Settlers damage Palestinian vehicles, set fire to land south of Nablus

Israeli settlers have attacked Palestinian property south of the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reports.

Settlers pelted Palestinian vehicles with stones on the road near the Yitzhar settlement, built on Palestinian land, and damaged several.

Separately, Yatma village council head Ahmed Abu Snobar told the Palestinian news agency that a group of settlers set fire to olive trees in the northern part of his village.

Israel vows to bolster presence in the occupied West Bank after East Jerusalem attack

Israel’s Minister of Defence Israel Katz has promised severe and far-reaching consequences as a direct result of the attack that killed six people in East Jerusalem, and said that Israel is going to be bolstering its presence in the occupied West Bank.

The Israeli prime minister and the national security minister spoke similar words at the scene of the attack, with PM Benjamin Netanyahu going as far as to say that Israel is at war on multiple fronts, and Itamar Ben-Gvir blaming several other institutions for why an attack like this occurred – even though he is the person within the Israeli government directly responsible for safety.

Ben-Gvir’s critics say he has failed miserably at his job, and so the army chief of staff held his own security assessment, in which he decided that there would be more Israeli troops deployed to the West Bank, even though there is a significant presence already.

Israel uses attacks to justify and escalate collective punishment: Palestinian politician

Attacks against Israelis, such as the most recent one in occupied East Jerusalem, are followed by an “escalation of collective punishment policies that are there anyhow”, Mustafa Barghouti, the secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, says.

Attacks on Palestinian cities and towns in the occupied West Bank are “a pattern that exists without any attacks”, he told Al Jazeera. “It’s just that they [Israel] use such a moment to justify and escalate collective punishment acts against Palestinians.”

The ultimate goal is “clear”, Barghouti continued, which is “the annexation of the West Bank and the displacement and ethnic cleansing of its population”.

Israeli forces raid home of Jerusalem attack suspect, arrest father and brother

Video footage independently verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking unit shows Israeli forces raiding the house of the family of Mohammad Taha, in the town of Qatana, northwest of occupied Jerusalem.

Taha is accused of being one of the two Palestinian men carrying out the Jerusalem attack, in which six people were killed. Israeli authorities said that both shooters were killed in the wake of the attack.

The footage, published by local Palestinian platforms, shows Israeli forces arresting two individuals who are said to be Taha’s father and brother.

Ambassador says US stands with Israel against ‘savagery’

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has reacted to the attack in occupied East Jerusalem that killed six people, saying he was “horrified” by the act of “deadly terror”.

“We stand with Israel against this savagery,” he said on X.

Huckabee’s choice of words echoes that of other US officials when describing actions attributed to Arabs. Last month, US diplomat Tom Barrack called Lebanese journalists “animalistic” and repeatedly requested that they act “civilised” as they shouted questions during a press conference.

Washington and its officials have failed to use similar strong language to condemn the unrelenting Israeli attacks in Gaza over the last two years, including the latest strike that flattened a high-rise building housing displaced families in Gaza City.

The war in Gaza has killed at least 64,522 Palestinians and the United Nations found Israel’s tactics to be consistent with the characteristics of genocide. Israel’s settlement-building in the occupied West Bank is also ramping up and is considered illegal under international law.

Second child confirmed killed after Israeli raid on Jenin refugee camp

The director of Jenin Governmental Hospital, Wissam Bakr, has told the Palestinian news agency Wafa that 14-year-old Mohammad Sari Omar Masqala died of his injuries after being wounded by the Israeli army in the Jenin refugee camp.

Earlier, another 14-year-old, Islam Abdel Aziz Noah Majarmah, was confirmed to have been killed during a raid on the camp in the wake of the attack that killed six people in East Jerusalem earlier today.

The Israeli military set up checkpoints across the West Bank as it raided several towns. It fired live ammunition and sound grenades as it raided the town of Biddu, but no injuries were reported, according to Wafa.

In the town of Abu Dis, video circulated on social media shows army officers severely beating a young man. Arrests were reported in the towns of Qatanna, where tear gas prevented ambulances from reaching the site of the raid.

More settler attacks reported in occupied West Bank

Israeli settlers have attacked Palestinian vehicles northeast of Ramallah, Wafa has said. Witnesses told the Palestinian news agency that the settlers threw stones along the road between Ramallah and Nablus, near the illegal Shiloh settlement.

