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SvennoJ on 08 July 2025
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Main events on July 8th

  • The Israeli military killed nearly 100 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip since dawn as Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington continues with talks on a 60-day ceasefire.
  • Israel’s prime minister insisted “Gaza will no longer be a threat” as Israel advances plans to concentrate Palestinians in a “humanitarian city” near Rafah.
  • The Israeli army said it targeted several vehicles in northern and southern Lebanon, and one attack allegedly killed a “key” Hamas commander in Tripoli.
  • Four people were killed after the Houthis in Yemen struck a ship in the Red Sea in opposition to the war on Gaza.
  • The Zeitoun Medical Clinic in Gaza City ceased operations because of Israeli attacks, and the director of Al-Shifa Hospital told Al Jazeera fuel supplies will run out by morning as Israel blocks aid.
  • Hamas said the ambush by Qassam Brigades last night that killed five Israeli soldiers and wounded several others included three explosive charges and a gun battle.
  • Armed and masked settlers and Israeli soldiers launched more attacks against Palestinian land and cities across the occupied West Bank.

 

Israel’s Gaza plan: ‘Concentration camps for reeducation and deportation’

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has denounced the killings of Palestinians in Gaza as Israeli attacks continue and Netanyahu visits Washington, DC.

“In a sane world, the Israeli government’s slaughter of nearly 80 helpless Palestinians in a single day using American weapons would be major news and members of Congress would treat Benjamin Netanyahu like Hannibal Lecter. Instead, Israel’s daily killing machine is largely ignored while Netanyahu, a wanted war criminal, walks freely on Capitol Hill,” CAIR said in a statement.

“The Israeli government is trying to slaughter as many Palestinians as it can as ceasefire discussions progress, and then place those remaining in modern-day concentration camps for reeducation and deportation. The Trump administration must stop enabling this madness.”

Palestinians in Gaza have less space than Guantanamo detainees: Monitor

A human rights group issued a statement saying Palestinians in Gaza have less space than detainees in the notorious US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay.

“After 21 months of continuous Israeli assault, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are confined to less than 15 percent of the enclave,” Euro-Med Monitor said in a statement.

“Approximately 2.3 million people are crammed into suffocating conditions, each with less space than that allocated to detainees in Guantanamo Bay.”

Gaza’s population is trapped under constant bombardment and a blockade, deprived of water, food, shelter, and healthcare, and effectively barred from returning to their destroyed or restricted areas of origin, it added.

“This is part of a deliberate policy that reflects a genocidal process by Israel to uproot the people and erase their physical and demographic presence through mass killing, forced displacement, starvation, and systematic destruction of life.”