Aid flow into Gaza still ‘not enough’, must be ‘expanded’, ‘sustained’: UNRWA official

Israel’s limited steps to allow aid into Gaza are welcome but not enough to reverse the extreme shortages it intentionally “manufactured”, says Sam Rose, acting director of UNRWA affairs in Gaza.

“This has clearly been part of an approach of manufactured starvation over several months,” Rose told Al Jazeera.

“First of all, you [Israel] limit the supply of aid coming in, or you completely block it. Second, you criticise the organisations whose job it is to provide that aid, the UN organisations – whose job, of course, is made far more difficult by the controls that Israel imposes.”

“And then the next stage of this is to frame humanitarian aid itself as part of the problem,” he continued. “And that’s the dynamic we’ve been facing over the past few weeks in which countless children have died of malnutrition.”

Rose added that while “we very much welcome these initial steps to increase the flow of aid”, he said it is “not enough”.

“They need to be expanded, they need to be sustained, and they need to be accompanied by a ceasefire because that’s the only thing that’s going to stabilise things for hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of desperate people in Gaza.”

Israel claims 120 truckloads of aid distributed, hundreds more waiting

In a post on X, Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), which is responsible for coordinating aid into Gaza, said 120 aid trucks entered Gaza yesterday and were distributed by the UN and international aid agencies.

COGAT, which has repeatedly and baselessly tried to blame UN logistics for contributing to aid shortages, claimed 180 more truckloads have entered and are now “awaiting collection and distribution”, with hundreds more lined up at the border.

The Israeli figures come after UN aid chief Tom Fletcher said yesterday that more than 100 aid trucks entered Gaza, a number he said still falls far short of what’s needed to “stave off famine”.

Aid deliveries to Gaza ‘still a drop in the ocean,’ UN humanitarian chief says

Israel’s decision to allow more aid into Gaza has been welcomed by the UN, but officials warn that severe restrictions continue to block life-saving deliveries.

“This is a welcome step in the right direction,” Tom Fletcher, the UN’s undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, told Al Jazeera. “But clearly, we need to get in vast amounts of aid at a much, much greater scale than we’ve been able to do so far.”

While more aid trucks entered Gaza yesterday, Fletcher described the overall delivery as “a drop in the ocean”.

“We can’t just simply turn up and drive through. That’s what we should be allowed to do, that’s what international law demands, but we’re not yet at that point,” he said, citing ongoing security risks, closed crossings, visa rejections and customs delays.

“There’s massive starvation in Gaza,” Fletcher warned. “We’re mobilised to deliver as much as we can … but we’ll judge this by results.”

Tens of thousands of infants could die without baby formula, Gaza media office warns

The Government Media Office says an extreme shortage of baby formula could cause tens of thousands of malnourished infants to slowly die.

“There are over 40,000 infants under one year old in Gaza currently at risk of slow death due to this brutal and suffocating blockade,” the office said, accusing Israel of blocking entry of the product for 150 days.

“We urgently demand the immediate and unconditional opening of all crossings and the swift entry of baby formula and humanitarian aid,” the office continued.

In recent days, at least two children, including a five-month-old, have died from hunger-related causes in Gaza, pushing the number of starvation deaths to 133. The deceased baby had needed specialised baby formula that her family could not access in Gaza, according to her father.

Gaza mother killed while seeking food, leaving children orphaned and facing starvation

More and more mothers are being killed while trying to find food for their starving children in Gaza.

As food becomes more scarce, men are often sent to bring back supplies from aid distribution sites. Since many have died in the process, more Palestinian women are being forced to choose between dying of hunger or risking getting killed by Israeli forces while trying to get food.

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum has been speaking to one family facing this dilemma in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis.

Israeli forces hit apartment in Gaza City with deadly attack

An Israeli attack has hit an apartment in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, killing one person and injuring others, according to local health officials cited by our colleagues on the ground.

The attack comes as Israel pledged to “pause” attacks on Gaza City for 10 hours today to facilitate the transfer and collection of humanitarian aid.

Earlier, as we reported, an attack on a residential building in eastern Gaza City killed at least three people.


_{Palestinians gather at the site of an overnight Israeli air attack on a house in Khan Younis}

UNRWA ‘ready’ to deliver aid to Gaza but prevented by Israeli attacks and restrictions

A starvation crisis is gripping Gaza, and while some aid has trickled in, it’s nowhere near enough.

The UN said more food is needed to prevent famine and a catastrophic health crisis. Sam Rose is acting director of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza (UNRWA), which Israel banned last year.

