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Israeli opposition leader calls for an end to Gaza war

Yair Lapid claims the Israeli government has lost the support of the public and no longer has the legitimacy to continue its war in Gaza.

“Since time immemorial, there has been one essential condition for Israel’s wars: a majority,” the Israeli opposition leader said in a post on X.

“The state of Israel cannot wage a war if the majority of the public does not stand behind it, does not believe in its objectives, and does not trust the leadership.

“None of these conditions are met now. It is time to end the war and bring back the hostages.”

Lapid’s remarks come amid mounting domestic pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government over its handling of the war and the failure to secure the release of captives in Gaza.

Most Israeli war crime probes since October 2023 stalled: Report

The Israeli military has made no findings in 88 percent of its publicly known investigations into alleged war crimes since October 2023, according to the Action on Armed Violence (AAV) monitoring group.

The London-based group said its “review of 52 cases exposes a chasm between Israel’s professed commitment to self‑scrutiny and the bleak reality experienced by victims and their families”.

Investigations were only launched “when civilian deaths make global headlines”, but then, “over time, the news cycle moves on, and the investigation sinks into silence”, AAV said.

The cases which have yet to deliver any findings include the so-called “flour massacre”, where 112 people were killed when Israeli troops opened fire as hundreds of people waited for aid in Gaza City on February 29, 2024.

“The case was handed to an independent body, but no findings have yet been made public,” AAV said.

The Israeli military responded by saying it has opened dozens of investigations “in accordance with its obligations under Israeli law and international law” and that “most of these investigations are still ongoing.”


Which alleged war crimes has Israel yet to fully investigate?

As we have been reporting, Action on Armed Violence (AAV) has found Israel has stalled 88 percent of its investigations into alleged war crimes since October 2023.

Here are some of the cases:

  • “No investigation findings have been released” into the killing of five-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab and her family on January 29, 2024.
  • The Israeli military admitted its soldiers tied Palestinian man Mujahed Azmi to the front of a military jeep during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on June 23, 2024, but “no findings or disciplinary actions have been disclosed.”
  • No further announcements have been made since Israel referred the killing of at least 37 civilians, many sheltering in tents, by Israeli air and artillery attacks in Rafah on May 26, 2024 to an “independent” fact-finding group.
  • On March 23, 15 Palestinian medics were killed when Israeli soldiers opened fire on a clearly marked ambulance convoy. The Israeli military admitted “professional failures” and dismissed a deputy commander. But it did not press any criminal action against the military units involved in the killing.
  • Three Israeli captives who had escaped Hamas captivity were mistakenly shot by Israeli soldiers on December 15, 2023, while waving a white cloth. No disciplinary action was taken.


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US, Israel ‘committed to the mass expulsion of Palestinians’

Mohamad Elmasry, a professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, says Gaza has been “bombed into oblivion” and accuses both Israel and the United States of being “committed to the mass expulsion of the Palestinians”.

“For a long time, it was unstated,” he told Al Jazeera. “But the Israelis and the Americans have both made that clear. They’ve stated it, explicitly on numerous occasions over the past several months.”

He also questioned the Israeli government’s priorities, claiming that the safe return of captives held in Gaza has not been central to its strategy.

According to Elmasry, Hamas has also made several offers for a ceasefire since October 2023.

“That proposal also includes Hamas relinquishing power in Gaza, and giving power over to a technocratic government,” he said, adding that a long-term ceasefire was on the table. “Hamas, on different occasions, has posed a five-year and also a 10-year truce with Israel. Israel rejected all of that.”

He said this rejection suggested that the Israeli government is “not very interested in the captives, and that they’re not a high priority”.


Israeli military says it seized weapons in southern Syria

The Israeli army says its forces have carried out a raid on four sites in southern Syria and confiscated weapons.

According to a statement posted on social media, Israeli forces “completed an operation to interrogate several suspects involved in arms trafficking in the Khader area of southern Syria”.

