Israeli forces target Palestine Red Crescent Society HQ

The Palestine Red Crescent Society says on X that Israeli forces have targeted the 8th floor of its headquarters in Khan Younis with an artillery shell.

🚨Breaking – Palestine Red Crescent: The Israeli occupation forces have targeted the 8th floor of the PRCS headquarters in Khan Younis with an artillery shell. #NotATarget #IHL #Gaza

— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) August 6, 2025

‘Everyone has suffered enough’: ICRC

Time is running out for people in Gaza, and a deal has to be reached between Hamas and the Israeli military that will allow for humanitarian aid to be let in to the enclave, Hisham Mhanna, a spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), has told Al Jazeera.

“Everyone has suffered enough, we have lost colleagues, we have lost friends, families; everyone in Gaza is impacted,” he said.

“We have 350 plus staff members in Gaza who are struggling on a daily basis to find enough food and clean water, so you cannot possibly imagine how civilians who are most vulnerable, who have been living in displacement for 22 months.

“I see no way that they can continue living like this and I can see no justification for this to continue any longer, not from any legal or moral perspective,” he added. “The agreement should include and guarantee that access is for every person who is in desperate need for food, for medical treatment and for [their] family to know that they are still alive.”

Stop talking about a deal, the genocide needs to be stopped. A deal won't be reached between Hamas and Netanyahu as the latter will keep putting up more red lines to prevent any deal. 

Boycott Israel, USA, UK, arms embargo, sanctions and send in an international peace keeping force with a humanitarian fleet of ships carrying aid. It's the only way to stop this. You can't stop genocide with words.

Malnutrition, dehydration impede blood donations in Gaza

Blood donations are needed now, right now, across the remaining operational medical facilities in Gaza – al-Shifa Hospital, Al-Aqsa Hospital, and Nasser Hospital.

We read and hear doctors’ appeals for more blood because what is available is not sufficient to deal with the influx of injuries that keep pouring into these three major health facilities.

On a good day, they receive at least 150 to 200 injured patients who need blood supplies that are not available in this amount to save lives.

We’ve seen at the blood banks many people who were begging doctors to allow them to give blood donations to save their loved ones, but they had to be turned away because they were not fit to donate blood due to the enforced dehydration and starvation.

It was deemed by medical staff that they were too frail and weak, which could lead to medical complications if they gave blood or donated blood to other people.

Palestinian doctors face ‘untenable’ demands as starvation grips Gaza

Andee Clark Vaughan, an emergency nurse working in Gaza with the Palestinian Australian New Zealand Medical Association (Panzma), says Palestinian doctors are working under devastating circumstances in the enclave.

Not only do they have limited resources to treat their patients, but, like the general population in Gaza, many are also dealing with starvation and a lack of food to sustain themselves.

“All of the doctors here in Gaza are exhausted, and they’re malnourished because there is no food,” Clark Vaughan told Al Jazeera from Gaza City.

“A general surgeon will do up to seven, eight cases in a 12-to-24-hour period,” she said. “That’s exhausting for them, and it’s untenable.”

Israeli military claims more than 100 aid packages dropped into Gaza today

The Israeli military says that over the past few hours, “107 aid packages, containing food for the residents of the Gaza Strip, were airdropped by five different countries”.

It said it will continue to work in order “to improve the humanitarian response in the Gaza Strip, along with the international community” and refuted what it said were “false claims of deliberate starvation in Gaza”.

On July 29, the United Nations-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) issued its gravest warning yet: That “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip”.

Despite the suffering, Israel allowed just 36 aid trucks into Gaza on Saturday, even as 22,000 loaded trucks remain at the crossings, waiting to enter, according to the Government Media Office in Gaza.

Before October 2023, about 500 aid trucks entered Gaza daily – a number that not been reached since. In March, Israel completely blocked all exits and aid, only opening up for a tiny fraction of the needed aid in the past two months.

Once food is offloaded at the border holding areas, agencies must request permission for convoys to enter and distribute in Gaza. But approvals are inconsistent. According to the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), only 76 out of 138 convoy requests were approved between July 19 and 25.

Another 3 trucks of aid dropped into the sand. Do they think that number is actually impressive?

Gaza airdrops pose ‘grave danger’, Palestinian interior ministry says

The Palestinian Ministry of Interior and National Security has released a statement warning against “the catastrophic effects” airdrops of humanitarian aid are having on people in Gaza.

“The Israeli occupation exploits these aiddrops as part of its policy of engineered starvation, fostering chaos and thuggery, and fostering the spread of gangs of thieves and bandits,” the ministry said.

It explained that many Palestinians have been injured – and some have even been killed – as boxes of aid fell from the sky onto their tents and homes. The amount of assistance being airdropped into Gaza amounts to only “a drop in the ocean” of what’s needed, the ministry added.