He said UNRWA is ready and able to deliver lifesaving aid in Gaza, but Israeli restrictions and ongoing attacks prevent food, water and healthcare from reaching those in desperate need, especially children.

World pressure’ pushing Israel’s aid shift

Dan Perry, former chairman of the Foreign Press Association of Israel, says mounting foreign pressure is clearly the reason why Israel has allowed more aid into Gaza.

“Israel has never had a coherent strategy regarding how much aid needs to go in. … They turn it up, and they turn it down,” Perry told Al Jazeera. But now “they are trying to react to world pressure,” which is growing due to the “images of stupendous suffering of innocent people”, he said.

However, within Israel, people are deeply divided over the government’s aid approach, he said. “There is one school of thought that says this is a cruel war and that throughout history, parties of war have not generally been overly concerned with sending humanitarian aid to the other side,” he noted.

“There is very much another school of thought that says this is a disgrace that taints the entire population of Israel and might embroil Israel in future legal and moral quandaries that most Israelis don’t want to deal with.

“It’s heartbreaking to witness the consequences.”

Daily 'thoughts and prayers' from Merz

Germany says it is ready to ramp up pressure on Israel over Gaza aid

Berlin is willing to take steps to press Israel to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, according to a government spokesman who reviewed a recent phone call between Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Israeli PM Netanyahu.

“The chancellor was very clear in the phone conversation with the Israeli prime minister … that the federal government is prepared to increase the pressure if progress is not made,” the spokesperson said, without providing details.

“In principle, we are prepared to take further steps, which is also the purpose of this afternoon’s security meeting,” he said, referring to a meeting of the German security cabinet.

Yesterday, Merz called on Netanyahu “to do everything in his power to achieve an immediate ceasefire. He urged him to provide the starving civilian population in Gaza with urgently needed humanitarian aid now”.

“This aid must reach the civilian population quickly, safely, and in the required quantities,” said a German government statement.

Germany’s staunch backing for Israel has come under increased criticism in recent days as the Israeli-induced starvation crisis deepens in Gaza.

‘Some version of PA’ taking control in Gaza only way forward, analyst says

Perry says he believes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – looking to elections slated for October 2026 – is likely to eventually move to end a war that has become deeply unpopular.

However, the former chairman of the Foreign Press Association of Israel said, “the only logical way out of this is for some version of the PA to be restored in Gaza”.

“I would expect pressure on Israel to accept that. And I would expect pressure on Hamas to disarm and allow the war to end,” Perry told Al Jazeera, arguing that Arab countries should put pressure on Hamas to do so.

“I think both sides will have a lot to answer for,” he said.

The PA will first have to get out of Israeli control or people in Gaza will not accept the PA. Hamas is ready to cede control, but I doubt they'll accept an Israeli controlled puppet government. 

Israel’s Gantz calls for Arab nations to manage Gaza

Chairman of Israel’s National Unity party Benny Gantz says reports of soldiers being tasked with securing food convoys in Gaza are “serious and alarming”.

“I have warned, and I warn again, we are heading toward a situation where our children will be dealing with sewage in Gaza,” Gantz wrote on X.

“It is time to pursue a solution that includes an administration of Arab countries to manage Gaza. Security control must remain in our hands. But our fighters must not risk their lives to take care of Gazans.”

You created the sewage... Let someone else clean up your mess. Your children will be dealing with your actions today for generations to come. 

Egyptian president urges Trump to stop war in Gaza

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has publicly called on Trump to use his influence to halt Israel’s war on Gaza and ensure the entry of humanitarian aid into the besieged enclave.

In a televised speech, the Egyptian president said, “He is capable of stopping the war.”

The Egyptian leader urged Washington to exert all possible pressure to bring the conflict to an end and to open the way for vital relief to reach Palestinians trapped by months of Israeli bombardment and siege.

Trump says people in Gaza need food, safety and it’s time for war to end

US President Donald Trump, currently on a visit to Scotland, has addressed the war in Gaza, saying the time has come to “end it” and a ceasefire is “possible”.

“I told Israel, I told Bibi [Netanyahu] that you’re going to now maybe have to do it a different way,” Trump said. “It’s a tragic situation, frankly.”

Speaking alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Trump also said people in Gaza need food and safety right now, a situation he said he would discuss with Starmer.

‘We have to get the kids fed,’ says Trump

Trump called the humanitarian situation in the enclave “terrible” and said, “We have to get the kids fed.”

He touted what he said were strong US contributions to aid in Gaza, saying Washington sent $60m dedicated to food aid last week. “We only hope the food goes to the people that need it,” said Trump.

