More than 1,000 Israeli attacks on healthcare recorded in Gaza, West Bank

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) said the figure amounts to the most reported attacks on healthcare in “any other conflict over a 10-month period on record”.

“More than 1000 attacks on doctors, patients, clinics, and health infrastructure have fuelled a public health catastrophe in the OPT [Occupied Palestinian Territory]. This grim milestone has few if any precedents for the scale and magnitude of attacks on health in the OPT,” said Houssam al-Nahhas, PHR’s Middle East and North Africa researcher.

“These are not only attacks on brick-and-mortar buildings, but acts that take away hospital beds, essential medications, surgeries, and life-saving care from women, men, boys, and girls,” he said.

The New York-based group called for independent investigations into the attacks on healthcare and warned Israel that the moves could constitute a violation of international humanitarian law.

All students in Gaza have now lost one year of education

As of July 30, 2024, all 625,000 enrolled students in the Gaza Strip have lost one full scholastic year, the UN children’s agency (UNICEF) and Save the Children have announced.

Among them are 39,000 students who have missed the tawjihi – or the 12th grade official exams – for the first time in decades, the groups said in a statement. “This means none of them can transition to higher education, and the majority of them may never return to school again,” they said.

Israeli attacks kill at least 17 at Gaza shelter

Smoke rises after Israeli warplanes bombed the Hamama and al-Huda school complex, in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in the north of Gaza City on Saturday.

Israeli warplanes returned minutes after the first attack to again bomb the school, after volunteers, rescue workers and paramedics had already rushed inside to search for survivors

At least 17 Palestinians were killed and 60 injured as warplanes targeted the crowded school where Palestinian families were sheltering multiple times.

Three killed in Israeli drone attack on Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital

At least three people have been killed and several others wounded as Israeli drones dropped bombs on tents in the yard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, according to colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

Israeli forces have also launched several raids on the eastern neighbourhoods of Gaza City and the western neighbourhoods of the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, while Israeli gunboats fired towards the northwestern areas of Gaza City, according to reports from Palestinian media.

Gaza media office condemns ‘massacre’ at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital

The office said the latest Israeli attack on tents housing displaced Palestinians at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital killed at least three people and wounded 18 others.

“We condemn in the strongest terms this new massacre by the occupation,” it said, urging the international community to pressure Israel to cease its “genocide” and bring an end to the “waterfall of blood” gushing in the Gaza Strip.

Our correspondent in Gaza, Anas al-Sharif, posted a video on X of a fire that broke out at the hospital following the attack.

#عاجل | طائرات الاحتلال المسيرة تقصف خيام النازحين في ساحة مستشفى شهداء الأقصى بمدينة دير البلح وسط قطاع غزة. pic.twitter.com/QJ3ePlOBig

— أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif (@AnasAlSharif0) August 3, 2024

‘Why we suffer that much?’

Shifa al-Days, a woman sheltering in Al-Aqsa Hospital’s yard, lost her daughter in the Israeli drone attack.

“I was sleeping together with my children in the tent,” al-Days told Al Jazeera. “My daughter has also a separate tent next to me. Suddenly we heard the shelling, then I quickly got up to check on the children. I was shocked when I found my daughter dead at the entrance of the tent,” she said.

“My daughter’s two sons have lost their mother. Why we suffer that much?” she asked.

Three more Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on Deir el-Balah

_{Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on August 4}

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting another deadly Israeli air attack on Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.

The Israeli attack on the home of the al-Hasanat family killed three people and wounded several others, AJA reported.

Israeli forces also hit the home of the Amour family in Jabalia in northern Gaza, AJA reported, causing a number of casualties.

Four Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on Jabalia

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic, citing medical sources, are reporting that at least four Palestinians were killed in the attack on a house in the al-Fakhoura area in Jabalia.

Earlier, six other Palestinians were killed in two separate Israeli attacks on a home and the yard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah.

Israeli soldier ‘seriously’ wounded in Gaza

The Israeli military said that a soldier from the 401st Armoured Brigade’s 9th Battalion was “seriously” wounded in battle on Saturday in the southern Gaza Strip.

At least 329 Israeli soldiers have been killed in battle in the Gaza Strip and in operations in northern Israel since October 7, according to The Times of Israel.

Five rockets fired from southern Gaza: Israeli army

In a short statement, the Israeli military says one of the rockets fell in an area near Ashkelon in southern Israel, without causing any casualties.

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US, UK in panic mode fearing imminent Iranian retaliatory attacks on Israel?

Days after denying the inevitability of a retaliatory attack by Iran on Israel, the US on Saturday ordered its citizens in Lebanon to leave the country with the first available flight. The UK issued a similar advisory to its citizens.

Israel orders Palestinians to leave from southern, southeastern parts of Khan Younis

The Israeli military has issued a new order for Palestinians to leave the southern and southeastern parts of Khan Younis in Gaza, according to Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary in Deir el-Balah.

She said the announcement affects the neighbourhoods of Jurat al-Lot, al-Manara, Maan, Kizan, Kizan Abu Rashuan, al-Najjar, as-Salam, and al-Hashash.

The residents of these areas were warned that “any presence of civilians in these areas is dangerous and of high risk”, she said.

