Gaza death toll since dawn jumps to 40

Israel continues to ramp up its attacks. In Gaza City, the army is still pushing deep into the heart of the city from multiple directions, leaving behind unlivable spaces.

Since midnight, they have killed about 40 Palestinians.

The Israeli army is making a systematic effort to clear Gaza City of residents who are urged to move to the southern part of the enclave, to areas that are already overcrowded and come under relentless attacks.

There is a huge focus on targeting schools, shelters and makeshift camps where families have recently started to live in the western part of Gaza City.

Civilians on the ground are bearing the brunt. There are still hundreds of thousands of families in Gaza City. They refuse to leave because they know that there are no safe spaces in central and southern Gaza, and they would rather stay close to their communities and what’s left of their houses.


_{Palestinians displaced by the Israeli military offensive take shelter in a tent camp as Israeli forces escalate operations around Gaza City, September 2}

185 hunger-related deaths recorded in Gaza in August: Health Ministry

A total of 185 people in Gaza died “due to malnutrition” in August, Gaza’s Health Ministry says, in a warning that the catastrophic effects of famine in the enclave were worsening.

The statement said more than 70 people, including 12 children, had died since a global hunger monitor confirmed famine was occurring in Gaza on August 22.

It added that 43,000 children below 5 years of age were suffering from malnutrition, along with more than 55,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women. Two-thirds of pregnant women were suffering from anaemia, the highest rate in years, it said.

Gaza ministry records 13 hunger-related deaths in 24 hours

Thirteen people in Gaza, including three children, have died “due to famine and malnutrition” in the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry says. That brings the total number of hunger-related deaths in the territory during the war to 361, including 130 children.

The ministry added that 83 of those deaths, including the deaths of 15 children, had occurred since a global hunger monitor confirmed famine was occurring in Gaza on August 22.

Gaza death toll rises

At least 76 Palestinians, including 12 aid seekers, have been killed and 281 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed 63,633 Palestinians and injured 160,914 since October 7, 2023, the ministry added.

The total number of aid seekers killed since May 27, when Israel introduced a new aid distribution mechanism through the US-based GHF, has reached 2,306, with more than 16,929 injured, the statement said.

Israeli strike kills 12 in Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa area

At least 12 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a building in Tal al-Hawa in southern Gaza City, sources on the ground tell Al Jazeera.

In another attack, seven Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike on a home in northwestern Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, sources said.

A further five people were killed by Israeli fire near an aid distribution point in the Morag Corridor in southern Gaza.

At least another two Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a tent sheltering displaced people west of Gaza City, according to a source at the city’s al-Shifa Hospital speaking to Al Jazeera. Others were injured in the strike, the source said.

_{Palestinians mourn by the shrouded bodies of relatives killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza City at the al-Shifa Hospital morgue on September 2}

Gaza’s Civil Defence retrieves 6 bodies after Israeli attack on home in Gaza City’s Daraj

The rescue service says its crews have recovered six bodies and four injured people from the rubble of a house hit by Israeli forces near Al-Zahra School in the Daraj neighbourhood of eastern Gaza City.

Earlier, the Civil Defence spokesman Mahmoud Basal had said in a post on Telegram that “Gaza City is now under very heavy bombardment.”

Five children killed in Israeli drone attack on al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’ in southern Gaza

At least five children have been killed and several injured in an Israeli drone attack on the al-Mawasi area, near the southern city of Khan Younis in Gaza, according to the city’s Nasser Hospital.

_{Tents of internally displaced Palestinians in the al-Mawasi area of southern Gaza}

Gaza death toll since dawn rises further

At least 73 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, sources in the territory’s hospitals tell Al Jazeera.

The death toll includes 42 people killed in Gaza City, they said.

The latest attack came in the al-Mawasi area of southern Gaza, where seven people were killed, including five children queuing for water, a source from Nasser Hospital told Al Jazeera.

Hamas calls for UN action after two Israeli ‘massacres’ that killed mostly children

The Palestinian group has called for immediate intervention by the UN Security Council following two Israeli “massacres”, in which 21 people were killed, many of them children.

Hamas said in a statement that 11 people were killed, including seven children, in an Israeli drone attack on the al-Mawasi area, near the southern city of Khan Younis, that hit people queueing for water.

In a separate attack in the Daraj neighbourhood of eastern Gaza City, the Israeli military had struck the home of the al-Af family, killing 10 people, “most of them women and children”, Hamas said.

“These crimes expose the criminal fascist nature of the enemy,” said the statement, adding that Washington was a “partner in a crime against humanity that history will never forgive”.

“The actions of the fascist occupation entity constitute war crimes under international law and international humanitarian law,” said the statement. “They require immediate intervention by the UN Security Council to impose an end to this brutal genocide and hold those responsible accountable.”

Israeli doctors block Tel Aviv road, call for deal to end Gaza war

Israeli doctors have blocked a major road in Tel Aviv in a protest calling for a comprehensive agreement to return captives held by Hamas and end the war in Gaza.

