Death toll in Gaza rises

At least 95 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since the early hours of this morning, sources at area hospitals tell Al Jazeera.

‘Bodies lying in the streets’ of Gaza City

Israel continues to pound the nothern city’s Zeitoun neighbourhood, with a recent attack killing a man, his wife and their three children.

Displaced Palestinians in the area told Al Jazeera that the bodies of those killed in recent attacks are “lying in the streets”, and that continued Israeli shelling threatens dozens of people trapped in their homes with death and starvation.

The Palestinian Civil Defence in the Gaza Strip told Al Jazeera that they were unable to respond to any distress calls from the Zeitoun neighborhood because it was completely surrounded by Israeli fire.

Main events on July 13th

• The Israeli military killed at least 95 Palestinians and wounded dozens of others in strikes across the Gaza Strip, including in attacks on several areas in Gaza City, one of which hit a crowded food market.
• UN agencies and health officials in Gaza have sounded the alarm over the lack of fuel, saying hospitals, bakeries and water plants are on the brink of shutting down.
• The Euro-Med 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.
• The family of Sayfollah Musallet, an American-Palestinian beaten to death by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, are calling on the US to launch an inquiry and hold the perpetrators accountable.
• Ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas are stalling, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blaming Hamas, claiming the group rejected the US proposal.

Children fetching water killed in Israeli strike in Gaza, medics say

Ten people, including six children, have been killed in an Israeli air strike while waiting to fill water containers in central Gaza on Sunday, emergency service officials say. Eyewitnesses said a drone fired a missile at a crowd queuing with empty jerry cans next to a water tanker in al-Nuseirat refugee camp. The Israeli military said there had been a "technical error" with a strike targeting an Islamic Jihad "terrorist" that caused the munition to fall dozens of meters from the target. The incident is under review, the military added.

Technical error, you used that excuse many times already. Claiming incompetence again. BBC got to make excuses for Israel.

This is the reality / uncensored aftermath you never see on mainstream media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leTqFmiWZ28&pp=0gcJCTAAlc8ueATH
Warning: Graphic images including dead children.
Those are the scenes people are dealing with daily in Gaza.

How Israel Makes MONEY from Killing Palestinians

“Israel has used the Palestinians to experiment [on with] technologies from military surveillance to the agribusiness industry… And this explains why in the past 20 months, why Israel transitioned from an economy of occupation to an economy of genocide.”

In this episode of ‘Unshocked,’ Naomi Klein speaks with UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese on her report describing the major corporations profiting off of Israel’s genocide. They both discuss the backlash Albanese has faced over her report, how tech is integral to Israel’s economy and what companies are listed on the report.

Freedom Flotilla’s latest boat Handala departs Italy heading to Gaza with aid

The newest vessel of the Freedom Flotilla has set sail from Italy, aiming to break the blockade and deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. Activists aboard hope to bring relief amid ongoing hardships faced by Palestinians in Gaza.

At most that will bring some media attention again when they are arrested/kidnapped/sabotaged again.

It could be effective if the EU send a whole aid armada to Gaza but politicians are too busy cashing in on the genocide. 

Former Israeli PM says ‘humanitarian city’ in Rafah would be a concentration camp

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says the “humanitarian city” that the Israeli government wants to build on the ruins of Rafah would be a concentration camp.

“It is a concentration camp. I am sorry,” he told the Guardian newspaper.

“If they [Palestinians] will be deported into the new ‘humanitarian city’, then you can say that this is part of an ethnic cleansing. It hasn’t yet happened,” Olmert said.

“When they build a camp where they [plan to] ‘clean’ more than half of Gaza, then the inevitable understanding of the strategy of this [is that] it is not to save [Palestinians]. It is to deport them, to push them and to throw them away. There is no other understanding that I have at least,” he added.


Senior Israeli politicians aware of psychological impact of ‘concentration camp’ comments

It is significant that two prominent Israeli politicians have used the term “concentration camp” to describe Israel’s plans for Gaza, given the psychological impact of such statements.

There is serious opposition for this plan because many like Yair Lapid and Ehud Olmert believe that it would cause irreparable damage for Israel by ethnically cleansing Palestinians and trying to expel them from Gaza.

This is something Israel cannot walk back on. This is in addition to other considerations, including the fact that the Israeli opposition is fed up with Netanyahu.

There is also bringing up the issue of how much this would cost. In fact, Netanyahu himself has been reported to have been outraged by the proposal presented by the army about how to build this concentration camp.

I don't think Israel can walk back from genocide and total destruction of Gaza it already has committed, but finally some Israeli leaders have found a red line they don't want to cross.


Israeli army estimates ‘humanitarian city’ will take ‘more than a year’ to build

According to the Israeli news outlet Ynet, the Israeli army estimates that a “humanitarian city” in southern Gaza would take “more than a year” to establish.

