Gaza is ‘hell on earth’ with docs fainting from starvation, UN warns, as 1,000 estimated to have been killed searching for meals
The top of the UN Palestinian Refugee Company stated on Tuesday that its workers members in addition to docs and humanitarian staff are fainting on responsibility on account of starvation and exhaustion, Reuters stories.
Unrwa commissioner normal Philippe Lazzarini stated in an announcement, shared by his spokesperson at a press briefing in Geneva:
Caretakers, together with UNRWA colleagues in Gaza, are additionally in want of care now, docs, nurses, journalists, humanitarians, amongst them, UNRWA workers are hungry. Many are actually fainting on account of starvation and exhaustion whereas performing their duties.
Lazzarini described the scenario in Gaza as “hell on earth”, including that nowhere was secure.
The Unrwa estimates that 1,000 ravenous folks have been reported killed whereas searching for meals help because the finish of Might.
After talks to increase a six-week ceasefire broke down, Israel imposed a full blockade on Gaza on 2 March, permitting nothing in till vans had been once more permitted at a trickle in late Might.
In a put up on X on Monday, Unrwa stated that shortages within the Palestinian territory had precipitated meals costs to extend by 40 instances, whereas the help stockpiled in its warehouses outdoors Gaza may feed “the complete inhabitants for over three months.”
Palestinians carry help provides after vans loaded with help entered from Israel by central Gaza, in Gaza Metropolis on 22 July 2025. {Photograph}: Khamis Al-Rifi/ReutersShare
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Authorities workplaces in not less than 10 Iranian provinces, together with the capital, have been ordered to shut on Wednesday in a bid to preserve water and electrical energy, as temperatures in elements of southern and south-western Iran soared above 50C (122F), Agence France-Presse (AFP) stories.
No less than 10 provincial capitals recorded temperatures above 40C on Monday, together with Tehran, which reached 40C for the primary time this 12 months, the meteorological company stated.
The heatwave comes amid a pointy drop in rainfall – the worst in 60 years within the capital, in accordance with Tehran’s provincial water provide firm.
The drought has seen the water ranges of dams supplying Tehran drop to “their lowest degree in a century”, the corporate stated, advising folks to make use of a tank and pump to deal with ongoing water disruptions.
Many residents throughout Tehran reported water outages lasting a number of hours previously few days.
“The water disaster is extra severe than what’s being talked about,” president Masoud Pezeshkian warned on Sunday, including that the nation would “face a scenario sooner or later for which no answer will be discovered” if present developments proceed.
He stated:
Measures comparable to transferring water from different locations to Tehran is not going to remedy the issue basically
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Gaza is ‘hell on earth’ with docs fainting from starvation, UN warns, as 1,000 estimated to have been killed searching for meals
The top of the UN Palestinian Refugee Company stated on Tuesday that its workers members in addition to docs and humanitarian staff are fainting on responsibility on account of starvation and exhaustion, Reuters stories.
Unrwa commissioner normal Philippe Lazzarini stated in an announcement, shared by his spokesperson at a press briefing in Geneva:
Caretakers, together with UNRWA colleagues in Gaza, are additionally in want of care now, docs, nurses, journalists, humanitarians, amongst them, UNRWA workers are hungry. Many are actually fainting on account of starvation and exhaustion whereas performing their duties.
Lazzarini described the scenario in Gaza as “hell on earth”, including that nowhere was secure.
The Unrwa estimates that 1,000 ravenous folks have been reported killed whereas searching for meals help because the finish of Might.
After talks to increase a six-week ceasefire broke down, Israel imposed a full blockade on Gaza on 2 March, permitting nothing in till vans had been once more permitted at a trickle in late Might.
In a put up on X on Monday, Unrwa stated that shortages within the Palestinian territory had precipitated meals costs to extend by 40 instances, whereas the help stockpiled in its warehouses outdoors Gaza may feed “the complete inhabitants for over three months.”
Palestinians carry help provides after vans loaded with help entered from Israel by central Gaza, in Gaza Metropolis on 22 July 2025. {Photograph}: Khamis Al-Rifi/ReutersShare
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The Roman Catholic church’s most senior cleric within the Holy Land stated on Tuesday that the humanitarian scenario in Gaza was “morally unacceptable”, after visiting the war-torn Palestinian territory, Agence France-Presse (AFP) stories.