Footage posted on X and verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency showed the group of protesters blocking traffic, holding signs and chanting their demands.

In a statement, the group said they were there “to fulfill our professional responsibility and demand the most important thing for the healing of the State of Israel … End the war and bring everyone home.”

מוקדם יותר הבוקר,
מחאת הרופאים לסיום המלחמה.
איילון צפון.
קרדיט: ידין גלעדי. pic.twitter.com/gscJzNj3nW

— סשימי תבורי 🎗️✊ (@Guitaryahu) September 2, 2025

Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest against conscription at Israeli army office

A group of ultra-Orthodox Jewish protesters has held a demonstration against military conscription in front of an Israeli army recruitment office in Tel HaShomer.

Footage posted on X and verified by Al Jazeera showed the protesters gathered at the entrance to the recruitment office, condemning Israel’s “army of destruction”.

Another video from the scene showed one of the protesters being carried off from the area by soldiers.

בכניסה ללשכת הגיוס קומץ מפגינים: "עדיף להכנס לאושוויץ ולא לצבא השמד". pic.twitter.com/rEZnKOkOmo

— שילה פריד🇮🇱 (@shilofreid) September 2, 2025

Hundreds of Israeli reservists refuse plans to seize Gaza City

A group of Israeli reservists is speaking out in opposition to the government’s plan to seize Gaza City, saying they will not report for duty if called up to fight.

Israeli media reported that 365 soldiers have so far announced they will not report for duty when called again.

“We refuse to take part in Netanyahu’s illegal war, and we see it as a patriotic duty to refuse and demand accountability from our leaders,” Sergeant First Class Max Kresch told a Tel Aviv press conference, according to The Times of Israel.

Israel is advancing a large-scale mobilisation of reservists to expand ground operations in Gaza City.

Reservists who have spoken against expanding the war cited concern for the well-being of Israeli captives still held in Gaza and the lack of “logic” to the decision of seizing Gaza City, which many view as the first step to re-establishing Israeli military presence in the entire Strip.

Trump ‘will realise that he was cheated’ by Netanyahu over Gaza

Gideon Levy, a columnist for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, says despite the clear opposition from Israeli security chiefs to plans for the intensified operation to take Gaza City, the Netanyahu government appears resolved to push ahead with the offensive.

Speaking to Al Jazeera from Tel Aviv, Levy said the only thing he could see forcing the Israeli government to change course was “a phone call from President Trump – a phone call that doesn’t arrive”.

He said that while the Israeli government had been “very successful until now” in misleading the US president with “hollow promises” of a total victory in Gaza, Trump was facing pushback from his Make America Great Again (MAGA) backers and there were indications that his support could be cooling.

“There will be a point in which [Trump] will realise that he was cheated, but I don’t know when this will come,” said Levy. “Meanwhile, we know dozens and dozens are killed each day … The catastrophe continues.”

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No response from Israel to latest ceasefire proposal in Gaza: Qatar’s Foreign Ministry

Majed al-Ansari, the spokesman of Qatar’s Foreign Ministry, says Israel has yet to respond to the latest ceasefire proposal for Gaza, which had been accepted by Hamas, and has called on the Netanyahu government to engage in negotiations to end the war.

“There has been no Israeli response yet,” he said, adding that there have been ongoing contacts with “mediators and the US, but so far there has been no progress on the framework”.

“There must be an Israeli response and engagement in negotiations, but there is nothing new so far,” he added.

He said Israel’s plan to occupy Gaza “poses a threat to everyone”, including Israeli captives in Gaza, and that a “unified international position must be formed to stop Israel”.

“There is no point in waiting for the peace process while no Israeli party wants this process,” he said.

Yemen’s Houthis claim four drone attacks on Israel

We reported earlier that Israel claimed to have shot down a drone launched from Yemen before it entered its airspace.

Now, the armed group that controls swathes of Yemen has said in a statement that four of its drones carried out four military operations against Israel.

The Houthi group said the targets included Israel’s General Staff building in the Yaffa area, south of Tel Aviv, a power station, Ben Gurion Airport and the port of Ashdod.

“They have successfully hit their targets,” the group said of the drones, adding that a separate attack involving a Houthi missile and drones targeted a ship in the Red Sea, MSC ABY, “for violating the ban decision of entry to the ports of occupied Palestine and its connection to the Israeli enemy”.

The ship was directly hit, the Houthis claimed.

There was no confirmation of the attacks by Israel.

Israel holds record number of Palestinian children without charge or trial, rights group says

Data from the Israel Prison Service (IPS) shows 360 Palestinian children were detained as of June 30, the highest figure since 2016.

Forty-one percent of the children are held under administrative detention – imprisonment without charge or trial – the highest number and proportion since DCIP began monitoring in 2008

“Every month since October 2023, Israeli forces have rapidly expanded their use of administrative detention to target Palestinian children,” said Ayed Abu Eqtaish, accountability program director at DCIP.

