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Israel is reviewing a revised response from Hamas to a proposed ceasefire and hostage launch deal, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s workplace mentioned on Thursday, as Israeli air and floor strikes continued to pound the Gaza Strip.
Hamas confirmed it had handed over a brand new proposal, however didn’t disclose its contents. A earlier model, submitted late on Tuesday, was rejected by mediators as inadequate and was not even handed to Israel, sources accustomed to the scenario mentioned.
There have been two main sticking factors in talks: particulars on an Israeli navy withdrawal, and on find out how to distribute support throughout a truce.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cupboard consists of far-right events that oppose any settlement that ends with out the entire destruction of Hamas.
“The second I spot weak point within the prime minister and if I come to assume, heaven forbid, that that is about to finish with us surrendering as a substitute of with Hamas’s absolute give up, I gained’t stay (within the authorities) for even a single day,” finance minister Bezalel Smotrich advised Military Radio.
Gaza is struggling man-made mass hunger brought on by the Israeli blockade of support into the territory, the top of the World Well being Group has mentioned, as greater than 100 companies urged Israel to let provides in. “I don’t know what you’ll name it apart from mass hunger, and it’s man-made, and that’s very clear,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus advised a digital press convention from Geneva. “That is due to [the] blockade.”
Ten extra Palestinians died in a single day to Wednesday from hunger, the Gaza well being ministry mentioned, bringing the entire quantity of people that have starved to dying to 111. The World Well being Group mentioned on Wednesday 21 kids beneath the age of 5 had been amongst those that died of malnutrition thus far this yr.
A household of seven – freelance journalist Wala al-Jaabari, her husband and their 5 kids – had been amongst greater than 100 folks killed in 24 hours of Israeli strikes or gunfire, in keeping with well being officers on Wednesday. Iman al-Shaer, one other relative who lives close by, mentioned the household hadn’t eaten something earlier than the bombs got here down. “The kids slept with out meals,” he mentioned. The World Well being Group mentioned on Wednesday 21 kids beneath the age of 5 had been amongst those that died of malnutrition thus far this yr.
Brazil is finalising its submission to affix South Africa’s genocide case in opposition to Israel’s actions in Gaza on the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice, the international ministry mentioned in an announcement on Wednesday. South Africa filed a case in 2023 asking the ICJ to declare that Israel was in breach of its obligations beneath the 1948 Genocide Conference. In its assertion, the Brazilian authorities accused Israel of violations of worldwide regulation “such because the annexation of territories by pressure,” and it expressed “deep indignation” at violence suffered by the civilian inhabitants.
Dozens of former UK ambassadors and diplomats have piled strain on Keir Starmer to recognise a Palestinian state amid rising worldwide revulsion on the harrowing scenes in Gaza in a letter signed by greater than 30 former UK ambassadors and 20 former senior British diplomats on the United Nations. “The dangers of inaction have profound, historic and catastrophic implications,” it mentioned. The state of Israel “can’t be safe from threats sooner or later if the query of Palestine is just not taken ahead to a political settlement”.
The archbishop of York condemned the dehumanisation of individuals in Gaza as “wicked” and “barbaric”. It was “a stain on the conscience of the worldwide group”, and Israel’s “warfare of aggression” was a “grave sin”, mentioned Stephen Cottrell, the de facto chief of the Church of England.
Israel’s president Isaac Herzog visited the Gaza Strip on Wednesday and advised troopers that there have been “intensive negotiations” about returning the hostages in Gaza, including that he hopes that they’ll quickly “hear excellent news”, an announcement from the president’s spokesperson reported.
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Mohammed’s skeletal arms stick out of a romper with a grinning emoji-face and the slogan “smiley boy”, which in a Gaza hospital reads as a merciless joke. He spends a lot of the day crying from starvation, or gnawing at his personal emaciated fingers.
At seven months outdated, he weighs barely 4kg (9lbs) and that is the second time he has been admitted for therapy. His face is gaunt, his limbs little greater than bones lined in saggy pores and skin and his ribs protrude painfully from his chest.
“My largest concern now could be shedding my grandson to malnutrition,” mentioned his grandmother Faiza Abdul Rahman, who herself is continually dizzy from lack of meals. The day gone by the one factor she ate was a single piece of pitta bread, which value 15 shekels (£3).
“His siblings additionally undergo from extreme starvation. On some days, they go to mattress with out a single chew to eat.”
For months Israel saved meals shipments to Gaza far beneath hunger rations. Now the dying toll is rising quickly. Learn our full report right here:
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Prime US Envoy Steve Witkoff is anticipated to go to Italy Thursday to satisfy prime Israeli negotiator Ron Dermer and talk about the ceasefire deal on the desk, in keeping with Israeli and US officers.
The deal beneath dialogue is anticipated to incorporate a 60-day ceasefire by which Hamas would launch 10 residing hostages and the stays of 18 others in phases in change for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel. Support provides can be ramped up and the 2 sides would maintain negotiations on an enduring truce.
