US envoy to go to Gaza support websites as quantity of Palestinians killed whereas determined for meals grows
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US President Donald Trump’s particular envoy Steve Witkoff will go to meals distribution websites in Gaza run by the controversial US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Basis (GHF) the place a whole lot of Palestinians have died in current weeks making an attempt to get meals.
In keeping with the UN human rights workplace, not less than 859 folks have been killed within the neighborhood of the GHF websites for the reason that GHF started working in late Might. The Workplace of the Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) stated: “Most of those killings have been dedicated by the Israeli army.”
Witkoff arrived in Israel on Thursday with Netanyahu’s authorities going through mounting worldwide stress.
He met with prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday to debate the humanitarian scenario and a attainable ceasefire, AP stories.
Following the assembly, a senior Israeli official stated an understanding between Israel and the US was rising that there was a necessity to maneuver from a plan to launch a few of the hostages to a plan to launch all of the hostages, disarm Hamas militants, and demilitarise the Gaza Strip, in line with Reuters.
“The particular envoy and the ambassador will transient the president instantly after their go to to approve a remaining plan for meals and support distribution into the area,” White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt had informed reporters.
Trump on Thursday known as the scenario in Gaza “a horrible factor,” when requested about feedback from his ally and Republican US Consultant Marjorie Taylor Greene, who termed Israel’s offensive in Gaza a “genocide”.
Earlier that day and shortly after Witkoff arrived in Israel, Trump had posted on social media: “The quickest approach to finish the Humanitarian Crises in Gaza is for Hamas to SURRENDER AND RELEASE THE HOSTAGES!!!”
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Gaza civil defence says 11 killed by Israeli fireplace
Gaza’s civil defence company stated 11 folks have been killed by Israeli gunfire and air strikes on Friday, together with two who have been ready close to an support distribution website contained in the Palestinian territory.
Civil defence spokesperson Mahmud Bassal informed AFP that 5 folks have been killed in a strike close to the southern metropolis of Khan Younis, and 4 extra in a separate strike on a automobile in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah.
The Israeli military informed AFP it couldn’t affirm the strikes with out particular coordinates.
Two different folks have been killed and greater than 70 injured by Israeli fireplace whereas ready for support close to a meals distribution centre run by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Basis (GHF) between Khan Younis and the close by metropolis of Rafah, the civil defence stated.
The military didn’t instantly reply to the report.
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Lebanon says 4 killed in Israeli strikes on Thursday
A collection of Israeli air strikes killed 4 folks in southern Lebanon, Beirut’s ministry of well being stated Friday, providing a toll for assaults that came about the day earlier than, AFP stories.
The Israeli army stated on Thursday that it had focused Hezbollah “infrastructure that was used for producing and storing strategic weapons”, together with what the nation’s defence minister described because the group’s “largest precision missile manufacturing website”.
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By failing to sanction Israel, EU leaders are complicit in its crimes. They need to act now
Josep BorrellKids wait to obtain meals in Gaza Metropolis, 30 July 2025 {Photograph}: Anadolu/Getty Pictures
In the event that they survive Donald Trump’s assaults, the worldwide courts is not going to ship their remaining verdict for a number of years. However for all those that have ears to listen to and eyes to see, there will be little doubt that the Israeli authorities is committing genocide in Gaza, slaughtering and ravenous civilians after systematically destroying all of the infrastructure within the territory. Within the meantime, settlers and the Israeli military are every single day responsible of great, large and repeated violations of worldwide legislation and worldwide humanitarian legislation within the West Financial institution and East Jerusalem.
Those that don’t act to cease this genocide and these violations of worldwide legislation, though they’ve the facility to take action, are complicit in them. That is sadly the case with the leaders of the European Union and people of its member states, who refuse to sanction Israel though the EU has a authorized obligation to take action.
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Syria has pledged to research clashes within the southern province of Sweida which killed a whole lot of individuals final month, Reuters stories.
In a decree dated 31 July, justice minister Mazhar al-Wais stated a committee of seven folks – together with judges, legal professionals and a army official – would look into the circumstances that led to the “occasions in Sweida” and report again inside three months.
The committee would examine reported assaults and abuses towards civilians and refer anybody confirmed to have participated in such assaults to the judiciary.
The violence in Sweida started on 13 July between tribal fighters and Druze factions. Authorities forces have been despatched to quell the preventing however the bloodshed worsened, and Israel carried out strikes on Syrian troops within the identify of the Druze.
The Druze are a minority offshoot of Islam with followers in Syria, Lebanon and Israel. Sweida province is predominantly Druze however can also be dwelling to Sunni tribes, and the communities have had longstanding tensions over land and different sources.
