Israeli list of fighters killed in Gaza City contains misinformation, Palestinian sources say

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic, citing Palestinian sources, are reporting that the list of 19 fighters that Israel claimed were targeted in the attack on al-Tabin School carried misinformation.

Two of the men were in fact killed days before the attack in other areas of the Gaza Strip, the sources said.

They are Montaser Dahir, who was killed along with his sister in his apartment a day before the school attack and Youssef al-Wadiya, who was killed two days before in a different location, they said.

Another man on the list – Mohammed al-Taif – was an academic and a former school principal and was not involved in any military activity, they added.

The Palestinian Quds News Network also reported that the list was “full of misinformation” and said “more than half of those listed were not involved in any political or military activities”.

It's all lies, can't trust anything the IDF and Israel claim, nor the US for that matter.

Horrific testimonies unfold over Israel’s massacre in Gaza City

The extent of the brutality of the attacks on al-Tabin School in Gaza City keeps unfolding with more horrific testimonies.

These are either from the medical staff at al-Ahli Arab Hospital (Baptist Hospital), who were treating the wounded and dealing with a huge influx of injuries arriving, or from the civil defence crews who were at the bombsite after receiving the news of the strikes.

There are stories of remaining family members still searching for their missing children in the attack, who somehow evaporated with no signs of them any more.

The medical staff would describe injuries arriving at the hospital, and admitted right away to the operating theatre for surgeries, removing flesh and bones of other bodies.

They say they had to remove other people’s body parts shredded into pieces and stuck to these wounded people that needed to be operated.

_{A man carries the body of a family member following an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza City}

Australia condemns Israeli raid on school sheltering displaced Palestinians

Australia has joined the international community in condemning the deaths of more than 100 civilians in an Israeli bombing of a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza City.

“Innocent Palestinians cannot continue to pay the price of defeating Hamas,” Foreign Minister Penny Wong said in a post on X, calling for an “immediate” ceasefire in the besieged enclave.

“Australia condemns the deaths of civilians from Israel’s strike on al-Tabeen School. Israel must comply with international humanitarian law,” Wong said. Dozens were also injured as an Israeli aircraft targeted Palestinians performing dawn prayers at the school in the city’s Daraj neighbourhood.

So stop your arms trade with Israel, impose sanctions.

Germany’s Scholz says it’s time to finalise truce deal

Many military objectives in Israel’s fight against Hamas have been achieved while civilian casualties and human suffering in Gaza are enormous, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a phone conversation, according to a German government statement.

The statement said Scholz told the Israeli leader it is important to break the destructive spiral of violence in the Middle East.

“An end to the war in Gaza would be a decisive step towards a regional de-escalation,” it said. Scholz also told Netanyahu it is time to finalise an agreement on the release of captives and a ceasefire in Gaza.

Killing sheltering civilians ‘unacceptable’: Germany

“The reports from Gaza are terrible. Civilians seeking shelter getting killed is unacceptable,” it said, adding that the repeated attacks on schools by the Israeli army must stop and be investigated quickly.

“The suffering of women, men and many children seeking protection, who have been fleeing the fights in Gaza for months, is immeasurable. They must not get in the crossfire any longer. Hamas must stop abusing them as protective shields,” it said.

There is no evidence yet Hamas fighters have used civilians as human shields in the ongoing war.

It's time for you to stop supporting genocide and stop spreading misinformation / making excuses for the IDF.

Israel’s actions in Gaza ‘require a whole new vocabulary’

Dr James Smith, an emergency physician who returned from a medical mission to Gaza in June, says he never saw anything like what is going on in the enclave over the course of his career as a doctor working in the humanitarian system.

He said what is happening in Gaza “requires a whole new vocabulary”.

“There is no way to effectively describe what Israel is doing to the Palestinians in Gaza,” he told Al Jazeera, adding that the Israeli strikes on a Gaza City school sheltering people is the latest Israeli “massacre” in the enclave.

“The definition of a massacre is a deliberate brutal barbaric attack on a large group of people. Typically a massacre provokes or prompts a widespread condemnation and action,” he said.

“It is inconceivable to me that we are talking about hundreds of massacres that have happened in the course of the last 10 months,” he added.

“It is absolutely wild to me that the US government can publicly state ‘deep concern’ while providing military support for the violence that Israelis enacting against the Palestinian people.”

‘The more you move, the more suffering and destruction you see’

Salim Oweis, a communications officer at UNICEF’s Middle East and North Africa office, has recently returned from Gaza and tells Al Jazeera the reality is much worse than what people see on TV screens.

“We don’t see on the screens the depth of the deaths and destruction, the depths of people suffering and their daily struggles for the basics of the basics,” he said. “So the situation there is really dire.”

“I was based in Deir el-Balah and Khan Younis and also north of Gaza, and to be honest, the more you move, the more suffering and destruction you see. The situation is really beyond description,” he said.

He described the impact of repeated attacks on schools as devastating.

“Those schools are not schools any more. They are very basic shelters for so many families, and we have unfortunately seen in the last 10 months so many of those attacks on schools, on hospitals, on civilian infrastructure that children and families rely on, which makes life even more miserable.”

The International Criminal Court – fit for purpose?

The International Criminal Court (ICC), established in 2002, seeks to hold to account those guilty of some of the world’s worst crimes.

Supporters say it deters would-be war criminals, bolsters the rule of law, and offers justice to victims of atrocities. But it has only had 11 successful convictions in nearly a quarter of a century, having spent nearly $2bn. The United States, China and Russia are not among its members, and many African governments say its prosecutions single out Africa.

Now, as the world waits to see if the ICC will issue arrest warrants for the leaders of Israel and Hamas, People and Power asks whether the court is fit for purpose.