In a separate incident, a group of settlers set fire to a nursery in the village of Deir Sharaf, in the Nablus governorate. Three Palestinians suffered burns as a consequence, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.

Six more Palestinians die of starvation in Gaza, including 2 children

Six more Palestinians, including two children, have died of starvation and severe malnutrition in the Israel-blockaded Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry has said.

Famine-related deaths since October 2023 now stand at at least 393, including 140 children, the ministry added in a statement.

According to the ministry, 115 of the deaths, 25 of them children, occurred after the UN-backed hunger monitoring system Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) formally declared Gaza a famine zone last month.

Constant waves of displacement as families flee south from Gaza City to al-Mawasi

I’m in al-Mawasi in the western part of Khan Younis. The area is 1km (0.6 miles) wide and 12km (7.5 miles) long. This area was designated a “safe zone” for families in Gaza City after the war began, and was recently declared by Israeli forces as a humanitarian area.

This agricultural landscape has become overcrowded with displaced families, with constant waves of displacement coming from Gaza City. We see families taking donkey carts, vans and cars, loaded with their possessions, as they try to escape the bombardment.

But this area is still under constant Israeli attacks. People are battling to ensure their survival.

Surviving in al-Mawasi like ‘living in a piece of hell’, says displaced Palestinian doctor

Al Jazeera has spoken to Omar Hamad, a Palestinian doctor who has been forced to flee Gaza City by the Israeli offensive there. Like many other displaced people, he is now battling to survive amid desperate conditions in al-Mawasi in the south, which he describes as “living in a piece of hell”.

On arriving in al-Mawasi, he said, his family had to find a small patch of land on which to base themselves, and would typically start their mornings by searching for water.

“From the morning, I’m struggling to get the water, in order to let my kids have something to drink,” he said. “Maybe I spend more than two hours, three hours, and I don’t have a bottle of water.”

Food, safety, and psychological wellbeing were all in short supply, he said. “This is the situation, this is what we are talking about, our miserable life.”

Israel systematically destroying Gaza City with impunity

People in the Gaza Strip have one priority, and that is an end to their daily tragedy and suffering that has been unfolding over the past 23 months.

What we’re seeing now is a deliberate tactic by the Israeli military to destroy communities. When we talk about the towers and residential buildings bombed by Israel, for a lot of people, they might just be concrete structures, but they were home to entire communities.

A systematic destruction has been taking place over the past four days, and today a fourth building was bombed. We’re talking about the destruction of surrounding areas as well. A school, a clinic and a number of other facilities in the area have been deserted because of the severe damage they sustained.

So, while the situation is unfolding in the occupied West Bank, things have not changed here on the ground.

The global response has not been sufficient to stop Israel from carrying out this genocide, and that gives Israel the impunity to continue its systematic destruction of Gaza City’s communities.

Gaza death toll at 64,522: Health Ministry

Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 65 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza and 320 wounded on Sunday, while two bodies were recovered from the rubble.

The ministry said the overall death toll from Israel’s war in Gaza has risen to 64,522, with 163,096 wounded.

At least 11,976 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and 51,055 have been injured since Gaza broke the ceasefire with Hamas on March 18, 2025.

The ministry said 14 aid seekers were killed and 85 were injured over the last 24 hours, bringing the total numbers to 2,430 aid seekers killed, at least 17,794 injured, and 49 missing.

Over the past 24 hours, hospitals in Gaza recorded six deaths due to famine and malnutrition, including two children, taking the total starvation deaths to 393, including 140 children.

Israel issues forced evacuation order for Gaza City building, tents

The Israeli military has released another map with a highlighted building and an adjacent tent area on Jamal Abdel Nasser Street in Gaza City, telling Palestinians in the area they could be killed if they do not immediately leave.

The Israeli army said it “will attack the building soon due to the presence of Hamas terrorist infrastructure inside it or adjacent to it”, without offering any evidence.

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza City, said the target is a 17-storey commercial tower located across the street from a university complex in the heart of western Gaza City that houses clinics, beauty salons, educational centres, a gym and offices.

Israel told residents of the building and displaced people living in the tents around the area to go to the “humanitarian area” in al-Mawasi on Gaza’s southern coast, which it has repeatedly bombed since the start of the war.

‘Humanitarian zone’ in al-Mawasi overcrowded and frequently attacked: Journalist

As the occupation authorities in Gaza, Israeli forces are not only refusing to provide the population in al-Mawasi with the basic means of living but are also killing people in large numbers, displaced journalist Ahmed al-Najjar says.

