Israel’s governing party signs letter calling for West Bank annexation

Israel’s governing party Likud, led by Netanyahu, has pushed for the formal annexation of the West Bank before the Israeli parliament’s summer recess on July 27. Israeli media has reported that the letter has been signed by all of Likud’s government ministers.

The party justified the move by citing Israel’s “historic achievements” in its war against Iran, claiming the annexation is necessary to eliminate what they call an “existential threat from within”.

The letter also invokes the “strategic partnership” and support from the US, specifically mentioning Trump, framing this as an opportune moment to secure Israel’s future “for generations”.

Annexing the West Bank is widely condemned by international legal experts as illegal under international law.

Far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich praised the push, declaring he is ready to “implement Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank immediately” once Netanyahu “gives the order”.

Debate over expulsion of Arab lawmaker scheduled in Knesset

The Israeli Knesset will debate whether to expel Ayman Odeh, a prominent Arab lawmaker in the Israeli parliament, on July 14.

During a previous ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, Odeh said he was happy to see the release of Israeli captives held in Gaza and Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, many of whom were swept into prisons during mass arrests and never charged with a crime.

Israeli lawmakers expressed outrage, accusing Odeh of equating Israeli captives and Palestinian prisoners, and a Knesset committee voted in favour of impeaching Odeh at the end of June, clearing the way for his possible expulsion.

“We will stand firm,” Odeh said in a social media post responding to the announcement. “We will stand against fascism, against Kahanism, against Jewish supremacy, against the occupation, and against all the anti-democratic forces that try to silence us and destroy our shared space.”

Only 40 percent in Israel trust Netanyahu, survey reveals

Public trust in Netanyahu stands at just 40 percent, according to a new survey released by the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI), revealing the ongoing divisions within Israeli society amid its war on Gaza.

The poll, conducted last month during the final days of the war with Iran and cited by Israeli media, found significantly higher trust in Israel’s top security officials. Israeli military Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir topped the list with a 68.5 percent trust rating, followed by Mossad director David Barnea at 67 percent.

Even among Jewish Israelis, only 46 percent expressed trust in Netanyahu, while just 10 percent of Palestinian citizens of Israel said the same. Defense Minister Israel Katz received an even lower overall trust rating than Netanyahu, with just 35 percent of respondents expressing confidence in him.

WFP says the window to push back starvation in Gaza ‘closing fast’

The World Food Programme is warning that the opportunity to push back starvation in Gaza is closing fast as Israel continues to restrict the entry of aid into the besieged enclave.

Samer Abdel Jaber, the WFP’s regional director, said the agency needs three things to address the hunger crisis in Gaza.

These are “multiple points of access and safe routes to reach families that are constantly being displaced; support from the international community to allow and enable humanitarian actors to do their job; and more than anything, we need a sustained ceasefire,” he said.

Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital crippled by fuel crisis

Gaza’s largest hospital, al-Shifa, is facing a catastrophic collapse as fuel shortages force critical services to shut down.

Israel’s blockade has cut fuel supplies to the hospital, leaving only backup generators powering urgent care. Those are now running dry. This means kidney dialysis machines have stopped and intensive care units are barely functioning, leaving hundreds of lives at immediate risk.

Dozens of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes since dawn

More than 30 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn today, sources in the territory’s hospitals have told Al Jazeera.

Among the deaths were six people killed in a drone strike on tents housing displaced people in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. Ten others, most of them children, were injured in the strike, medical sources say.

Another Israeli air attack on a house in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City has killed four Palestinians, including two children, a source at the al-Ahli Arab Hospital told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

_{Palestinians inspect the damage after an Israeli strike on tents sheltering displaced people in Khan Younis}

Israel bombs Shujayea neighbourhood in eastern Gaza City

Israeli army kills Indonesian Hospital director, family

We are receiving reports from Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues that Marwan al-Sultan, the director of the Indonesian Hospital, has been killed along with his family in an Israeli attack in Gaza City.

