Egyptian military prepares aid packages for drops over Gaza

_{Aid packages for Gaza sit in vehicles before being loaded into aircraft in Cairo}

16 small packages per airplane (that can easily fall in areas that cannot be reached) compared to 800 a day of these at the start of the ceasefire in Februari:



Air drops are nothing but 'feel good' stall tactics. It's impossible to stop the runaway starvation with air drops. But at least the parachutes can be used to make shelter I guess...

‘Far from sufficient’: UN decries Israel’s land blockade of aid

The United Nations’ humanitarian agency says the conditions for delivering aid into Gaza are “far from sufficient” to meet the immense needs of its “desperate, hungry people”.

Four days into Israel’s “tactical pauses”, deaths from hunger and malnutrition are rising as are casualties among those seeking aid, it said.

“For UN drivers to access the Kerem Shalom [Karam Abu Salem] crossing – a fenced-off area – Israeli authorities must approve the mission, provide a safe route through which to travel, provide multiple ‘green lights’ on movement, as well as a pause in bombing and, ultimately, open the iron gates to allow them to enter.”

OCHA also said fuel deliveries are nowhere near what is needed to keep health, emergency, water and telecommunications services running in the besieged Palestinian territory.

“Desperate, hungry people” continue to offload the small amounts of aid from the trucks that are able to exit the crossings, it said. “Current fuel entries are insufficient to meet life-saving critical needs and represent a drop in the ocean,” said OCHA.

Main events on July 30th

• Since dawn, Israeli attacks killed at least 86 people throughout Gaza despite the army claiming to be following “tactical pauses” with more than 70 aid seekers shot dead.
• Canada said it intends to recognise a Palestinian state at the United Nations in September, citing the need for a two-state solution as Israel attacks Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
• Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz joined a chorus of Israeli condemnation over growing announcements of the recognition of a Palestinian state, calling the move “encouragement” for Hamas.
• Former captive Emily Damari has criticised as “deeply saddening” British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s announcement to recognise a Palestinian state.
• US special envoy Steve Witkoff will visit Israel on Thursday to “discuss next steps” on the dire situation in the Gaza Strip.
• Spanish Defence Minister Margarita Robles said 13 sick children and their families from Gaza will be flown from Jordan to Spain for urgent medical care.
• The United Arab Emirates has begun construction on a major pipeline to carry desalinated water from Egypt to southern Gaza.
• Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem said in a televised address that those demanding the group disarm are “serving the Israeli project”.

Trump-Netanyahu Gaza disagreement; UK PM misleads MPs on Palestine announcement?

Both Donald Trump and Keir Starmer are facing criticism for responding late on the humanitarian situation of Gaza. While Trump’s public differences with Netanyahu is not going down well even with his critics, Starmer is being accused by own party colleagues of not sticking to his promise on the recognition of Palestine. Rifat Jawaid highlights the continued biases by the BBC and some exemplary work by independent media in the US.

Netanyahu is a Disgusting Liar

Israeli rights groups accuse government of genocide: 'We are doing it with a heavy heart'

Leaders of B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel say they're taking this step because "Denial is what allows these atrocities to continue.”

"Beyond Atrocious": Arwa Damon on Desperation & Hunger in Gaza as Israel Continues Blocking Most Aid

"The Most Peaceful Man": Palestinian Activist Odeh Hadalin Killed by Israeli Settler

Family and friends are reeling after an Israeli settler shot and killed Palestinian activist Odeh Muhammad Hadalin, an athlete, teacher and father of three young children. Hadalin helped produce the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, which follows Palestinians in the occupied West Bank community of Masafer Yatta as they struggle to stay on their land amid violent attacks by Jewish settlers. Hadalin's cousin Alaa calls him an exceptionally "humane" and "peaceful" person in an interview with +972 Magazine and Local Call reporter Oren Ziv, who joins us from Tel Aviv.

In January, the Trump administration lifted Biden-era sanctions on Hadalin's alleged killer, Yinon Levi, who has been released on house arrest. Meanwhile, multiple members of Hadalin's family are still imprisoned and awaiting hearings in Israel's military court after they were arrested by Israeli soldiers following the shooting. Ziv describes how Israeli soldiers also conducted a raid on a mourning party days after Hadalin died of his injuries. "They forced us out. And even in the entrance to the village, they started to throw stun grenades," Ziv says. "It's important to say it's not only an attack on the family, on his friends. It's an attempt to prevent us, the journalists, [from] investigating the case."

Starmer (jewish), Macron (Rothschild Banker) and Carney are Zionists. I believe their recognition of a Palestinian state is a legal way to have a "refugee agreement" with that state of Palestine to move the Arabs into UK, France and Canada aka the Trump/Kushner plan to expand Israel into Gaza and the West bank. This is not a humanitarian plot to serve Palestinians.

