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SvennoJ on 12 July 2025
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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.

‘Entering the sea puts you at risk,’ Israel tells Gaza residents

The Israeli army has issued a threat to residents of Gaza, telling them to avoid the sea due to “strict security restrictions” imposed. “We urge fishermen, swimmers, and divers to refrain from entering the sea. Entering the sea along the Strip puts you at risk,” its spokesperson said on X.

This comes a day after Israel claimed, without providing any evidence, that it killed six senior Hamas naval commandos during an army operation conducted “over the past few months”.


More Israeli attacks on GHF aid distribution site in Rafah

At least 30 people have been killed and 130 wounded by Israeli attacks today at the only remaining food distribution point operated by GHF in southern Gaza.

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza, said the Israeli army opened fire indiscriminately on a large crowd in one of the attacks. “Many desperate families in the north have been making dangerous journeys all the way to the south to reach the only operating distribution centre in Rafah,” he said.

“Many of the bodies are still on the ground,” Mahmoud said, adding that the wounded had been transferred to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

When the Israeli- and US-backed organisation started operations in May, it had four distribution points across Gaza for 2.1 million people, compared with more than 400 centres previously operated by the UN.

On Wednesday, the GHF said it was closing its hub in Khan Younis for maintenance and renovation, leaving only one site open, in Rafah. GHF-led operations are therefore forcing Palestinians to travel south if they want food, creating dangerous bottlenecks, according to our colleagues on the ground.


At least 30 Palestinians were killed at a GHF aid centre


Gaza death toll rises

The daily death toll has risen again, with 79 Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks since dawn, including 30 aid seekers, hospital sources have told Al Jazeera.


Israeli militarised zones, forced evacuation orders take up 86% of Gaza: UN

The latest report by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says 86.1 percent of the Gaza Strip now falls within Israeli militarised zones or forced evacuation orders.

Four displacement orders were issued by the Israeli army between July 2 and July 8, including three affecting a total of 37 UNRWA installations that assist displaced Palestinians.

“At least 188 UNRWA installations – or over half of all UNRWA installations in the Gaza Strip – are located within the Israeli militarized zone, under displacement orders, or where these overlap,” the report stated.

The UN estimates that more than 725,000 people have been displaced yet again since Israel violated the ceasefire agreement with Hamas in mid-March. Most have been displaced several times, some more than 10 times.