Never seen mass casualty event like al-Mawasi: MSF doctor

Mohammed Abu Mughaiseeb, deputy medical coordinator for the charity Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) says the scale human suffering in the aftermath of the Israeli strike on al-Mawasi was unlike anything he had ever witnesses.

“I have never seen a mass casualty event like [Saturday],” he said on X as from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. “Every corner in the hospital was busy. Every space was occupied by the injured or bodies of the dead.”

Amy Kit-Mei Low, MSF project and medical referent, said that “at one point, you had people in the hallway moaning in pain.” “Even though they had [wound] dressings, the dressings were oozing blood. […] the hospital was trying to cope, but it can barely cope with normal cases,” she added.

The organisation said on X that the “disproportionate attack on a place where Israeli forces have repeatedly advised displaced people to go… show[s] a complete disregard for the lives of Palestinians.”

‘They told me I would be safe here’: UNRWA chief quotes al-Mawasi survivor

Philippe Lazzarini, head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), quoted a Palestinian mother who lost her eight-year-old child and had another one injured in Israel’s attack on al-Mawasi, near Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

The mother told UNRWA that she thought she would be safe in al-Mawasi, an area the Israeli army had previously designated as a “humanitarian safe zone”. The strike on the camp killed at least 90 people.

“Yesterday’s attack and the mass casualties are a stark reminder that no one is safe in Gaza, wherever they are”, Lazzarini wrote on X.

Israeli settlers launch attacks on occupied West Bank communities

Wafa news agency in Palestine has reported that settlers have, for the second time today, attacked the Arab Melihat community northwest of Jericaho.

The agency quoted Hassan Malihat, a head of a local advocacy organisation, who said that a group of settlers in vehicles smashed into residents’ property, and killed a dog belonging to one community member.

In the early hours of the morning, a group of settlers attacked the community, raiding livestock pens and releasing animals belonging to residents. Wafa also reports that settlers are attacking Palestinians’ cars near the village of al-Mughayir, northeast of Ramallah, and at the northern entrance to the city of al-Bireh.

No injuries were reported, Wafa said, citing security sources.

Aftermath of Israeli attack on UNRWA school in Nuseirat


_{Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli air strike on a UN school sheltering displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip}

Several Palestinians were killed or wounded in the attack, health officials said. The Gaza media office put the initial death toll at least 15, but that has now climbed to 17.

The school has been housing hundreds of displaced people and those injured in the attack were rushed to the nearby Al-Aqsa Hospital.

Brazil slams ‘endless massacre’ in Gaza after bombings

Brazil has denounced Israel’s strikes on southern Gaza, urging the world not to “remain silent in the face of this endless massacre”.

“The most recent bombing in the Gaza Strip, which claimed the lives of hundreds of innocent people, is unacceptable,” the office of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said in a statement.

“It is appalling that they continue to collectively punish the Palestinian people. Tens of thousands have already died in successive attacks since last year, many of them in delimited humanitarian zones that should be protected,” the statement added.

“We, the political leaders of the democratic world, cannot remain silent in the face of this endless massacre.”

Children among four killed after Israel bombs Maghazi

Al Jazeera’s correspondent in the Gaza Strip reports that at least one child is among the dead after the Israeli army attacked the central Gaza refugee camp.

Several other people were wounded in the attack.

Our correspondent says that Israeli aircraft also targeted Abu Madin Mosque in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.

Will there be an end to Israel’s killing of civilians in Gaza?

On Saturday, Israeli fighter jets and drones unleashed a barrage of missiles and bombs, obliterating tents in al-Mawasi camp where thousands of displaced Palestinian families had sought shelter.

Palestinians have described the attack, that killed at least 90 Palestinians and injured 300, as a “horrific massacre”.

As the death toll in Gaza rises and the humanitarian crisis deepens, there are serious questions about Israel’s military conduct and the protection of civilians.

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War on Gaza will continue with ‘unprecedented force’; Hamas targeted ‘for years to come'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that even though Israel can’t say with certainty that Hamas commander Mohammed Deif was killed, it still sends a message to the world of what Israel is capable of.

And [he is] also saying that Israel’s war on Gaza will continue until all of the objectives of the conflict are achieved.

We also heard from Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant who said that the targeting of Hamas leaders and commanders will happen, not just during the war, but for years to come. Even after the conflict is over.

Israeli officials say – even with all of this in mind – that Israel’s war on Gaza is going to continue with what they are calling “unprecedented force”.

