Babies at Nasser Hospital could die due to fuel crisis: Report

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic say sources at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis are warning that babies in the facility’s neonatal department could die if generators have to be switched off due to a lack of fuel.

The warning came as figures from the UN show Israeli authorities only allowed an average of 80 trucks carrying supplies into the Gaza Strip per day in the period from June 26 to July 2.

The UN noted that the pre-conflict average per working day in 2023 was 500 truckloads, including fuel.

More than 10,000 Palestinians missing under rubble in Gaza Strip

The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has called for global action to help Palestinians recover the bodies of more than 10,000 people who are missing under the rubble of buildings destroyed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip.

The rights group also has accused Israel’s military of preventing and obstructing the recovery of victims and missing people, including by targeting Civil Defence crews, rescue teams and families trying to find the bodies of their relatives.

Israel’s military has also prevented the entry of equipment needed for rescue operations as well as the entry of fuel necessary to operate heavy machinery in Gaza, it said.

The group said Israel’s obstruction of the recovery of Palestinian victims from under the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza constitutes a “flagrant and compound breach” of international law, including the rights to “investigations, redress, and reparations, as well as the final right of all people to be treated with dignity and respect when their bodies are buried”.

It added that “the fact that thousands of Palestinians are still missing is a further crime against their families, who endure terrible psychological injury”.

The group also called for international pressure to “compel Israel to fulfil its legal obligations and bring in trucks, special equipment, and sufficient fuel, given the urgent need to clear the debris, locate bodies, and recover them with special procedures to identify and bury them in marked graves, and ensure the victims’ and their families’ rights to a respectful and appropriate burial in accordance with their religious rituals.”

One Samouni brother comes home in Gaza, recalls months of Israeli torture

_{Faraj al-Samouni in Deir el-Balah, Gaza}

Lack of treatment killed 436 cancer patients in Gaza since October 7: Source

A medical source has told Al Jazeera that 436 cancer patients have died due to the lack of treatment since October 7.

Stranded aid trucks in Egypt deepen Gaza’s humanitarian crisis

Hundreds of trucks loaded with food, water and aid have been stranded on a scorching Egyptian road, some for nearly two months, awaiting permission to deliver humanitarian supplies into Gaza.

The truck drivers, parked on the outskirts of the Egyptian city of El Arish in the Sinai Peninsula, said they have been unable to deliver humanitarian supplies ever since Israel expanded its offensive on the Gaza-Egypt border in May. Some food has had to be discarded, they said.

“I swear to God, before this load, we came here and stood for more than 50 days, and eventually the load was returned because it had expired,” truck driver Elsayed el-Nabawi told the Reuters news agency. “We had to turn around and return it. We loaded another batch, and here we are standing again, and only God knows if this load will make it before it expires or what will happen to it.”

Aid groups have warned for months that there is a high risk of famine across Gaza.

NRC says it has not received any aid since May 3

Thousands of trucks containing shelter and other essential aid remain stuck in El Arish, Egypt, and at the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).

“Due to Israeli restrictions and breakdown of law and order, NRC has not received any aid at its sites since 3 May. A severe cash shortage has compounded the hardship faced by people in Gaza,” the organisation said in a statement.

Following the Israeli military’s relocation orders on July 1, some 250,000 people are reported to have fled Khan Younis, mainly to overcrowded western areas and Deir el-Balah.

“The closure of the Rafah border crossing has damaged people’s ability to survive. This is causing daily stress among people. The first question every morning is the same: ‘What are we going to eat today?’ It is getting harder to provide any meaningful support,” said Maysa Saleh, the NRC’s education officer in Deir el-Balah.

“In my time here, I have not seen anything that can be described as sufficient aid. It is almost non-existent,” she said.

_{Lines of aid trucks for Gaza stand on an Egyptian road waiting to be deployed, in Al Arish, Egypt}

UNRWA reopens health facility in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) says it has reopened a health centre in southern Gaza’s ravaged city of Khan Younis after it was “severely damaged”.

The facility sustained damage in January, UNRWA said in a post on X. It added that there are no other health facilities in the area, and that the clinic is “crucial to support the displaced families that moved back in the area looking for shelter”.

Khan Younis’s Nasser Hospital was forced to shut services down as generators ran out of fuel days ago. There is currently only one hospital that is partially functioning in southern Gaza.

Gaza’s media office warns Palestinians of evacuation orders and ‘field executions’

Gaza’s government media office has warned families in Gaza City not to follow Israeli evacuation orders and flee to the south of the enclave, saying it would jeopardise their safety.

In a statement, it said the evacuation orders were “false” and their objective was to lead them towards “death traps, killings, and field executions”.

It said “dozens of field executions” previously took place to those who attempted to flee via the al-Rashid Street, as well as via Salah al-Din Street – a road stretching across the length of Gaza.

During previous evacuation orders, Israeli forces called on Palestinians to flee towards the centre and the south of the enclave, then “executed citizens in cold blood as soon as they arrived at the military checkpoints, and put them in prison”, the statement read.

Heavy gunfire, clashes as Israeli soldiers raid Nablus

Heavy gunfire has been heard as clashes broke out during an Israeli raid on the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reported.

The Israeli soldiers carried out the raid to make preparations to escort settlers to the shrine known as Joseph’s Tomb on the outskirts of Nablus, Wafa reported. The shrine, which is also known as Yusuf’s Tomb, is a significant site for followers of the Abrahamic faiths, including Christians, Jews, Muslims and Samaritans.

Netanyahu ‘is doing everything to avoid a deal’

Some in Israel’s political establishment have accused Netanyahu of trying to sabotage Gaza ceasefire negotiations by publishing a list of non-negotiable conditions even before a cabinet meeting was scheduled to convene to discuss the matter.