Hamas earlier Thursday submitted a response to the newest ceasefire proposal which an Israeli official, talking on situation of anonymity as a result of they weren’t approved to temporary the media, billed as “workable.”
US Particular Envoy to the Center East Steve Witkoff on the White Home, Washington, DC, USA, 16 July 2025. {Photograph}: Will Oliver/EPAShare
A senior Israeli official was quoted by native media as saying the brand new textual content of Hamas’s revised response to a proposed ceasefire and hostage launch deal was one thing Israel might work with.
Nonetheless, Israel’s Channel 12 mentioned a fast deal was not inside attain, with gaps remaining between the 2 sides, together with over the place the Israeli navy ought to withdraw to throughout any truce.
A Palestinian official near the talks advised Reuters the newest Hamas place was “versatile, optimistic and took into consideration the rising struggling in Gaza and the necessity to cease the hunger”.
A Palestinian man reacts on the website of an in a single day Israeli strike on a tent sheltering displaced folks, in Gaza Metropolis, July 24, 2025. {Photograph}: Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters
The warfare between Israel and Hamas has been raging for almost two years since Hamas killed some 1,200 folks and took 251 hostages from southern Israel within the deadliest single assault in Israel’s historical past.
Israel has since killed almost 60,000 Palestinians in Gaza, decimated Hamas as a navy pressure, decreased a lot of the territory to ruins and compelled almost the complete inhabitants to flee their properties a number of occasions.
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Opening sumary
Hi there and welcome to our reside protection of Israel’s warfare on Gaza.
Israel is reviewing a revised response from Hamas to a proposed ceasefire and hostage launch deal, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s workplace mentioned on Thursday, as Israeli air and floor strikes continued to pound the Gaza Strip.
Hamas confirmed it had handed over a brand new proposal, however didn’t disclose its contents. A earlier model, submitted late on Tuesday, was rejected by mediators as inadequate and was not even handed to Israel, sources accustomed to the scenario mentioned.
There have been two main sticking factors in talks: particulars on an Israeli navy withdrawal, and on find out how to distribute support throughout a truce.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cupboard consists of far-right events that oppose any settlement that ends with out the entire destruction of Hamas.
“The second I spot weak point within the prime minister and if I come to assume, heaven forbid, that that is about to finish with us surrendering as a substitute of with Hamas’s absolute give up, I gained’t stay (within the authorities) for even a single day,” finance minister Bezalel Smotrich advised Military Radio.
Gaza is struggling man-made mass hunger brought on by the Israeli blockade of support into the territory, the top of the World Well being Group has mentioned, as greater than 100 companies urged Israel to let provides in. “I don’t know what you’ll name it apart from mass hunger, and it’s man-made, and that’s very clear,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus advised a digital press convention from Geneva. “That is due to [the] blockade.”
Ten extra Palestinians died in a single day to Wednesday from hunger, the Gaza well being ministry mentioned, bringing the entire quantity of people that have starved to dying to 111. The World Well being Group mentioned on Wednesday 21 kids beneath the age of 5 had been amongst those that died of malnutrition thus far this yr.
A household of seven – freelance journalist Wala al-Jaabari, her husband and their 5 kids – had been amongst greater than 100 folks killed in 24 hours of Israeli strikes or gunfire, in keeping with well being officers on Wednesday. Iman al-Shaer, one other relative who lives close by, mentioned the household hadn’t eaten something earlier than the bombs got here down. “The kids slept with out meals,” he mentioned. The World Well being Group mentioned on Wednesday 21 kids beneath the age of 5 had been amongst those that died of malnutrition thus far this yr.
Brazil is finalising its submission to affix South Africa’s genocide case in opposition to Israel’s actions in Gaza on the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice, the international ministry mentioned in an announcement on Wednesday. South Africa filed a case in 2023 asking the ICJ to declare that Israel was in breach of its obligations beneath the 1948 Genocide Conference. In its assertion, the Brazilian authorities accused Israel of violations of worldwide regulation “such because the annexation of territories by pressure,” and it expressed “deep indignation” at violence suffered by the civilian inhabitants.
Dozens of former UK ambassadors and diplomats have piled strain on Keir Starmer to recognise a Palestinian state amid rising worldwide revulsion on the harrowing scenes in Gaza in a letter signed by greater than 30 former UK ambassadors and 20 former senior British diplomats on the United Nations. “The dangers of inaction have profound, historic and catastrophic implications,” it mentioned. The state of Israel “can’t be safe from threats sooner or later if the query of Palestine is just not taken ahead to a political settlement”.
The archbishop of York condemned the dehumanisation of individuals in Gaza as “wicked” and “barbaric”. It was “a stain on the conscience of the worldwide group”, and Israel’s “warfare of aggression” was a “grave sin”, mentioned Stephen Cottrell, the de facto chief of the Church of England.
Israel’s president Isaac Herzog visited the Gaza Strip on Wednesday and advised troopers that there have been “intensive negotiations” about returning the hostages in Gaza, including that he hopes that they’ll quickly “hear excellent news”, an announcement from the president’s spokesperson reported.
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