The statement added that soldiers “raided four areas simultaneously and located numerous weapons in which the suspects were trading”.

The Syrian government has not yet responded to the incursion into the country’s territory.



Red Crescent says staff member killed in Israeli attack on southern Gaza

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society says that Israeli forces have attacked its headquarters in Khan Younis, causing a fire that killed one staff member and injured three others.

‘Heartbroken’: Palestine Red Crescent slams Israel for ‘deliberate attack’ on its HQ

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says one of its staff members, Omar Isleem, was killed early on Sunday in what it described as a deliberate Israeli strike.

Earlier we reported that Israeli forces attacked the PRCS headquarters in Khan Younis, causing a fire that killed one staff member and injured three.

In a statement, the humanitarian group said: “We are heartbroken to share that our colleague Omar Isleem was killed early this morning in an attack on our headquarters in Khan Younis. Two other colleagues were also injured in the strike.”

The PRCS said the location of its headquarters was well known to Israeli forces and “clearly marked with the protective red emblem”, adding, “this was not a mistake.

“This deliberate attack on a protected Red Crescent facility is a grave violation of international humanitarian law – it is a war crime,” the statement said.


Unpacking Israel’s ‘tactic to dismember Gaza’s systems and make it unliveable’

Raja Khalidi, the director general of the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute, says Israel has succeeded in creating a “desperate” situation in Gaza that extends beyond the killing of Palestinians to also eliminating community relations, markets and societies.

“It’s no longer about Gaza’s traditional resilience and innovativeness, which we all know through 15 years of blockade, and what Gaza was and compared to now what has become and what Israel has reduced it to,” he told Al Jazeera from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

Khalidi said if Israel has not succeeded in its other declared aims, it seems to be succeeding in its effort to completely dismember Gaza’s financial and social systems.

“And this is what’s worrying because traditionally the social fabric of Gaza is known to be sound, solid and very protective,” he added, noting that the chaos that’s being witnessed currently “is not just a terrible consequence of war”.

“This is part of Israel’s tactic to dismember Gaza, dismantle it, make it unliveable; we’ve said it from the very first days – and in every phase of this war, we learn more what it means to make Gaza unliveable.”



Only 36 aid trucks entered Gaza on Saturday

Gaza’s Government Media office says only 36 aid trucks entered Gaza on Saturday, far below the 500 to 600 the UN estimates are needed to meet residents’ daily needs.

Most of the trucks were looted before their contents could be distributed, the office added, blaming Israel for “systematically and deliberately” enforcing the “security chaos”.

“Famine is ravaging Gaza’s children amid shameful international silence,” the office said in a statement, calling for the “immediate opening of the crossings and the entry of sufficient quantities of aid and baby formula”.

Palestinians dying of malnutrition as aid trucks yet to reach them

Despite the fact that Israel claimed a humanitarian pause and agreed to let more trucks and humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, the reality on the ground is very different.

Palestinians do not see any difference.

It has been a couple of days, and a very limited number of trucks have been entering, Those trucks are not reaching anywhere, houses or distribution points.

Hot meal kitchens are also still not operating.

But every single day, Palestinians are dying due to malnutrition and starvation, and the latest case was Atef, a 17-year-old Palestinian.

Every single day, we are losing more people, not only from the continuous Israeli air attacks, but also from the forced starvation that is imposed on Palestinians in Gaza. In the markets, you rarely find food. Whatever is available is very, very expensive, and people are still forced to risk their lives to get whatever they can get.

Every single day, more Palestinians are being shot and killed near distribution sites run by the controversial GHF. Palestinians say that they do not have any choice left other than seeing their children die in front of their eyes or risking their lives, being shot or injured to secure a meal for them.


Ubayda al-Qara, who became paralyzed by Israeli attacks, also struggles with malnutrition and a skin condition in Khan Yunis, Gaza on July 28, 2025. The 10-year-old was severely injured during an Israeli army attack when he was struck by tank shell shrapnel while fleeing with his family during a forced displacement in Bani Suheila. Due to the blockade, he cannot travel abroad for medical treatment, and also suffers from malnutrition and skin diseases.


