Israel won't stop because they have unlimited support from the US and the West. This will end if the foreign lobby like AIPAC is outlawed and the Epstein list of compromised individuals in high places is released. Trump, Bernie, AOC won't do anything like that so Israel will be enabled to continue reckless wars.
https://x.com/TrackAIPAC/status/1907291437554909548
Yeah, Israel is not planning to stop anytime soon. The only disagreements are about how to proceed with occupation of Gaza in regards to available manpower. With Trump onboard it's up to the rest of the world to stop the genocide or keep shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic of international law and order.
Meet the symbol of Gaza's famine – and target of Israel's propagandists
The Grayzone visits the family of Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a severely malnourished toddler living in a Gaza City tent, who has become a symbol of the Israeli-imposed famine sweeping the besieged territory.
After Mohammed appeared on the front page of the New York Times and several other major papers, Israeli propagandists accused the media of misinformation, claiming his pre-existing muscular condition explained away the hunger crisis. We spoke to his mother, Hedaya, to get the full story.
We also spoke to the Al-Foul family, Gaza City residents who are also struggling to feed their young son as Israel blocks the aid they depend on.
Two children, woman among 5 killed in Israeli attack on central Gaza
A source at al-Awda Hospital has reported that the bodies of five Palestinians, including a woman and two children, were recovered in the Nuseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting.
They were killed in an Israeli air attack on a house in the camp overnight.
Israel issues latest forced displacement order in Gaza City
The Israeli army’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, has issued the latest forced displacement order for civilians living in nine areas in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City, in northern Gaza.
Adraee said the army was expanding its operation westward and called on residents to evacuate southward towards the al-Mawasi area.
So-called safe zones, including al-Mawasi near the city of Khan Younis, are routinely attacked by Israel, despite the army forcing Palestinians to move to those areas.
Twenty people killed after aid truck overturned in central Gaza: Media office
Gaza’s Government Media Office says Israel is exacerbating the humanitarian crisis affecting the enclave and reinforcing the “engineering of chaos”.
In a statement last night, the office reported that 20 people had been killed and dozens were injured attempting to access food aid after a truck overturned while travelling through unsafe roads in central Gaza.
“[The] truck carrying food overturned on them after the occupation forces forced the truck to enter through unsafe roads, which had previously been bombed and were not suitable for passage,” it said.
“This reveals the occupation’s deliberate attempts to force civilians into danger and death as part of its ‘engineering of chaos and starvation’,” the office added.
“We condemn in the strongest terms this deliberate criminal policy practised by the occupation forces, which amounts to a full-fledged crime of genocide under international humanitarian law,” the statement read.
It added that the situation in Gaza had crossed “all red lines”.
‘We saw death in all its forms’: Gaza aid seeker
Palestinians approaching the food distribution site of the notorious GHF have been repeatedly shot and killed by Israeli forces in violent attacks. They are now a daily occurrence, while starvation and malnutrition deaths continue to climb.
In the south of the Strip, crowds climb onto the few trucks permitted to enter Gaza, desperate to collect a bag of flour, with people going days without food at a time. Many are scared of returning home empty-handed, but there’s yet another attack with more bodies and injured people rushed to hospital.
“I went to Morag Corridor in Khan Younis to get flour for my kids. I climbed the aid truck. I grabbed a bag of flour. Suddenly, they [the Israeli forces] fired a grenade at us,” Mohamed Awad told Al Jazeera as he was being treated in hospital.
“They hit young men and women there. They launched strikes and live bullets …. They should deliver the aid in a proper way. This is torment. We saw death in all its forms,” Amal al-Mughir told Al Jazeera after returning from an aid distribution site.
Palestinians climb onto a truck as they seek aid supplies in Khan Younis
Algeria’s UN envoy says Israel legally required to allow food into Gaza
Algerian Ambassador to the UN Amar Bendjama has warned the UN Security Council (UNSC) that Israel is legally required to allow aid into Gaza as “famine thresholds have been crossed.
“Let me be clear, humanitarian access is a legal obligation under the Geneva Conventions. It is not a favour. It is not negotiable. It cannot be used as a bargaining chip in exchange for those held in captivity,” Bendjama said.