The attack took place on a residential building southwest of Gaza City. His wife and children were also killed in the attack.

Al-Sultan was a key source of information from Gaza, reporting on the conditions of Palestinians in the north of the besieged enclave. He had repeatedly called on the international community to press for medical teams’ safety, including when the Israeli army laid siege or struck the hospital.

Israel’s top diplomat says opportunity to free Gaza captives ‘must not be missed’

Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar says any opportunity to free captives held in Gaza should not be missed, after US President Donald Trump said Israel had agreed to finalise a 60-day ceasefire.

“A large majority within the government and the population is in favour of the plan to free the hostages. If the opportunity arises, it must not be missed!” Gideon Saar wrote on X.

Divisions in Israeli cabinet as hardliners oppose ceasefire deal

We’ve already seen a lot of reaction in Israel to this proposed ceasefire agreement announced by Donald Trump. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has said there is a lot of support, both within the cabinet and within the public at large for this deal.

Meanwhile, opposition leader Yair Lapid has voiced his support, and offered Netanyahu a safety net so that he can proceed with accepting the ceasefire agreement.

This is important because we’ve already heard from National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir calling on another hardline ally in the coalition, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, to come together so they can abort the deal.

That’s naturally drawn outrage from the families of Israeli captives, whose loved ones stand to be released by Hamas under this proposed deal. They have berated Ben-Gvir for his stance with a single-word response: “Shame.”

Talk of ceasefire met with guarded hope, scepticism in Gaza

Here on the ground in Gaza, the reaction to [US President] Donald Trump’s announcement of a proposed ceasefire has been met with a mix of guarded hope and deep scepticism.

After nearly 21 months of widespread destruction, mass displacement and bombardment, Palestinians here are desperate for any pause in the attacks. But this hope has been dampened by their previous bitter experience. Previously, ceasefire talks have repeatedly collapsed, and many Palestinians say they’ve heard this rhetoric before from Trump.

At the moment, though, they believe there’s serious will from Trump to pressure both Hamas and Israel to reach a ceasefire deal. Until now, Israel has not publicly confirmed the agreement, and the fact that Hamas remains silent only deepens the uncertainty.

The overwhelming sentiment among Palestinians is that they are looking for a full and comprehensive de-escalation in hostilities, and to see a mitigation in their appalling humanitarian conditions. And that cannot take place without a sustained ceasefire.

Hamas says it wants an agreement that ends the war

The Palestinian group says it is reviewing a ceasefire proposal from mediators and that it seeks an agreement that will lead to the end of the war and withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza – demands that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long rejected.

Hamas official Taher al-Nunu said the group is “ready and serious” about reaching an agreement and will accept “any initiative that clearly leads to the complete end to the war”.

Gaza court gives Israeli-backed gang leader 10 days to surrender

A court in Gaza has given Yasser Abu Shabab, the leader of a criminal group backed by Israel, 10 days to surrender himself for trial.

In a statement, the Revolutionary Court of the Military Judiciary Authority in Gaza said Abu Shabab would be considered a fugitive from justice and tried in absentia if he doesn’t surrender.

He was thrust into the limelight last month when Netanyahu said his government had “activated” powerful local clans in Gaza on the advice of “security officials”.

Abu Shabab’s group, which reportedly consists of about 100 armed men, later said online that its members were involved in guarding aid shipments sent to distribution centres run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). Mass killings of aid seekers near the US- and Israeli-backed GHF distribution centres have become a routine occurrence.

The court said Abu Shabab faces three charges: treason and communicating with hostile parties; forming an armed gang; and armed rebellion. It said anyone who knew of his whereabouts and failed to report him would be considered to be concealing a fugitive from justice.

Switzerland to dissolve GHF’s Geneva branch

Switzerland has initiated proceedings to dissolve the Geneva branch of the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid group, citing legal shortcomings in its establishment.

The US and Israeli-backed GHF, based in the US state of Delaware, registered an affiliate in Geneva on February 12 this year.

