Gaza’s Civil Defence issues urgent appeal for fuel delivery
The Palestinian Civil Defence has appealed to the UN and aid agencies for “urgent assistance and intervention” to supply the enclave with fuel to power equipment that will enable it to rescue wounded Palestinians.
“We warn that most rescue devices and equipment in the governorates of the Gaza Strip have stopped responding to distress calls, and consequently, the lives of thousands of citizens are at risk or death,” the agency wrote in a statement.
How much aid has entered Gaza?
Gaza is now facing its fiercest fight: absolute hunger. That’s because of Israel’s severe restrictions on aid entering the Gaza Strip.
In March, Israel completely blocked all exits and aid from entering, only opening up for a tiny fraction of the needed aid in the past two months.
Since July 27, just 769 aid trucks have entered Gaza – an average of 84 per day – a small fraction of the 500 to 600 the United Nations says are needed daily to meet basic needs.
Adding it all up, before the genocide traffic was at 15K trucks per month, 21 months = 315 thousand trucks.
Entered the strip from Nov 2023 to including July 2025: 50,428, 16% of the daily needs with agriculture, fishing, water and sanitation all working.
The highest daily avg was in April 2024, 189 trucks a day, 32% of the daily needs.
Israel’s army says 110 more aid packages airdropped into Gaza
In a statement, the army said six countries have airdropped 110 more aid packages into the enclave, bringing the total amount of airdropped packages since July 27 to 785.
The participating countries were the UAE, Jordan, Egypt, Germany, Belgium and France, it said.
Humanitarian groups have repeatedly warned that airdrops are dangerous and far less efficient than truck deliveries. Since easing some restrictions in July, the aid Israel has allowed in – both by land and airdrops – falls far short of meeting basic needs, as malnutrition and starvation continue to rise.
785 total, 49 flights, 490 tons (about 10t per plane according to CBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPg2VxQzyk0 16 packages) which is 24.5 trucks so far in 10 days, 2.5 trucks worth of aid avg per day.
Food aid dropped into Gaza contaminated with mould
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hN7BNfUZ1YU
Norway to review sovereign wealth fund’s Israel holdings
Norway’s government has ordered the central bank to review its sovereign wealth fund’s investments in Israel to ensure they do not include any companies that contribute to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank or war on Gaza.
The review comes after a report by Norway’s Aftenposten newspaper revealed that the sovereign wealth fund has a stake in an Israeli jet engine group, Bet Shemesh Engines Ltd (BSEL), which provides services to Israel’s armed forces.
Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store reacted by saying, “We must get clarification on this because reading about it makes me uneasy.”
Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg then said the central bank will carry out a review of all the fund’s Israel holdings.
In June, Norway’s parliament rejected a proposal for the sovereign wealth fund to divest from all companies with activities in occupied Palestinian territory. The same month, however, the country’s largest pension fund divested from firms selling equipment to the Israeli army.
Jewish Britons decry ban on Palestine Action as ‘illegitimate, unethical’
Leading Jewish figures in the UK have signed a letter to Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper denouncing the government’s decision to proscribe the activist group Palestine Action as a “terrorist” organisation.
The delivery of the letter coincides with a protest organised under the slogan Proscribe Genocide, Not Protest. The rally outside Downing Street is expected to draw hundreds of participants, including figures from Britain’s Jewish community.
The letter, signed by about 300 Jewish British citizens, condemns the ban as “illegitimate and unethical” and calls for urgent government action against Israel over its conduct of the war in the besieged and bombarded Gaza Strip and over escalating violence engulfing the occupied West Bank.
A demonstrator holds a placard outside London’s High Court as judges decide whether the cofounder of Palestine Action may challenge the UK government’s ban on the group
Humanitarian crisis deepens in Gaza amid widespread destruction
The destruction across Gaza is massive.
Israel continues to target residential houses, public facilities, schools, shelters and even tents where Palestinians are currently seeking refuge.
Wherever you go, wherever you walk across the Gaza Strip, all you see is destruction. But it’s not only the continuous air strikes, it’s also Palestinians being killed and shot as they’re trying to seek aid and as they’re trying to collect food from the GHF.
We’re also seeing a lot of malnourishment cases. There are dozens of Palestinians at risk of losing their lives due to the forced starvation and malnutrition. There have been claims that there are humanitarian pause and routes to secure aid. But what we’re seeing on the ground is zero effort or zero impact, where none of the Palestinians are getting this aid.
Palestinians gather to collect water amid shortages, at a distribution point in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, August 5
Netanyahu presented with plans to continue fighting in Gaza
Israeli media are reporting that army Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir has presented Netanyahu with several plans to gradually expand the fighting in Gaza during a meeting with Defence Minister Israel Katz.