“Malnutrition is rampant among all people in Gaza, including, unfortunately, including those in captivity,” he added.
“Today, the images that shocked some should surprise no one,” he added, as he held up photographs of children starving in Gaza, in the UNSC chamber in New York on Tuesday.
Algerian Ambassador to the UN Amar Bendjama holds up an image of a starving child in Gaza during a UNSC session at the UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday
Protesters call for Free Gaza at 80th anniversary of Hiroshima bombing
People hold a banner reading ‘Free Gaza’ in front of riot police during a protest on the 80th anniversary of the World War II US atomic bombing in Hiroshima on Wednesday
Looks like 10 riot police for every demonstrator...
Kuwaiti Hospital chief warns wound dressing unit out of service due to medical supply shortage
The head of the Kuwaiti Hospital in Khan Younis, Dr Suhaib al-Hams, has issued a plea to Palestinians to avoid resorting to “death traps” to receive aid.
In a statement, al-Hams announced that the hospital’s wound dressing department was currently out of service as “hundreds of injured people arrive daily from aid distribution centres, which increases the burden on medical staff.
“The wound dressing department at the hospital is currently inactive due to a shortage of medical supplies. We call on humanitarian agencies and international organisations to assume their responsibilities and work urgently to provide the necessary medical supplies to the sector,” al-Hams urged.
Since the establishment of the US- and Israel-backed GHF aid site at the end of May, at least 1,568 aid seekers have been killed by Israeli fire, while thousands have been injured.
Israeli military hit UN clinic sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza City
There has been a devastating attack that took place in one of the central clinics run by the United Nations in Gaza City. This clinic has been hit multiple times since the war began back in October 2023.
The Israeli military had issued evacuation warnings ahead of the strike. It has, until now, not commented on the main objective for striking the clinic.
Usually, Israel justifies attacks on UN-run aid, shelters, clinics, or any kind of facilities as a part of their ongoing efforts to completely eliminate Hamas operatives and destroy what they have called command and control centres, despite not providing evidence.
This clinic has turned into an evacuation and displacement centre for families.
Israel is working on shrinking the so-called safe spaces for Palestinian families, who have been squeezed into the western end of Gaza City, very close to the beach, as the entire Gaza Strip still witnesses a relentless military campaign.
Hunger-related deaths near 200 in Gaza: Ministry
Gaza’s Health Ministry has reported that five people have died “due to famine and malnutrition” in the past 24 hours. The latest count pushed the total number of hunger-related deaths to 193, including 96 children.
The United Nations and aid agencies have repeatedly warned that the aid going into the enclave is minuscule and not nearly enough to alleviate the ongoing hunger crisis.
UN experts call for ‘immediate dismantling’ of the GHF
Thirty-five independent UN human rights experts have called for the “immediate dismantling” of the GHF, which they said is in “serious breach of international law”.
“The GHF, a nongovernmental organisation created by Israel in February 2025, with US support, to allegedly distribute aid in Gaza, is an utterly disturbing example of how humanitarian relief can be exploited for covert military and geopolitical agendas,” the experts said.
The experts added that “at least 859 people have been killed around GHF sites since the beginning of GHF’s operations in late May 2025.
“Calling it ‘humanitarian’ adds on to Israel’s humanitarian camouflage and is an insult to the humanitarian enterprise and standards,” they added.
In a statement shared by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the experts urged governments to “impose a full arms embargo on Israel” and “suspend trade and investment agreements that may result in harming the Palestinians and hold corporate entities accountable”.
I join UN experts in calling for the resumption of unimpeded humanitarian relief to avert starvation in Gaza, and to dismantle Israeli's privatised, militarized aid delivery model that has killed Palestinians https://t.co/YkNeFn4Q6x
— Prof Ben Saul - UN SR Human Rights & Counterterror (@profbensaul) August 5, 2025
Gaza doctor recounts death of child with ‘tiny little wound’ due to blood shortage
There has not been a single day since Dr Tarek Loubani, an emergency physician, arrived in Gaza two and a half months ago, when there has not been a near-complete shortage of blood.
“Blood is life, and so … without adequate amounts of blood, we make decisions that endanger patients all the time,” he told Al Jazeera from Khan Younis.
