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Here’s where things stand on Sunday 14 July 2025:
- Gaza’s Civil Defence agency says Israeli air strikes have killed at least 50 Palestinians today, including 10 near a water distribution point.
- Israel’s relentless bombardment of Gaza killed 110 Palestinians across the Strip yesterday, including 34 people waiting for food at the US-backed GHF site in Rafah.
- The family of Sayfollah Musallet, an American-Palestinian who was beaten to death by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, is calling on the United States to launch an inquiry and hold the perpetrators accountable.
- Some 59 members of the United Kingdom’s governing Labour Party have called for the recognition of Palestine as a state and criticised the Israeli government’s plan to forcibly transfer all Palestinians in Gaza to the southern city of Rafah.
- 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.
Palestinians targeted several times while trying to get water
At least 10 Palestinians were killed at a water collection point in the central Nuseirat refugee camp, while a water crisis is ongoing across the Gaza Strip.
The water does not reach the displacement sites or the many thousands living in residential buildings that are near collapse. So, they have to try to get water from desalination plants or any other source that may be available, even if the water is contaminated.
A crowd of people were at the site in Nuseirat when a drone fired a missile, with at least six children among those killed.
People have been directly targeted several times in the past few months while trying to get water. Just 10 days ago, there was a small desalination plant serving as a place for the displaced which was bombed as well.
Much of the water infrastructure in Gaza has been destroyed by Israel, which also leads to many diseases and hygiene problems. Dozens of water sources, including wells and reservoirs, have been systematically ruined by the Israeli army, leaving many areas uninhabitable.
Death toll in Gaza rises
According to our medical sources in the Gaza Strip, 59 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since dawn, including 28 in Gaza City.
Israeli blockade, attacks affect water supply in Gaza
As we’ve been reporting, an Israeli attack has hit a water distribution centre in Gaza. At least 10 people have been killed in the attack.
Water supplies have been cut to most of Gaza City. The municipality says dangerous conditions mean it can’t get to water mains or wells.
Tens of thousands of people are without access to any water.
“We wait at the water plant for at least four hours because production is so slow. Whatever we get, we hand out at displacement camps. As you know, they’re overwhelmed,” Ahmed Abed said. “People line up for hours from dawn, but many leave empty-handed.”
Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim al-Khalili, reporting from Gaza City, said: “Soon, even this may not be possible. Israel has blocked almost all fuel deliveries from entering Gaza since March 2. The shortage is threatening to halt operations at desalination plants, sewage treatment facilities and water delivery trucks.”
Israeli army reports launching strike on north Gaza
The Israeli army has released aerial footage of an air attack on an unidentified area in northern Gaza, saying it attacked two Palestinian fighters moving between the rubble of buildings already bombed.
This comes shortly after the footage below, released by Israeli media, showed Palestinian fighters attacking two Israeli tanks, and a lone fighter rushing towards a tank and throwing an explosive on its top hatch.
Freedom Flotilla sends third ship to break Israel’s siege of Gaza
The coalition of pro-Palestine activists has launched the ship Handala from Italy on a journey towards Gaza.
Maria Elena, a member of the crew, said the group “will not stop until the siege is broken and Palestine is liberated”.
After the live broadcast on social media from the coastal city of Syracuse on Sicily, the ship, loaded with humanitarian aid, sailed towards the besieged enclave.
In May, the Freedom Flotilla dispatched Conscience, which was hit by Israeli-linked drones in international waters off Malta. There were no casualties, but the ship had to stop its mission.
In early June, Israeli soldiers stopped the Madleen, the next ship sent by the coalition, in international waters, boarded it and arrested those on board before taking them to Israel and then forcing them to leave. Those on board included Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and Rima Hassan, a member of the European Parliament from France.
Market in Gaza City hit in deadly Israeli attack
Our colleagues on the ground are reporting that drones have targeted a group of Palestinians at a public market in Gaza, killing at least a dozen people and wounding many more.
Dr Ahmad Qandeel, a general surgery consultant working at al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, was killed in the attack.
