At least 12 Palestinians killed in Israeli attack near aid site

At least 12 people have been killed after Israeli forces fired shots near a food distribution centre in Rafah, southern Gaza. Dozens of people were also wounded in the incident.

An estimated 900 people have been reported killed while waiting for food distribution in Gaza since the end of May. Most of those were killed in the vicinity of the GHF sites.

Number of aid seekers killed in Israeli fire in Rafah rises to 29

The number of Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks while waiting to receive food aid in Rafah has risen to 29.

Gaza Health Ministry says 32 killed at aid distribution site

Gaza’s Health Ministry said Nasser Hospital has received 32 bodies since dawn, after the latest shooting at a GHF food aid site in Rafah.

It added that while “massacres” continue to take place at food distribution centres, medical teams observed a significant increase in death rates resulting from starvation and malnutrition.

The ministry warned of an “unprecedented health and humanitarian disaster if this international silence continues” and called on the international community to “take urgent and effective action”.

Child and infant among 9 killed in Nuseirat

Nine Palestinians have been killed by an Israeli air attack on an apartment in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, according to al-Awda Hospital.

A child and an infant were among the victims.

Israeli forces raid towns near Bethlehem

Israeli forces have been carrying out raids in towns around Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency is reporting. It said Israeli forces had raided locations in the towns of Tuqu, southeast of Bethlehem, Dar Salah and Zaatara to the east, and Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem.

Police arrest demonstrators at London protest

Police in London say they have begun making arrests at a demonstration in support of the banned direct action group Palestine Action.

In a repeat of scenes that played out the previous two Saturdays, officers from London’s Metropolitan police detained protesters in Parliament Square who were against the ban put on the group.

As in previous demonstrations calling for the ban on the group to be overturned, protesters held placards reading: “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action,” PA Media reported.

Palestine Action was proscribed under UK “anti-terrorism” laws earlier this month, making expressing support for the group a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in jail.

The Palestine Coalition march is underway. It will cross south across Westminster Bridge, along York Road, north across Waterloo Bridge before heading to Whitehall via the Strand. pic.twitter.com/rTtFZyYaIR

— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) July 19, 2025

Starmer Under Fire as UK Charities Fund Israel's Settlement Expansion!

As Canada ends charitable complicity in Israeli atrocity, in the UK two charities have handed one settlement £5.7 million!

Earlier this month, Canada delivered a rare moment of anti Israel action as the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) revoked the charitable status of the Jewish National Fund of Canada (JNF) after finding that it had, amongst other things, funded infrastructure in illegal Israeli settlements, including projects directly linked to the expansion of occupation in the West Bank. This was a direct application of international law to domestic charity regulation. Citing the Fourth Geneva Convention and UN Security Council Resolution 2334, Canada confirmed that its charities could not continue to subsidise war crimes under the guise of “education” or “environmental projects.”

Britain under Keir Starmer, by contrast, has chosen to turn a blind eye. You see it was revealed that two UK-registered charities, the Kasner Charitable Trust (KCT) and UK Toremet, had funnelled £5.7 million to the Bnei Akiva Yeshiva, an educational institution, in the illegal settlement of Susya in the occupied West Bank. That’s a lot of money for a school isn’t it? Be nice if British schools were so well funded.

This was not just an educational donation; it was a structural investment in the economic engine of a settlement whose very existence violates international law and this cash injection allows it to expand, therefore promotes the growth of this illegal settlement. Worse still, the money was sent with the blessing of the UK Charity Commission, meaning it was eligible for Gift Aid, effectively making British taxpayers unwilling financial partners in Israel’s occupation and expansionism.

Between 2017 and 2021, the Kasner Charitable Trust and UK Toremet sent at least £5.7 million to the Bnei Akiva Yeshiva high school in Susya, one of the most controversial settlements in the West Bank. Dror Etkes, a leading Israeli settlement-monitoring expert, described the school as the largest employer in the settlement and a central economic pillar: its expansion directly correlates with population growth, infrastructure development, and the permanence of Israel’s hold over the area.

The Hague Group, On Behalf Of Francesca Albanese, SANCTIONS Israel

Jen Perelman and Peter Hager discuss the The Hague Group sanctioning Israel with a stoppage of arms being sent there by agreeing countries. This is done in response to/behalf of Francesca Albanese who was censored for reporting on Israel's genocide in Palestine.

You Are Not Welcome Here! Aytit Confronts UNIFIL Trespassers

Laith Marouf & Hadi Hotait visit Aytit village in south Lebanon to talk to Noura Daqa, a brave American-Lebanese women who confronted a UNIFIL force that trespassed on her family’s land without permission from the authorities or in the presence of the Lebanese Army as UN resolutions stipulate.

The two also cover summer bush fire season in Lebanon and Syria, and how the Imperialist wars in the region are effecting efforts to contain them.

I'm losing my faith in the UN more and more. Same thing in Syria with UNDOF. https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/01/1159451 Israel takes over the buffer zone, militarizes and expands it, UN does nothing.