“The Ministry of Interior affirms that the negative effects of parachute drops and the chaos, destruction, and loss of life and property they create are far greater than any benefit they provide to our starving people,” it said, calling on countries participating in airdrops to reconsider.

“The optimal way to provide relief to our people and end the humanitarian crisis and systematic starvation is to open the land crossings and allow the flow of abundant quantities of humanitarian aid and food supplies on a daily basis and for extended periods.”

Palestinian football icon killed while waiting for food in Gaza

Suleiman Al-Obaid, a former Palestine national team player, was killed in an Israeli strike targeting civilians waiting for humanitarian aid in southern Gaza, the Palestine Football Association (PFA) has said.

Also known as the Pele of Palestinian football, al-Obaid began his career with his home club, the Khadamat Al-Shati Club. He later joined the Al-Amari Youth Center Club in the occupied West Bank, then the Gaza Sports Club, before ultimately making it to the national team, PFA said.

“During his long career, Al-Obeid scored more than 100 goals, making him one of the brightest stars of Palestinian football,” the association said.

The former Palestine national team player, Suleiman Al-Obaid, was killed in an Israeli strike targeting civilians waiting for humanitarian aid in the southern Gaza Strip.https://t.co/BWTmJThzeC pic.twitter.com/3qrIMksO2H

— Palestine Football Association (@Palestine_fa) August 6, 2025

Israeli public, military establishment oppose complete Gaza occupation

Dan Perry, a former reporter with The Associated Press, says it’s hard to know whether Netanyahu is truly planning to approve a full Israeli occupation of Gaza.

“It could be an effort to placate his far-right coalition partners while he buys time. It could be an effort to scare the international community into acting a little bit differently,” Perry told Al Jazeera from Tel Aviv about the motives behind the push.

Perry explained that the Israeli prime minister knows that the Israeli public and the military establishment are opposed to a complete military takeover of Gaza “in the sense of long-term or permanent occupation of and administration of 2 million people”.

“That promises to be a forever war, a massive insurgency, more loss of life on all sides, and also a likely sacrificing of the lives of the remaining hostages,” Perry said.

Under international law, the Gaza Strip is considered occupied by Israel, which maintains effective control over the territory.

Gaza must be flooded with food aid ‘each and every day to prevent mass starvation’: WFP

The UN’s World Food Programme says the organisation and partners are doing everything possible to deliver urgent assistance to people in Gaza, “but it’s just a drop in the ocean of needs”.

“We need to flood Gaza with food aid, and keep it flowing each and every day to prevent mass starvation,” its statement said on X.

“Families in Gaza are going days without food. Parents are making impossible choices – sacrificing their own meals, and even their safety, to feed their children,” the WFP post added.

Families in #Gaza are going days without food.

Parents are making impossible choices - sacrificing their own meals, and even their safety, to feed their children.

WFP and partners are doing everything possible to deliver urgent assistance. But it's just a drop in the ocean of… pic.twitter.com/NtzP4LQ0aQ

— World Food Programme (@WFP) August 6, 2025

UN says Israeli restrictions on Gaza access impeding lifesaving work

Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, says Israel’s refusal to allow United Nations and other humanitarian staff into Gaza is hampering efforts to help starving Palestinians.

As we reported earlier, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today that the number of medical teams getting denied have risen by “nearly 50 percent” since March 18, with 102 EMT health professionals, including surgeons and specialised doctors, barred from entering Gaza.

“It hinders our effort to have our people on the ground coordinating the efforts to bring food in. The fewer UN people, the fewer NGO people, there are that can do this work, it slows our facilities down,” Haq said during a briefing at UN headquarters in New York City.

‘We just ran’: Witnesses describe Israeli attack on UN clinic-turned-shelter

We’ve spoken to Palestinians who fled the scene of Israel’s bombing of a clinic-turned-shelter, previously run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), near Gaza City.

As we’ve been reporting, the overnight Israeli attack targeted the Sheikh Radwan Health Centre, injuring dozens of people.

“Last night, we were sitting when suddenly everyone started running. People told us we had 10 minutes before the clinic would be bombed. I grabbed the kids and ran without taking anything,” Basma Zindah, a displaced Palestinian mother, told Al Jazeera.

“We moved about 200 metres away and waited. The strike hit the building. Around 1 or 2 am, when things calmed down, we went back but everything was gone. The tents were torn apart, everything destroyed,” she added.

Another displaced resident, Ghaleb Tafesh, said people previously relied on the clinic for treatment. “After it went out of service, it became a shelter for displaced families,” Tafesh told Al Jazeera.