Israeli military defends attack on al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’ that killed at least 90

The Israel military’s chief of staff Herzi Halevi has defended the missile attack on displaced people in Gaza’s al-Mawasi area, saying the operation targeted two Hamas officials and laid the blame for the 90 people killed in the attack on Hamas.

Halevi did not mention the huge civilian death toll from the Israeli Air Force’s missile attack on Saturday, but did stress that no Israeli captives “were harmed in the strike”. “It is very important for me to emphasize this,” he said in a statement.

The Israeli military’s international spokesperson, Nadav Shoshani, also defended the attack, which he described as “a precise, intelligence-based strike” despite it killing so many civilians.

Shoshani also blamed Hamas for the civilians killed by Israel’s Air Force in the “humanitarian area” in al-Mawasi, which he said had been “exploited” by Hamas to “continue operating”.

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Palestine sends eight athletes to Paris Olympics in show of ‘resistance’

A small ceremony was held to send off Palestine’s official delegation to the Paris Olympics on Sunday, as well as to recognise the many Palestinian athletes who will not be present.

Jibril Rajoub, head of the Palestine Olympic Committee, said 400 athletes, coaches and sporting officials have been killed in Gaza since October.

“Through this participation, we want to present the suffering of the Palestinian people and the unprecedented killing taking place in Gaza,” Rajoub said. “We want this participation to be a message from the Palestinians to the world that it is time for them to be free in their homeland,” he added.

Eight athletes will represent Palestine this year, competing in athletics, swimming, archery, taekwondo, judo and boxing.

The athletes will represent Palestine at a “very dark moment in our history”, said Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin in Ramallah on Sunday. “You are not just athletes, you are also … symbols of Palestinian resistance,” Aghabekian added.

_{Palestine’s Olympics delegation held a small ceremony in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Sunday}

‘My heart aches’: Palestinian Olympic swimmer

Palestinian-US swimmer Valerie Tarazi, 24, is one of eight athletes representing Palestine at the Paris Olympics.

“My heart aches for them,” Tarazi said of Palestinians in Gaza. “Being in Paris on behalf of Palestine is a very important thing, and taking part in a global swimming competition at a time when there are no places to train is surreal,” she said.

Palestinian athletes have taken part in the Olympics since 1996, when long distance runner Majed Abu Marahil competed in Atlanta.

Marahil died in Gaza in June after not being able to get treatment for kidney failure at the besiege enclave’s devastated hospitals, officials said.

_{Palestinian-US swimmer Valerie Rose Tarazi speaks during the send-off ceremony for the Palestine delegation to the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Ramallah city in the occupied West Bank on Sunday}

Israeli drones, warplanes hit homes, camp for displaced people in Gaza

Overnight attacks by Israeli forces left one person dead and several injured after armed drones attacked civilians in the town of az-Zawayda in central Gaza, the Wafa news agency reports.

Drones also attacked civilians in the Zeitoun area of Gaza City, while Israel’s bombing of Rafah city’s eastern area of Kafr al-Mashrou killed one person and left several injured.

Several people were also reported killed and wounded in air strikes on houses in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, and a house was bombed east of Khan Younis with an unknown number of casualties, Wafa reports.

Those attacks followed Israeli missiles reported to have killed at least 17 people and injured 80 sheltering at the UN-affiliated Abu Oreiban school sheltering displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp.

_{An injured Palestinian girl stands among debris in the badly damaged UN-run Abu Oreiban school in the Nuseirat refugee camp following an Israeli attack on Sunday}

International inaction enables genocide in Gaza, say Palestinian rights groups

Three Palestinian human rights groups have blamed the international community for Israel’s “deliberate massacres” of civilians in Gaza.

“The international community’s failure to end the ongoing genocide” has enabled Israeli attacks, including the latest “horrific massacres” in the al-Mawasi area, which killed at least 90, and in the Shati refugee camp, where Israeli warplanes bombed Palestinians at prayer killing 22 people, the rights groups said.

“International inaction continues to embolden Israel to perpetrate international crimes,” the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Al-Haq, and the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights said in a joint statement.

“States arming and financing Israel’s genocidal acts are complicit in these crimes, including genocide,” they said.

Israel’s deliberate massacres against Palestinians in Gaza - the in Al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis & Al-Shati Camp in Gaza City, is the result of the int. community’s failure to end the ongoing #GazaGenocide. 
Our latest w/ @pchrgaza & @AlMezanCenter https://t.co/xc7KoXVaTc

— Al-Haq الحق (@alhaq_org) July 14, 2024

Israel used missiles, quadcopters, drones in ‘multi-stage’ al-Mawasi attack

Israel’s attack on the al-Mawasi camp was a “multi-stage attack” involving multiple missiles, drones and quadcopters and lasted for about 90 minutes, three Palestinian human rights groups have said.

