Bodies arrive in Khan Younis hospital after Palestinians killed waiting for aid

Footage verified by Al Jazeera shows the body of a Palestinian man reportedly killed after Israeli forces opened fire and shelled a group of civilians waiting for humanitarian aid south of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip.

The video posted on Instagram documented the arrival of casualties at Nasser Medical Complex. “Martyrs and wounded in the targeting of aid … south of Khan Younis city,” read the caption.

“Dozens of cases were transferred to Nasser Medical Complex where they piled up in the emergency and reception departments,” it added.

Al Jazeera’s verified video shows scenes of overcrowded emergency rooms and bodies lined in corridors.

Earlier, we reported that the Nasser Medical Complex recorded the killing of 20 people, with 140 others wounded in just 24 hours.

Spain criticises Israeli vote on West Bank annexation

Spain has strongly condemned a vote by Israel’s parliament in favour of annexing the West Bank, warning that it “disregards the fundamental principles and provisions of international law”.

In a sharply worded statement, Spain’s Foreign Ministry said the motion, while nonbinding, “undermines the basis for the implementation of a two-State solution” and ignores longstanding commitments made since the Madrid Conference and Oslo Process.

Madrid also renewed its “condemnation of the expansion of settlements” and called for “the release of hostages, the cessation of hostilities and mass entry of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip”.

Reaffirming its diplomatic position, Spain declared its “firm support for the two-State solution as the only way to achieve peace”.

Earlier, we reported that Israel’s parliament had approved a symbolic measure calling for the annexation of the occupied West Bank, with Knesset lawmakers voting 71-13 in favour of the motion.

Freedom Flotilla loses contact with Handala en route to Gaza

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) announced Thursday that it has lost contact with the “Handala,” a ship carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza as part of the group’s mission to break Israel’s blockade.

According to a statement posted on the coalition’s official Telegram channel, the group said: “All communications with the ‘Handala’s crew have been jammed.”

“We lost all contact with our crew, and there are multiple drones near the vessel,” it said. “Which means that they could have been intercepted or attacked.”

No further details were available regarding the ship’s precise location, the status of its crew, or confirmation of an Israeli intervention.

Israeli strikes on Lebanon continue

Video circulating on social media, verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking unit, shows plumes of smoke rising over the Mahmoudiya area, near the Litani River in southern Lebanon.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported a short while ago that Israeli attacks targeted “the Rayhan Heights… the areas of Sajed, Jarmaq, Mahmoudiya, Deir al-Zahrani, al-Jabour and Wadi Baraz”.

“The enemy aircraft also raided the area between al-Zararia and Ansar”, the agency added in its report.

Main events on July 24th

• The number of people killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza since this morning has climbed to 62, including at least 19 Palestinians who were attempting to collect desperately needed aid.
• The Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, reports 20 people killed and at least 140 injured over the past 24 hours.
• French President Emmanuel Macron has pledged that France will formally recognise the State of Palestine in September during the UN General Assembly.
• UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said he will speak with French, German and Italian leaders on Friday to “discuss what we can do urgently to stop the killing and get people the food they desperately need” in Gaza.
• US envoy Steve Witkoff has announced that Trump-era negotiators are being withdrawn from Qatar, blaming Hamas for the breakdown in ceasefire talks. Hamas has not yet responded.
• International criticism of Israel’s blockade of Gaza continues to intensify, as malnourished Palestinians search for food for themselves and their starving children.

UN: People In Gaza Are “Walking Corpses”

Gaza is facing ‘man-made’ starvation as Israel continues to block aid into the territory.

Microsoft Workers REBEL, REFUSE To Work With IDF

Ryan and Emily discuss Microsoft workers refusing to work with the IDF.

‘Madness’: Hayes says ‘the people of Gaza are running out of time’

“This is madness. We are running out of words to describe it. And the people of Gaza are running out of time,” says Chris Hayes on the dire aid situation amid Israel’s war on Gaza.

USAID analysis found no evidence of huge Hamas theft of Gaza aid

An internal US government analysis found no evidence of systematic theft by the Palestinian group Hamas of US-funded humanitarian supplies, challenging the main rationale that Israel and the US give for backing a new, armed private aid operation.