Israeli attacks kill 13 aid seekers across Gaza

At least four people were killed and several were wounded near an aid distribution centre on the Netzarim axis in the central Gaza Strip, a source at al-Awda Hospital told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

Nine more people were killed in Israeli fire near aid centres north of Rafah in southern Gaza, sources from the ambulance and emergency department said.


Six more dead due to starvation and malnutrition in Gaza: Health Ministry

The Palestinian Ministry of Health has reported that hospitals in Gaza have recorded the deaths of six adults due to starvation and malnutrition over the past 24-hour reporting period.

The deaths bring the total number of those who have lost their lives due to starvation and malnutrition across the territory, since Israel’s war began, to 175, including 93 children.



‘Starvation is everywhere’: Severe malnutrition cases keep on rising in Gaza

We have passed the tipping point now; starvation is everywhere. It’s widespread, with cases in hospitals very high.

From bartering, to offering a service for just bread, or for anything else to survive, these are just little things in the face of the bigger problems that have spread everywhere across Gaza.

It’s more of a real struggle on a daily basis to survive… Even people with money now have serious problems going to the market, because the majority of their cash is frozen in bank accounts. So they are unable to get the necessities, and that has resulted in their children being starved and [admitted] to hospital.

So, it’s a multifaceted, dire situation that keeps accumulating and [resulting in] this mass-scale starvation.

At Gaza City food markets, prices skyrocket amid aid shortage

Following a collapse of the economy due to the war, Palestinians in Gaza City are having to withdraw money from their accounts through a middleman, but at a cost.

Saber Ahmed, a displaced Palestinian in Gaza City, explained that there is a “huge cut” of almost 40 percent from the amount they want to withdraw.

“Withdrawing 1,000 shekels (almost $300) you’ll receive 600 shekels, which is less than $200. When you go to the market, $200 is not enough to get two kilos of lentils and one kilo of flour. Every day I need about $300 to buy basic supplies. It’s a big problem,” Ahmed told Al Jazeera.

With a blockade on aid deliveries, the goods that can be acquired in the enclave have skyrocketed in price. The situation has not changed much since Israel announced the so-called “humanitarian pauses” last week, Palestinians say. The entry of aid trucks is still limited – far lower than required.

With only 100 shekels, Mariam Hassan explained that she cannot buy anything in the market.

“All street vendors refuse to take this bill because it’s taped and old. What am I supposed to do?” she said.


In Gaza, survival is based on ‘what you can live without’

People who have no cash in Gaza City have turned to bartering, exchanging beans for bread and sugar for vegetables.

Hilal Habeer, a barber shop owner, told Al Jazeera that the economy was based on “trade”.

“Like someone comes to the salon and asks if he could have a haircut in exchange for two loaves of bread. People don’t have money and up till now, public sector salaries have not been paid yet,” Habeer said.

As Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud explained, in Gaza, survival was “not just a question of aid, it’s about what you can trade, what you can sell and what you can live without”.



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Today’s Gaza death toll rises to 44, including 22 aid seekers

Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 44 people so far today, medical sources say. The figure includes 22 people who were killed while waiting for aid during the Israeli-induced starvation crisis, the sources told Al Jazeera.


Expert likens Israeli-run Gaza aid sites to Squid Game

Neve Gordon, from London-based Queen Mary University, says the Israeli-run GHF “is not a humanitarian organisation; this is a famine profiteering organisation”.

“The UN has 400 sites through which it distributes food. This organisation put up four sites. It put them within zones that are in the midst of the conflict. And what we have been witnessing is a kind of Squid Game or Hunger Game, where people that are starving are approaching the food and are being shot down like prey,” he told Al Jazeera from London.

“This is clearly not about providing humanitarian aid but about providing camouflage for Israel so it can continue its onslaught on Gaza.”

Gordon added that civil society in the United States and Europe is seeing through television and Al Jazeera’s reporting what’s going on in Gaza and is outraged.