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), Al-Haq, and the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights (Al Mezan) say the details are based on information collected by their field researchers.

Here’s how the attack unfolded:

Israelis hit with short-range rockets as fighting continues near Tal al-Hawa: Monitors

Palestinian fighters continue to battle in Gaza City’s neighbourhoods, firing short-range rockets at Israeli troops operating near the Tal al-Hawa area, US-based defence think tanks the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and Critical Threats Project (CTP) report.

Israeli forces deployed on the Netzarim Corridor south of Gaza City also came under rocket and mortar fires on Sunday from several Palestinian armed groups, the ISW/CTP report.

In the southern city of Rafah, Israeli forces were targeted with rockets, mortar shells, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire, the ISW/CTP said.

_{A disabled Israeli armoured vehicle left behind following fierce fighting in Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood on July 11}

Israeli attack helicopters firing on central Gaza

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting intense gunfire from Israeli helicopter gunships northwest of the az-Zahra area in central Gaza.

Israel says navy, air force hit ‘dozens’ of targets in Gaza

Israel’s military says its navy and air force attacked targets throughout the Gaza Strip over the previous day, striking “dozens of terrorist targets”.

Naval forces fired on areas in southern Gaza in support of troops operating on the ground in the south, the military said on social media. Soldiers in central Gaza engaged a squad of Palestinian fighters, including one who was “eliminated by tank fire”.

Artillery attack on refugee camp in central Gaza reported

Israeli artillery strikes are hitting eastern areas of the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report.

‘Pain and anguish’ as Palestinians bury the dead

We wake up every morning to the sounds of bombs and helicopters hovering over central Gaza, which has been the main focus of Israeli attacks in recent days.

In the Maghazi refugee camp, a residential home was hit in an overnight strike. At least five Palestinians were killed, including three children. We could see the pain and anguish on the faces of family members as they prepared the bodies for burial.

We’ve gotten an update from the Health Ministry saying more than 38,000 Palestinians in Gaza have now been killed since October 7.

The grim reality in the north is that bodies are still being recovered from under collapsed buildings. Donkey carts are carrying those killed to open areas to be buried. People in Gaza City are describing horrific scenes from Israeli bombardment and the dire situation since the Israeli ban on any kind of humanitarian aid getting in.

Israeli bombing kills 3 Palestinians in northern Shujayea

Israeli strikes killed at least three people and wounded a number of others on al-Mansoura Street in Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood, our colleagues on the ground report.

Israeli artillery fire wounds 2 in Nuseirat refugee camp

Two Palestinians have been injured in shelling near a power station north of the Nuseirat refugee camp, an Al Jazeera correspondent on the ground reports.

Israeli attack helicopters bomb western Rafah

Israeli helicopters attacked areas west of Rafah city with missiles, our colleagues on the ground report.

Overnight, Israel’s bombing of Rafah city’s eastern area of Kafr al-Mashrou killed one person and wounded several others. Despite urgent warnings of a humanitarian disaster from allies, including the US, Netanyahu launched the ground assault on Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, in May.

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians remain trapped in the area, surrounded by Israeli forces and facing daily bombardment.

Israeli attack on central Gaza kills 3, including a child

At least three Palestinians have been killed and many others wounded in an Israeli attack that hit a house on as-Salam Street in Deir el-Balah.

At least 38,664 Palestinians have been killed and 89,097 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7, the ministry says. It said at least 80 people were killed and 216 injured over the past 24 hours.

UNRWA chief denounces destruction of Gaza headquarters

The head of the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees says its headquarters in Gaza has been levelled during heavy fighting.

“The headquarters in Gaza turned into a battlefield and now flattened. Another episode in the blatant disregard of international humanitarian law. United Nations facilities must be protected at all times. They must never be used for military or fighting purposes. Shocking,” said Philippe Lazzarini.

Shocking.@UNRWA headquarters in #Gaza, turned into a battlefield & now flattened 👇

Another episode in the blatant disregard of international humanitarian law.

United Nations facilities must be protected at all times. They must never be used for military or fighting… pic.twitter.com/XVOm5UjJeM

— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) July 15, 2024

Tamara al-Rifai, UNRWA’s head of external relations, says the past week has been one of the deadliest since the war started in October. H

“The images coming out of the UNRWA headquarters are really shocking. What I saw today is unrecognizable,” she told Al Jazeera. “It speaks volumes for the blatant disregard for international humanitarian law.”