Latin Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa informed a information convention:
We have now seen males holding out within the solar for hours within the hope of a easy meal.
It’s morally unacceptable and unjustified.
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Prof Nick Maynard is a guide surgeon at Oxford college hospital who has been travelling recurrently to Gaza for 15 years. He’s at the moment volunteering with Medical Assist for Palestinians (MAP) at Nasser hospital in Gaza.
I’m scripting this from Nasser hospital in southern Gaza, the place I’ve simply completed working on one other severely malnourished younger teenager. A seven-month-old child lies in our paediatric intensive care unit, so tiny and malnourished that I initially mistook her for a new child. The phrase “pores and skin and bones” doesn’t do justice to the way in which her physique has been ravaged. She is actually losing away earlier than our eyes and, regardless of our greatest efforts, we’re powerless to avoid wasting her. We’re witnessing deliberate hunger in Gaza proper now.
That is my third time in Gaza since December 2023 as a volunteer surgeon with Medical Assist for Palestinians. I skilled mass casualty occasions and raised the alarm about malnutrition again in January 2024. However nothing has ready me for the sheer horror I’m witnessing now: the weaponisation of hunger towards a whole inhabitants.
The malnutrition disaster has grow to be catastrophic since my final go to. Day by day I watch sufferers deteriorate and die, not from their accidents, however as a result of they’re too malnourished to outlive surgical procedure. The surgical repairs that we supply out fall to items, sufferers get horrible infections, then they die. It’s taking place repeatedly, and it’s heartbreaking to observe. 4 infants have died in the previous few weeks on this hospital – not from bombs or bullets, however from hunger.
Households and workers do their greatest to strive to usher in what they’ll, however there merely isn’t sufficient meals obtainable in Gaza. For infants, we’ve got just about no child formulation. Youngsters are being given 10% dextrose (sugar water), which has no dietary worth, and sometimes their moms are too malnourished to breastfeed. When a world colleague tried to convey child formulation into Gaza, Israeli authorities confiscated it.
You may learn extra of Nick Maynard’s piece right here: I’m witnessing the deliberate hunger of Gaza’s kids – why is the world letting it occur?
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Concerning the opportunity of reimposing worldwide sanctions on Iran, state media quoted the nation’s deputy international minister Kazem Gharibabadi as saying on Tuesday that the Iranian authorities feels the “snapback” mechanism lacks any authorized floor, Reuters stories.
He was talking forward of a gathering on Friday with three European states referred to as the E3 – Britain, France and Germany.
The E3 have stated that if no progress is reached by the top of August over Iran’s nuclear programme, they may invoke a “snapback” mechanism – a course of that might reimpose UN sanctions on Tehran that had been lifted beneath a 2015 deal in return for restrictions on Iran’s nuclear programme.
Referring to Friday’s assembly in Istanbul, Gharibabadi stated:
We are going to specific our place relating to the E3’s feedback on the snapback mechanism, which we predict lacks any authorized floor.
Nonetheless, our effort might be to see if we will discover widespread options to handle the scenario.
The three European international locations, together with China and Russia, are the remaining events to the 2015 nuclear deal – from which the US withdrew in 2018.
Gharibabadi added:
It has been seven years that the nuclear deal isn’t being carried out by the Europeans following the U.S. departure from it. How can they argue that Iran isn’t following the deal after they themselves haven’t performed so?
Tehran denies searching for a nuclear weapon and says its nuclear programme is solely meant for civilian functions.
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A extreme heatwave sweeping Iran has disrupted water and electrical energy provides in a lot of the nation, with reservoir ranges dropping to their lowest level in a century, state media stated on Tuesday, Agence France-Presse (AFP) stories.
No less than 18 of the nation’s 31 provinces, together with Tehran, have been affected by the acute temperatures, which started on Friday and anticipated to ease regularly by Thursday, in accordance with meteorological authorities cited by state tv.
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15 folks killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza, defence company says
Gaza’s civil defence company stated Israeli strikes killed 15 folks within the Palestinian territory on Tuesday, because the army expanded floor operations to the central metropolis of Deir al-Balah, Agence France-Presse (AFP) stories.
Company spokesperson Mahmud Bassal informed AFP that Israeli strikes on the al-Shati camp west of Gaza Metropolis killed not less than 13 folks and wounded greater than 50.