“I cannot get out of my mind one of the cases, in which a one-and-a-half-year-old boy was right in front of us with a tiny little wound that happened to hit an artery. He was bleeding quite a bit, but not so much that he had to die,” he said.
“He was small, obviously malnourished, and all he needed was a little bit of blood; however, it was a tent massacre, and so every single member of his family had died. As a result, they weren’t able to donate blood,” he added.
“By the time we were able to find somebody to go and donate blood and bring it, we could see that even if we gave him blood, we weren’t going to be able to follow it up, and that that blood could be used to save somebody else,” the doctor said.
“We had to sit there watching a little boy who we knew was saveable and treatable, die in front of us,” Loubani said.
Palestinians injured in an Israeli attack lie at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis
Only 84 aid trucks entered Gaza on Tuesday amid aid crisis: Media office
Gaza’s Government Media Office says only 84 aid trucks entered the enclave yesterday, the majority of which were subjected to looting and robbery as a result of the “state of security chaos”.
Its statement said Gaza needed at least 600 aid and fuel trucks daily to support Gaza’s residents amid the “near-total collapse of infrastructure and the ongoing war of genocide waged by the occupation”.
“We strongly condemn the continued systematic starvation crime, the complete closure of crossings, and the denial of humanitarian aid. We hold the “Israeli” occupation and its allies fully responsible for the worsening humanitarian catastrophe,” the statement read.
The media office added an urgent call on Arab, Muslim countries, the UN and the international community to take urgent and effective measures to “permanently open the crossings”.
“Ensure the flow of food and medical aid, especially baby formula and life-saving medicines, and hold the occupation accountable for its repeated crimes against civilians,” the statement added.
Palestinians sift through sand in search of scattered food from aid drops
Israeli forces arrest five Palestinians from Bethlehem
Israeli forces arrested five Palestinians from the Bethlehem governorate in the occupied West Bank.
According to security sources quoted by the Wafa news agency, forces arrested four of the men from the town of al-Khader and one from the city of Beit Jala, after raiding and searching their family homes.
Moreover, Israeli troops handed the man who was arrested in Beit Jala a notice to report to their intelligence.
Moscow says Israeli troops did not intervene as settlers attacked Russian diplomatic vehicle in West Bank
Moscow has lodged a formal complaint with Israel over an attack by Israeli settlers on a Russian diplomatic vehicle near an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank.
Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Maria Zakharova said in a statement on Tuesday that Moscow considered the attack a “gross violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961”, and expressed “bewilderment and disapproval” that the attack “occurred with the connivance of Israeli military personnel”.
Bethlehem village residents receive forced displacement notice amid illegal Israeli settlement expansion
Israeli forces have issued forced displacement notices for residents in the village of Beit Askaria, south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, amid a move to take more Palestinian land for the Gush Etzion settlement bloc.
The head of the Beit Askaria village council, Muhammad Ibrahim Atallah, told the Wafa news agency that forces stormed the village, delivering a verbal order to vacate a plot of land planted with grapevines that belonged to him and his brothers.
Atallah was given a 10-day deadline to vacate the land.
At least 30 Palestinians arrested by Israeli forces in occupied West Bank
The Palestinian Authority’s Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs says Israeli forces have arrested at least 30 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem overnight.
“Among the detainees are a female journalist, two women, and former prisoners”, it said in a statement.
“The arrests and field investigations were concentrated in the city of Dura/Hebron, while the rest were distributed among the governorates of Nablus, Bethlehem, Ramallah, Tulkarem, and Salfit.”
The commission said that since Israel began its war on Gaza, more than 18,500 Palestinians have been arrested or detained in the occupied West Bank.
Jordan slams Israeli settler attack on Gaza aid convoy
Jordan says Israeli settlers have attacked a Gaza-bound aid convoy in the second type of incident in days.
Government spokesman Mohammad al-Momani told the Reuters news agency that the convoy, which was carrying 30 trucks of humanitarian aid, was delayed.
“This requires a serious Israeli intervention and no leniency in dealing with those who obstruct these convoys,” al-Momani said.
Israel bans Sheikh Hussein from Al-Aqsa Mosque over sermon condemning Gaza starvation
Israeli authorities issued a six-month ban on Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the Palestinian Territory, from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque. According to the Wafa news agency, the Jerusalem Governorate, quoting lawyer Khaldoun Najm, said the ban on Hussein follows the expiration of his eight-day ban.
