Israeli forces arrest Palestinians in West Bank raids
Wafa is reporting that Israeli forces have arrested several Palestinians in early morning raids across the occupied West Bank. They include:
Israeli forces also stormed the town of Tammun, south of Tubas. No details of arrests or damage have been reported yet, Wafa said.
Record number of Palestinian children displaced in West Bank in first half of 2025
New analysis by Save the Children has found that more children were displaced in the occupied West Bank during the first half of this year due to the demolitions of their homes by Israeli forces compared with any other corresponding period since records began.
The organisation said analysis of data on demolitions and displacement collected by OCHA showed 607 children were among the more than 1,200 people displaced in the first six months of 2025 in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. The figure represented an increase from 542 during the same period in 2024 and 328 in the first half of 2023.
It also said that since the war on Gaza began, there had been a sharp rise in displacement of Palestinian families due to the destruction of homes, impacting more than 2,850 children.
“According to OCHA data, more than 10,300 children have been displaced in the West Bank since records began in 2009 due to demolition of their homes. Of those nearly 80 percent of cases, or 8,200 children, were due to the fact their homes were built without Israeli-issued permits, which are almost impossible for Palestinians to obtain,” Save the Children said, calling it “part of a longstanding, systematic policy to annex parts of the West Bank”.
Israeli army arrests Palestinians in occupied West Bank
French FM calls for foreign media access to Gaza
France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot has urged Israel to allow foreign media into the besieged Palestinian territory of Gaza, as warnings of famine mount after 21 months of war.
“I ask that the free and independent press be allowed to access Gaza to show what is happening there and to bear witness,” he told France Inter radio in an interview.
Since the war began, Israel has only permitted a handful of foreign journalists to enter Gaza, mostly by being “embedded” with the Israeli army.
Meanwhile, Palestinian journalists who have been covering the conflict from Gaza for the past five months have done so under intense Israeli attacks that have cost many of them their lives.
It is a ‘moral duty’ to criticise Israel’s policies in Gaza, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem says
Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, has criticised Israel’s war on Gaza following a visit to the Strip.
“We have nothing against the Jewish world, and we absolutely don’t want to appear to be against Israeli society and Judaism. But we have a moral duty to express our criticism of this government’s policies in Gaza with absolute clarity and frankness,” Pizzaballa told Vatican News.
His visit came after an Israeli tank hit Gaza’s sole Catholic church, killing three people and injuring 10. Israeli authorities said it was a “mistake”.
The Patriarch said he was struck by the vast expanses of tents he saw in the enclave where “people live in extremely precarious conditions” and by the mutilated children in hospitals.
Which countries have signed the joint statement demanding Israel end its war on Gaza?
The joint statement signed by the foreign ministers of a total of 28 countries says Israel’s war on Gaza “must end now” and condemns “the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, seeking to meet their most basic needs of water and food”.
The countries who signed it are: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
These governments, many of them allies of Israel, issued some of their strongest language yet, condemning the obstruction of aid in the occupied Palestinian territory.
Israel targeting women in Gaza due to ‘reproductive capacity’: UN special rapporteur
Reem Alsalem, the United Nations special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, has told Al Jazeera that “all Palestinians, men, boys, girls and women are being subjected to this genocidal enterprise in a very sadistic, unprecedented and relentless manner, but within that … women and girls are deliberately being targeted by Israel because they are Palestinian and because of the reproductive capacity.
“Israel realises that … Palestinian women and girls carry the promise of the continuity of Palestinian life, and therefore they are being deliberately killed, and they’re being deliberately exterminated,” she said.
Alsalem has recently published a report on the topic, in which she says the actions taken by Israel in Gaza “are geared towards undermining the continuity of Palestinian life, to undermine Palestinian existence … to exterminate Palestinian life”.
“We see this through the increased rates of miscarriages among Palestinian women, the severe malnutrition… Even pregnant and lactating women are unable to breastfeed,” she said.