Most of Gaza’s inhabitants has been displaced not less than as soon as throughout 21 months of battle and the al-Shati camp, on the Mediterranean coast, hosts 1000’s of individuals displaced from the north in tents and makeshift shelters.
Bassal stated two extra folks had been killed in Deir al-Balah, the place the Israeli military stated it could increase its floor operations, having ordered the evacuation of a lot of the world.
Palestinians mourn their relations killed from an Israeli military bombardment of Gaza, at Shifa hospital in Gaza Metropolis on 22 July 2025. {Photograph}: Jehad Alshrafi/AP
The UN Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) estimated that between 50,000 and 80,000 folks had been dwelling within the space, which till now had been thought-about comparatively secure. About 30,000 had been dwelling in displacement websites.
AFP footage from central Gaza confirmed a big plume of smoke rising over Deir al-Balah on Tuesday whereas a surveillance drone was heard buzzing overhead.
Ocha stated almost 88% of the complete Gaza Strip was now both beneath evacuation orders or inside Israeli militarised zones, forcing the inhabitants of two.4 million into an ever-shrinking area.
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French international minister Jean-Noel Barrot on Tuesday urged Israel to permit international press into the besieged Palestinian territory of Gaza, as warnings of famine mount after 21 months of warfare, Agence France-Presse (AFP) stories.
He informed France Inter radio in an interview from jap Ukraine:
I ask that the free and unbiased press be allowed to entry Gaza to indicate what is going on there and to bear witness.
He spoke after the AFP information company warned that the lives of Palestinian freelance journalists it was working with in Gaza had been at risk and urged Israel to permit them and their households to go away the occupied coastal territory.
Requested if France would assist evacuate these stringers, Barrot stated France was “addressing the difficulty”.
He stated:
We hope to have the ability to evacuate some collaborators of journalists within the coming weeks.
Barrot urged an “instant ceasefire” after Israel on Monday expanded army operations to the central metropolis of Deir al-Balah.
He stated:
There is no such thing as a longer any justification for the Israeli military’s army operations in Gaza.
That is an offensive that may exacerbate an already catastrophic scenario and trigger new pressured displacements of populations, which we condemn within the strongest phrases.
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Loss of life toll in Iran from 12-day warfare rises to 1,062, authorities says
No less than 1,062 folks died in Iran in its 12-day warfare with Israel final month, authorities spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani stated on Tuesday, Reuters stories.
There have been 102 girls and 38 kids among the many useless. The earlier official loss of life toll was 935.
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Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched two assaults focusing on Israel’s essential airport, the most recent on Tuesday, with the Israeli military intercepting each, a day after hanging the rebel-held Yemeni port of Hodeida, Agence France-Presse (AFP) stories.
Israel has repeatedly struck Houthi-held elements of Yemen after the Iran-backed rebels started focusing on the nation with missile and drone assaults, claiming solidarity with Palestinians over the Gaza warfare.
The Houthis focused Ben Gurion Worldwide airport “utilizing a ‘Palestine 2’ hypersonic ballistic missile”, in accordance with army spokesperson Yarya Saree, who had hours earlier claimed an identical assault on the airport.
On Monday, Israeli defence minister Israel Katz stated “Yemen’s destiny would be the similar as Tehran’s” after hitting Houthi targets in Hodeida port in an assault aimed to stop any try to revive infrastructure beforehand hit.
A Houthi safety official, requesting anonymity to debate delicate issues, informed AFP that “the bombing destroyed the port’s dock, which had been rebuilt after earlier strikes.”
The Houthis not too long ago resumed lethal assaults within the Crimson Sea and Gulf of Aden, focusing on ships they accuse of getting hyperlinks to Israel, to place strain on Israel to finish the Gaza warfare.
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Reimposing worldwide sanctions will solely make the scenario over Iran’s nuclear problem extra advanced, Iranian deputy international minister Kazem Gharibabadi stated on Tuesday, in accordance with state media, forward of a gathering on Friday with three European states, Reuters stories.
The so-called E3 – Britain, France and Germany – have warned they may invoke the UN snapback mechanism to reimpose worldwide sanctions on Iran if no progress is reached by finish of August over the nation’s nuclear programme.
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WHO says Israeli forces attacked workers residence and essential warehouse in Gaza
The World Well being Group (WHO) has stated the Israeli army attacked its workers residence and essential warehouse in Deir al-Balah on Monday, compromising its operations in Gaza.