The analysis, which has not been previously reported, was conducted by a bureau within the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and completed in late June.

It examined 156 incidents of theft or loss of US-funded supplies reported by US aid partner organisations between October 2023 and this May.

The agency found “no reports alleging Hamas” benefitted from US-funded supplies, according to a slide presentation of the findings seen by the Reuters news agency.

The findings were shared with the USAID’s inspector general’s office and State Department officials involved in Middle East policy, said two sources familiar with the matter, and come as dire food shortages deepen in the devastated enclave.


_{People make their way along al-Rashid Street in western Jabalia on July 22, 2025, after receiving humanitarian aid from an aid distribution point in the northern Gaza Strip}

USAID won't be making those assessments anymore, cancelled.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/07/22/billions-of-usaid-aid-have-been-officially-canceled_6743590_4.html

Congress finalized the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), a move initiated by Donald Trump as soon as he took office in January. Only PEPFAR, the HIV/AIDS relief program, was narrowly spared.

US lawmakers have just reclaimed $9 billion that had already been allocated to humanitarian organizations, a move that has not occurred since 1999. By using the rare legislative process known as "rescission" (cancellation), both the House of Representatives and the Senate have written into law the international aid budget cuts that had been decided upon by Donald Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led by Elon Musk following Trump's arrival in office in January.

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The vote, finalized in the Senate on July 17, officially marks the end of USAID, the United States Agency for International Development, which was Trump's first target upon entering the White House.

Number of journalists killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza rises to 232: Media Office

Gaza’s Government Media Office has announced the killing of photojournalist Adam Abu Harbid, raising the journalist death toll during Israel’s war on Gaza to 232.

“The Government Media Office condemns in the strongest terms the systematic targeting, killing, and assassination of Palestinian journalists by the ‘Israeli’ occupation,” the statement published overnight on Telegram said.

“We call on the International Federation of Journalists, the Federation of Arab Journalists, and all journalistic bodies worldwide to condemn these systematic crimes against Palestinian journalists and media professionals in the Gaza Strip.”

Waterborne diseases up nearly 150 percent in Gaza: Oxfam

A UK-based charity warns about the crippling healthcare situation posed by the deliberate blockade of aid by Israel, with waterborne diseases increasing nearly 150 percent in the Gaza Strip.

Oxfam said the Palestinian enclave has become a “petri dish of disease” due to the blockade of aid, while millions of dollars’ worth of humanitarian aid pile up in warehouses across the region.

“Water-borne diseases that are both preventable and readily treatable have increased by almost 150 percent inside Gaza over the past three months as Israel continues to deliberately block aid,” it noted.

The charity said the number of Palestinians presenting at health facilities with acute watery diarrhoea has increased 150 percent, bloody diarrhoea is up 302 percent, and acute jaundice cases have climbed 101 percent, citing multi-agency health data.

Oxfam warned that the surge of disease can “quickly turn deadly”, especially as Palestinians have been deprived of food, water, shelter, and adequate healthcare for more than 21 months.

One more child starves to death in Gaza

Palestinian child Abdul Qader al-Fayoumi has died as a result of malnutrition and starvation, according to a source at the al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, speaking to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Thursday that at least 115 Palestinians have starved to death in the enclave since Israel launched its war on Gaza in October 2023. Most of the deaths, which include many children, have been in recent weeks.

Four aid seekers among 11 Palestinians killed in Gaza since dawn

Israeli forces have killed at least 11 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn, including four aid seekers.

Visible signs of malnutrition appear among elderly people in Gaza

The situation in Gaza has reached a very critical point.

We can see that malnutrition is unmistakably rampant across the Strip, specifically among children under the age of five. And recently, we started seeing visible signs of malnutrition among elderly people and men as well as women.

The GHF has failed comprehensively to meet the needs of Gaza’s population. It is viewed by people here as a new aid mechanism that is militarising humanitarian aid. People are reported killed near the GHF sites on a daily basis.

