Family of American killed in West Bank calls for US investigation

The family of Palestinian-American Seif al-Din Muslat, who was killed by Israeli settlers in Sinjil, has urged the US State Department to “lead an immediate investigation” to hold those responsible accountable.

“The mob of settlers blocked the ambulance and paramedics from providing life-saving aid,” the statement said, according to Israeli media outlet Haaretz. The family added that his younger brother carried him to the ambulance, but “Seif died before making it to the hospital.”

Muslat was born in Florida and had travelled to Sinjil in June to visit relatives. He was described as “kind, hard-working” and “known for his generosity, ambition, and connection to his Palestinian heritage”.

West Bank attacks add to mounting toll of violent Israeli settler pogroms

The number of Israeli settler attacks in the occupied West Bank has skyrocketed since the start of the war on Gaza.

In the latest incident, an attack by armed Israeli settlers on Ramallah lasted several hours. Seif el-Din Muslat, a Palestinian American in his early twenties who was killed, was surrounded by settlers and attacked for three hours. Another Palestinian, Mohammed Shalabi, was chased, beaten and eventually shot. His body was found hours later.

At least 350 Palestinians have been injured by Israeli settlers since January 2025. The settlers are accompanied by Israeli soldiers, who detain Palestinians trying to defend themselves or their homes from the attacks, and that is why human rights organisations say settler violence is state violence.

The number of attacks in 2024 was six times that of the year before, and, in 2025, we are already at more attacks registered than in the previous year.

Israeli settlers launch more attacks across occupied West Bank

Israeli settlers stormed the village of Shallalat al-Auja, north of Jericho in the occupied West Bank, grazing their livestock on Palestinian land and in residential areas. A local source told the Wafa news agency that such attacks have become a daily occurrence and cause considerable damage to agricultural lands.

West of Bardala town in the northern Jordan Valley, settlers set up new mobile homes in an illegal outpost set up a year earlier, raising concerns they were aiming to further expand into Palestinian territory.

Israeli settlers also set up tents between two villages in Deir Istiya, northwest of Salfit, in a move aimed at seizing more land in the area to establish a new illegal settlement.

At least 31 Palestinian released detainees now reported killed in Gaza

At least 31 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank who had been released to Gaza as part of a 2011 prisoner exchange have been killed since Israel launched its attacks on Gaza in October 2023.

Several of them were killed in targeted assassinations, and we see a pattern emerge. This also sends a message to negotiators and Palestinian detainees that even if they are released in a future ceasefire deal, their safety is not guaranteed.

Israel’s defence minister celebrates Gaza destruction

Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz has published a picture of the ruins of Gaza, saying, “After Rafah, Beit Hanoon”.

Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city that borders Egypt, has been almost entirely destroyed by the Israeli army. Beit Hanoon is a major city in the northern part of the enclave, which is now under heavy siege by Israeli forces.

Israeli authorities plan to displace most Palestinians from northern Gaza and force hundreds of thousands into a concentration camp that will be built on the ruins of Rafah.

Mass displacement of Palestinians by Israel goes back decades

Mass displacement of Palestinians is a continuation of a longstanding Israeli policy not just in the past 20 months of war but going back decades, according to Rami Khouri, a distinguished fellow at the American University of Beirut.

“Gaza was surrounded by the Israelis who laid siege to it many times, and hundreds of thousands of refugees were expelled in 1947 and 1948,” he told Al Jazeera.

He said the forcing of Palestinians towards other areas in “inhumane conditions” that is happening now is a “process that Zionism and the state of Israel have always been doing with British and American support”.

“They would like to get as many Palestinians possible out of Palestine in order to allow the Israeli state to expand and have more control.”

He also pointed out that Israel has mostly prevented aid from reaching Palestinians in Gaza, which shows that this is also “part of the genocide process” meant to drive people out of the enclave.

Transfer of Palestinians to concentration sites nothing new

As Israel announces its intention to gather the population of Gaza in a “humanitarian city” in southern Rafah, Middle East professor at the University of Turin, Lorenzo Kamel, told Al Jazeera that the expulsion of Palestinians from their land and their concentration in restricted areas is nothing new.

In 1948, 77 years ago to this day, 70,000 Palestinians were expelled from the village of Lydda during what became known as the “march of death”.

“Many of them ended up in the Gaza Strip,” Kamel said, adding that the Israeli authorities have been forcing Palestinians into spaces similar to concentration camps for decades.

“This is not something new but it has accelerated in the past months,” he said. The plan to gather the Gaza population on the ruins of Rafah is therefore “nothing but another camp in preparation for the deportation from the Gaza Strip”.