Baby formula has also been deliberately prevented from entering Gaza by Israel, which she says is reminiscent of the tactics used by Nazi Germany in the siege of Stalingrad during World War II.
AFP journalists at risk of starving to death
The AFP Journalists’ Association has warned that its journalists working in Gaza are at risk of dying due to hunger.
One of the 10 freelancers working for the French news agency posted a message on social media on July 19, saying: “I don’t have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work.”
AFP warned that most of its workers in the Strip do not have the physical capacity to do their job any longer, and the situation is worsening. “Their heartbreaking calls for help are now daily.”
Despite the journalists receiving a monthly salary, there is either nothing to buy or goods are only available at completely exorbitant prices, the association said. “We risk learning of their deaths at any moment, and this is unbearable for us.
“Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us can remember seeing a colleague die of hunger. We refuse to see them die.”
Red Crescent says 118 aid seekers wounded, 1 killed
The Palestine Red Crescent Society says medical workers at al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City have treated 118 wounded Palestinians since the early hours of this morning, who were injured waiting for aid near Nabulsi Junction in the southwestern part of the city.
They said one person was killed.
Baby and child die from malnutrition in Gaza
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that a child from Khan Younis in the enclave’s south has died from malnutrition. They are also reporting that a 40-day-old baby has died in the north of the Gaza Strip, also from malnutrition.
Cases of starvation are rising in Gaza as Israel’s continued siege is worsening the hunger crisis, with health authorities announcing that at least 19 people died from malnutrition on Sunday alone.
The World Food Programme says that 90,000 women and children in Gaza are in urgent need of treatment for malnutrition.
Most patients admitted to hospitals in Gaza due to malnutrition
Israel’s blockade of Gaza has plunged the Strip into a severe malnutrition crisis, with children particularly vulnerable to starvation.
Umm Musab al Dibs cannot contain her emotion as she sits at the bedside of her severely malnourished 14-year-son in al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City. He now weighs less than 10kg (22 pounds). “He used to weigh 40kg and was the pillar of strength in our family, supporting me and his sisters,” she told Al Jazeera.
Al-Shifa – the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip – has seen a sharp increase in malnutrition cases lately, but it is struggling to treat patients because of the severe shortage of medical supplies.
“Most patients admitted to the hospital recently are not suffering from war injuries but from severe malnutrition,” Moataz Harar, head of the emergency department at the hospital, told Al Jazeera. “Even some of our medical workers have fainted from a lack of food. The situation is grave, but it’s not new. It’s just that the number is rising rapidly.”
Hussam, a severely malnourished infant, was brought to al-Shifa by his mother, who was desperate for help. Doctors described his condition as dire. “Because of the current situation, there is no formula, no food, nothing to drink. This is famine. I cannot meet my child’s needs,” she said. “We were admitted on Friday, and since then, my son has been surviving on IV fluids. He’s unable to walk.”
Palestinians jostle to receive food from a charity kitchen in Nuseirat on July 20
At least 15 people died from starvation in Gaza over the last 24 hours: Health Ministry
Hospitals in Gaza have recorded 15 deaths, including those of four children, in Gaza due to starvation and malnutrition over the past 24 hours amid Israel’s blockade on the Strip, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement.
That brings the total number of hunger-related deaths in the Strip to 101, including 80 children, since Israel launched its war on Gaza in October 2023.
Israeli military may aim to create ‘new corridor’ in Deir el-Balah operation
The official statement is that the “limited operation” involves ground troops in the southern part of Deir el-Balah. Why is Deir el-Balah important? Because it is home to the United Nations offices and warehouses.
It’s also important because the Israeli army has never invaded it during the past 21 months. It has been struck from the air but not invaded from the ground.
The Israeli media, however, are citing military sources that discuss establishing a new corridor. That means destruction, that means wiping out neighbourhoods – as we’ve seen in the past in the Netzarim Corridor and the Morag Corridor.
The objective, according to these Israeli reports, is to separate Deir el-Balah in central Gaza from al-Mawasi in southwestern Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of people have sought shelter.