A US-brokered truce ended the preventing, which had raged in Sweida metropolis and surrounding cities for practically per week.
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Listed here are some photos coming to us over the wires.
A girl collects flour from the bottom within the central Gaza Strip on 1 August 2025. {Photograph}: undefined/ReutersMourners react through the funeral of Palestinians, who have been killed by Israeli fireplace whereas making an attempt to obtain support on Thursday, and who have been killed in in a single day Israeli airstrikes on tents, in line with medics, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, 1 August, 2025. {Photograph}: Ramadan Abed/ReutersA wounded Palestinian youngster, bids farewell to members of his household who have been killed in an in a single day Israeli airstrike that hit their tent, in line with medics, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, within the southern Gaza Strip, 1 August 2025. {Photograph}: Ramadan Abed/ReutersFolks stroll down a avenue surrounded by buildings destroyed by Israeli bombardments within the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, 29 July 2025. {Photograph}: Jehad Alshrafi/APShare
Iran on Friday rejected accusations by the US and greater than a dozen of its allies that Tehran had tried to kill or kidnap dissidents, journalists and officers in Western nations, AFP stories.
In an announcement, Iranian overseas ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei described the claims as “baseless”, calling them “an try and divert public consideration from essentially the most urgent challenge of the day, the genocide in occupied Palestine”.
Western governments together with america, Britain, France and Germany condemned in a joint assertion on Thursday “the rising variety of state threats from Iranian intelligence providers in our respective territories”.
“We’re united in our opposition to the makes an attempt of Iranian intelligence providers to kill, kidnap, and harass folks in Europe and North America in clear violation of our sovereignty,” they stated.
“These providers are more and more collaborating with worldwide prison organisations to focus on journalists, dissidents, Jewish residents, and present and former officers in Europe and North America.”
Baqaei stated the accusations have been “blatant fabrications… designed as a part of a malicious Iranophobia marketing campaign geared toward exerting stress on the nice Iranian nation”.
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Sirens sounded in Israeli communities close to the Gaza Strip on Friday, prompting the army to launch an interceptor missile in direction of a suspected menace, the Israeli army stated.
The army later confirmed that the launch was triggered by a false alarm, and no menace was detected, Reuters stories.
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France sending 40 tonnes of humanitarian support to Gaza, overseas minister says
French overseas minister Jean-Noel Barrot stated on Friday that France is sending 4 flights carrying 10 tonnes of humanitarian support to Gaza from Jordan, Reuters stories.
“That is emergency support however nonetheless not adequate” within the face of this “revolting” scenario, Barrot informed broadcaster franceinfo.
A world starvation monitor stated on Tuesday {that a} famine situation was unfolding within the Gaza Strip, with malnutrition hovering, kids underneath 5 dying of hunger-related causes and humanitarian entry severely restricted.
French overseas minister Jean-Noel Barrot throughout a press convention in Cyprus this week. {Photograph}: Yiannis Kourtoglou/ReutersShare
US envoy to go to Gaza support websites as quantity of Palestinians killed whereas determined for meals grows
Whats up and welcome to our reside protection of the disaster within the Center East.
US President Donald Trump’s particular envoy Steve Witkoff will go to meals distribution websites in Gaza run by the controversial US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Basis (GHF) the place a whole lot of Palestinians have died in current weeks making an attempt to get meals.
In keeping with the UN human rights workplace, not less than 859 folks have been killed within the neighborhood of the GHF websites for the reason that GHF started working in late Might. The Workplace of the Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) stated: “Most of those killings have been dedicated by the Israeli army.”
Witkoff arrived in Israel on Thursday with Netanyahu’s authorities going through mounting worldwide stress.
He met with prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday to debate the humanitarian scenario and a attainable ceasefire, AP stories.
Following the assembly, a senior Israeli official stated an understanding between Israel and the US was rising that there was a necessity to maneuver from a plan to launch a few of the hostages to a plan to launch all of the hostages, disarm Hamas militants, and demilitarise the Gaza Strip, in line with Reuters.
“The particular envoy and the ambassador will transient the president instantly after their go to to approve a remaining plan for meals and support distribution into the area,” White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt had informed reporters.
Trump on Thursday known as the scenario in Gaza “a horrible factor,” when requested about feedback from his ally and Republican US Consultant Marjorie Taylor Greene, who termed Israel’s offensive in Gaza a “genocide”.
Earlier that day and shortly after Witkoff arrived in Israel, Trump had posted on social media: “The quickest approach to finish the Humanitarian Crises in Gaza is for Hamas to SURRENDER AND RELEASE THE HOSTAGES!!!”
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