Children and women among 26 Palestinians killed since dawn

At least 26 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip since dawn, including at least 13 in Gaza City in the north.

Four people were killed and 10 wounded in a strike on a residence on Jaffa Street in the Tuffah area, east of Gaza City. Nasser Hospital said the death toll from the Israeli bombing of tents housing displaced people in the so-called “humanitarian” al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis, has risen to 11.

A source at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said two people were killed and many wounded in an Israeli drone attack on a tent housing displaced people south of Deir el-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip. The Wafa news agency reported that a mother and her three children were killed in a bombing of Jamal Abdel Nasser Street, opposite the Islamic University, west of Gaza City.

‘Entering the sea puts you at risk,’ Israel tells Gaza residents

The Israeli army has issued a threat to residents of Gaza, telling them to avoid the sea due to “strict security restrictions” imposed. “We urge fishermen, swimmers, and divers to refrain from entering the sea. Entering the sea along the Strip puts you at risk,” its spokesperson said on X.

This comes a day after Israel claimed, without providing any evidence, that it killed six senior Hamas naval commandos during an army operation conducted “over the past few months”.

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Gaza death toll rises

The daily death toll has risen again, with 79 Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks since dawn, including 30 aid seekers, hospital sources have told Al Jazeera.

Israeli militarised zones, forced evacuation orders take up 86% of Gaza: UN

The latest report by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says 86.1 percent of the Gaza Strip now falls within Israeli militarised zones or forced evacuation orders.

Four displacement orders were issued by the Israeli army between July 2 and July 8, including three affecting a total of 37 UNRWA installations that assist displaced Palestinians.

“At least 188 UNRWA installations – or over half of all UNRWA installations in the Gaza Strip – are located within the Israeli militarized zone, under displacement orders, or where these overlap,” the report stated.

The UN estimates that more than 725,000 people have been displaced yet again since Israel violated the ceasefire agreement with Hamas in mid-March. Most have been displaced several times, some more than 10 times.

One killed in Israeli attack on southern Lebanon

At least one person has been killed after an Israeli air attack on southern Lebanon, according to the country’s Health Ministry.

The National News Agency reported that the attack hit a home in the town of Khiam, which was repeatedly bombed during Israel’s attacks on Hezbollah during the war. The Israeli army has not yet commented on the incident.

Fate of Gaza ceasefire talks in the balance

The Reuters news agency is reporting that the ceasefire talks taking place in Qatar are stalling over the extent of Israeli forces’ withdrawal from the Strip, according to Palestinian and Israeli sources familiar with the negotiations.

The indirect talks are expected to continue, despite the latest obstacles in clinching a deal based on a US proposal for a 60-day ceasefire.

A Palestinian source said Hamas has not accepted the withdrawal maps which Israel has proposed, as they would leave about 40 percent of the territory under Israeli occupation, including all of the southern area of Rafah and further territories in northern and eastern Gaza.

Matters regarding aid and guarantees were also presenting a challenge.

Two Israeli sources said Hamas wants Israel to retreat to lines it held in a previous ceasefire, before it renewed its offensive in March.

Delegations from Israel and Hamas have been in Qatar since Sunday in a renewed push for an agreement.

Police arrest protesters in London supporting Palestine Action group

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Police in London say they are making arrests at a protest in support of Palestine Action, a direct action protest group which was banned under “anti-terrorism” legislation last week.

Protesters gathered in central London for the second Saturday in a row since the group was proscribed under the Terrorism Act, making support for the group a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

London’s Metropolitan Police said in a post on X that its officers were “responding to a protest in support of Palestine Action” and were “in the process of making arrests”. It had earlier posted a warning that it would take action against anyone showing support for the group.

Last Saturday, police in central London arrested 29 people who held up signs reading: “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action”.

Footage shows brutal arrest at pro-Palestine demonstration in Berlin

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Police said in a post on social media platform X that officers had arrested 41 people for showing support for a proscribed organisation, and that another person had been arrested for assault.

The post said that police had cleared the area of protesters. Last week’s demonstration resulted in 29 arrests.

We are responding to a protest in support of Palestine Action.

Officers are in the process of making arrests. We will issue any updates on this thread.

— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) July 12, 2025

UK MPs urge recognition of Palestine

Nearly 60 Members of the UK Parliament from the Labour Party have written to Foreign Secretary David Lammy, criticising the Israeli government’s plan to forcibly transfer all Palestinians in Gaza to a concentration camp in Rafah in the south.