These are not peacekeepers anymore, they have unwillingly become enablers of Israel's expansion. The people on the ground have all the right intentions but do not get any support from their superiors. They are stuck with a mandate that allows Israel to set up military bases while all they can do is clean up the mess left behind by the Israeli military. 

NGO head calls for ‘real access’ in Gaza, end to militarised schemes

Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, has rejected recent comments by the EU’s foreign policy chief, who said the bloc has noted “some good signs” regarding aid distribution in Gaza.

Kaja Kallas told reporters this week that those “good signs” included “more trucks going in” to the bombarded enclave.

“But for NRC and many others, no relief has entered for 142 days. Not one truck. Not one delivery,” Egeland wrote on X, noting that 85 percent of aid trucks never reach their destination amid looting or other issues fuelled by the Gaza starvation crisis.

He added that Palestinian families are surviving on a single “poor-quality meal” per day, if that, while the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid scheme has turned assistance into a dangerous and deadly scenario.

“Calling this ‘good signs’ is not just misleading, it undermines the reality aid workers and civilians face every day. Donors and diplomats must demand real access: security guarantees, full-scale entry, and an end to militarised distributions,” Egeland said.

“This isn’t progress. It’s failure, rebranded.”

EU’s @kajakallas says there’s been “some good signs” in aid access to Gaza.

But for NRC and many others, no relief has entered for 142 days. Not one truck. Not one delivery. For the few actors allowed to bring in limited supplies, the UN reports that from 19 May to 14 July, an…

— Jan Egeland (@NRC_Egeland) July 19, 2025

Palestinian infant, only weeks old, dies of malnutrition in Gaza

We’ve heard from the director of al-Shifa Hospital, Dr Muhammad Abu Salmiya, who just announced that in the past few minutes, two more cases of [patients with malnutrition were pronounced dead inside the hospital.

One of them was a 35-day-old newborn baby who died of malnutrition.

Many of the [patients] are picked up from the streets; people are fainting in the streets.

Meanwhile, inside the hospitals, there isn’t much that can be done to help people. Resources are not available. The hospital is under resourced, it doesn’t have enough capacity because it has been dealing with the huge influx of injuries for the past months.

This engineered suffering and structured harm against Palestinians started when the Israeli military imposed a full blockade on the crossings, preventing aid from coming in [and] leaving close to 2 million people without access to food.

Ambulance sirens to sound across Gaza tomorrow amid starvation crisis

The Gaza Health Ministry has announced plans for ambulance sirens to ring across the territory tomorrow as an “urgent warning” over the worsening starvation crisis.

Ambulances will gather outside al-Shifa Hospital complex in Gaza City, Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah and Nasser Hospital in southern Khan Younis. The sirens, which will ring at 11am local time (08:00 GMT) on Sunday, represent “the voice of the hungry and the bereaved who are left to die”, the ministry said in a statement.

At least 116 killed by Israeli attacks on Gaza today

This update to today’s death toll comes to us from sources at hospitals in the Gaza Strip.

The toll includes at least 38 people killed by Israeli fire at aid distribution points run by the GHF.

Director of Nuseirat police among those killed in Gaza strike: Ministry

The Interior Ministry in Gaza reports that Colonel Omar Saeed Aql, director of Nuseirat police in the central governorate, was killed along with 11 of his family members when the Israeli army bombed their home earlier today.

The new “massacre” took place in the town of az-Zawayda in the central part of the besieged enclave, the ministry said, condemning it as a “heinous crime” in a statement.

“We renew our call to the international community and the United Nations to take a firm stance to stop the repeated Israeli violations against police personnel who perform civil duties and are protected from targeting under international law.”

Palestine Action arrests raise questions around freedom to dissent

Israel’s opposition leaders slam attack on Arab member of Knesset

Leading opposition figures Yair Lapid and Yair Golan have strongly condemned the attack on lawmaker Ayman Odeh that we reported on earlier.

“I condemn the violence against Knesset member Odeh and call on the police to find those responsible and bring them to justice. There is no place for political violence in a democratic state,” Lapid wrote in a post on X.

Golan wrote that the attack is a direct result of “prolonged political incitement” and attempts to vote in the Knesset to earlier this week to expel Odeh because he has spoken about the mass killings in Gaza.

“This is an attack on the entire Arab minority in Israel,” he said, adding that the opposition will continue to try to oust the government and “will not surrender to the hatred and racism coming directly” from Prime Minister Benjamin and his far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir.

Settlers Storm Old City of Hebron under protection of Israeli soldiers

Verified footage circulating on Palestinian social media shows that a large number of settlers stormed the Old City in Hebron in the occupied West Bank this evening under protection from Israeli forces.

Heavily armed soldiers stood guard, with local platforms reporting that Israeli forces prevented journalists from moving to cover the settler advances.

Israeli forces also launched a raid on the village of Anza, south of Jenin city in northern West Bank, using armoured vehicles.