This most recent ban was imposed after his Friday sermon, where he condemned Israel’s starvation policy against Palestinians in Gaza. Last week, Hussein was handed an initial eight-day expulsion order from the mosque. The order has now been extended for six months.
Israel’s illegal settlement expansion push part of plan to annex West Bank
Hagit Ofran, a member of Israeli group Peace Now, has warned that Israel’s push to approve a major new settlement bloc in what’s known as the E1 corridor would effectively sever the northern and southern portions of the occupied West Bank.
The Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee held a final hearing on the E1 plan today, and it is expected to approve it in the coming days.
Israel plans to build more than 3,000 illegal Israeli settlement units in the E1 area, between the major settlement of Ma’ale Adumim and Jerusalem.
“What we’re seeing since 1967 and especially in recent years is that Israel is continuing to build and build settlements in the West Bank in order to annex the West Bank into Israel. In fact, the West Bank is already de facto annexed,” Ofran told Al Jazeera.
She added that in addition to building settlements, Israel is also treating Palestinians in the West Bank “as people without rights under Israeli control and allowing the organised violence of [Israeli] settlers against Palestinians” in the area.
Slovenia bans all imports from Israeli settlements in occupied West Bank
Slovenia has become the first European country to announce a ban on all imports from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. “The actions of the Israeli government … constitute serious and repeated violations of international humanitarian law,” the government said in a statement.
“These actions not only endanger the lives and dignity of the Palestinian population but also the foundations of the international order. As a responsible member of the international community, Slovenia cannot and must not be part of a chain that enables or turns a blind eye to such practices.”
This is the latest move the Eastern European country has taken to step up pressure on Israel. In July, it declared two far-right ministers persona non grata and banned arms trade and the transit of Israeli-bound weapons through its territory.
Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon acknowledged that the ban is rather symbolic – imports from the occupied West Bank totalled 30,000 euros last year (about $34,900), according to the Slovenia Times – but said the policy sends a “clear message” to Israel and the international community.
Why only from illegal settlements, all of Israel is committing genocide.
‘As if it doesn’t exist’: Hezbollah dismisses Lebanon gov’t disarmament decree
Hezbollah has rejected a decision by the Lebanese government directing the army to formulate a plan remove the group’s weapons, calling it a “major mistake”.
“We will deal with this decision as if it doesn’t exist,” Hezbollah said in a statement.
The decree, announced by Prime Minister Nawaf Salam after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, amounted to an official rejection by the Lebanese government to Hezbollah’s military presence in the country. It re-asserted that only the state will have the right to have arms.
It also put the Lebanese army on a potential course to clash with Hezbollah, which could lead to a civil war.
Hezbollah said the decision is dictated by the US and only serves Israel’s interests.
“This decision topples the sovereignty of Lebanon and releases the hand of Israel to ravage its security, geography, politics and future existence,” the group said.
Hezbollah added that it would be willing to discuss a defence strategy to end “Israeli aggression” in Lebanon, liberate its land, free the country’s captives in Israel and build a Lebanese state, but not while under Israel’s attacks.
It said Israel must first adhere to the ceasefire agreement reached in November of last year.
“And to our honourable people we say: This is a summer cloud that will pass,” Hezbollah said.
Israeli attack on southern Lebanon kills one child, wounds father
An Israeli drone strike targeting the southern Lebanese town of Tulin has killed a child and injured his father, Al-Akhbar publication reports.
Lebanon’s National News Agency also said that Israeli jets dropped four bombs over the Wazzani River in the southeast of the country.
Israel drops leaflets against local Hezbollah official in south Lebanon
The Israeli military has dropped leaflets in the Lebanese border village of Meiss el-Jabal, accusing a local Hezbollah official of looking after his own interests at the expense of the town. The flyer also suggested that Hezbollah is preventing reconstruction in the south.
The Israeli military has been carrying out attacks across Lebanon almost daily and targeting people returning to their border villages and trying to rebuild their homes.
Israel carrying out wave of air strikes in Lebanon
Lebanese media outlets report that Israeli jets are launching attacks in southern Lebanon. Strikes have targeted the villages of Eastern Zawtar and Deir Siriane, according to the reports.