This will create separate isolated pockets of starved Palestinians with no access to assistance and no ability to move and seek shelter or safety from one place to another.
Searching for some flour ‘an intense struggle’ in Gaza
In the besieged Gaza Strip, the prices of the few items that are still available have soared far above what most people can afford. Resident Atta Deifallah, who is responsible for providing for 11 people, told Al Jazeera that getting flour “has become an immense struggle”.
“Flour’s an essential basic ingredient; there’s no alternative,” he said in Gaza City. “There’s no rice or lentils,” he added. “Every day I go to the market, walk long distances, and wander through it, but I can’t find any flour. And if I do find it, the price is so high that I simply can’t afford it.
“We used to go to what are called ‘aid distribution’ points, but they’re basically death traps,” Deifallah said, referring to the sites run by the notorious Israel- and US-backed GHF.
Desperate families flee Deir el-Balah seeking food and safety
Many families are reluctant to move after the Israeli forced evacuation order in Deir el-Balah because they understand there are no alternative places that might be safe for them.
But hundreds of other families have been caught in [Israeli attacks] and were forced to leave their homes in Deir el-Balah and Khan Younis, due to Israel’s latest military incursion in the south.
Families are leaving while they are hungry. They are not just looking for safety; during the journey, they are looking for any source of food. They are unable to get any food supply or flour to make bread to keep them on their feet.
This crisis has been complicated by ongoing restrictions on UN agencies from delivering supplies to Gaza. We spoke with senior WFP officials who said they are doing their best to deliver aid trucks, but are still facing restrictions on the number of trucks allowed to enter Gaza from the Zikim crossing in the north of the Strip.
Families have been driven by hunger and desperation, and that is why we see them looting trucks, trying to get food.
Al-Shifa Hospital’s kidney treatment out of service due to fuel shortage
Sources at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City have told Al Jazeera Arabic that the key medical facility’s dialysis department, which treats problems with kidneys, is now out of function due to fuel shortages amid the Israeli blockade.
Hospital director Mohammed Abu Salmiya said al-Shifa Hospital could be completely out of service within hours due to the crisis.
Medical staff in Gaza working 24-hour shifts receive a single meal
Deirdre Nunan, a Canadian orthopaedic surgeon who is currently volunteering at Al Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, told Al Jazeera that some medical staff have to work 24-hour shifts in the besieged enclave.
“There is a single meal that’s provided in the mid-afternoon, and it’s a simple meal. Yesterday it was plain lentils; a couple of days ago, it was rice cooked with just a few pieces of corn in it, so it’s neither nutritionally complete, nor is it enough calories to sustain somebody who’s working for a full day,” she said.
“When I talk to my colleagues about what they’ve eaten before they come to work, invariably they say nothing; they just had water.”
She added: “One of my nurse colleagues yesterday told me that every morning she cuts a pita bread into four pieces, one piece for four children. She does the same thing when she gets home after work.”
Starvation in Gaza making recovery from wounds much harder
Deirdre Nunan, a Canadian orthopaedic surgeon who has volunteered several times in Gaza, tells Al Jazeera that the situation in the besieged enclave is “immeasurably worse” than when she was last there in April.
“Right now, I am seeing severe hunger and starvation amongst both my colleagues and my patients … I see people that struggle to get through a day’s work because they don’t have the energy to do their normal duties,” she said, speaking from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
“I am seeing horrific injuries that people are sustaining when they try to go and collect food aid at these distribution sites that turn into massacres and result in dozens, if not hundreds, of patients arriving at our emergency room, many of whom are killed or lose their limbs as a result of these gunshots.”
She added that she had seen people injured in Israeli air raids and attacks on their tents, with severe multi-system injuries and burns, and who were malnourished and did not have the ability to “get the extra calories and protein that they would normally need to heal from this kind of injury and to survive it”.
A Palestinian boy, wounded in an Israeli attack, receives treatment at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City
‘In Gaza, every child is experiencing some level of trauma’
Hratche Koundarjian, from the War Child nongovernmental organisation, is among the people demonstrating today in central London at the “Red Line for Gaza” protest that we reported on earlier.