Haniyeh’s killing violated Iran’s sovereignty: China’s top diplomat

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi says his country supports Iran in defending its “sovereignty, security and national dignity”, according to a statement by the ministry.

In a phone call with Iran’s acting foreign minister, Wang repeated Beijing’s condemnation of the assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, saying the strike had violated Iran’s sovereignty and threatened regional stability.

Wang told Ali Bagheri Kani that Haniyeh’s killing “directly undermined the Gaza ceasefire negotiation process and undermined regional peace and stability”, China’s Foreign Ministry said.

Iran and Hamas have accused Israel of carrying out a strike that killed Haniyeh on July 31. Israel has not claimed or denied responsibility for the killing. Iran has promised to “harshly punish” Israel over the assassination.

Palestinians in Jenin protest against Israel’s school ‘massacre’

The Wafa news agency is reporting that Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin held a demonstration to condemn the Israeli deadly attack on Gaza City’s al-Tabin school.

The protesters marched through the city’s streets, chanting slogans “denouncing the occupation’s crimes and ongoing massacres” in the Gaza Strip, Wafa reported.

They also called on the international community to intervene and end Israel’s war on Gaza.

Israeli military carries out arrests across the occupied West Bank

The Israeli military has arrested six people from the town of al-Issawiya, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, the Wafa news agency reports.

Israeli forces have also arrested three men from the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, Wafa reports, while another man has been arrested in the town of Bani Naim, east of Hebron.

Three people have also been arrested following clashes in the el-Ein camp near Nablus, where Israeli forces shot and wounded a Palestinian man earlier, while a man has also been arrested in the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya.

Israeli forces detain 16 in occupied West Bank

The overnight arrests have taken place in occupied East Jerusalem, Hebron, Jenin, Qalqilya and Nablus, according to the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society.

Among those detained were former prisoners and a journalist, a statement by the organisations said. Since the war began, Israeli forces have detained about 10,000 Palestinians, they added.

Casualties reported as Israel bombs Khan Younis

Several Palestinians were wounded at dawn after Israeli forces shelled a house in the town of Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Younis, according to local media reports.

Videos of the aftermath of the attack, posted online by the Palestinian Information Center, showed people carrying the wounded, including a bloodied child covered in dust. The attack came as Al-Aqsa TV also reported that Israeli fighter jets were carrying out air attacks on the town of Bani Suheila, also east of Khan Younis.

Earlier, we reported that Israel’s military ordered Palestinians living in more areas of Khan Younis to evacuate ahead of a planned operation there.

Israel issues new evacuation orders for Khan Younis

The Israeli military is ordering civilians in the al-Jalaa neighbourhood of Khan Younis to evacuate, saying there had been “numerous acts of terrorism” in the area.

“The early warning is carried out in order to reduce the damage to the civilian population and keep them away from the combat area,” the military said in a post on X, showing a colour-coded map further adjusting the boundaries of the “humanitarian zone” in southern Gaza.

The notice is the second such order in the past few hours. Earlier, the Israeli military issued an evacuation order for Palestinian civilians in areas south of Khan Younis city centre, including Sheikh Nasser, Barbakh and Maen.

According to the UN, up to 70,000 people have already been forcibly displaced recently as a result of Israel’s evacuation orders for eastern parts of Khan Younis, while more than 86 percent of the Gaza Strip’s land area is currently subject to such notices.

Sonic booms – the war tactic Israel uses to sow fear in Lebanon

The first time Eliah Kaylough, 26, heard the thunderous blast, he was so terrified, he instinctively ran for cover. He had just started his shift as a waiter at a restaurant on bustling Gemmayze Street in east Beirut on Tuesday when he was suddenly startled by the sound of a major blast.

For Kaylough, it immediately triggered memories of the massive port explosion in 2020 and he was terrified the city was either experiencing a new explosion or that it was under attack.

But as he was racing out of the restaurant, a man from a nearby shop stopped him and explained that Beirut wasn’t being bombed. The sound, Kaylough discovered, was a sonic boom, a thunderous noise caused by an object moving faster than the speed of sound.

Israeli jets have been increasingly triggering these sonic booms over Lebanon since October 7 last year, following the attack on southern Israel by Hamas. But the booms which sounded over Beirut on Tuesday were the loudest that had been heard in the city, several residents told Al Jazeera.

Israel’s war on Gaza threatens Middle East stability: Jordan’s monarch

King Abdullah II has said that the region will remain vulnerable to an expansion of the conflict that threatens its stability, as long as the war on Gaza continues.

The monarch made his statement to a visiting delegation of US Congressional staffers in Jordan’s capital, Amman.

PLO condemns Israeli statement on Jenin refugee camp

Rawhi Fattouh, the head of the PLO’s Palestinian National Council, has condemned Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz’s remarks that claimed the refugee camps in the occupied West Bank are “hotbeds of evil under Iranian influence”.

Fattouh said that Katz’s comments were an attempt to justify ongoing Israeli aggression in the West Bank, particularly in the Jenin refugee camp.

Earlier today, Katz said: “We must address a terrorist hub like the Jenin refugee camp by temporarily evacuating its residents to a secure location and thoroughly dismantling the terrorist infrastructure within the camp, as was done in Gaza.”

Fattouh said that “this is part of the silent war launched by Israel on the West Bank, and it includes everything from land confiscation to home demolitions and destruction of refugee camps”.

Hamas holds US responsible for ‘horrific massacres in Gaza’

The Palestinian group says war crimes and genocide perpetrated by Israel in the besieged coastal enclave “would not be ongoing if it weren’t for the support of some Western capitals, led by Washington”.

In a post on its official Telegram channel, Hamas said the US has provided Israel with political and military support, making it “a direct accomplice in [al-Tabin school] massacre and other crimes and violations”.