According to the Haaretz newspaper, Zamir’s plans would allow military operations to stop easily if a ceasefire were negotiated.
Haaretz reported that Israel’s military leadership opposes a complete occupation of Gaza and prefers to continue carrying out focused raids and establishing routes that would split the enclave into multiple areas.
The army chief proposed that troops fully control the Netzarim Corridor, where they currently only control its eastern part, and create more routes like the Morag Corridor, which splits Rafah and Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
However, the army predicted that this pattern of operations has the potential to lead to casualties among the captives.
Israeli society becoming ‘very dangerous’: Knesset member
As we reported, Israeli Knesset member Ofer Cassif was forcibly removed from the podium after he cited an Israeli writer who said they could no longer ignore the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Cassif told Al Jazeera that it was not “surprising” because it was not the first time that he or his comrades were forced off the podium after they used the “accurate terms of genocide or atrocities or massacre or war crimes”.
“We are simply prohibited or prevented from [saying] the true terms to describe the ongoing situation in Gaza,” said Cassif, leader of the left-wing Hadash party.
With Israeli society very polarised due to the war, Cassif warned it was becoming “very dangerous”, explaining that at a demonstration in the centre of Israel with his colleague, he was “nearly lynched by a fascist mob”.
“I’m afraid that we are on the brink of a serious eruption of violence, and I’m afraid even bloodshed within Israel. I wouldn’t say a civil war, but very close to that,” Cassif said.
Israel’s opposition leader warns Gaza occupation will lead to captives’ deaths
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid says the direction the government is heading will lead to “all the hostages dying of hunger, beatings, and torture, facing danger due to [Israeli army] operations”.
“We will wake up every morning to more and more ‘cleared for publication’ announcements, and in return, we will control two million Palestinians – funding their electricity and water and building them schools and hospitals with the money of Israeli citizens,” Lapid wrote on X.
“If we occupy and annex Gaza, we can forget about the Saudis, Emiratis, or Europeans helping to fund the lives of the Palestinians. You annex – you pay. You annex – from that moment, everything is at your expense,” Lapid warned.
Israeli news outlets have been reporting that Netanyahu was tabling the full occupation of Gaza, despite reservations from the army about the effectiveness of the idea.
Lebanon’s army tasked with reclaiming all weapons by end of year
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam says the army will come up with a plan to seize all weapons held by nonstate actors by the end of the year, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reports.
The cabinet agreed to the plan during a meeting in which Salam affirmed “the state’s duty to monopolise the possession of weapons”, according to the NNA report.
The disarmament plan comes shortly after Hezbollah’s leader rejected the latest version of a US-proposed roadmap for it to disarm. Qassem argued it would leave Lebanon vulnerable to Israel.
However, Salam said the Lebanese government would continue to weigh the US proposal at a governmental session on Thursday.
Israeli drone hits car in Lebanon, killing at least one person
Lebanon’s National News Agency reports that a “hostile drone” targeted a vehicle near the town of Brital in the Baalbek district, killing one person.
A Lebanese security source told Al Jazeera the attack consisted of two Israeli strikes that incinerated the targeted vehicle.
Footage shows chaotic, bloody scene at Nasser Hospital
Al Jazeera has received harrowing footage from Khan Younis’s Nasser Medical Complex, where hundreds of patients have arrived in the past day.
The video shows a severely overcrowded hospital room where patients are packed onto beds with about a dozen others – many bloodied, bandaged and connected to tubes – lying on the floor amid bloodstains and scattered pools of blood.
Medics rush among them, sometimes stepping over bodies and puddles of blood, appearing overwhelmed as they navigate the chaos and try to prioritise care.
We are not publishing the footage due to its graphic nature.
Today’s death toll rises to 83
At least 83 people have been killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza today, according to hospital sources cited by our colleagues on the ground. Among them are 58 aid seekers.
The airdrops on Gaza are a PR stunt, not a humanitarian operation
Last week, I saw aid dropping from the sky near my central Gaza neighbourhood of az-Zawayda. Neither I nor any of my neighbours had the courage to chase after it because we knew that the moment it hit the ground, a battle would erupt. If the aid survived the air, it wouldn’t survive the looters.
It is almost always the same scene. Gunfire breaks out the second the plane drops the boxes. Armed gangs are already waiting on the ground, ready to take the goods by force. Whoever gets there first, whoever shoots first, also walks away with the food. It is never those who need it the most.
Later, we would see those same “aid boxes” in the market in Deir el-Balah, their contents up for sale at exorbitant prices.