We’ve spoken to him about the physical and psychological effects of the war on the children in Gaza. Here’s what he said:
“The stories we are hearing are horrific, beyond comprehension.
“I think you can talk about the statistics of 17,000 children killed and the many hundreds of thousands more who’ve been injured, but the reality is the individual stories. I was speaking to a colleague yesterday who had visited Gaza and spoke of children playing in the bombed sites of craters just a few minutes after a missile had struck.
“The violence becomes so normalised that civilians are just trying to do their best to work around it."
War Child released a report last year that found about 94 percent of children in Gaza expect to die; nearly half hope for death. This is the worst place in the war to be a child by far; it’s absolutely horrendous. The situation needs to be resolved immediately.
“Normally, in a conflict, we would see roughly 20 percent of children experiencing some level of trauma – in Gaza, it’s every single child. “Every single child would need the assistance of War Child and other organisations to deal with the trauma that’s been inflicted on them.
“It’s going to take decades to sort out this problem that’s being caused in a year and a half. It’s going to be an ongoing huge humanitarian response to deal with not just the basic needs but the massive mental health crisis that people there are experiencing.”
‘Everyone in Gaza is hungry now’
The situation in Gaza for children and their families is “catastrophic”, according to Rachel Cummings, Save the Children’s humanitarian director.
Speaking to Al Jazeera from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, she said there has been no adequate food supply in Gaza for a very long time. The markets are empty and the water sanitation situation is not adequate to meet the needs of 2 million people, “who are all on the brink of famine”, she said.
She said in Deir el-Balah, she had seen “hungry people, children carrying empty bowls, looking for food, looking for water. It’s absolutely desperate here.
“We’re seeing an increased number of children in our clinics and our nutrition centres who are malnourished … We’re also seeing an increase in the number of pregnant women and breastfeeding women who are also malnourished,” she said, adding “everyone in Gaza is hungry now, and even in my team, I see visibly my team are thin, and also they cannot get food in the market.”
Number of people killed by Israel since start of war rises to 59,106
The Health Ministry in Gaza has released its latest daily update on the number of casualties in Israel’s war on Gaza.
In a statement, it said:
‘We want our politicians to move from words to action’
At a protest in Parliament Square in London, Fiona Smith from the Oxfam charity told Al Jazeera that after watching “atrocity after atrocity being perpetrated on civilians in Gaza”, the protesters want to signal to the British government that “enough is enough.
“We want our politicians to move from words to action and actually make sure something tangible is put into place to make this violence stop,” she said.
“From an Oxfam perspective, our own aid workers are so hungry at the minute that they’re sleeping all the time,” Smith said.
“We know that aid has not been able to get into Gaza since March; there are hundreds of trucks in the Rafah crossing and Jordan waiting to go and feed these hungry people, but they simply cannot get access,” she added.
“What has been put into place – the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation – is basically a killing foundation.”
‘Red line for Gaza’ protest in London, protesters gathered in Parliament Square on the final day of Parliament before summer recess to denounce Israeli atrocities in Gaza
‘All options on the table’ if Israel does not deliver on Gaza pledges: EU’s Kallas
The European Union’s foreign policy chief has said “all options are on the table” if Israel does not deliver on its pledges to facilitate humanitarian aid in the Strip.
“The killing of civilians seeking aid in Gaza is indefensible,” Kaja Kallas wrote in a social media post, adding she had spoken with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar “to recall our understanding on aid flow and made clear” that the Israeli army “must stop killing people at distribution points”.
Earlier this month, Kallas said Israel had agreed to expand humanitarian access to Gaza, including increasing the number of aid trucks, crossing points and routes to distribution hubs.
Still stalling, EU is fully complicit in the starvation and continuation of the genocide.
EU Commission boss says ‘images from Gaza are unbearable’
Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, echoed Kallas’s remarks in a social media post saying that Israel “must deliver” on its promises.