He told Al Jazeera from what Israel has called a “humanitarian area” in al-Mawasi that an Israeli Apache helicopter was outside his tent earlier, hovering and shooting.

“That’s the reality that has been unfolding in al-Mawasi, where I, like hundreds of thousands of others, have been displaced and looking for anything relevant to the labelling of this so-called safe humanitarian zone,” he said.

Al-Najjar said he and his family have been displaced 14 times and have been living in al-Mawasi for 16 months.

The journalist said Palestinians in the area have only been experiencing more suffering and tragedy recently as food remains scarce and more people are displaced from the north and head to al-Mawasi.

“Our friends from the north keep calling us and asking for a few square metres of land so they can [put up] their tents,” he said, adding that his family barely found limited space for a tent themselves.

_{Tents of displaced Palestinians in al-Mawasi, as seen from a German air force plane airdropping limited humanitarian aid on August 6}

Services, livelihoods destroyed as further Gaza City high-rises bombed


_{Smoke and flames rise as a residential building collapses after an Israeli air strike in Gaza City}

It’s heartbreaking to watch these high-rise towers in Gaza City falling one after another due to the systematic tactics of the Israeli military. Today, there have been two so far.

It starts with a phone call, causing panic to people inside these towers, who are pushed out into the streets. They watch from a distance as everything they’ve built over the past years collapses … through the use of massive explosions.

They happened one after another. The explosions shook the surrounding area. We could feel it and smell it from a distance. We saw a dark cloud of smoke, gunpowder and concrete dust rising from the buildings.

This time it was commercial buildings – the backbone of services across Gaza City. A building that housed clinics, study centres, beauty salons, coffee shops and restaurants, office space has been levelled completely to the ground.

It’s not just a building that’s been destroyed – it’s the services that come with it, services that are crucial for people trying to live their lives after nearly two years of war.


_{The 17-storey commercial tower was located across the street from a university complex and housed clinics, beauty salons, educational centres, a gym and offices}

Israel uses same justification as it continues to destroy Gaza City high-rises

The Israeli military has issued a statement claiming the latest high-rise building it has levelled in Gaza City was being used by Hamas operatives. The post provided no evidence to support the claims, as was the case with all of the buildings it has destroyed over the last days and weeks.

Israeli ‘suicide drone’ attacks Gaza mosque and blows up minaret

Video shows the moment an Israeli drone laden with explosives was flown into the minaret of a mosque in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HPffZKBsQQc

Gaza journalist Osama Balousha among 40 killed in latest Israeli attacks

Among at least 40 Palestinians reported killed in Israeli strikes and gunfire across Gaza today was Osama Balousha, a journalist for Palestinian media, medics said. Nearly 250 journalists have been killed in the Gaza Strip during the war, according to Palestinian authorities, making it by far the world’s deadliest war for news media in living memory.

Netanyahu threatens Gaza City residents: ‘Leave now’

The Israeli PM warned residents of Gaza City to leave now, hours after Israel said it would ramp up air strikes on the enclave. “I say to the residents of Gaza, I take this opportunity and listen to me carefully: you have been warned — leave now!” he said.

Netanyahu said forces are now organising and assembling in Gaza City for a ground “manoeuvre”.

US proposal for Gaza deal sparks debate over Israeli withdrawal terms

According to Axios, there is additional information about the US proposal for a deal to release all captives in Gaza and end the war:

Israeli forces destroy another high-rise in Gaza City

As part of its ongoing campaign to destroy the remaining infrastructure in the city and displace all of its residents, the Israeli army hit the al-Salam tower in central Gaza City with three missiles, our correspondent on the ground reports.

These demolition attacks against residential buildings have become common over the last week, as Israeli ground forces prepare to move into the city after weeks of relentless bombing and shelling.

Israeli warplanes bomb eastern Lebanon

Shortly after Lebanese media reported a series of air raids, the Israeli army has now confirmed launching attacks on eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley region.

The military claimed in a statement that it hit “targets of the Hezbollah terrorist organisation”, including military camps of the elite Radwan Force of the armed Lebanese group, where Hezbollah operatives were identified and weapons were stored.

Hezbollah operatives trained in the areas, according to the Israeli military, which said the moves are “a blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon and pose a threat to the state of Israel”.