I don't think they want to host Palestinians at all, but yeah maybe to move them to Arab states.

For example the extended Visa program Canada introduced for Palestinians is nothing but a mess of red tape
https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/palestinian-canadians-say-temporary-visa-program-is-failing-people-trapped-in-gaza/

It's another distraction from actually doing something meaningful to stop the genocide, next to trying to distance themselves from that genocide by repeating the mantra "we were always for a 2-state solution" and thirdly using their recognition as a way to influence the 2-state solution for Israel's benefit if it comes that far. 

Starmer made recognition conditional, Macron has lots of demands and Carney's statement:

https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2025/07/30/statement-prime-minister-carney-canadas-recognition-palestinian-state

This intention is predicated on the Palestinian Authority’s commitment to much-needed reforms, including the commitments by Palestinian Authority President Abbas to fundamentally reform its governance, to hold general elections in 2026 in which Hamas can play no part, and to demilitarize the Palestinian state. Canada will increase its efforts in supporting strong, democratic governance in Palestine and the contributions of its people to a more peaceful and hopeful future.

We reiterate that Hamas must immediately release all hostages taken in the horrific terrorist attack of October 7; that Hamas must disarm; and that Hamas must play no role in the future governance of Palestine. Canada will always steadfastly support Israel’s existence as an independent state in the Middle East living in peace and security. Any path to lasting peace for Israel also requires a viable and stable Palestinian state, and one that recognizes Israel’s inalienable right to security and peace.

They say they want a democratic state for Palestine but Palestinians can have no input... The PA is deeply unpopular and seen as a puppet government for Israel's occupation of the West bank.

Poll in May, only 7% would vote for the PA, Hamas support down to 22%, if Marwan Barghouti (Palestinian Nelson Mandela) would be freed and allowed to set up up a political party. That's who the Palestinians want to unify the West Bank and Gaza into one Palestinian state.


Netanyahu knows this of course and now his stooges are pledging to recognize a Palestinian state so they can push for the PA to extend its governance to Gaza. Opposed to the plan in Februari https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/16/egypt-gaza-reconstruction-plan-hamas

Hamas would be excluded there as well and Hamas has already said they don't want to rule Gaza anymore and step down. Of course they're refusing to lay down their weapons until security is established, it's the only deterrence they have from getting slaughtered further. The IRA kept their arms until 2005, 7 years after the Good Friday agreement. 

Calling for disarmament as a prerequisite is a giant red flag, the world doesn't work that way. Plus it's logistically impossible with all the different splinter factions and now also armed gangs (armed by Israel) roaming around in Gaza further destabilizing the strip. It's just talking points from the occupation / invader. Putin is making the same demands (disarmament) on Ukraine for 'peace'.

It very much smells like an attempt to crash the 2-state solution conference and indeed nothing to do with addressing the humanitarian crisis.

Several killed as Israeli military attacks tents housing displaced Palestinians

The Israeli military has continued its bombardment of the Gaza Strip overnight, carrying out several deadly attacks in the hours since midnight local time (21:00 GMT), according to our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues.

The attacks include:

People forced to climb, fight on top of aid trucks in Gaza in desperation

There is a very high level of hunger and desperation in Gaza. What we are witnessing on a daily basis is heartbreaking. As soon as aid trucks appear, when the small number of them are allowed by the Israeli military to enter, a crowd of desperate people swarm to them, climb on them, trying to grab even a small portion of food.

They are sometimes even fighting between each other, because if they don’t grab food, they and their children are not going to eat for that day. There is no organised distribution in the majority of the areas. There is also no protection for those who receive or deliver aid.

We see children fainting while seeking aid because of the heat, and families walking long distances with no guarantee they are going to get food or water. It shows the total collapse of humanitarian access for these people. It shows also the consequences of enforced starvation and dehydration.

Aid truck drivers in Gaza ‘have no protection at all’

Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim al-Khalili visited a UN warehouse in northern Gaza, where, four days after Israel agreed to allow a limited number of humanitarian aid trucks to cross the border, nothing has arrived.

He spoke to Jihad Shuheiber, a truck driver who was shot when a gang attacked the aid truck he was driving

“The UN cars come in with us – we load the aid together, then they let us out in small groups, 10 vehicles at a time, but as soon as we exit, people swarm us; they climb onto the trucks, damage the vehicles,” Shuheiber said.

“Drivers have no protection at all. Sometimes, you’ll see 1,000 people surrounding one truck – you can’t even see the front of the vehicle. It’s heartbreaking,” Shuheiber said.

A US government analysis has found no evidence Hamas has systematically stolen aid – despite Israeli claims. But armed gangs have filled the power vacuum left by nearly two years of Israeli bombardment.