“Last night, while we were having dinner, we suddenly heard people shouting, calling for evacuation. There was no time to take anything no food, no clothes, no bedding. We just ran.”


_{A Palestinian girl looks at the destruction after an overnight Israeli strike on the Sheikh Radwan Health Centre}

‘Full occupation’ of Gaza means ‘bloodiest stage of the genocide’

Legal experts say that Gaza has been under full Israeli occupation since 1967, but as Israel threatens to “occupy” the territory in the context of its ongoing war, advocates are warning that greater horrors may be inflicted on Palestinians.

“When Israel speaks of a ‘full occupation’ of Gaza as next step, what they mean is the military operating, on the ground, in the last remaining pockets where the vast majority of the Palestinian population is concentrated,” a Palestinian American analyst said in a social media post.

“They mean the bloodiest stage of the genocide yet.”

Media, press freedom groups warn ‘journalists in Gaza being starved to death’

Sixteen media organisations and press freedom groups, including Al Jazeera Media Network and the Committee to Protect Journalists, are calling for an end to Israel’s “forced starvation and targeting of journalists in Gaza”.

“Journalists in Gaza are being starved to death. Not metaphorically. Not slowly. But deliberately, and in real time, while the world watches,” the groups said in a joint statement.

More than 230 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since the war began in October 2023 in what experts say is a targeted campaign aimed at stifling media coverage of Israeli abuses in the enclave.

“Those who remain, and their families, are subjected to constant targeting, intimidation, and denied of their basic needs and now forced to choose between death by air strike or starvation,” the groups said in their statement.

“Their situation is dire and worsening day by day. Without immediate intervention by the international community, their lives are under serious threat, and they may not be able to continue reporting; their voices may fall silent,” they added.

“The journalistic community and the world bear an immense responsibility; it is our duty to raise our voices and mobilise all available means to support our colleagues in this noble profession.”

‘We are alive and dead at the same time’

The nonprofit group Defense for Children International-Palestine has shared testimonies from four children in Gaza grappling with daily life under Israel’s bombardment and blockade.

Jana, 14, said she only eats one meal a day as her family struggles to find food under the Israeli forced starvation policy.

“All night, my siblings and I were crying, and my mom and dad cried for us because of the hunger and misery we’re living in. We’re sick of this life – we don’t want to live this life any more. We don’t know how to live. We are alive and dead at the same time,” she said.

Sumaya, 16, also described the medical problems she faces as she and her family were displaced from their home and forced to share a classroom with three other families. She contracted jaundice as a result of the difficult living situation.

“The right to health doesn’t exist. Even when hospitals ask for help from abroad, the occupation refuses to allow medicine in,” Sumaya said. “I believe their goal is to kill the sick, children, and nurses.”


_{A Palestinian boy sits in a damaged home in Gaza City on August 6}

Egypt FM says Gaza crisis a ‘stain’ on international community

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty says the international community should be ashamed by the “devastating actions being carried out by Israel”.

“What is unfolding is a human tragedy, and the suffering witnessed is a stain on the conscience of the international community,” Abdelatty said.

Egypt has formal diplomatic relations with Israel and borders Gaza. Cairo has stressed that it has thousands of aid trucks on its side of the border ready to go into the Palestinian territory if Israeli authorities allow them.

Earlier this week, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi accused Israel of carrying out a “systematic genocide” in Gaza.

You are part of it, blocking aid just the same as Israel, keeping the border closed.

Main events on August 6th

• Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip killed 44 Palestinians, including 18 aid seekers, medical sources told Al Jazeera.
• The UN said “the lives of more than 100 premature babies are in imminent danger due to the lack of fuel”.
• Hamas called for global protests in the upcoming days, demanding the opening of all crossings to allow aid into Gaza.
• Israel launched several air strikes across southern Lebanon, killing a child and injuring three other people.
• Hezbollah rejected the Lebanese government’s decision to disarm the group, saying that it will treat the push “as if it doesn’t exist”.
• Slovenia became the first European country to announce a ban on all imports from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

‘GAZA IS GONE’: Disturbing Video Shows ABSOLUTE DESTRUCTION From Above

Fearing repeat of US-Israeli strikes, Iran announces big military preparedness

Iran has announced a creation of Defence Council in preparation for a possible of another joint military strikes by Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. The last time Tehran created such Defence Council was during Iran-Iraq war between 1980 and 1988. Rifat Jawaid explains why the Iranian government is worried about a possible violation of ceasefire by Netanyahu and Trump ahead of the next month’s UN General Assembly Session.

Israel Is a Death Cult, Politicians Are Cowards & the Media Is Rotten, w/ Abby Martin

Starvation. Mass death. Children wasting away on camera. And still, no consequences. Rania Khalek is joined by Abby Martin to expose the full horror of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, the complicity of liberals who stay silent or worse, and the surreal reality in which Marjorie Taylor Greene, Candice Owens and Tucker Carlson speak out.