It was not clear where people were expected to flee, as there is no safe place left in the enclave.

Earlier this month, the United Nations said more than 86 percent of Gaza was already affected by Israel’s so-called evacuation orders, with most people asked to live in small “safe zones” that repeatedly come under Israeli attacks.

Dozens killed in Israeli strikes on two schools in Gaza City

The Palestinian Media Center and our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that 25 Palestinians have been killed and many others injured in Israeli strikes on Hassan Salameh and Al Nasr schools in Gaza City.

Israeli military says attacks on schools targeted Hamas fighters

In its latest war update, the Israeli military says the “schools were used by Hamas’s Al-Furqan Battalion as a hiding place for its terrorist operatives and as command centres used to plan and execute attacks”.

At least 25 Palestinians have been reported killed in the strikes on the two schools, which were sheltering displaced people in Gaza City.

Majority of casualties in school bombings are children: Palestinian Civil Defence

Mahmoud Basal, the spokesman of the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza, says the Israeli forces have committed “a massacre in every sense of the word” by bombing the Al Nasr and Hassan Salama schools.

He described the scenes of the attacks as “difficult and tragic” with children accounting for 80 percent of those killed and wounded.

_{An injured child walks after receiving treatment at al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City following Israeli bombardment on the Hassan Salameh and Al Nassr schools}

Israeli attacks on Gaza City schools come without any prior warning

What we know so far is that these two schools have been severely damaged to the point where people have started to evacuate the entire area, seeking safety and protection elsewhere.

This is the same exact scenario that we’ve seen in the past few days.

What we know for a fact right now is that there is a concentration of attacks on evacuation centres. What’s really concerning is that the Israeli military is not giving any prior warning to people inside.

These evacuation centres are mainly schools, as they are the only large spaces available right now for a significant number of displaced people.

This is happening in an unpredictable way, causing severe casualties and increasing the trauma of a population already displaced in some cases up to five, six or seven times across the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

Many Palestinians ‘still under the rubble’ of two schools

_{Palestinian rescuers extinguish a fire in a damaged building following Israeli bombardment that hit a school complex in the north of Gaza City on August 3}

Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) official Nebal Farsakh, who was at the scene of the Israeli strikes on two schools in Gaza City, told Al Jazeera that its ambulance teams managed to evacuate several Palestinians who were wounded but “many are still missing under the rubble”.

She described “horrific scenes” with “women screaming” as they looked for their children in the rubble.

“This attack is again another proof that there is no safe place in Gaza. These two schools are housing displaced civilians who have been forced to leave multiple times, and now even they have been forced to flee another time after this attack,” she said.

“Israel has been systematically targeting civilians.”

Death toll rises to 30 after Israeli attacks on two Gaza City schools

At least 30 bodies have been recovered from the al-Nasr and Hassan Salama schools after Israeli air attacks, according to the Gaza’s Civil Defence.

The rescue service said on Telegram that about 16 displaced people were still missing under the rubble of the al-Nasr school.

Houthis down US drone over Saada in Yemen: Report

Yemen’s Houthi group has downed a US MQ-9 drone over the country’s northern Saada province, two sources from the group told Reuters news agency.

The attack would be the first to be claimed by the Iran-aligned group since Israel carried out an air strike targeting the port of Hodeidah, considered an economic lifeline of Yemen.

Houthis display downed US-made drone with partly damaged missiles

Houthi fighters have released a video of the remains of the US-made MQ-9 Reaper attack and reconnaissance drone that they claimed was downed while engaged in “hostile activity” over Yemen’s capital Sanaa.

The fighter, in the video, notes how petrol is dripping from the destroyed drone and shows how some of its missiles remain partly intact.

مشاهد حطام الطائرة الأمريكية MQ-9 التي اسقطها الدفاعات الجوية اليمنية بصاروخ ارض جو محلي الصنع اثناء قيامها بأعمال عدتئية في اجواء محافظة صعدة 04-08-2024م pic.twitter.com/tO3E2RTvWW

— الإعلام الحربي اليمني (@MMY1444) August 4, 2024

Houthis claim attack on cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden

Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree says that the Yemeni group hit the Groton – a Liberia-flagged cargo ship – in the Gulf of Aden “with a number of ballistic missiles”.

Late on Saturday, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) reported that an unnamed cargo ship was attacked twice off Yemen’s coast, with at least one missile hitting the ship.

Saree also confirmed reports that the group has downed a US-made MQ-9 Reaper attack and surveillance drone, marking the seventh such drone shot down since the start of the war on Gaza.

Saudi Arabia urges citizens to leave Lebanon ‘immediately’

Saudi Arabia has called on its citizens to leave Lebanon without delay.

The Saudi embassy in Beirut said in a statement posted on X that it was “following closely the developments in south Lebanon”, near the border with Israel, and “reiterating its call for Saudi nationals to leave Lebanon’s territory immediately”.

Israeli media reporting GPS disruptions in Tel Aviv

Israel’s media outlet Haaretz is reporting that residents of the greater Tel Aviv area are experiencing “heavy disruptions to location-based apps”.

The report said the disruption was “a move most likely initiated by Israel as it prepares for Hezbollah and Iranian strikes”.