One of his demands said Israeli troops must be allowed to return to Gaza “and fight until all war’s objectives are achieved”.

“What is it good for? We are at a critical moment in the negotiations, the lives of the abductees depend on it, why issue such provocative messages? How does it contribute to the process?” opposition leader Yair Lapid said on X.

“It is quite clear that the prime minister is doing everything in his power to avoid a deal,” Israel Ziv, former head of the Israeli army’s operations, told the Maariv newspaper. “Whoever wants a deal does not publish his terms in the media, adds new conditions and publishes them,” he added.

Critics have long accused Netanyahu of trying to extend the conflict for his political survival.

Hamas blames Netanyahu for placing more ‘obstacles’ on negotiations

Hamas says that while it is trying to showcase “flexibility and positivity” in its position to reach a ceasefire agreement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has continued to place “obstacles” to hinder the process, the group said in a statement.

It said Netanyahu is also escalating Israel’s “aggression” against Palestinians and is continuing to forcibly displace families in Gaza. Hamas called on mediators and the international community to intervene to put an end to Netanyahu’s “crimes … and the genocide”.

The group added that it will continue with its “resistance” in the face of Israel’s “fascist forces”.

Israeli ‘killings, displacement’ could put ceasefire talks back at square one

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh says that Israel’s military attacks in Gaza could push mediated ceasefire talks back to square one, according to a statement on the group’s Telegram channel.

“In light of the massacres, killings and displacement it is carrying out, Ismail Haniyeh made urgent contacts with the mediators, warning of disastrous repercussions, noting that this would return the negotiation process to square one,” it said.

In a call with mediators, Haniyeh said he held Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel’s army fully responsible for the potential collapse of negotiations, the statement said.

White House says gaps remain between Israel and Hamas on ceasefire deal

Senior US officials are in Cairo for talks to achieve a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, but gaps still remain between the two sides, White House national security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters.

Kirby said CIA Director Bill Burns and US Middle East envoy Brett McGurk were in Egypt, meeting with their Egyptian, Israeli and Jordanian counterparts, adding that there will be “follow-on discussions” in the next few days.

The comments come as Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh warned that ongoing Israeli military attacks in Gaza could push talks back to square one. In a call with mediators, Haniyeh said he held Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel’s army fully responsible for the potential collapse of negotiations, a statement by the group said.

Lapid assures Netanyahu ‘safety net’ should he sign ceasefire deal

Opposition leader Yair Lapid has reiterated that Netanyahu would not be left without a “safety net” should he accept a ceasefire and lose the support of government coalition members Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir.

“There’s a hostage deal on the table. It is not true that Netanyahu has to choose between the kidnapping deal and his continued tenure as prime minister,” Lapid said on X. “I promised him a safety net, and I will keep that promise.”

Netanyahu’s government depends on the support of the two far-right ministers, whose parties give the prime minister a majority in parliament. But the two have repeatedly threatened to resign and bring down the governing coalition should Netanyahu sign a ceasefire agreement with Hamas.

The ministers’ parties have a combined 13 seats in the Israeli parliament while Lapid’s party has 24 seats.

Iran’s president-elect reaffirms Israel position

Masoud Pezeshkian has sent a message to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, saying resistance movements across the region will not allow Israel’s “criminal policies” towards the Palestinians to continue.

“The Islamic Republic has always supported the resistance of the people of the region against the illegitimate Zionist regime,” Iranian media quoted the president-elect as saying.

“I am certain that the resistance movements in the region will not allow this regime to continue its warmongering and criminal policies against the oppressed people of Palestine and other nations of the region,” he added.

Pezeshkian, who had the backing of senior figures in Iran’s reformist camp, beat hardline conservative Saeed Jalili in Friday’s run-off election.

‘No safe corner’ in Gaza as two more hospitals go out of service, WHO chief says

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says that the al-Ahli Arab Hospital and the Patient’s Friends Benevolent Society Hospital in Gaza City are now out of service.

“Patients either self-evacuated, were given early discharge or referred to Kamal Adwan and Indonesian hospitals, which are suffering shortage[s] of fuel, beds and trauma medical supplies,” Tedros said in a post on X.

He said reports on new evacuation orders in Gaza City will further impede the delivery of “very limited life-saving care”.

Other health facilities in the area remain functional but could “quickly become non-functional due to hostilities in their vicinity or obstruction to access”, he warned.

https://x.com/DrTedros/status/1810409198900883474

UN details impact on civilians, hospitals from Israel’s latest Gaza City offensive

UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said Israel’s latest evacuation orders for parts of Gaza City impact more than 60 schools where displaced Palestinians are sheltering, as well as two hospitals, six medical points and two primary healthcare centres.

Dujarric said that humanitarian officials report that staff and patients have left the hospitals located in and around the areas ordered evacuated by Israeli forces, and people who were already displaced by earlier evacuation orders and fighting are being forced to flee again, the Associated Press news agency (AP) reports.

He also said that “active hostilities, damaged roads, access limitations and the lack of public order and safety” are hampering the transport of aid along the main humanitarian cargo route from the Karem Abu Salem crossing, which Israel calls the Kerem Shalom crossing, to Khan Younis city in Gaza’s south, and then on to Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.

Critical food shortages and reduced food rations in central and southern Gaza have been the result, he said.

“Just three of the 18 bakeries that our humanitarian colleagues support in Gaza are still operational, all of them in Deir el-Balah,” Dujarric said. “Meanwhile, lack of fuel has forced nine bakeries that were working at partial capacity to completely cease their operations.”

_{A woman sits with her children on the ground outside their displacement tent in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on July 8}