“But it’s our leaders who talk the talk but have double standards and are unwilling to sanction Israel, put pressure on Israel. And instead continue to arm Israel as it carried out this genocide,” he said.

“We need to start thinking how our leaders here in London, throughout Europe and the United States are actually complicit with this genocide and starvation. And bring them to court, if not the ICC [International Criminal Court], then through universal jurisdiction in local courts.”


Members of a private US security company, contracted by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a private US-backed aid group which the UN refuses to work with over neutrality concerns, direct displaced Palestinians as they gather to receive relief supplies at a distribution centre in the central Gaza Strip on June 8


UN says one million women and girls starving in Gaza

The United Nations office in Geneva has warned that one million women and girls in Gaza are now starving, as the territory’s humanitarian crisis continues to worsen.

In a post on X, the UN said: “One million. That’s how many women and girls are starving in Gaza. This horrific situation is unacceptable and must end.

“We continue to demand the delivery of lifesaving aid for all women and girls, an immediate ceasefire, and the release of all hostages.”

As we’ve been reporting, Gaza’s hunger crisis is accelerating, with at least 175 people, including 93 children, confirmed dead from forced starvation, according to the territory’s Health Ministry. 


Gaza’s death toll rises as hospitals receive bodies of more aid seekers

Gaza’s Health Ministry reports that 119 bodies, including 15 recovered from under the rubble or other places, and 866 injured Palestinians arrived at the enclave’s hospitals over the past 24 hours.

At least 65 Palestinians were killed while seeking aid, and 511 more were wounded.

This brings the toll of the Israeli attacks to 60,839 people killed and 149,588 wounded since October 7, 2023. Since March 18, when Israel violated the ceasefire agreement with Hamas, at least 9,350 people have been killed and 37,547 injured.

The ministry noted that it added 290 people to the overall death toll after data gathering was completed and approved by a judicial committee that was following up on reports and missing persons.



Israeli far-right minister renews calls to ‘occupy’ Gaza

Itamar Ben-Gvir, the minister of national security, has renewed calls for Israel to declare sovereignty over Gaza and for Palestinians to leave the enclave.

He wrote in a post on X that a “message must be sent: to ensure that we conquer all of the Gaza Strip, declare sovereignty over the entire Gaza Strip, take down every Hamas member, and encourage voluntary migration”.

“Only in this way will we bring back the hostages and win the war,” he added.

The Israeli minister’s comments came after he led a march of settlers through occupied East Jerusalem from late Saturday into early Sunday, the Wafa news agency reported.


Palestinian presidency condemns Israeli far-right minister’s Al-Aqsa Mosque march

A spokesperson for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has criticised Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s visit to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, saying it “crossed all red lines”.

Nabil Abu Rudeineh called for immediate international intervention to stop what he described as escalating Israeli provocations and settler violence.

“The international community, specifically the US administration, is required to intervene immediately to put an end to the crimes of the settlers and the provocations of the extreme right-wing government in Al-Aqsa Mosque, stop the war on the Gaza Strip and bring in humanitarian aid,” he said in a statement.

Earlier, we reported that Ben-Gvir led a march of Israeli settlers through occupied East Jerusalem from late Saturday into early Sunday. In a post on X, he later called on the Israeli government to “conquer” all of Gaza and “declare sovereignty” over the territory.


Jordan slams Israeli minister’s march to Al-Aqsa Mosque as ‘blatant violation’

Jordan condemns in the “strongest terms” the march to Al-Aqsa Mosque led by Israel’s far-right national security minister as a “flagrant violation of international law”.

In a statement on X, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Jordan, as custodian of Al-Aqsa Mosque, one of Islam’s holiest sites, considers the repeated incursions by Ben-Gvir and Israeli settlers under the protection of the police as a “blatant violation of the historical and legal status quo” of the mosque.

