 57,268 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.
Gaza’s remaining hospitals operating under unimaginable conditions
They are overwhelmed, under-resourced and understaffed as medical teams continue to work around the clock to provide medical services while suffering from acute malnutrition.
They are receiving casualties on an hourly basis and are reporting a severe shortage of medical supplies, including antibiotics and anaesthetics.
The figures of casualties to medical staff in the Gaza Strip are shocking. At least 90 doctors and 132 nurses have been killed by Israeli forces since Israel’s war on Gaza began.
Fuel must be allowed in to run lifesaving services: UNRWA
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in a post on X says that without vital shipments of fuel into Gaza, a complete shutdown of basic services will bring even more suffering, which it describes as “a collective punishment” on the Palestinians in the enclave.
Israel continues to deny entry of baby milk into Gaza
Marwan al-Hams, the director of field hospitals in Gaza, has spoken to Al Jazeera about the deteriorating healthcare situation in the besieged enclave.
Here are his translated comments:
- The situation in Gaza’s hospitals is catastrophic due to fuel shortages.
- The occupation [by Israel] still prevents the entry of baby milk into the Gaza Strip.
- We are operating with minimal resources, making it extremely difficult to manage the large number of people killed and wounded.
Photos: Another deadly day across the Gaza Strip
Israeli strike kills Palestinian doctor, children in southern Gaza
Mousa Hamdan Khafaja, a consultant in the obstetrics and gynaecology department at Nasser Medical Complex, has been killed along with several members of his family, including his three children, in an Israeli air strike that targeted a tent for the displaced in the al-Mawasi area. Al-Mawasi was designated a “humanitarian zone” by Israel.
More than 1,580 health workers have been killed so far since October 7, 2023, in Gaza, according to the Government Media Office. They include 90 doctors and 132 nurses.
Death toll in Gaza rises
After the recent reports from our medical sources in Gaza, the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces since dawn in the Gaza Strip has risen to 42.
These attacks have taken place across the Gaza Strip from Gaza City in the enclave’s north to the area around Rafah in the south.
France, Malaysia urge Gaza ceasefire, entry of humanitarian aid
French President Emmanuel Macron and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim have urged a ceasefire in Gaza and the passage of humanitarian aid amid widespread starvation and killings.
During a joint news conference in Paris, both leaders said a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict is the best way to resolve the issue, according to the Malaysian state news agency Bernama.
“We are working with several parties, among them Saudi [Arabia], towards this. For now, Israel must allow aid to reach Gaza,” Macron said.
Anwar expressed support for a two-state solution and also condemned the recent Israeli attacks on Iran.
“If you say no to Iran [and] you say yes to Israel, we have a problem. Try and resolve that. But I agree with you, we must impress upon Iran to use this for peaceful methods and peaceful means and allow for inspection, which they have given a commitment [for],” he said.
Ten killed in attacks near Rafah, Gaza City
We can now bring you reports of more casualties reported across the Gaza Strip.
Medical sources at Nasser Hospital have told Al Jazeera that nine Palestinians, including three children, have been killed by Israeli forces near an aid centre north of Rafah.
A medical source at Ahli Hospital says one Palestinian was also killed and others injured in an Israeli attack on Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood.
Qassam Brigades claims attack on Israeli forces in southern Gaza
The armed wing of Hamas says it attacked a group of Israeli forces near the Education Directorate in central Khan Younis.
The Qassam Brigades said they targeted two Merkava tanks with explosive devices on Friday, resulting in an unspecified number of casualties, while also targeting an armoured personnel carrier with an Al-Yassin 105 anti-armour rocket.
A breakdown of Israeli attacks across Gaza today
Earlier, we reported that at least 29 people had been killed since this morning.
Here is a summary of several of those incidents:
- At least six people were killed and more than 10 injured in an Israeli shelling of displaced tents in the al-Mawasi area west of the city of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, according to Nasser Medical Complex. Al-Mawasi was designated as a “humanitarian zone” by Israel.
- In Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood, Israeli forces bombarded the al-Shafi School, killing at least five people and injuring others.
- Two people were killed after Israeli military jets targeted a house in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.
- Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat, also in central Gaza, says four people were killed after the Israeli army targeted an aid distribution point on Salah al-Din Street, south of Wadi Gaza.
- The Gaza civil defence says it rescued 11 injured individuals, including children, after an air strike targeted a house belonging to the al-Zinati family near the Gifted School in Sheikh Radwan, northwest Gaza City.
What’s in the Gaza ceasefire proposal?
Al Jazeera has obtained details of the draft proposal. Here is what it would entail:
- US President Donald Trump will guarantee the temporary 60-day ceasefire.
- Hamas says it will release 10 living Israeli captives and the bodies of 18 captives, starting on the first day.
- The agreement will allow desperately needed aid into Gaza.
- Supplies, including food, will be distributed through agreed-upon channels, including the United Nations and the Red Crescent.
- All Israeli offensive military activities will cease across the Strip.
- Other military and surveillance operations will pause for 10 hours a day.
- Over the period of the ceasefire, Israel will redeploy its forces in northern Gaza, the Netzarim Corridor and in southern Gaza.
- The proposal allows negotiations on securing a permanent ceasefire to start immediately.
Israel views GHF as an opportunity for intelligence gathering
There are several reasons why Israel wanted to establish the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), Muhanad Seloom, assistant professor at Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, has told Al Jazeera.
