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SvennoJ on 28 July 2025
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Main events on July 28th

  • At least 92 people have been killed across Gaza by Israeli fire, including 41 aid seekers, despite “pauses” in fighting to deliver essential humanitarian aid.
  • US President Trump and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer discussed the “appalling scenes” in Gaza and agreed that “urgent action” is needed to end the humanitarian disaster.
  • Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa told the UN conference on a two-state solution that Hamas must end its governance of Gaza and relinquish its weapons to the Palestinian Authority.
  • The United States rejected the UN conference on the two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians as a “publicity stunt”.
  • Prominent Israeli human rights groups B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights released reports saying Israel’s actions in Gaza amount to “genocide“.
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to present a plan to his cabinet to annex areas of Gaza, a news report says.
  • The head of the opposition in Israel’s parliament, Yair Lapid, said that the government needs to immediately end the war in Gaza, calling it “not a complete victory but a complete disaster”.


‘Outrage and condemnation are no longer adequate’ in Gaza: UNRWA chief

The head of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) says his staff on the ground have described people enduring the starvation crisis as “neither dead nor alive – walking corpses”.

Speaking at the UN conference on a two-state solution, Philippe Lazzarini said words of “outrage and condemnation are no longer adequate for what is unfolding”.

“There must be immediate action to impose a long-overdue ceasefire, to reverse deepening starvation, and to release every hostage … Once a ceasefire is in place, a massive scale-up of humanitarian assistance can be enabled by UNRWA’s large workforce,” Lazzarini said.

In the occupied West Bank, the UNRWA chief warned the situation has “deteriorated alarmingly”.

“Compounding the decimation of Gaza, the annexation of the occupied West Bank is now a declared political objective – as is the dismantling of UNRWA. In the West Bank, we are already witnessing the human cost of efforts to end UNRWA’s operations.”


Countries denounce Israel but keep trading with it

As Israel’s killing of Palestinians continues fast and slow through air strikes and starvation, the foreign ministers of 28 countries have signed a statement calling for an end to the devastating war on Gaza.

As these countries deploy words months after the United Nations and other groups warned of an oncoming famine, there has been little action on other fronts.

Many continue to benefit from trade with Israel and have not imposed sanctions.