Spokesperson Sufian al-Qudah “warned of the consequences of the continuation of these provocative and illegitimate violations of Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, demanding that Israel, as the occupying power, halt all provocative practices by the extremist minister Ben-Gvir”, the statement read.

These actions “constitute a continuation of the extremist Israeli government’s policy aimed at pursuing dangerous escalation and unilateral actions in the occupied West Bank and violating the sanctity of Islamic and Christian holy sites in occupied Jerusalem,” it added.


Why Ben-Gvir’s march to Al-Aqsa Mosque violated ‘status quo’

As we’ve been reporting, far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir stormed Al Aqsa Mosque in the occupied West Bank under police protection.

Ben-Gvir announced that he had prayed at the site, a move that is not allowed under a decades-old “status quo” arrangement, which outlines that Muslims have exclusive control of Al-Aqsa Mosque and are the only ones allowed to pray there.

Non-Muslims are, however, allowed to visit the compound – Islam’s third-holiest site.

Ben-Gvir led Israeli settlers to the mosque compound – known to Jews as the Temple Mount – in violation of the status quo. While Israel’s official position on the religious site accepts the rule restricting non-Muslim prayer, Ben-Gvir has repeatedly called for Jewish prayer to be allowed at the compound.

According to the Waqf, the foundation that administers the complex, Ben-Gvir was among 1,250 who went to the site and prayed, shouted and danced.

Palestinians fear their sovereignty over the compound is being eroded as powerful ministers such as Ben-Gvir have backed the call for Jewish prayers at the holy site.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement that Israel’s policy of maintaining the status quo at the compound “has not changed and will not change”.


Saudi Arabia condemns Israeli ‘provocative practices’ at Al-Aqsa Mosque

We have a statement from the Saudi Foreign Ministry following the incursion of Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir into the  Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, warning that such actions risk destabilising the region.

The ministry expressed Saudi Arabia’s condemnation “in the strongest terms of the repeated provocative practices by officials of the Israeli occupation authorities against Al-Aqsa Mosque”.

It added that the kingdom “affirms that such practices fuel the conflict in the region”.

The statement also called on the international community “to put an end to the actions of the Israeli occupation officials, which violate international laws and norms and undermine peace efforts in the region”.



Katz says hold over Jerusalem will be ‘strengthened’ after Ben-Gvir’s Al-Aqsa visit

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz says his country will strengthen its “hold and sovereignty” over Jerusalem, the Western Wall and Temple Mount, referring to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound – Islam’s third holiest site.

Katz’s post on X comes after Ben-Gvir stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, where the far-right national security minister prayed, in a violation of the status quo, which maintains that the compound is under the exclusive control of Muslims, who are the only group allowed to pray there.

“On Tisha B’Av, two thousand years after the destruction of the Second Temple, the Western Wall and the Temple Mount are once again under the sovereignty of the State of Israel,” Katz wrote, calling the Al-Aqsa compound the Temple Mount.

“Israel’s enemies around the world will continue to make decisions against us and demonstrate, and we will strengthen our hold and sovereignty over Jerusalem, the Western Wall, and the Temple Mount forever and ever,” he added.

The state of Israel did not exist 2,000 years ago, the concept of sovereign states did not exist until 1648...


Israeli police arrest 3 Al-Aqsa guards after settler incursion into holy site

Israeli police have arrested three Al-Aqsa Mosque guards after Ben-Gvir, accompanied by more than 1,000 Israelis, stormed the compound, the Ministry of Islamic Endowments reports.

According to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office, the three guards were Muhammad Teena, Muhammad Badran and Ahmad Abu Aliya.


Ben-Gvir’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound incursion aimed at increasing tensions

Itamar Ben-Gvir made an incursion into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem, along with a large number of settlers, many from the hardline Temple Mount group – and the aim appears to be to ratchet up tensions.

Reports say there were at least 2,000, if not 3,000, Jews who entered the compound early this morning. It was during the visitation hours agreed upon in the status quo agreement, but that agreement does not allow Jews to pray there.