“Civilians cannot be targets. Never. The images from Gaza are unbearable,” she wrote. “The EU reiterates its call for the free, safe and swift flow of humanitarian aid. And for the full respect of international and humanitarian law. Civilians in Gaza have suffered too much, for too long. It must stop now.”
Israel isn't listening to you, especially not while you keep sending weapons and trade as usual.
UN rights office says 1,054 killed while trying to get food in Gaza
Between May 27 and July 21, Israeli forces killed 1,054 Palestinians in Gaza while they were trying to access food, the UN Human Rights Office has said. It said 766 of them were killed near US-and Israel-backed GHF sites and 288 were killed near UN convoys or other relief organisations.
“Palestinians in Gaza are dying of starvation or bullets of the Israeli army while trying to get food,” read the UN statement. “The horrific physical and psychological deaths and suffering caused by hunger are the result of Israel’s interference in the delivery and militarisation of humanitarian aid.”
Pro-Palestinian protesters prevent arrival of Israeli cruise ship on Greek island
Dozens of people on the Greek island of Syros have gathered at the port to prevent the docking of a cruise ship carrying Israeli passengers.
Footage from the scene showed the demonstrators carrying giant Palestinian flags and chanting slogans such as “Freedom for Palestine” as the Crown Iris cruise ship, which is operated by Israeli shipping firm Mano Maritime, approached the port of the Aegean Sea island.
The ship’s passengers were reportedly set to disembark on Syros for six hours, but they were not being permitted to disembark due to the protest.
Media reports quoted the island’s residents as saying their action was in solidarity with the people of Gaza, adding that it is “unacceptable” that Israeli tourists continue to be welcomed while Palestinians are suffering in the besieged and bombarded territory.
Israeli Medical Association calls for ethical handling of humanitarian aid in Gaza
The chairman of the Israel Medical Association, Zion Hagai, has asked Israeli army chief Eyal Zamir and the head of the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) office, Ghassan Alian, for “consideration” and “assurance” that aid is “being transferred to those in need in Gaza, while making an effort to prevent it from falling into the hands of terrorist organisations”.
“In recent days, reports have emerged that the State of Israel is preventing the introduction of humanitarian and medical equipment into Gaza, claiming that it can also be used to create weapons or terrorist infrastructure,” he said.
“We are aware of security considerations, but as an organisation that, among other things, trusts in the principles of medical ethics and concerns for public health, we would like to emphasise the necessity of ensuring medical equipment and basic humanitarian conditions for the civilian population in Gaza,” he added.
The Medical Association has refrained thus far from issuing public criticism of the security establishment or condemning the starvation or killing of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
In a separate appeal from Hagai to the army chief, the chairman warned that the killing of Palestinians waiting to receive humanitarian aid is a serious violation of ethics and international law.
Recent days? March 2nd, well over 4 months ago, is when Israel closed off all aid, during the ceasefire which Israel broke.
Israeli minister posts AI-generated video of a future Gaza without Palestinians
Israel’s Science and Technology Minister Gila Gamliel has shared an AI-generated video showing Gaza filled with high-rise buildings, a Trump skyscraper, and Benjamin Netanyahu walking along a beachfront boardwalk with his wife.
In the video, Israelis can be seen eating and drinking beer in a market, while US President Donald Trump is seen strolling along the beach with his wife, Melania Trump.
“This is what Gaza will look like in the future. Voluntary migration of Gazans only with Trump and Netanyahu. It’s us or – them,” Gamliel wrote in a post on X.
The video is reminiscent of an AI-generated video posted by Trump on social media in February showing Gaza filled with skyscrapers and luxury resorts, with him and Netanyahu relaxing next to a swimming pool.
The video was met with widespread criticism, in part because Palestinians were absent in the vision of a future Gaza and was posted after Trump stated the US would “take control” of the Gaza Strip and resettle Palestinians in other countries.
A screenshot from the AI-generated video posted by Gila Gamliel
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