Lebanon’s National News Agency reported that at least seven air strikes hit the Hermel region, including one on Labweh town, about 100km (62 miles) from the border with Israel.

Lebanon’s Health Ministry says five killed in Israeli attacks

As we reported earlier, the Israeli army launched attacks on eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley region, saying it hit “targets of the Hezbollah terrorist organisation”.

Lebanon’s Ministry of Health has now issued a statement saying at least five people have been killed and five others injured.

Israel has been hitting what it calls Hezbollah assets and personnel without providing evidence, despite a cessation of hostilities agreement that came into force in November.

Israel conducts air strikes near Homs, Latakia and Palmyra: Report

Israel struck the vicinity of Syria’s central Homs city, the coastal city of Latakia, and the historic city of Palmyra, Syrian state-affiliated media says.

The report did not elaborate further on the size or impact of the reported strikes.

Israel has, for years, waged a campaign of aerial bombardment that destroyed much of the country’s military infrastructure, and this ramped up since the Israeli war in Gaza.

Israel and Syria have recently engaged in US-mediated talks on de-escalating the conflict in southern Syria.

Three Houthi drones breach Israeli airspace but are intercepted: Report

Israeli Army Radio reports that three drones launched by Yemen’s Houthi group towards Israel have managed to penetrate Israeli airspace but have been intercepted by the military.

Houthis claim drone attacks on Israel’s Ramon Airport

As we reported earlier today, the Israeli army said it intercepted drones launched by the Houthis in Yemen near the Ramon Airport in southern Israel.

Now the rebel group has claimed the attack, saying it carried out an operation with three drones targeting Lod and Ramon airports and a target in Dimona in southern Israel.

While the group claimed that the attack “successfully achieved its objectives”, the Israeli army said that its air defences intercepted the drones.

‘Netanyahu is dangerous to Israel, must not remain in power’

Yair Golan, head of Israel’s opposition Democrats party, has slammed PM Benjamin Netanyahu as a “threat to Israel” and called for him to be immediately replaced.

In a post on X, Golan said Netanyahu was “a serial saboteur of every deal to return the hostages”, who “rejects every initiative to end the fighting, to lift the country out of the state of emergency”.

“There is no security strategy here. The war to annex Gaza is designed to preserve his rule and allow him to complete the regime coup under its cover,” he said.

“Netanyahu is dangerous to Israel and must not remain in power for even one more day. We will replace him, save our kidnapped brothers, end the war, and restore security to Israel.”

Spain PM Sanchez imposes arms embargo on Israel to ‘stop Gaza genocide’

Spain has announced sweeping measures against Israel, including a total arms embargo, with Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez saying the move is aimed at “stopping the genocide in Gaza” and “supporting the Palestinian population”.

“There is a difference between defending your country and bombing hospitals or starving innocent children,” Sanchez, one of the most vocal critics of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, said in a speech posted from his official X account.

Central to the package, unveiled on Monday, is a royal decree law that will be approved by Spain’s cabinet and later ratified by parliament. The measure formalises what has been in effect since October 2023: a ban on the purchase and sale of weapons, ammunition and military equipment to Israel.


Spanish PM announces restrictions on Israeli shipping and aircraft

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says his government will increase pressure on Israel by banning Israel-bound ships and aircraft carrying weapons from calling at Spanish ports or entering Spanish airspace.

He said the Spanish government would increase aid to the Palestinian Authority and the UN agency for Palestinian refugees and impose an embargo on goods made in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory.

“We hope that they will serve to add pressure on Prime Minister Netanyahu and his government to alleviate some of the suffering that the Palestinian population is enduring,” Sanchez said in an address on local TV.

Spain will also ban anyone who has participated directly in what Sanchez called “genocide” from entering the country.

British trade union leader calls on UK to suspend trade deal with Israel

Paul Nowak, the deputy general secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), an umbrella organisation for trade unions in England and Wales, has called Gaza a “humanitarian crisis which shames the world”.

“Thousands of starving civilians, women and children killed whilst queuing for food. Hospitals, aid workers, journalists deliberately targeted. Kids seeking clean water were attacked by the [Israeli military],” Nowak said during a keynote speech at an event in Brighton.

Nowak said human rights organisations “have been clear” that Netanyahu’s government is committing genocide in Gaza. He called on the UK government to suspend its trade deal with Israel and end arms licences and called for an immediate ceasefire and recognition of a Palestinian state.