But after Ben-Gvir became Israel’s minister of national security, he actually ordered the Israeli police to allow Jews to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

Today, for Jews, coincides with what they consider an anniversary of the destruction of the so-called Temple Mount, which is the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

So he had this show of defiance, and, from there, he called for the full occupation of Gaza, extending Israel’s sovereignty onto it and promoting the emigration of Palestinians out of the Strip.

Protest in West Bank in solidarity with Gaza and Palestinians jailed by Israel


A child holds a pot and a spoon during a protest in solidarity with Gaza and Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, in Hebron


Israel detains 18,500 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since October 2023: Report

Israeli forces have detained about 18,500 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, since it launched its war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, according to a new report.

At least 570 Palestinian women and at least 1,500 children are among the detained, a joint report by the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, and Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association said.

This is the highest number of detentions since the second Intifada in 2000.

More than 194 journalists have also been detained, 49 of whom are still behind bars.

“The arrest campaigns have been accompanied by severe violations and acts of violence, including physical assaults, torture, threats against detainees and their families, the looting and destruction of property, and widespread damage to civilian homes and infrastructure. Vehicles, personal funds, and gold have also been confiscated,” the report found.

“In parallel with these campaigns, Israeli forces have conducted extrajudicial executions, including targeting relatives of detainees,” it said.

The report added that since the start of the war, at least 75 detainees have died in Israeli custody, 46 of whom were from Gaza.



Over 6,000 Palestinian children being treated for malnutrition in Gaza

More than 6,000 Palestinian children are being treated for malnutrition resulting from Israel’s blockade of Gaza, according to Global Nutrition Cluster partners, which includes the United Nations health and food agencies.

The deaths due to starvation in Gaza have risen to at least 175 people, including 93 children.

Despite calls from the UN, aid agencies and world leaders to allow more aid trucks into the enclave to alleviate the crisis, the Israeli government has refused.



‘I thought this was my end’: 15-year-old shot in the eye while seeking food in Gaza

Fifteen-year-old Abdul Rahman Abu Jazar has been partially blinded after being shot in the eye by Israeli forces while trying to collect food near a site run by the GHF, the aid organisation backed by the US and Israel.

Doctors said it is unlikely he will regain vision in his left eye.

“I went there around 2am. It was my first time going to the distribution point,” he told Al Jazeera. “I went because my siblings and I had no food. We couldn’t find anything to eat.”

“We were running when they began shooting at us. I was with three others. Three of them were hit. As soon as we started running, they opened fire.”

Abdul Rahman said a bullet struck him as he tried to flee: “Then I felt something like electricity shoot through my body. … I collapsed to the ground. … I thought this was the end. My death is near.”

Despite his injury, he said Israeli soldiers “kept shooting” even as people yelled at him to go back. “They were still firing. I got scared and started reciting prayers.”



At least two people killed in air attack near Gaza City

At least two people have been killed and others injured after an Israeli air raid targeting humanitarian aid workers northwest of Gaza City.

Citing medical sources, Wafa news agency reported that the attack resulted in casualties among aid crews and their companions, despite Israel’s announcement of “humanitarian pauses” in fighting attacks, which have continued.

Since dawn, at least 69 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across the enclave, including 37 aid seekers.

Red Cross expresses ‘outrage’ over killing of team member in southern Gaza



The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has shared its condolences with the family, colleagues and friends of staff member Omar Mansour Isleem, who, as we reported earlier, was killed in an overnight attack on Khan Younis, which also wounded two others.

In a post on X, the ICRC said Isleem and his colleagues were on duty in a “clearly marked Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) building”.

“It is unacceptable that first responders in Gaza – like Omar and staff and volunteers of the PRCS – go to work every day fearing they may not return to their families,” the organisation said.

“It is an outrage that so many staff and volunteers of the PRCS and other first responders have been killed and injured in the last 21 months of the conflict,” the ICRC said, adding that humanitarian personnel “must never be attacked”.


Aftermath of an Israeli strike on Palestine Red Crescent headquarters in Khan Younis