Ynet reported that representatives from the army met in a mini-cabinet meeting on Sunday night and laid out the possible timeframe and estimated that it would cost $10bn to $15bn to create.

The news outlet, quoting officials who attended the meeting, said Netanyahu was “furious” with the assessment and asked the army to give him an improved plan that was “shorter, cheaper and more practical”.

Last week, Israel’s defence minister announced plans to build the so-called humanitarian city on the ruins of Rafah. Once inside the encampment, Palestinians would not be allowed to leave except to go to other countries. Humanitarian agencies, lawyers and international leaders have condemned the plan. Some are calling it akin to a “concentration camp”.

What’s happening in Gaza?

In the past few hours:

Israeli soldiers use civilian drones to target Palestinian children

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/14/israel-killing-gaza-civilians-with-commercial-drones-probe-finds

As we reported earlier, the Israeli army has admitted to using civilian drones to strike targets in Gaza.

In a report by the Israeli outlets 972 Magazine and The Local Call, it was found that the army was using China-made drones that are operated manually by soldiers on the ground to force Palestinians out of their homes or to forcibly prevent them from returning to areas they have been displaced from.

According to one soldier, named S, Israeli forces were using the drones, which are sold commercially for about $3,000, to specifically target children.

“There was a boy who entered the [off-limits] zone. He didn’t do anything. [Other soldiers] claimed to have seen him standing and talking to people. That’s it – they dropped a grenade from a drone,” S said.

Israeli forces blow up residential block in Rafah

The footage below, taken by Israeli soldiers and released by local media, shows the demolition of a residential block in the Saudi neighbourhood of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip.

متداول | مشاهد توثق نسف مربع سكني في الحي السعودي برفح جنوبي القطاع#فيديو #حرب_غزة pic.twitter.com/Ot9khwRWK4

— الجزيرة فلسطين (@AJA_Palestine) July 14, 2025

MSF calls for ‘clear and predictable medical evacuation system’ in Gaza

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says the system should be implemented without family separations and ensure Palestinians’ right to return to Gaza after treatment.

It “must be urgently established”, a statement on X said. About 12,000 people need to be evacuated from Gaza to receive vital medical care, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Children among more than 700 people killed while waiting to get water

The Government Media Office in Gaza says attacks on people waiting in line for water have killed more than 700 Palestinians as part of a “systematic thirst war”.

The Israeli army has targeted 112 freshwater filling points and destroyed 720 water wells, putting them out of service. This has deprived more than 1.25 million people of access to clean water, the office said in a statement.

“We affirm that this racist policy constitutes a full-fledged war crime under the Geneva Conventions, and a grave violation of international humanitarian law and human rights law.”

The office said Israel has prevented the entry of 12 million litres of fuel monthly, the amount necessary to operate the minimum number of water wells, sewage treatment plants, garbage collection vehicles and other vital services. This ban has “caused near-total paralysis of water and sewage networks and worsened the spread of diseases, especially among children”, the office said.

On March 9, Israel cut off the last power line feeding the last water desalination plant in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah, halting the production of large quantities of drinking water and further deepening the enclave’s water crisis.

Fuel blockade continues to worsen Gaza’s water crisis

Gaza’s water crisis has intensified since Israel blocked nearly all fuel shipments into the enclave on March 2. With no fuel, desalination plants, wastewater treatment facilities and pumping stations have largely shut down.

Families, many of them with children, are spending hours each day under the scorching sun searching for a few litres of water just to survive.

Asem Alnabih, a spokesperson for Gaza’s municipality, said yesterday that only 12 of more than 70 municipal wells remain operational. “We’re on the verge of death. Water can reach only 50 percent of the city,” Alnabih told Al Jazeera, adding that the rest get nothing.

Aya Fayoumi, a displaced Palestinian, says her family doesn’t get enough water for their basic needs. “There’s never any water in the toilets. There’s barely enough drinking water. So we have nothing left for personal hygiene or to wash clothes,” she said.

According to the International Rescue Committee, most people in Gaza now receive far less than the World Health Organization’s emergency minimum of 15 litres per person per day.

UN warns lifelines in Gaza will ‘vanish’ without fuel

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has issued a stark warning that fuel must be allowed into Gaza in sufficient quantities and on a consistent basis to keep life-saving humanitarian operations running.

“Without fuel, the lifelines will vanish for 2.1 million people in Gaza,” the agency said on X.

“Without adequate fuel, UN agencies responding to this crisis will likely be forced to stop their operations entirely, directly impacting all essential services in Gaza. This means no health services, no clean water, and no capacity to deliver aid.”

The warning comes after the UN said it was allowed to deliver the first fuel shipment to Gaza in 130 days on Thursday. It was not enough to meet even a single day’s needs, leaving hospitals, water facilities and aid operations on the verge of collapse, it said.

‘There’s no water’

The al-Manasra family lives in a tent camp by the ruins of a smashed concrete building in Gaza City. The children suffer from diarrhoea and skin maladies.