If you’re just joining us
Here are some of the recent developments:
- Attacks across Gaza continue, with at least 20 Palestinians killed after Israeli forces bombed a house in the Nuseirat camp.
- A water distribution point was attacked by Israeli forces, killing at least 10 people.
- The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has called for Trump to face criminal prosecution for complicity in genocide for his support of the GHF aid distribution mechanism in Gaza.
- Reuters, citing Palestinian and Israeli sources, reports that ceasefire talks in Qatar are stalling amid disagreements over the extent of Israeli forces’ withdrawal from the Strip.
- The family of Sayfollah Musallet, an American-Palestinian beaten to death by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, are calling on the US to launch an inquiry and hold the perpetrators accountable.
Photos: Palestinians bring loved ones wounded, killed in Israeli attacks to hospital
Did Israel try to assassinate Iran’s president and top leaders?
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in an interview last week that Israel tried to assassinate him and other top leaders by bombing the premises where they were having a meeting during the 12-day war.
This is a claim that was also separately made by other officials, including Ali Larijani, a senior adviser to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
The state-run Fars news agency has now reported new details of an alleged Israeli attempt to bomb a meeting of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council on the morning of June 16.
It said the meeting took place in an underground structure west of Tehran and Israel used six bombs to destroy the entry and exit points and cut off electricity. The Iranian officials reportedly got out through an emergency exit. Pezeshkian was “slightly injured” in the foot, the report said.
“Given the accuracy of the intelligence the enemy had for this attack, the possibility of an infiltrator is under investigation,” Fars reported.
The video below, which shows Israeli attacks on a mountainside in the Chitgar district in western Tehran on the same morning, has led to speculation that it may be the assassination attempt described by Iranian officials.
Al Jazeera cannot independently match this particular strike to the alleged attempt.
Two people killed in al-Mawasi; death toll from Nuseirat attack rises
Our colleagues on the ground are reporting that two Palestinian women have been killed in an Israeli strike on a tent camp for displaced people in al-Mawasi in southern Gaza.
The Israeli army had designated the area as a safe zone but has repeatedly attacked it since the start of its war on Gaza.
Our colleagues are also reporting that the death toll from the Israeli strike on Nuseirat that we have been reporting on has risen to 20.
Israeli opposition leader takes aim at Rafah ‘humanitarian city’ plan
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz is reporting that opposition leader Yair Lapid has commented on the proposal to make Rafah a so-called humanitarian city for Gaza’s entire population, saying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is letting [Finance Minister Bezalel] Smotrich and [National Security Minister Itamar] Ben-Gvir run wild with extremist delusions just to preserve his coalition”.
“With the 15 billion [shekels ($4.5bn)] that Smotrich’s humanitarian city in Rafah will cost, it would be possible to reduce the size of our children’s classrooms, lower the prices of fuel and public transportation, subsidise daycare centres and kindergartens,” Lapid was quoted as saying.
“Instead of stealing the middle class’s money, end the war and return the hostages,” he concluded.
On Monday, Defence Minister Israel Katz unveiled plans to establish the “humanitarian city” to house Gaza’s 2.1 million Palestinians on the ruins of Rafah.
Rights groups, international organisations and several nations have slammed the plan, saying it lays the ground for “ethnic cleansing”.
Gaza is running out of blood
I live near Nasser Hospital in the west of Khan Younis city. Almost every day, I hear desperate calls for blood donations made on loudspeakers out of the hospital. It has been like that for more than a year.
The hospital, like other barely functioning health facilities in Gaza, has been regularly overwhelmed with victims of continuing Israeli air attacks. Since the end of May, it has also received many victims shot by Israeli soldiers at aid distribution sites.
Read more of this opinion piece here.
Rights group calls for Trump to be prosecuted over killings of aid seekers
The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has called for United States 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 the GHF in Gaza, which operates sites where hundreds of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since they began operating at the end of May.
The monitoring group said testimony from the field indicated the involvement of private US security contractors and Israeli soldiers in the attacks on aid seekers.
It said Trump’s administration had also provided “an umbrella of comprehensive military, financial, political, and diplomatic support” for Israel’s war in Gaza.