“The ESA may order the dissolution of the foundation if no creditors come forward within the legal 30-day period,” the Federal Supervisory Authority for Foundations (ESA) said in a creditors’ notice published in the Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce.

ESA told Reuters news agency that GHF had not fulfilled certain legal requirements, including having the correct number of board members, a postal address or a Swiss bank account.

“GHF confirmed to the ESA that it had never carried out activities in Switzerland … and that it intends to dissolve the Geneva-registered (branch),” ESA said in a statement.

Last week, authorities in Geneva issued a separate legal notice to GHF to remedy within 30 days “deficiencies in the organisation” or face potential action. More than 600 people have been killed near GHF distribution hubs in Gaza or along access roads guarded by Israeli forces since the controversial group started operating there, according to Palestinian authorities.

Corbyn condemns UK gov’t move to ban Palestine Action

Jeremy Corby, former Labour Party leader in the UK, said the Independent Alliance, the five-MP group in parliament, “unequivocally oppose” the proscription of activist group Palestine Action.

The UK government is in the midst of a formal process to ban the group as a “terrorist” organisation. The proscription would trigger a range of criminal offences relating to support for the group.

“The use of Terrorism Act is an outrageous clampdown on civil disobedience. We implore MPs to recognise this gross misuse of state power for what it is: an assault on the democratic rights of us all,” read a statement by the Independent Alliance.

MPs are due to debate and vote on the proscription order today.

Some Palestine Action activists broke into RAF Brize Norton, the largest station of the Royal Air Force in Oxfordshire, and sprayed two military planes with red paint due to “UK government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide”.

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REVEALED: UK Hosting Israeli Military Planes Involved in Gaza War Crimes

Palestine Deep Dive’s Ahmed Alnaouq and Matt Kennard discuss his latest story about the Labour government secretly allowing Israeli Air Force planes to land in the UK. They discuss where Matt and colleagues found the evidence and why the UK government has tried so hard to keep it secret.

They also talk about the significance of the UK base where the IAF planes have been landing, RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, which was recently targeted by Palestine Action.

Matt explains how IAF refuelling planes have been active over Gaza around the time of war crimes, including attacks on residential apartment blocks. They finish by talking about the implications of the new findings, with British ministers coming under increasing pressure for transparency about the UK military and intelligence role in the Gaza genocide.

US calls Iran’s decision to suspend cooperation with IAEA ‘unacceptable’

The US State Department said that Iran’s decision to suspend cooperation with the international atomic energy watchdog is “unacceptable”. The decision comes after the US carried out massive strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities amid a war initiated by Israel against Iran.

“It is unacceptable that Iran chose to suspend cooperation with the IAEA at a time when it has a window of opportunity to reverse course and choose a path of peace and prosperity,” State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce told reporters.

“Iran must cooperate fully without further delay.”

While the US has said that its attacks would set back Iran’s ability to pursue nuclear weapons if it chose to do so, experts warned that the strikes could push Iran
towards the pursuit of nuclear weapons, and the country has rejected IAEA requests for nuclear site inspections in recent days.

Iran had previously agreed to an agreement limiting its nuclear energy programme, but the US threw out the agreement during Trump’s first term in office.


US is responsible for the deaths of millions across the ME.

Over 432,000 civilians have died violently as a direct result of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan. However, when indirect deaths caused by the wars' impact on infrastructure, economies, and healthcare are included, the total death toll could be as high as 4.5 to 4.7 million.

And those 'thousands' of deaths of Americans are during the illegal invasion of Iraq... (to oust the Dictator put there by the CIA)

The U.S. Department of Defense has said that Iran was responsible for at least 608 American troop deaths in Iraq between 2003 and 2011, some 17% of all U.S. service personnel deaths in that time period.

US ‘Bunker Buster Act’ could arm Israel with B-2 stealth bombers

A pair of US lawmakers are introducing the Bunker Buster Bill, which would authorise President Trump to transfer B‑2 stealth bombers to Israel.