بحراسة جيش الاحتلال.. مستوطنون يقتحمون البلدة القديمة في الخليل. pic.twitter.com/YFm2DOIBy6

— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) July 19, 2025

More details on Israel’s killing of Palestinian child near Jenin

Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCIP) has released more information on the Israeli military’s killing of a 13-year-old Palestinian boy yesterday near Jenin in the occupied West Bank.

DCIP said Israeli forces opened fire on Amr Ali Qabha after he unknowingly approached the army, which had taken up positions in the village of Yabad.

Qabha was hit by seven bullets – three in the back, one in the neck, one in the abdomen, one in the upper thigh and one in the groin – from a distance of 10m (33 feet), the rights group said.

Israeli soldiers then beat and detained the boy’s father, who had managed to reach his son, and prevented ambulances from reaching Qabha to provide medical treatment.

“Systemic impunity creates an ultra permissive context where Israeli forces know no bounds and routinely shoot to kill Palestinian children in circumstances where there is no imminent threat to life,” Ayed Abu Eqtaish, DCIP’s accountability programme director, said in a statement.

“Unlawful killings of Palestinian children have become the norm as Israeli forces become increasingly empowered to use intentional lethal force in situations that are not justified. In short, these are war crimes with no consequence.”

13-year-old Amr Ali Ahmad Qabha was fatally shot in the back at least seven times by Israeli forces in Ya'bad last night. Israeli soldiers handcuffed Amr's father next to his son's bleeding body, blocking paramedic access, for about 40 minutes. https://t.co/HVHlECHvRR pic.twitter.com/GuAmvuA1dl

— Defense for Children (@DCIPalestine) July 19, 2025

More settler attacks reported in occupied West Bank

The Palestinian news agency Wafa is reporting that dozens of people in al-Mughayyir, near Ramallah, suffered from tear gas inhalation after Israeli forces stormed the village following a settler attack.

Residents had confronted the settlers, who attempted to enter the village, Wafa said.

Separately, in the village of Nilin, also near Ramallah, a Palestinian man was injured after settlers attacked a home that was under construction. The settlers fired live ammunition at residents who attempted to stop their attack, but no additional injuries were reported, Wafa said.

Demonstrators chant for Palestinians, Gaza in Jordan’s Amman

Videos circulating online that have been verified by Al Jazeera show a large march in the al-Tafaylah district of the Jordanian capital, Amman, in support of Gaza.

Hundreds of participants roamed the streets, chanting slogans in solidarity with Gaza and condemning Israeli starvation policies and the continuing aggression against the enclave.

Translation: The pro-Gaza movement resumes in Jordan, starting from the most honourable neighbourhood in the country – al-Tafayleh neighbourhood.

Protesters at US embassy in Tel Aviv appeal directly to Trump for deal

_{Demonstrators carry a banner during a protest to demand the immediate release of captives held in Gaza in Tel Aviv, Israel, July 19}

The huge crowds in Israel who are calling for a comprehensive deal that would end the war and bring back all 50 living and dead captives held in Gaza have used Donald Trump’s language to appeal to him.

“We know the outlines of a deal exist. What’s missing is the final push – the kind of resolve only President Trump can bring. We ask President Trump: lean in. Use your power. Show the world that freedom matters,” said Ruby Chen, father of Itay Chen, whose remains are held in Gaza.

Protesters displayed banners urging Trump to strike another “big, beautiful deal”. Nadav Rudaeff, whose father Lior Rudaeff’s remains are held in Gaza, directly thanked Trump and said his efforts are not taken for granted.

“Please do everything you can to pressure all the parties to reach an agreement,” he said.

Main events on July 19th

• The Israeli military killed at least 116 Palestinians across Gaza, including dozens of aid seekers, as its ground forces continued to destroy infrastructure and blow up buildings.
• The spokesman for the Interior Ministry in Syria said tribal fighters were pushed out of Suwayda, and armed clashes within the southern city have come to a halt.
• The Israeli army killed two more people in separate drone attacks on southern Lebanon, and said they were Hezbollah “terrorists” trying to revitalise the group’s infrastructure.
• Tens of thousands marched in Tel Aviv and directly appealed to US President Donald Trump to reach a deal to end the war and bring back all 50 living and dead captives from Gaza.
• Israeli soldiers arrested more Palestinians during raids across the occupied West Bank, and settlers launched more violent attacks, including in Ramallah’s al-Mughayyir.
• Right-wing Israelis attacked the car carrying a member of the Knesset, Ayman Odeh, and chanted “Death to Arabs”, prompting strong criticism from opposition leaders.

Tribal fighters pushed out of Suwayda: Syrian Interior Ministry

Noureddine al-Baba, the spokesman for the Interior Ministry in Syria, also says clashes in the southern city have come to a halt.

The announcement, shared by Syria’s official SANA news agency, comes after the government deployed forces in the Suwayda governorate to try to quell days of sectarian violence.