What’s happening in Gaza?
Amid Israel’s seizure of the Madleen ship, deadly attacks have continued in Gaza. Here are the latest updates from the enclave:
- Israeli forces opened fire again on aid seekers near a distribution point in southern Gaza’s Rafah governorate, killing at least eight people, according to the Wafa news agency. Dozens more were also injured at an aid distribution centre near central Gaza’s so-called Netzarim Corridor, our colleagues on the ground report.
- Israeli drones hit several areas near southern Gaza’s Khan Younis governorate, killing six people in tent camps near al-Mawasi and killing another person to the east of Khan Younis city, according to local medical sources.
- Israel’s military issued another mass displacement order for northern Gaza’s Jabalia area, which faces heavy air and artillery strikes.
- Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary, reporting from the enclave, says more people are fleeing Jabalia, but struggling to find shelter or resources in an increasingly crammed area.
- A wave of overnight raids took place across the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces shot and injured one person in the town of ar-Ram, north of Jerusalem, while detaining five people near Ramallah and Jericho.
Over 130 hungry people killed at Gaza aid sites in 2 weeks: Media office
One of the goals of the Freedom Flotilla, the group behind the Madleen’s aid mission, is to educate people about the “unliveable conditions” in Gaza and how they are caused by “political and military choices”.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an Israel-backed group that took over aid distribution in Gaza in late May, has been accused of further worsening conditions, with deadly shootings against starving people breaking out at its distribution sites.
In total, Gaza’s Government Media Office says, 130 people have been killed and 1,000 more wounded around the GHF-run sites, which it calls an “arm of the Israeli occupation”.
The GHF “has never been on the side of humanity; rather, it has been a tool of pressure, starvation and murder against the civilian population”, said the media office.
“We call on the entire world not to be misled by this organisation, which practises organised and systematic crime,” it added, calling for the UN to take back over aid operations.
What’s happening in the occupied West Bank?
Here are the latest updates from the territory:
- Israeli forces arrested two Palestinians during a raid at the Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron.
- Two children were arrested by the Israeli army from Tammun town, south of Tubas.
- Israeli soldiers stormed the village of Silat al-Harithiya and the town of al-Yamoun, west of Jenin.
- Three Palestinians were arrested in Israeli raids in Bethlehem governate.