A primary reason, he explained, is that the Israeli forces saw it as an intelligence-gathering opportunity to collect information on people in Gaza.
The established humanitarian network, which included a number of UN agencies, would also issue reports that would criticise Israel’s actions in Gaza, which he said was another reason for Israel to take over the aid system.
The GHF also allows the Israeli military to claim “so-called plausible deniability,” he said, adding that if “anything goes wrong”, they can blame a contractor and not the Israeli forces.
Aid distribution may be a sticking point in ceasefire talks
For some Israeli ministers, the observations that Hamas submitted might be problematic. That’s what we’re seeing in Israeli reporting as well.
Namely, that Hamas wants to ensure that aid is allowed in through international organisations and the Palestinian Red Crescent, and that aid distribution would resume in the hundreds of distribution points, rather than in the death traps of four distribution centres for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
This is problematic for the Israeli cabinet, which views controlling the aid as central to its agenda in Gaza.
Another issue – even if the prediction is that this would be overcome – is how a redeployment would happen and how many Palestinians would be released in exchange for those Israeli captives.
However, the sticking point right now, at least at this stage, is the humanitarian aid situation and who will control it.
Israel kills at least 35 Palestinians, 8 of them aid seekers
At least 35 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, the enclave’s hospital sources have told Al Jazeera.
Among the dead were at least eight aid seekers, the sources added.
One killed in southern Lebanon
The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health is reporting that one person has been killed and two others injured in an Israeli drone attack in Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon.
We will bring you more information as we get it.
Gaza hospitals on the brink as fuel crisis deepens: Health Ministry
The Gaza Health Ministry has released a statement on the dire shortage of fuel in the besieged enclave.
Here is a summary of their translated comments:
- The crisis is further worsening the already severe depletion of the health system and the remaining functioning hospitals.
- The increasing number of critical injuries has intensified the need to keep electrical generators running to power vital departments.
- The Israeli occupation deliberately implements a policy of rationing fuel supplies, leaving hospitals with insufficient time and resources to maintain operations.
- Engineering teams in hospitals are exhausted with monitoring the operation of generators and rationalisation measures that have become useless.
Israeli attacks kill 29 since dawn
At least 29 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, the enclave’s hospital sources have told Al Jazeera.
Among the dead were at least two aid seekers, the sources added.
Israel escalates attacks in wake of Hamas’s positive response to proposed ceasefire
It’s a very familiar pattern to see Israel intensify its bombardment in the days leading up to a potential ceasefire agreement, driving up the death toll before guns go silent.
The aftermath of these attacks has been devastating since dawn. One of the deadliest air strikes hit a makeshift tent in al-Mawasi area where seven members of a single family were wiped out in a matter of seconds.
Another deadly attack took place in Gaza City on a school sheltering displaced civilians, killing at least five Palestinians.
These attacks are a grim reminder that nowhere in Gaza is safe.
Israeli forces carry out raids across the occupied West Bank
Palestinian news agency Wafa is reporting a number of Israeli military raids across the occupied West Bank today.
They include a raid on the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan in the Salfit governorate, with local sources telling Wafa that the Israeli forces ransacked several homes.
The Israeli forces are also reported to have raided Qalqilya, storming the city’s eastern entrance and searching several homes for more than three hours today.
Photos: Thousands rally in Yemen to show solidarity with Gaza
Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that there has been an Israeli drone attack on the town of Shebaa in southern Lebanon.
Shebaa is located across two steep, rocky mountainsides that straddle Lebanon’s borders with Syria as well as the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
We will provide you with more information as we receive it.
One killed in az-Zarqa neighbourhood: Report
Israeli artillery shelling has killed at least one Palestinian in the az-Zarqa neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, according to Wafa.
Israel’s attacks have killed 19 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip today, from Gaza City in the enclave’s north to Khan Younis in the south.
Southern Gaza hospital overwhelmed as trauma cases surge
One of the few remaining partially operational hospitals in Gaza is struggling to cope with a daily influx of trauma patients, many of them wounded at food distribution points, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Speaking from the ground, the WHO’s representative in Palestine described the situation at Nasser Medical Complex as desperate, with the emergency rooms overflowing and medical staff overwhelmed. The hospital is treating victims with severe and often life-threatening injuries, Rik Peeperkorn said.
“We see all types of injuries – shrapnel wounds, bullet wounds – in the hands, neck, chest, abdomen, knees. It’s everywhere,” Peeperkorn revealed. “There are too many cases to cover, but some stories are impossible to forget.”
More than 600 Palestinians have been killed at Israeli and US-backed food distribution points since May 27, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
Death toll in Gaza rises
Medical sources say at least 19 people have been killed in Israeli attacks since dawn in the Gaza Strip.
They include attacks on the al-Mawasi refugee camp west of the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood, Bureij refugee camp in the centre of the Palestinian enclave and Nuseirat in its north.
Two killed in Israeli strike on Maghazi refugee camp
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that two Palestinians have been killed and others injured in an Israeli attack on a house in the Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Earlier, they reported that the Israeli military also bombed the Abu Breik family home in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, killing at least two people and injuring others.
Israeli military bombs Gaza City, several injuries reported
We have been reporting on the Israeli military’s ongoing bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
Our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues now report that Israeli fighter jets have carried out an attack in the az-Zarqa neighbourhood, east of Gaza City in northern Gaza, injuring an unspecified number of people.
We will bring you more information on this attack when we have it.