In May, the US-backed GHF took over aid distribution in Gaza, sidelining the United Nations and other international groups. Humanitarian officials have described the GHF-led system as disastrous, with only limited aid distributed at closed military sites near where hundreds of desperately hungry Palestinians have been killed while waiting for aid.

Trump says Hamas has become ‘very difficult to deal with’

US President Trump says Hamas has resisted releasing the final 20 living captives it’s believed to be holding in Gaza.

“Hamas has become very difficult to deal with in the last couple of days because they don’t want to give up these last 20,” Trump said in Scotland. “They think as long as they have them, they have protection. But I don’t think it can work that way.”

On June 24, the US recalled its negotiators from Qatar, with special envoy Steve Witkoff saying Hamas’s latest proposal showed “a lack of desire to reach a ceasefire”.

Just let the UN, UNWRA, WCK, etc do their job. Stop blocking the aid, that's all that's needed. This is nothing but another stall technique. Removing the fences won't change anything. (Apart from pictures not showing fenced in masses) Just more reason for your trigger happy mercenaries to fire at aid seekers. 

More deflection, more stalling, more complicity in the ongoing genocide.

EU to consider suspending Israel’s access to Horizon funding

European commissioners are set to discuss a proposal to partially suspend Israel’s access to the EU’s Horizon Europe research programme, amid mounting pressure from member states to hold Israel accountable over the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Calls for action intensified last week, when several European Union member states accused Israel of failing to meet its commitments under an agreement aimed at improving humanitarian access to Gaza.

Israel has participated in EU research frameworks since 1996, contributing to joint science and innovation projects. Horizon Europe, the bloc’s current research programme, is worth nearly 100 billion euros ($117bn).

The debate over Horizon comes shortly after the European Commission refused to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement, despite mounting calls from rights groups and some member states.

Amnesty International condemned the decision, calling it a “cruel and unlawful betrayal” of the EU’s human rights obligations.

Gaza death toll rises to 65 since dawn

Across the war-battered enclave, Israeli attacks have killed at least 65 people, medical sources tell Al Jazeera.

Among those killed, 23 were aid seekers.

Since Israel’s war on Gaza began in October 2023, at least 59,921 people have been killed and 145,233 wounded.

‘End this barbarity’: Spain to airdrop 12 tonnes of aid into Gaza

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says stopping the starvation in Gaza is a “moral, political and humanitarian imperative”.

“The government is already preparing a shipment of food for the Strip. But the only true solution is for Netanyahu to activate a ceasefire, open the land humanitarian corridor and end this barbarity,” Sanchez said.

Spain’s military is planning to airdrop 12 tonnes of food into Gaza this week, joining Arab states, such as Jordan and the United Arab Emirates. Airdrops have been criticised as being inadequate for the immense needs of Palestinians after 21 months of war and blockades.

It would be a lot more effective to enact an arms embargo and sanction Israel than drop half a truck of aid on Gaza.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/defence/news/spains-arms-embargo-on-israel-hits-enemy-lines-at-home/

Beyond technology, official trade data indicates that Spain continues to buy weapons from Israel, contradicting its stated embargo.

According to government data, Spain's imports from Israel under TARIC code 93 (arms and ammunition) reached €7 million in 2024 and €10.2 million in 2025. For 2025, imports worth €6.8 million fell under the 9306901000 subcategory (bombs, grenades, torpedoes, mines, missiles, and similar munitions of war and parts thereof), and €3.4 million under code 93069010 (war weaponry and ammunition).

‘Mix of frustration and hope’ in Gaza amid new aid push

While Israel has announced it is implementing a “humanitarian pause”, the situation on the ground tells a very different story. Over the past few hours, Israeli attacks have taken place where people were trying to collect aid, specifically near the Morag Corridor.

Further attacks on aid seekers occurred in central and southern parts of Gaza. It’s a very grim reality at a time when it’s supposed to be safe for Palestinians to move around and get food supplies.

The general sentiment on the ground is a mix of frustration and hope for the continuation of these aid deliveries to the Strip. But what has been sent remains a trickle compared to the needs of Gaza’s population.

Israeli settlers shoot and wound Palestinian near Ramallah

Israeli settlers have shot a Palestinian man during an attack on the village of Kafr Malik, east of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank. The man sustained wounds in the hand, the Wafa news agency said, quoting local sources.

The settlers stormed the al-Manatir and al-Kasara areas as well as poultry farms on the outskirts of the village. Residents confronted them, and the settlers opened fire.

Israeli violence in the West Bank has escalated dramatically since the start of the war on Gaza. Attacks by settlers, who are often backed by Israeli soldiers, have also surged against Palestinians and their property and take place with impunity.