However, the lack of clean drinking water means they fear far worse to come. “There’s no water, our children have been infected with scabies, there are no hospitals to go to and no medications,” said the father, Akram Manasra, 51.

He went to a local water tap with three of his daughters – each of them carrying two heavy plastic containers in Gaza’s blazing summer heat – but they only managed to fill two, barely enough for the family of 10.

Gaza’s lack of clean water after 21 months of war and four months of an Israeli blockade is having “devastating impacts on public health”, the UN said.

_{Displaced Palestinians fetch water at a distribution point in Nuseirat refugee camp}

‘Lethal lack of water’ as Israel blocks fuel to Gaza

Israel’s blockade of fuel, along with the difficulty in accessing wells and desalination plants in zones controlled by the Israeli military, is severely constraining water, sanitation and hygiene services, according to the UN.

Fuel shortages have also hit waste and sewage services, risking more contamination of the dwindling water supply.

“If electricity was allowed to desalination plants the problem of a lethal lack of water, which is what’s becoming the situation now in Gaza, would be changed within 24 hours,” said James Elder, spokesperson for the UN’s children’s agency UNICEF.

“What possible reason can there be for denying of a legitimate amount of water that a family needs?”

_{Palestinians struggle to find clean water in the Tuffah neighbourhood east of Gaza City}

Jordan: Situation in Gaza remains ‘a real catastrophe’

Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi says Israel allowed the entry of 40 to 50 trucks days ago from Jordan, but that’s “far from being sufficient”.

“There is a real catastrophe happening in Gaza resulting from the continuation of the Israeli siege,” he said, despite an agreement reached last week between Israel and the European Union over increased aid access to Gaza.

Safadi made the remarks in Brussels as he prepared to attend an EU-Middle East meeting with top officials.

Israeli forces demolish Palestinian’s home in Bethlehem

Israeli soldiers have demolished the house of a Palestinian in al-Maara village, which is south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.

Footage below, published by Palestinian platforms and verified by Al Jazeera, shows bulldozers bringing down the four-storey house as Israeli attacks continue to escalate in the area.

#شاهد.. لحظة هدم الاحتلال لبناية سكنية في قرية مراح معلا جنوب مدينة بيت لحم. pic.twitter.com/NF1YTRhUdX

— المركز الفلسطيني للإعلام (@PalinfoAr) July 14, 2025

Israeli settlers set up tents, uproot olive trees in West Bank

Israeli settlers have set up tents and uprooted hundreds of olive trees in al-Maniya village, southeast of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.

Head of the village council, Zayed Kawazba, told Wafa news agency that a group of settlers stormed al-Qarn in the centre of al-Maniya, set up four tents and uprooted approximately 1,500 olive saplings belonging to families from the al-Motawer and Jabarin clans.

In the first half of 2025, settlers established 23 new outposts, with full protection from the Israeli army. During the same period, settlers carried out 2,153 recorded attacks, killing four Palestinians.

West Bank church leaders appeal for help over settler attacks

The 5th century Church of St George was attacked by Israeli settlers in Taybeh. Church leaders have been calling this a “systemic and targeted attack” against Christians.

About 50,000 of them live in the occupied West Bank, a small but very proud minority, and they also consider themselves under attack, not just because they’re Christians but because they’re Palestinians.

But still, this is something the church is very worried about. It’s been trying for years to enhance the steadfastness of the Christian community in Palestine and get them to stay as long as possible, but these acts of settler attacks are not helping.

We’ve been seeing how Israeli settlers have been pushing them out of their lands, out of their homes. That’s why we’ve seen members of the community, priests as well as heads of churches in Jerusalem, deliver statements to the European Union, to these representatives of 20 countries, that they should intervene to do something when it comes to holding settlers accountable.

Israeli settlers set fire to vehicles in occupied West Bank village

The village of Burqa, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, has just been attacked by Israeli settlers.

Residents said a group of settlers stormed the village and torched several cars, with flames spreading to the surrounding land. Dozens of Palestinians rushed to contain the fires and repel the settlers, while trying to stop the blaze from reaching nearby homes.

More arrests in occupied West Bank as thousands remain imprisoned

Israeli forces have arrested more Palestinians during raids across the occupied West Bank today, adding to a total of at least 3,850 that the Prisoners’ Media Office says are in military detention centres.

There are about 400 children and 125 women among those currently behind bars, according to the latest figures by the Palestinian monitor.

Most arrests took place in besieged Jenin with 920 recorded cases, and in Tulkarem with 455 cases. At 800 cases, Israeli forces made the largest number of arrests in a month in March 2025.

Since the start of the war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, the monitor has recorded 2,464 arrests of Palestinians from the city of Jerusalem, including a large number of children. Palestinian children from Jerusalem have had 161 house arrest orders issued against them in that time as well.