Israeli attack destroys UNRWA clinic near Gaza City
An Israeli raid has destroyed an UNRWA clinic west of Gaza City, our colleagues on the ground are reporting.
‘This is a crisis, on the brink of famine,’ UN warns of situation in Gaza
UNICEF spokesperson James Elder says even though the world’s media are giving the sense that the situation in Gaza is improving, unless there is “sustained humanitarian aid, … there will be horrific results.”
“When food comes in which supports 30,000 children, there are still 970,000 children not getting enough. It is a drop in the ocean,” Elder said at a news conference.
A spokesperson for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Jens Laerke, said some aid trucks are indeed entering the enclave, but there should be “hundreds and hundreds of trucks entering Gaza every day for months or years to come”.
“People are dying every day. This is a crisis, on the brink of famine,” he said, adding that tonnes of aid remained at the border, held up by bureaucracy and a lack of safe access.
The window for saving lives in Gaza is closing: Red Cross
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has called on Israel and Hamas to reach an agreement that would enable the delivery of humanitarian assistance and facilitate contact with captives held in Gaza.
In a statement, it said it is ready to provide medicine, food and messages from families to the captives, but emphasised that such efforts require a prior agreement between the concerned parties.
“Only a lasting agreement between the parties can end the suffering endured by hostages and their families as well as the millions in Gaza who are struggling to secure the essentials for survival,” it said.
“With acute food shortages worsening by the day, civilians in Gaza must have immediate and sustained access to food along with safe water, medical and hygiene supplies, and other essentials needed to survive and live in dignity.
“The window for saving lives in Gaza is closing. The time to act is now,” it warned.
Massive Gaza aid flotilla to depart for enclave in late August
A civilian flotilla made up of four initiatives, including the Maghreb Sumud Flotilla, the Global Movement to Gaza, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, and Sumud Nusantara, is set to depart for Gaza at the end of the month.
Speaking at a press conference, organiser Haifa Mansouri said: “Dozens of boats will set sail from ports across the world, converging on Gaza in the largest civilian flotilla of its kind in history”.
The first convoy will leave Spanish ports on August 31, followed by a second from Tunisian ports on September 4. Another organiser, Seif Abu Keshk, said more than 6,000 activists have already registered online to join the massive flotilla.
“This is a renewed attempt to pressure governments by sending dozens of ships and thousands of activists to break Gaza’s blockade,” Abu Keshk noted. The announcement comes days after the Handala aid vessel was intercepted by Israeli forces last week as it neared Gaza.
I would say that's too late, but seeing how things are going, end of August there will still be no ceasefire or massive aid influx as needed.
Israeli demonstrators demand release of captives held in Gaza
Israeli police detain protesters as demonstrators and relatives of captives block a road demanding the immediate release of captives who were kidnapped during the October 7 attacks,
Trump says possible occupation of Gaza ‘up to Israel’
Speaking to reporters, the US president declined to weigh in on reports that Israel may launch a full-scale occupation of Gaza.
Trump said his administration would focus on getting more food into Gaza and leave the rest of it “pretty much up to Israel”.
Israeli media reports suggest Netanyahu is leaning towards a full occupation, putting him at odds with his army chief.
Potential Israeli expansion in Gaza ‘deeply alarming’: UN
UN Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenca has said reports that Israel could deepen its military presence in Gaza are “deeply alarming”.
Speaking to the UN Security Council, Jenca said such a move “would risk catastrophic consequences … and could further endanger the lives of the remaining hostages in Gaza”.
“International law is clear in the regard. Gaza is and must remain an integral part of the future Palestinian state,” he said.
US ‘may’ take over aid distribution management in Gaza
US media is reporting that Washington is expected to significantly increase its role in providing humanitarian aid to Gaza.
According to the reports, during a meeting between US Special Envoy Witkoff and President Donald Trump on Monday, an official said it was decided that the Trump administration would “take over” management of humanitarian efforts in the enclave because Israel wasn’t “handling it adequately”.
While the official said Trump was “not thrilled” about the US taking charge, “it kind of has to happen”, an unnamed official said in the report.
Some in the Trump administration are getting worried over reports that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu wants to expand the war, the report added.
Isn't the GHF already a US operation....
The US already took over aid distribution by defunding and smearing UNWRA while setting up the GHF in Februari... The GHF was registered in Geneva and Delaware. The Geneva branch never did anything and was just there for show. Swiss authorities are shutting that branch down. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/geneva-organisations/swiss-government-orders-end-to-gaza-humanitarian-foundation-in-geneva/89617809
It's American mercenaries that are killing Palestinians seeking aid at GHF sites.
Main events on August 5th
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