‘I haven’t had any flour for nearly two months’: Khan Younis resident

Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim al-Khalili has spoken to Palestinians in Gaza who are struggling to find any food to feed their family after Israel’s months-long blockade. This has forced some people to loot the limited number of aid trucks entering Gaza before they reach warehouses.

Imad al-Attar, living in Khan Younis, who had looted a bag of flour from an aid truck so that he could feed his children, told Al Jazeera that his family hasn’t had “any flour for nearly two months”.

“We just want to eat and survive,” al-Attar said as he carried a bag of flour over his shoulders.

Ashraf Azzam, who is living in Gaza City, said “even the amounts of aid entering now are not enough for the starving Palestinian population, which urgently needs larger quantities”.

“In the past, we used to receive respectful notifications inviting us to collect aid packages from warehouses in an organised manner;” he said.

“Now, with very few trucks coming in, desperate and starving people – who have been starved by the occupation – are forced to rush the trucks and seize the aid; as a result, ordinary people, the elderly and people with disabilities can’t get this aid,” Azzam added.

_{Palestinians at an aid distribution point in Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor}

No news on Gaza doctor, official 10 days after ‘enforced disappearance’: Ministry

The Gaza Health Ministry says 10 days have passed since the Israeli “kidnapping” of Marwan al-Hams, a doctor and the director of field hospitals in the enclave.

According to the ministry, there is no information about his health status and conditions of detention.

Palestinian authorities say al-Hams was taken by an Israeli undercover unit last week outside the field hospital of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the southern city of Rafah.

Israel “is practicing enforced disappearance against imprisoned medical personnel”, the ministry said in a statement. At least 361 medical personnel remain imprisoned in Israeli jails, it added.

Israel’s defence, justice ministers say time ripe for West Bank annexation: Report

The offices of Justice Minister Yariv Levin and Defence Minister Israel Katz have issued a joint statement, saying the current moment represents an opportunity to annex the occupied West Bank.

“Ministers Katz and Levin have been working for many years to implement Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria,” said the statement quoted by The Times of Israel newspaper, using a biblical term for the West Bank. “At this very moment, there is a moment of opportunity that must not be missed.”

The report said the statement was issued in response to a Channel 14 story claiming that neither Katz nor Levin had issued instructions to prepare for annexation, which the statement called “false”, pointing to work done by the two ministers, including as part of Trump’s defunct 2020 “Deal of the Century”.

“This was expressed, among other things, in the work done by Minister Levin during President Trump’s first term, in which all the necessary things were prepared for the important move – from a proposal for resolutions to precise maps, and Defense Minister Katz led a series of unprecedented decisions to strengthen settlement and pave the way for Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria,” the statement reads, according to the newspaper.

Israeli forces kill 2 Palestinians after West Bank settler attack

The Israeli military has shot two Palestinians dead in the occupied West Bank town of Silwad, east of Ramallah, according to medical sources speaking to our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues.

Earlier, Israeli settlers had stormed the Palestinian community, resulting in deadly confrontations breaking out.

West Bank’s Silwad residents to go on strike to protest killing of two Palestinians

We reported earlier that the Israeli military shot two Palestinians dead in the occupied West Bank town of Silwad, east of Ramallah. Residents in the town are now organising a comprehensive strike to mourn the men, one of whom has been identified by the Quds News Network as Khamis Ayyad.

The second deceased person is yet to be identified. 

مصادر محلية: إضراب شامل في بلدة سلواد شمال شرق رام الله حدادا على روح الشهيد خميس عياد الذي ارتقى خلال هجوم مليشيات المستوطنين وجيش الاحتلال على البلدة فجر اليوم. pic.twitter.com/1y5Opv7lW0

— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) July 31, 2025

Baby suffers from tear gas inhalation in Israeli raid near Hebron: Report

A six-month-old baby has suffered from tear gas inhalation during an Israeli military raid in a village southwest of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency.

During the military incursion, eight people were arrested, the report said.

According to Wafa, raids also took place in Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, where several homes were raided and four men were detained, and in the village of Umm al-Khair in the Masafer Yatta area, where homes were searched, ransacked, and three men were arrested.

Europe’s silence on Gaza is complicity: Ex-envoys warn

To the Presidents of the European Council, the European Commission, and the European Parliament, and the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union,

To the Heads of Government and Foreign Ministers of the EU Member States,

We, 58 former ambassadors of the European Union, were appalled and outraged by the slaughter of innocent Israelis and hostage taking on October 7, 2023 by Hamas and others. No cause can justify such acts, and we condemn them outright.

Today, however, we are witnessing the horrifying spectacle of Israel carrying out, on a daily basis, atrocity crimes against the Palestinian people – above all in Gaza, but also in the occupied West Bank, amounting to a systematic campaign of brutalisation, dehumanisation, and displacement.