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Here’s where things stand on Thursday 24 July 2025:
- Hospitals in the besieged Gaza Strip have recorded two more deaths “due to famine and malnutrition” in the past 24 hours, according to the territory’s Health Ministry, bringing the total to at least 113.
- Hamas says it has submitted to mediators its response to a proposed Gaza ceasefire deal. Israel says it is examining it.
- The response reportedly includes amendments to conditions around the entry of aid, areas from which the Israeli army should withdraw, and guarantees on securing a permanent end to the war.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 59,219 people and wounded 143,045. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023 attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.
Rescue workers retrieve three bodies from fire in Gaza
Gaza’s Civil Defence crews retrieve the bodies of two people from a family home following a fire in a residential apartment in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
Rescue workers recovered a body from another fire in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. Two people were injured.
Both fire have been extinguished, they said.
AFP, AP, Reuters, BBC urge Israel ‘to allow journalists in and out of Gaza’
International news agencies Agence France-Presse (AFP), Associated Press (AP) and Reuters as well as the BBC have called on Israel to allow journalists in and out of Gaza which is subject to a strict blockade.
“We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families,” the media groups said in a joint statement.
“We once again urge the Israeli authorities to allow journalists in and out of Gaza,” they added.
Number of Palestinians starved to death in Gaza rises to 113: Ministry
Hospitals in the Gaza Strip have recorded two new deaths “due to famine and malnutrition” in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
The latest count brings the total number of people starved to death in the territory to 113, the ministry statement said on Telegram.
Hamas says it bombed Israeli army site in Gaza, Israel claims it landed near aid site
Hamas claimed to have bombed an Israeli command and control site in the so-called Morag Corridor last night in southern Gaza with a short range missile.
The Israeli army said a projectile was fired from Khan Younis and landed 250 metres (820 feet) from a GHF distribution site in the Rafah area.
Despite the attack, the army said, the aid point was open today distributing “tens of thousands of weekly food packages” to families.
Israel has accused in the past Palestinian armed groups of being responsible for thwarting distribution efforts in Gaza – a claim rejected by Hamas and other groups.
The US- and Israel-backed GHF has drawn widespread criticism for its modus operandi with the UN calling it a “death trap” for aid seekers. The UN human rights office said more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed while trying to get food since May.
Hamas says car ramming attack near Kfar Yona ‘natural response’ to Israeli crimes
We have reported earlier that a suspected car ramming attack injured eight Israelis in the city of Kfar Yona in central Israel and the manhunt was under way in the occupied West Bank where the vehicle was found.
Now, Hamas says the attack injured nine Israeli soldiers and it was “a natural response to the crimes of the occupation”, including the killing of four Palestinian minors in the West Bank in the past 48 hours.
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Here are the latest developments:
- Gaza’s Government Media Office says the enclave is “in dire need of no less than 500,000 bags of flour per week to avoid a comprehensive humanitarian collapse”.
- Three aid seekers are among 17 Palestinians killed in Gaza since dawn, medical sources tell Al Jazeera Arabic.
- At least eight people have been injured in a suspected car ramming attack at a bus stop on a highway close to the city of Kfar Yona in central Israel, according to the national emergency service.
- Two Palestinians, aged 15 and 17, have been killed by Israeli forces in the town of al-Khader, south of Bethlehem, according to the Wafa news agency.
- Israeli forces have stormed several towns and villages across the occupied West Bank, arresting at least 25 Palestinians since dawn, according to the Wafa news agency.
- The Palestinian Mujahideen Movement says the Israeli parliament’s nonbinding vote on the annexation of the West Bank is a “dangerous escalation”.
- Trucks carrying medicines and medical supplies are scheduled to enter Gaza today through the World Health Organization, the Health Ministry in the territory says in a statement.
Israel’s West Bank annexation vote ‘colonial and racist’: Palestinian Foreign Ministry
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has condemned the Israeli parliament’s vote on the nonbinding motion to impose sovereignty on the occupied West Bank, calling it “colonial and racist”.
The ministry said the Knesset’s decision highlights how futile it is to bet on the possibility that Israel would pull back from its plans to expand its occupation and implement a two-state solution.
It called for international sanctions to deter Israel from committing crimes against the Palestinian people.
Voices of Gaza speak of starvation and survival
By Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi
a writer and poet from Gaza
This is not a warning.
Famine has already arrived in Gaza. It is not a metaphor, nor is it a prediction. It is a daily reality.
It is the child who wakes up asking for biscuits that no longer exist. The student who studies for exams while faint from hunger.
It is the mother who cannot explain to her son why there is no bread.
And it is the silence of the world that makes this horror possible.
Read more here.
Gaza needs more than 500,000 bags of flour per week: Media Office
Gaza’s Government Media Office says the enclave is “in dire need of no less than 500,000 bags of flour per week to avoid a comprehensive humanitarian collapse”.
It added that Gaza’s hospitals have recorded more than 115 deaths related to “famine and malnutrition” amid a near-total Israeli blockade.
The statement issued on Telegram warned against spreading “false narratives” about the entry of hundreds of aid trucks into Gaza.
“We categorically deny these claims, as they are completely untrue and represent a dangerous alignment with the misleading narrative of the ‘Israeli’ occupation, and a deliberate distortion of the truth of the ongoing crime,” it added.
“We call on all countries of the world, without exception, to immediately break the siege, permanently open the crossings, and allow the entry of baby milk and aid to more than 2.4 million people besieged in the Gaza Strip.”