They also dig into the renewed media focus on Jeffrey Epstein, and what the mainstream won’t say about his ties to Israeli intelligence and elite blackmail.

Israel set to approve new war plan to occupy entire Gaza strip

Israel's security cabinet will convene tomorrow to approve Benjamin Netanyahu's new war plan, namely, to step up the conflict and occupy the entire Gaza Strip. The move, largely opposed by Israel's public and military top brass, could risk 'catastrophic consequences and further endanger the lives of the remaining hostages' the UN has warned.

Meanwhile, 135 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli strikes in the last 24 hours, according to the Gaza health ministry, and another five from starvation or malnutrition.

The Hague Group: Six Measures to End Israeli Impunity | 5-Minute Summary

“The era of impunity is over.” That was the message from Bogotá, Colombia, where governments from across the Global South and beyond took the most ambitious coordinated action since Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza began 21 months ago.

Convened by The Hague Group and co-chaired by the governments of Colombia and South Africa, the Emergency Conference on Palestine brought together 30 states for two days of intensive deliberation — and emerged with a concrete, coordinated six-point plan to restrain Israel’s war machine and uphold international law. States took up the call from their host, Colombian President and Progressive International Council Member Gustavo Petro, who had urged them to be “protagonists together.” Twelve governments signed onto the measures immediately. The rest now have a deadline: 20 September 2025, on the eve of the United Nations General Assembly.

The unprecedented six measures commit states to:
1. Prevent military and dual use exports to Israel.
2. Refuse Israeli weapons transfers at their ports.
3. Prevent vessels carrying weapons to Israel under their national flags.
4. Review all public contracts to prevent public institutions and funds from supporting Israel’s illegal occupation.
5. Pursue justice for international crimes.
6. Support universal jurisdiction to hold perpetrators accountable. “We came to Bogotá to make history — and we did,” said Colombian President Gustavo Petro.

“Together, we have begun the work of ending the era of impunity. These measures show that we will no longer allow international law to be treated as optional, or Palestinian life as disposable.” The deadline for further states to take up the measures is now two months away. And with it, the pressure is mounting for governments across the world — from Brazil to Ireland, Chile to Spain — to match words with action. As Albanese said, “the clock is now ticking for states — from Europe to the Arab world and beyond — to join them.”

This is not a moment to observe. It is a moment to act. Share the Joint Statement from Bogotá and popularise the six measures. Write to your elected representative and your government and demand they sign on before 20 September:

https://thehaguegroup.org/meetings-bogota-en/

Human Rights Watch condemns ‘widespread carnage’ at Gaza’s schools

During the war in Gaza, Israeli air attacks have hit more than 500 school buildings, many serving as shelters for displaced people, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in its report.

In two of the school strikes it investigated – which hit the Khadija girls’ school in Deir el-Balah on July 27 last year, killing at least 15 people, and the Zeitoun C school in Gaza City on September 21 last year, killing another 34, HRW found “no evidence of a military target”, thus making them “unlawfully indiscriminate”.

“Israeli strikes on schools sheltering displaced families provide a window into the widespread carnage that Israeli forces have carried out in Gaza,” said Gerry Simpson, associate crisis, conflict and arms director at HRW.

“Other governments should not tolerate this horrendous slaughter of Palestinian civilians merely seeking safety,” he added.

Israeli drone attack kills 6 displaced people in southern Gaza’s al-Mawasi

At least six Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli drone attack on a displaced people’s tent in the al-Mawasi area, west of Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis. That’s according to a Nasser Hospital source speaking to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

Another Palestinian child starves to death

A child from Khan Younis has died of malnutrition, the latest hunger-related death in Israel’s war on Gaza, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic have quoted Nasser Hospital as saying.

The latest death adds to at least 193 hunger-related deaths in the enclave.

Nine aid seekers killed near Rafah, Gaza City

At least nine more aid seekers have been confirmed killed by Israeli fire near aid centres, report our colleagues on the ground. Five of the victims, shot at GHF aid sites near Rafah, were brought to Nasser Hospital, our colleagues report.

The bodies of four others were recovered near the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza, they report.

‘Thousands of starving people crammed together’ before shooting at GHF aid site

I was close to one of the GHF aid sites. The situation there was really, really terrible. There was no organised system, just thousands of starving people crammed together, pushing, shouting, climbing over each other for a chance at a food bag.

It was a very desperate scene, later complicated by the Israeli military starting to shoot indiscriminately at hungry crowds after giving them a very narrow window of time to get the sustenance that cannot be nearly enough.

The humanitarian situation at these controversial aid centres is not getting any better. This is my firsthand account.