Representative Josh Gottheimer, who will jointly brought forward the bill, said on X, “Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terror and is responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans. As Iran rebuilds its nuclear program, we must maintain maximum deterrence.”

“My bipartisan Bunker Buster Act will give Israel the tools she needs to deter Iranian aggression and take out their underground nuclear sites – strengthening US national security.”

Bunker buster bombs can penetrate more than 200 feet of concrete or rock before detonating and were used by the US in recent air strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

US Muslim rights group condemns Israeli strike that killed Gaza hospital director

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a US-based Muslim and Arab rights group, has released a statement condemning an Israeli attack that killed Marwan al-Sultan, the director of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, along with members of his family.

Rights groups say that Israeli forces have systematically targeted medical workers and health infrastructure in Gaza throughout the war.

“We strongly condemn the Israeli government’s assassination of Marwan Al-Sultan, the director of the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza, along with his family,” director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said in a statement.

“Medical organisations in the United States and across the world have a moral obligation to condemn the Israeli government’s genocide in Gaza, especially this systematic targeting of doctors, nurses and hospitals.

“Israeli forces are purposefully targeting medical staff and turn aid distribution zones into execution sites to make Gaza uninhabitable. Medical associations must end their silence.”

European lawmaker wants Israeli military companies barred from accessing EU funds

Nacho Sanchez Amor, a Spanish socialist lawmaker in the European Parliament, has said that Israeli military companies should not be able to access European Union funds.

In a social media post, he said that he and lawmaker Sandra Gomez have asked the European Commission to consider the request.

“The EU cannot fall under double standards when it comes to human rights violations and and it cannot be accessory to #Netanyahu genocidal actions,” he said. “With Sandra Gomez we ask the EU Commission to bar Israeli military companies from accessing EU Funds that can be used in Gaza.”

Almost 400,000 Palestinians displaced by Israeli raids in occupied West Bank

Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, says 400,000 Palestinians remain displaced in the occupied West Bank amid large-scale Israeli military operations that have forced people from their homes and placed widespread restrictions on Palestinian residents.

“After five months, the military operation continues,” Simona Onidi, MSF project coordinator in the Palestinian cities of Jenin and Tulkarem, said in a statement.

“The [refugee] camps remain sealed off, with Israeli soldiers actively preventing anyone from entering. Families are still in limbo, and we’re worried that humanitarian needs will keep escalating.”

The statement added that Palestinian communities impacted by the raids live in a state of constant apprehension and face challenges accessing food, water and health services.

Main events on July 2nd

• Hamas said in a statement that it is studying the ceasefire proposal but noted that it wants any deal to lead to an end to the war.
• Hospital officials in Gaza said at least 111 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli air strikes across the Strip today, including 24 people waiting for aid.
• Wafa news agency reported earlier that 14 Palestinians have been arrested in Israeli raids across the Bethlehem governorate in the occupied West Bank, where about 400 families would be made homeless by an Israeli army order to demolish more than 100 homes.
• Israel’s governing Likud party, led by Netanyahu, is pushing for the formal annexation of the occupied West Bank before the Israeli parliament’s summer recess on July 27.
• British lawmakers in the House of Commons have voted to ban the group Palestine Action, proscribing it as a “terrorist organisation”. The designation will be voted on in the upper house of the UK parliament, the House of Lords, on Thursday.

MPs explode in anger against UK government’s move to ban Palestine Action

UK parliament has voted in favour of declaring Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation despite concerns that the move could risk criminalising legitimate protest. Many prominent MPs on Wednesday reacted angrily as they challenged the government’s move. The bill was eventually passed the Commons on Wednesday by 385 votes to 26.

The move was initiated by home secretary, Yvette Cooper, who has been at the forefront of supporting the Israeli government. Not too long ago she was seen posing for camera with the controversial Israeli ambassador to the UK.