According to Lebanese media reports, the most intense bombardment is taking place in the village of Deir Siriane in the eastern sector of the border. The Hezbollah-affiliated al-Manar TV said three Israeli missiles hit a single site in the village.
Al Jadeed TV reported that ambulances are trying to reach the area with the Israeli strikes still ongoing.
Ambulances unable to reach site targeted in south Lebanon
Lebanon’s National News Agency reports that ambulances are struggling to reach a site repeatedly targeted by Israel in the village of Deir Siriane due to ongoing Israeli attacks.
The agency also said that Israeli air raids targeted several other towns, including Aadchit al-Qsair.
A video of the attack on Deir Siriane shared on social media and verified by Al Jazeera showed a fireball light up in the night sky after one of the strikes.
مقطع فيديو يُظهر لحظة شن الطيران الحربي الإسرائيلي غارة على جنوب لبنان pic.twitter.com/D0juBDnjVz
— هنا لبنان (@thisislebnews) August 6, 2025
Gaza death toll rises
At least 135 Palestinians, including 87 aid seekers, have been killed and 771 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. Three bodies were also recovered from the rubble of previous Israeli attacks, the ministry statement said on Telegram.
The count includes five people who starved to death in the past 24 hours, it said, raising the hunger-related death toll to 193, including 96 children.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed a total of 61,158 Palestinians and injured 151,442 since October 7, 2023, the ministry added.
The total number of aid seekers killed since May 27, when Israel introduced a new aid distribution mechanism through the controversial GHF, has reached 1,655, with more than 11,800 injured, the statement said.
Director of hospital in Gaza City warns of anaesthesia, blood shortages
The director of al-Shifa Hospital, Dr Muhammad Abu Salmiya, has told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic that pressure on the Gaza Strip’s medical facilities is severe and patients are dying because the hospitals are overwhelmed.
“Hospital occupancy rate exceeds 300 percent,” he said, adding that “anaesthesia supplies will run out in the sector within 48 hours … we do not have enough blood units in stock.
“Many of the injuries we receive are concentrated in the upper parts of the body … we are losing wounded people due to the lack of sufficient operating rooms,” he said.
WHO says ‘arbitrary denial’ of medical teams to Gaza leading to more deaths
The World Health Organization (WHO) says the “complex” Israeli entry requirements for emergency medical teams (EMT) were “severely impacting availability of health services and leading to more deaths in Gaza”.
In a post on X, the WHO said since March 18, the number of teams getting denied have risen by “nearly 50 percent” with 102 EMT health professionals, including surgeons and specialised doctors, barred from entering Gaza.
“Impeding EMTs from participating in the collective humanitarian response comes at a time when we are receiving daily reports of death due to the ongoing conflict and starvation as Gaza faces the worst-case scenario for famine,” the organisation wrote.
“[The] WHO calls for the urgent and expedited facilitation of EMT entry into Gaza,” it added.
Complex entry requirements and the arbitrary denial of international emergency medical teams (EMTs) is severely impacting availability of health services and leading to more deaths in #Gaza.
Since 18 March 2025, denial rates have risen by nearly 50%, with 102 critical… pic.twitter.com/EWvejY9vXi
— WHO in occupied Palestinian territory (@WHOoPt) August 6, 2025
Situation in Gaza ‘getting worse day by day’: Health official
Gaza’s Health Ministry Director-General Munir al-Bursh says the situation in the Gaza Strip is “getting worse day by day”. He told Al Jazeera they had 95 patients with “acute flaccid paralysis”, a sudden weakness in the limbs, which was mainly affecting children.
“The sector has become a fertile area for the spread of diseases. We have 45 patients with Guillain-Barre syndrome [a rare illness that targets the nerves]. There are many cases of poisoning in the sector due to water and food contamination,” al-Bursh said.
“The occupation destroyed most of the laboratories in the Gaza Strip. The occupation is killing the people of the Gaza Strip with bombing, starvation and all means. “Airdropping food is humiliating and people have died because of it,” he added.
Palestinians inspect the damage after an overnight strike on the Sheikh Radwan Health Centre run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the north of Gaza City on August 6
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