The MPs urged the UK to immediately recognise a Palestinian state, warning that failure to do so would undermine its support for a two-state solution. They also called for continued backing of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, to deliver aid and support to Palestinians.

Israel targets buildings ‘packed with civilians’ in Jabalia

Israel has been scaling up its attacks on densely populated areas in Gaza. We’ve just gotten really disturbing reports from Jabalia in northern Gaza — which has been given repeated forced displacement orders from the Israeli military — of Israeli air strikes striking two residential buildings packed with civilians.

Medical teams on the ground on the ground confirmed to us that 15 Palestinians were killed in those strikes. Twenty others remain missing, with rescue operations under way involving the civil defence agency and volunteers from the neighbourhood working to try to locate those unaccounted for.

Just minutes after those strikes, there were further attacks on a group of civilians in al-Shati refugee camp, a densely populated area west of Gaza City.

We know that seven Palestinians were killed, and we’ve seen very distressing footage of Palestinian children covered in blood and ash following the strikes.

Rights group calls for Trump to be prosecuted over aid seeker killings

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has called for US President Donald Trump to face criminal prosecution for complicity in genocide for his support of the GHF aid distribution mechanism in Gaza.

In a statement, the Geneva-based organisation urged international bodies to hold Trump accountable for supporting GHF in Gaza, which operates sites where hundreds of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces over the past weeks.

The monitoring group said that testimony from the field indicated the involvement of private US security contractors in the attacks on aid seekers, alongside Israeli soldiers. It said Trump’s administration had also provided “an umbrella of comprehensive military, financial, political, and diplomatic support” for Israel’s war in Gaza.

SHOCKING Outburst in EU Parliament: ‘Isráel Must Be Held Accountable!

More shocking it continues to be fully ignored. EU is fully supporting the genocide and ethnic cleansing.

Israel seeks to build 2,339 illegal housing units in West Bank: PLO

Israel plans to construct 2,339 units in the north, south, and central parts of the occupied West Bank, according to a statement by the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s National Office for the Defence of Land and Resistance of Settlement.

The report said Israel plans to build 1,352 units in Qalqilya, 430 units in northeast Ramallah and northwest of the occupied East Jerusalem, 407 units in Bethlehem, and 150 units in the west of Ramallah.

The plan also includes the establishment of the “Samaria National Park” in the Palestinian town of Sebastia, north of Nablus.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled that Israeli presence in the occupied West Bank is illegal.

Israeli army continues demolitions in Tulkarem: Report

Israeli forces have continued carrying out demolitions of Palestinian homes in the Tulkarem refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency.

Heavy bulldozers have been working since the morning to demolish more residential buildings in the al-Foul and al-Murabba’a neighbourhoods, as part of the plan to destroy 104 buildings comprising 400 homes.

Last Sunday, the Israeli authorities announced their intention to begin implementing large-scale demolition orders in the Tulkarem camp, disregarding the Israeli Supreme Court’s earlier decision to freeze these orders.

Meanwhile, in the occupied West Bank’s Nour Shams camp, the army set several homes on fire, Wafa said, adding that troops prevented civil defence vehicles from reaching the camp to extinguish the fire.

Rights advocates have expressed concern that Israel is trying to replicate its policy from Gaza in the West Bank in an effort to eventually displace all Palestinians in the occupied territory.

Israeli settlers attack homes in Bethlehem: Report

Settlers have attacked homes in the area of Wadi Sa’eer near the village of al-Maniya, southeast of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, Wafa reports.

Ziyad Kawraba, the mayor of al-Maniya, told the Palestinian news agency that settlers threw stones at homes and threatened to burn them down, creating a state of fear among the people.

Will US hold settlers who killed American citizen in West Bank accountable?

Sarah Leah Whitson, the head of rights group DAWN, says Washington is not likely to hold anyone to account after Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank beat to death a 20-year-old US citizen.

“There are limited circumstances under a law that allows the US government to pursue the murderers of American citizens overseas,” she said, adding that there are certain conditions and limitations to implementation of the process.

She stressed that the US brought charges against six senior Hamas officials for killing 40 American citizens in the October 2023 attack on Israel.

“What is really missing [in the current case] is the political will from the United States government to protect American citizens of Palestinian origin or Americans protesting Israeli actions in the West Bank,” Whitson said.

“What it really does is it sets a precedent of encouragement and sets a precedent for open season on Americans just as there is open season on Palestinians,” she added.

Israeli attacks kill 110 across Gaza

It has been another bloody day in Gaza amid non-stop Israeli attacks. Medical sources tell Al Jazeera that the Palestinian death toll has risen to 110 since dawn.