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Here’s where things stand on Saturday 12 July 2025:
- Sources at Gaza hospitals say 60 Palestinians have been killed, including 27 aid seekers, in Israeli raids on the Strip since dawn.
- At least 10 Palestinians were killed on Friday while waiting for rations in Gaza, adding to nearly 800 similar deaths in the last six weeks, according to the United Nations, with Israel’s army saying it issued new instructions to troops following repeated reports of fatalities.
- The US State Department says it is aware of the reported death of a US citizen in the Israeli-occupied West Bank after reports emerged of Israeli settlers fatally beating a Palestinian American.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 57,762 people and wounded 137,656, 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.
Majority of Israelis appalled by plan to displace Gaza population to Rafah
Israeli political analyst Akiva Eldar said the majority of Israelis are “really appalled” by the plan to displace the entire Palestinian population of Gaza to the rubble of Rafah, which would be “illegal and immoral”.
Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, announced this week that the so-called “humanitarian city” will eventually house 2.1 million Palestinians.
“Katz, the son of Holocaust survivors, can call it humanitarian but it doesn’t make it humanitarian,” Eldar said. “Anybody who will participate in this disgusting project will be involved in war crimes.”
Satellite images analysed by Al Jazeera appeared to show Israeli forces preparing the ground. Negotiations in Doha between Israeli officials and Hamas have reportedly stalled on a number of issues, including the military’s withdrawal from the Morag Corridor that separates the Gaza Strip between Khan Younis and Rafah.
Eldar said Israel intends to order all Palestinians to move south of this line, so that it can brand those who remain on the other side as terrorists and kill them. The message underlying this plan is that “there can’t be two people between the river and the sea, and those who deserve to have a state are only the Jewish people,” the analyst added.
Mass displacement of Palestinians by Israel goes back decades
Mass displacement of Palestinians is a continuation of a longstanding Israeli policy not just in the past 20 months of war but going back decades, according to Rami Khouri, a distinguished fellow at the American University of Beirut.
“Gaza was surrounded by the Israelis who laid siege to it many times, and hundreds of thousands of refugees were expelled in 1947 and 1948,” he told Al Jazeera.
He said the forcing of Palestinians towards other areas in “inhumane conditions” that is happening now is a “process that Zionism and the state of Israel have always been doing with British and American support”.
“They would like to get as many Palestinians possible out of Palestine in order to allow the Israeli state to expand and have more control.”
He also pointed out that Israel has mostly prevented aid from reaching Palestinians in Gaza, which shows that this is also “part of the genocide process” meant to drive people out of the enclave.
West Bank attacks add to mounting toll of violent Israeli settler pogroms
The number of Israeli settler attacks in the occupied West Bank has skyrocketed since the start of the war on Gaza.
In the latest incident, an attack by armed Israeli settlers on Ramallah lasted several hours. Seif el-Din Muslat, a Palestinian American in his early twenties who was killed, was surrounded by settlers and attacked for three hours.
Paramedics were not allowed to help him. He died almost as soon as the paramedics were finally allowed to reach him.
Another Palestinian, Mohammed Shalabi, was chased, beaten and eventually shot. His body was found hours later.
At least 350 Palestinians have been injured by Israeli settlers since January 2025. The settlers are accompanied by Israeli soldiers, who detain Palestinians trying to defend themselves or their homes from the attacks, and that is why human rights organisations say settler violence is state violence.
The number of attacks in 2024 was six times that of the year before, and, in 2025, we are already at more attacks registered than in the previous year.
Family of American killed in West Bank calls for US investigation
The family of Palestinian-American Seif al-Din Muslat, who was killed by Israeli settlers in Sinjil, has urged the US State Department to “lead an immediate investigation” to hold those responsible accountable.
“The mob of settlers blocked the ambulance and paramedics from providing life-saving aid,” the statement said, according to Israeli media outlet Haaretz.
The family added that his younger brother carried him to the ambulance, but “Seif died before making it to the hospital.”
Muslat was born in Florida and had travelled to Sinjil in June to visit relatives. He was described as “kind, hard-working” and “known for his generosity, ambition, and connection to his Palestinian heritage”.
Aid distribution hubs are source of fear, death and mass casualties
What had been marketed as a lifeline for the population has become a source of fear, death and mass casualties.
The delivery of food controlled by the GHF has killed nearly 800 people, according to the UN.
Israel had promised death and destruction at the beginning of the genocide, and this is what it is delivering.
Food distribution has become progressively more dangerous, and now only very hungry people are turning to distribution centres and risking their lives.
CAIR condemns ‘racist’ deadly attack by Israeli settlers in West Bank
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has condemned the killing of Palestinian American Seif al-Din Muslat by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah.
“We strongly condemn these racist Israeli settlers, backed and enabled by the Netanyahu government, for beating an American citizen to death in the occupied West Bank,” the US’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organisation said.
“This murder is only the latest killing of an American citizen by illegal Israeli settlers or soldiers. Every other murder of an American citizen has gone unpunished by the American government.”
It cited the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot by Israeli snipers in 2022 while covering an Israeli raid on Jenin refugee camp. Turkish American peace activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was also shot and killed as she protested against illegal settlements.
CAIR called on the Trump administration to “put America first” by holding Israel accountable for the latest murder of an American citizen.
UNRWA renews call on Israel to lift Gaza siege
In a statement posted on X, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees urged Israel to allow the resumption of the delivery of humanitarian aid to the estimated two million people living in Gaza.
“No soap, no clean water. Children in Gaza can’t be bathed properly because of the ongoing siege,” the UNRWA statement said. “This, coupled with overcrowded shelters and summer heat, can lead to dire health consequences. The siege must be lifted.”
Israel has blocked humanitarian aid into Gaza since April after it broke the previous ceasefire agreement.
Since then, it has only allowed the delivery of humanitarian aid through the GHF, whose operation has been denounced by aid experts as “inhumane” and which has resulted in the killings of at least 800 Palestinians, who were seeking aid amid the crisis.
Children and women among 26 Palestinians killed since dawn
At least 26 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip since dawn, including at least 13 in Gaza City in the north.
Four people were killed and 10 wounded in a strike on a residence on Jaffa Street in the Tuffah area, east of Gaza City.
Nasser Hospital said the death toll from the Israeli bombing of tents housing displaced people in the so-called “humanitarian” al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis, has risen to 11.
A source at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said two people were killed and many wounded in an Israeli drone attack on a tent housing displaced people south of Deir el-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.
The Wafa news agency reported that a mother and her three children were killed in a bombing of Jamal Abdel Nasser Street, opposite the Islamic University, west of Gaza City.
Israel’s defence minister celebrates Gaza destruction
Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz has published a picture of the ruins of Gaza, saying, “After Rafah, Beit Hanoon”.
Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city that borders Egypt, has been almost entirely destroyed by the Israeli army. Beit Hanoon is a major city in the northern part of the enclave, which is now under heavy siege by Israeli forces.
Israeli authorities plan to displace most Palestinians from northern Gaza and force hundreds of thousands into a concentration camp that will be built on the ruins of Rafah.
Criminal psychopathy shown by Israeli politicians requires psychoanalysis
Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara has called Israel’s plan to concentrate Gaza’s population in Rafah a government-backed policy of displacement amounting to war crimes.
Bishara emphasised Defense Minister Israel Katz’s hardline views and suggested these actions reflect the broader agenda of Netanyahu’s coalition.