“These children are languishing in overcrowded Israeli prisons, fed rotten food, and beaten on a daily basis by Israeli guards, all while they are completely isolated from the outside world, including from their families and lawyers. They must all be released immediately.”

IPS delayed publishing second-quarter data by more than two months. Since October 2023, Israel has suspended family visits, blocked Red Cross access, and sharply restricted lawyers.

DCIP said children also face torture and degrading conditions in military facilities excluded from IPS data, such as Huwara and Sde Teiman.

Israel seizes Palestinian land to expand illegal West Bank outpost

Israeli authorities have announced the seizure of 455.58 dunams (0.45 square kilometres) of land belonging to the Palestinian villages of Jit, Farata and Tal, the Palestinian Wafa news agency has reported.

It said Israeli authorities aimed to regularise the status of Havat Gilad, an illegal outpost in the occupied West Bank, established in 2003 on the lands of the three villages in the Qalqilya governorate.

With this seizure, the total land seized under the “state land” designation since Netanyahu’s far-right government took office in early 2023 has risen to over 26,000 dunams (26 square kilometres), the news agency has said.

Israeli settlers take over Palestinian house in Hebron Old City

Israeli settlers have occupied a Palestinian-owned house in the Old City of Hebron, the Wafa news agency has reported, under the protection of the Israeli army.

The army sealed off several streets as the settlers stormed the house, belongs to the Naser family, according to the Palestinian news agency.

This follows reports that Israeli forces arrested the mayor of Hebron, Tayseer Abu Sneineh, set up checkpoints around the Hebron governorate and closed a number of roads.

After Abu Sneineh’s arrest, Hamas warned that Israel’s actions reflect “plans to annex the occupied West Bank lands”.

Gaza authorities say another journalist killed by Israel

The Government Media Office says another journalist, Rasmi Salem, has been killed in Gaza, bringing the total number of media workers killed in the Strip since October 7, 2023, to 248.

In a statement, the office said Salem worked as a photojournalist for Al-Manara. It added that it condemned the killing of media workers and called on the international community to intervene.

Equivalent of a classroom of children killed in Gaza every day: Save the Children

The equivalent of a classroom of children is being killed every single day in Gaza, Save the Children says, amid “absolutely horrific” attacks on Palestinians desperately seeking aid.

Commenting on Israel’s strike on al-Mawasi, which killed at least seven children waiting in line at a water distribution point, Save the Children’s head of Humanitarian Policy and Advocacy Alexandra Saieh told Al Jazeera that such attacks were “now practically routine”.

“Israel not only blocks lifesaving assistance through the physical obstruction at border crossings in Gaza, but [it is also conducting] attacks on children and civilians waiting for items that are lifesaving for them,” Saieh said.

“We have seen now for two years that Gaza is a place where children have been systematically attacked, where the numbers of children being killed every day are enormously high,” she added.

“We are seeing war crimes and atrocities being committed in Gaza and children are bearing the brunt of that.”

Hind Rajab’s mother hopes film about slain child helps end war

The mother of Hind Rajab, a six-year-old Palestinian girl killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, has said she hoped that a film about her final moments to be screened at the Venice Film Festival will help end the war.

Rajab’s body was recovered from a car riddled with bullets in Gaza City, days after her voice was heard in a desperate phone call to the Palestinian Red Crescent on January 29, 2024.

An investigation later revealed that an Israeli tank shell directly hit the ambulance that was dispatched to help her. Her death sparked international outrage and calls for an independent probe.

The film, The Voice of Hind Rajab, one of 21 features competing at the Venice festival, incorporates original audio recordings of her emergency call.

Her 29-year-old mother, Wissam Hamada, said her daughter’s voice “has become heard all over the world and she will never be forgotten”.

“I hope this film will help stop this destructive war and save the other children of Gaza,” she told AFP before the film’s premiere in the Italian city on Wednesday.

Amnesty condemns arrests of pro-Palestinian campaigners

Amnesty International has condemned the arrest of five spokespeople for Defend Our Juries (DOJ) – a group which has been campaigning for the British government to revoke its terror ban on Palestine Action – whose homes were raided under section 12 of the UK’s Terrorism Act.

Kerry Moscogiuri, Amnesty’s director of campaigns and communications, called the arrests “a terrifying example of the UK authorities’ willingness to use authoritarian practices to silence dissent”.

“The mass peaceful demonstrations they have organised over recent weeks are protected by international human rights law – and to think they run the risk of being imprisoned for up to 14 years is incredibly concerning,” Moscogiuri said in a statement.

Earlier this year, Palestine Action were designated a terror group by the UK government after protesters allegedly sprayed an RAF plane with red paint to protest Britain’s complicity in Israel’s war on Gaza.

Moscogiuri added that “expressing support for Palestine Action does not meet the threshold” for criminalisation under international standards and described the arrests as a violation of the UK’s human rights obligations.