Israeli forces fire live rounds, stun grenades in West Bank raids

Here’s what we know:

Stepped-up military action in Nablus in ongoing West Bank assault

Israeli forces have been in Jenin for more than 40 days now and have destroyed the three refugee camps in that area.

There is now more focus on the Nablus area, which is quite a large governorate. There are several large illegal Israeli settlements there as well. We are seeing more stepped-up military action in Nablus and villages around Tubas.

The Israeli army has been moving from the northern tip of the West Bank further down to the south. It has said this is going to be a prolonged and comprehensive military assault on the entire territory of the West Bank.

Settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque courtyard

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic, citing local sources, report that Israeli settlers stormed the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Mosque while Israeli troops disabled loudspeakers in the Marwani prayer hall.

There have been daily incursions by hundreds of Israeli settlers into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound – Islam’s third-holiest site – during the holy month of Ramadan.

Israeli authorities have also placed severe restrictions on Palestinians travelling to the compound from the occupied West Bank.

Israeli soldiers roll Palestinian car off cliff in occupied West Bank

This is the moment Israeli soldiers pushed a Palestinian’s car off a cliff after arresting him during a traffic stop in Hebron in the occupied West Bank:

Israeli forces blow up home in Jenin camp

The house was located on Mahyoub Street in the besieged Jenin refugee camp, the occupied West Bank, where Israel’s military continues its weekslong incursion.

Footage shared by the Palestinian Information Center appears to show clouds of smoking rising around the destroyed home.

About 40,000 Palestinians have been driven from their homes in the Israeli-occupied territory since January.

Israeli forces storm village near Jenin

Our colleagues, quoting local sources, report that Israeli tanks entered areas in and around the village of Wadi Burqin in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli tanks fired smoke bombs at vehicles and civilians, sources said.

Footage published on local media outlets and verified by Al Jazeera shows an Israeli military convoy moving along a road near Jenin as smoke billows from the roadside. Israel’s continuing deadly raids in the occupied West Bank have killed at least 25 Palestinians and displaced 40,000 so far this year.

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Israeli tank fires in attack on Wadi Burqin in West Bank

Video filmed by local Palestinian journalists has emerged of an Israeli tank opening fire in Wadi Burqin, west of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank.

The tank was firing towards a mountainous area, according to the journalists.

We reported earlier that the Israeli military was conducting a raid in Wadi Burqin, where Israeli forces had fired smoke bombs at vehicles and civilians.

Six bakeries in Khan Younis shut down

The abrupt cessation of all humanitarian aid to Gaza has been a devastating blow to millions of hungry and vulnerable Palestinians.

Signs of a crisis are starting to loom. For example, six bakeries in the city of Khan Younis, which thousands of families depend on, have suspended their services due to a lack of fuel.

It is worth remembering here that Netanyahu imposed this blockade to pressure Hamas, but it is civilians that are bearing the brunt of this political step. The Israeli prime minister also said during a cabinet meeting that there will be no free meals to the Gaza Strip.

UN agencies have repeatedly stressed the need for humanitarian aid to re-enter the Strip to address this crisis, which has no end in sight. The atmosphere could further deteriorate if there is no international intervention or agreement reached between Hamas and Israel in Cairo.

Israeli blockade of Gaza has ‘severe implications’ for Palestinians

Amjad Shawa, head of the Palestinian NGOs Network, says people “are living in a very deep humanitarian catastrophe due to Israeli attacks and systemic destruction of the socioeconomic structure in Gaza”.

Gaza residents report hunger and hardship despite recent ceasefire

With the cutoff of all supplies to Gaza, Palestinians are reporting sharp price increases for dwindling items as fears grow again, in the middle of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

“Since the ceasefire began, the situation has improved a little. But before that, the situation was very bad,” Fares al-Qeisi in the southern city of Khan Younis told AP news agency.

“I swear to God, one could not satisfy their hunger,” al-Qeisi said.

At least one killed in Gaza City

An Israeli military attack has killed at least one person and injured others in Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood, reports the Wafa news agency, quoting local medical sources.

In central Gaza, a drone attack took place near Maghazi camp, said Wafa, without reporting casualties.

Israeli military kills and wounds Palestinians in Gaza City

Two Palestinians were killed and an unknown number of others wounded in an Israeli army attack in Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood, Al Jazeera’s correspondent reports.

Doctors at al-Ahli Arab Hospital described the condition of some of the injured as critical.

Israel’s energy minister orders stoppage of electricity transmission to Gaza: Report

The minister, Eli Cohen, has ordered the stoppage of electricity transmission to Gaza, according to the Israeli public broadcaster Kan.

Gaza had been reliant on Israel for much of its electricity supply before the war, but since October 2023 Israel has severely restricted the supply of electricity, and restricted the fuel needed for Gaza’s sole power plant.

Last Sunday, the Israel Hayom newspaper reported that the Israeli government was willing to cut electricity and water if Hamas did not agree to extend phase one of the ceasefire deal instead of moving on to phase two.

The newspaper reported that mediators have been given a few days to persuade Hamas to bend to Israel’s demands, but that PM Benjamin Netanyahu was not prepared to agree to ending the war because that would mean Hamas remaining in power.

Cohen in a post on X has confirmed the news, saying he has signed an order to “cut off electricity to the Gaza Strip immediately”. “Enough with the talk, it’s time for action!,” he added.

The announcement comes a week after Israel cut off all supplies of goods to more than two million people in the territory, a move that has received widespread condemnation.

Israel’s Ben-Gvir backs decision to cut electricity to Gaza

The far-right former National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who resigned from his cabinet position in January because he refused any ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, said that he supported the government’s move.

“I welcome the power cut to Gaza and the sector must be plunged into complete darkness immediately as long as there are still Israeli captives,” Ben-Gvir said. “Israel should bomb the massive fuel storage that entered the sector as part of the miserable [ceasefire] deal.”

The deal that Ben-Gvir opposes would secure the release of all Israeli captives held in Gaza if it were fully implemented.

Ben-Gvir – who was already notorious for his anti-Palestinian positions – has repeatedly urged that bombing resume on Gaza, and that the enclave be starved of all supplies from the outside.

He was blamed by one released captive, Eli Sharabi, of making boastful statements about the poor conditions faced by Palestinian prisoners in Israel that would lead to captives being mistreated. Ben-Gvir refused to apologise, and said that the media was repeating Hamas propaganda.

Israel cutting off electricity will affect water supply

To clarify, there was already little electricity supplied to Gaza. The only thing that did receive electricity were the water desalination plants in the southern parts of the Gaza Strip.

Palestinians in Gaza have been suffering from a lack of water. We know there is no fuel to fill up the generators to pump the water and there are no cooking gas cylinders as a substitute.

Hamas says Gaza’s electricity cut off since start of war

The Palestinian groups says Israeli forces have already cut off electricity to the Gaza Strip since the war began in October 2023, Al Jazeera Arabic is reporting.

Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem made the remarks in a statement in response to Israel’s earlier decision today to immediately halt the supply of electricity to Gaza.

Israeli official says electricity cut will only affect one desalination plant

As we’ve been reporting – and despite the announcement from the Israeli energy minister today – Israel had already cut off almost all electricity from Gaza.

The Times of Israel is now reporting that the announcement that all electricity supplied from Israel will be cut will therefore only affect a single desalination plant in Deir el-Balah, according to an Israeli official. The tank serves more than 600,000 Palestinians in Gaza.

Even power to that plant had been cut off after the beginning of the war in October 2023, but Israel announced in November 2024 that it was restoring power to the solitary plant.