Al-Rifai noted 190 UNRWA facilities – “most of which served as shelters for displaced people” – have been attacked during the war, killing more than 500 people and wounding 1,600.

A commission of inquiry is needed to investigate the attacks on UNRWA facilities and the “killing of its staff”, she added.

‘A terrifying precedent for a nation state to set’

The Islamic Relief charity has condemned “the brutal killing and wounding of hundreds of civilians” in Gaza over the last few days.

“The government of Israel is proving to the world over and over again – this time in the designated safe area of al-Mawasi, and yesterday in a school housing civilians in Nuseirat – that it’s willing to kill innocent men, women and children in pursuit of its end goals,” it said in a statement.

“It’s a terrifying precedent for a nation state to set… The siege and killing in Gaza must end.”

The international charity demanded an end to civilian casualties and “aid to be allowed to flow back into the enclave in the quantities needed to halt spreading famine”.


_{Firefighters extinguish a fire after Israeli air strikes hit a building in Deir el-Balah}

Attacks cause panic in Deir el-Balah, where Palestinians were told to seek refuge

‘Where to go is what everybody asks – no one has the answer’

Two days after an Israeli strike turned a crowded swathe of al-Mawasi near the Mediterranean coast into a charred wasteland littered with burning cars and mangled bodies, displaced survivors say they had no idea where they should go next.

“Those moments as the ground shook underneath my feet and the dust and sand rose to the sky and I saw dismembered bodies – [it] was like nothing I have seen in my life,” said Aya Mohammad, 30, a market seller.

“Where to go is what everybody asks, and no one has the answer.”

Palestinian man recounts children dying in Israeli attack

Municipal officials in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, say they’re no longer able to provide 700,000 people in the area with drinking water after running out of fuel.

“We urge citizens to preserve what is left in their private tankers and we stress the need to maintain the spirit of cooperation and sharing,” a statement said.

Speaking in the rubble of his family home in Deir el-Balah, Walid Thabet recounted how an Israeli strike killed his relatives. Rescue workers and neighbours sifted through the debris to search for survivors.

“My mother, an elderly woman, was sitting with me upstairs. She went downstairs and after five minutes I pulled her out from under the rubble. We also pulled my sister out and my sister’s children too,” said Thabet.

“Those who died are my mother, my sister, and my sister’s children. Children! One was two-and-a-half years old, and the other two.”

Israeli forces’ dawn raids on Jenin lead to arrests, destruction

Israeli forces raided a Palestinian home at dawn in the town of Yabad, located west of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, and arrested a young man, Wafa reports.

Raids also took place in Jenin’s Qabatiya city where troops forced their way into the home of a Palestinian man held in an Israeli prison to conduct a search as a military bulldozer destroyed market stalls in the area, the news agency reported.

Locals resisting the raid in Qabatiya clashed with Israeli forces.

In Muthalath al-Shuhada village, also in Jenin, Israeli forces blew up a vehicle and bulldozers destroyed market stalls and goods containers in Arrabeh.

Clashes between local people and Israeli forces were reported in the Sweitat neighbourhood of Jenin and near the al-Asfour and Haddad roundabouts, Wafa said.

_{Palestinian fighters in Jenin rallied on Saturday to protest against the Israeli military’s attack on displaced people in al-Mawasi of central Gaza, which killed at least 90 people and injured hundreds}

Israeli forces demolish gas station near Jerusalem: Report

Israeli forces have demolished a Palestinian petrol station in the town of Hizma, occupied West Bank, north of Jerusalem, the Wafa news agency reports.

Witnesses say the as-Salam station, belonging to the al-Khatib family, was destroyed by Israeli military bulldozers. During the demolition, confrontations broke out with Israeli forces who fired live rounds and stun grenades at residents and their homes, Wafa said.

Local Palestinian channels on Telegram published videos showing the structure left in pieces in a pile.

Israeli forces arrest 15 Palestinians in occupied West Bank

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society says Israeli forces arrested 15 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including a woman and former prisoners.

One in every five Palestinians has been arrested and charged at some point in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Israeli forces displace family of 50 as homes demolished

Palestinian channels on Telegram have shared videos of the destruction caused by the Israeli forces’ demolition of four houses of the al-Araj family in the town of al-Walaja, south of occupied East Jerusalem.

Footage shows about 50 family members standing in the open, looking at the debris of their destroyed homes.