‘We won’t give up,’ journalist in Gaza says

Al Jazeera has spoken with Noor al-Shana, an independent journalist in central Gaza’s Nuseirat, about the deepening crisis of malnutrition and starvation.

The crisis, she said, now affects everyone – and every aspect of life – in Gaza. “I have been facing a lot of struggles to find food,” even one meal per day, said al-Shana, who has four relatives who were killed at GHF-run aid sites while seeking food.

“It’s not easy to continue in this war,” she said. “But we won’t give up for people in Gaza, for our right to live in dignity, to live like people around the world.”

_{Palestinians receive food from a charity kitchen in Gaza City on July 25}

MSF says quarter of children in its Gaza clinics malnourished

Doctors Without Borders, a global medical charity also known by its French acronym MSF, says a quarter of all young children and pregnant or breastfeeding women screened at its clinics in Gaza last week were malnourished. It blames Israel’s “policy of starvation”.

“Across screenings of children aged six months to five years old and pregnant and breastfeeding women at MSF facilities last week, 25 percent were malnourished,” it said, warning that “rates of severe malnutrition in children under five have tripled in the last two weeks alone.”

Gaza running out of specialised food to save malnourished children

Salim Oweis, a spokesperson for UNICEF in Amman, Jordan has told the Reuters news agency that supplies of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF), a crucial treatment, would be depleted by mid-August if nothing changed.

“That’s really dangerous for children as they face hunger and malnutrition at the moment,” he said.

Oweis said UNICEF had only enough RUTF left to treat 3,000 children. In the first two weeks of July alone, UNICEF treated 5,000 children facing acute malnutrition in Gaza.

“Most malnutrition treatment supplies have been consumed and what is left at facilities will run out very soon if not replenished,” a World Health Organization spokesperson said.

The WHO said a programme in Gaza that was aiming to prevent malnutrition among the most vulnerable, including pregnant women and children under five, may have to stop work as it is running out of the nutritional supplements.

_{Palestinian women care for their malnourished babies at the Patient’s Friends Benevolent Society Hospital in Gaza City on July 23}

Gaza death toll rises

At least 80 Palestinians, including nine aid seekers, have been killed and 467 others injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.

In the same time period, nine bodies were also recovered from the rubble of the previous Israeli attacks, the statement published on Telegram said.

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed a total of 59,676 Palestinians and injured 143,965 others since October 7, 2023, the ministry said.

The total number of aid seekers killed since Israel introduced a new aid mechanism in the enclave on May 27 has reached 1,092, with more than 7,320 starving people injured.

Starvation of Gaza people ‘cannot be defended or ignored’: Australian leader

Every effort must be made to safeguard innocent life and end the suffering and starvation of the people of Gaza, the Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says in a statement, describing the situation as a “humanitarian catastrophe”.

“Israel’s denial of aid and the killing of civilians, including children, seeking access to water and food cannot be defended or ignored,” Albanese said in the statement.

Where are your sanctions? You're still ignoring it.

‘From the children of Sinai to the children of Gaza’

Egyptians are throwing water bottles filled with food into the sea, hoping that currents will carry them to starving Palestinians in Gaza.

One family said that although their aid might not reach Gaza, they cannot wait for governments to act.

“From the children of Sinai to the children of Gaza.”

Egyptians are throwing bottles filled with food into the sea, hoping that the current will carry them to starving Palestinians in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/XIOKIRwLqk

— AJ+ (@ajplus) July 24, 2025

Protesters target US lawmakers as Israel starves Gaza

The US protest group Code Pink is targeting key politicians it says are involved in Israel’s starvation campaign in Gaza.

The group has previously targeted former President Joe Biden and Senator Lindsey Graham over their support for Israel’s war.

UN urges UK to repeal ‘disproportionate’ Palestine Action ban

Volker Turk, the UN human rights chief, has criticised Britain’s ban on the activist group Palestine Action as a “disturbing” misuse of UK “counterterrorism” legislation and urged the government to rescind its decision.

“The decision appears disproportionate and unnecessary,” he said in a statement. “It limits the rights of many people involved with and supportive of Palestine Action who have not themselves engaged in any underlying criminal activity but rather exercised their rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association.”