The WHO stated its workers residence was attacked thrice, with airstrikes inflicting a fireplace and in depth harm, and endangering workers and their households, together with kids.
On Monday, Israeli tanks for the primary time pushed into southern and jap districts of Deir al-Balah, an space the place Israeli sources stated the army believes hostages could also be held. Tank shelling within the space hit homes and mosques, killing not less than three Palestinians and wounding a number of others, native medics stated.
The WHO stated:
Israeli army entered the premises, forcing girls and kids to evacuate on foot towards al-Mawasi amid lively battle. Male workers and relations had been handcuffed, stripped, interrogated on the spot, and screened at gunpoint.
Two WHO workers and two relations had been detained, it stated in a put up on X. It stated three had been later launched, whereas one workers member remained in detention. Its director normal, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated: “WHO calls for the instant launch of the detained workers and safety of all its workers.”
Deir al-Balah is full of Palestinians displaced throughout greater than 21 months of warfare in Gaza, a whole bunch of whom fled west or south after Israel issued an evacuation order, saying it sought to destroy infrastructure and the capabilities of the militant group Hamas.
However the space can be the primary hub for humanitarian efforts within the devastated territory and Gaza well being officers have warned of potential “mass deaths” in coming days from starvation.
Israeli tank shelling killed not less than 12 Palestinians and wounded dozens others in a tent encampment in western Gaza Metropolis north of the territory, native well being authorities stated early on Tuesday.
Medics stated the tanks stationed north of Shati camp fired two shells at tents, housing displaced households, killing not less than 12 folks.
There was no instant remark from the Israeli army on the incident.
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The World Well being Group (WHO) has stated the Israeli army attacked its workers residence and essential warehouse in Deir al-Balah on Monday, compromising its operations in Gaza.
The WHO stated its workers residence was attacked thrice, with airstrikes inflicting a fireplace and in depth harm, and endangering workers and their households, together with kids.
On Monday, Israeli tanks for the primary time pushed into southern and jap districts of Deir al-Balah, an space the place Israeli sources stated the army believes hostages could also be held. Tank shelling within the space hit homes and mosques, killing not less than three Palestinians and wounding a number of others, native medics stated.
“Israeli army entered the premises, forcing girls and kids to evacuate on foot towards al-Mawasi amid lively battle. Male workers and relations had been handcuffed, stripped, interrogated on the spot, and screened at gunpoint,” the WHO stated.
Two WHO workers and two relations had been detained, it stated in a put up on X. It stated three had been later launched, whereas one workers member remained in detention. Its director normal, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated: “WHO calls for the instant launch of the detained workers and safety of all its workers.”
Israel on Monday rejected the joint assertion printed by over 20 international locations calling for an finish to the warfare in Gaza, “as it’s disconnected from actuality and sends the fallacious message to Hamas”, the international ministry stated.
The worldwide assertion – signed by Australia, the UK, France, Canada, New Zealand and Japan amongst others – warned “the struggling of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths”.
Israeli tank shelling killed not less than 12 Palestinians and wounded dozens others in a tent encampment in western Gaza Metropolis north of the territory, native well being authorities stated early on Tuesday.
Medics stated the tanks stationed north of Shati camp fired two shells at tents, housing displaced households, killing not less than 12 folks.
There was no instant remark from the Israeli army on the incident.
In different developments:
In its day by day replace, Gaza’s well being ministry stated on Monday not less than 130 Palestinians had been killed and greater than 1,000 wounded by Israeli gunfire and army strikes throughout the territory previously 24 hours, one of many highest such totals in latest weeks.
An Israeli military strike on the one Catholic church in Gaza final week has pushed the Vatican to alter its tone on Israel and blame it extra immediately within the dragging warfare. The strike killed three folks within the Holy Household Church within the centre of Gaza Metropolis, prompting condemnation by politicians and by spiritual leaders of varied denominations. Pope Leo XIV on Sunday slammed the “barbarity” of the warfare and the blind “use of drive”, denouncing “the assault by the Israeli military”.
An Israeli undercover drive detained Marwan Al-Hams, a senior Gaza Well being Ministry official, outdoors the sector hospital of the Worldwide Committee of the Crimson Cross within the southern Gaza Strip on Monday, the ministry stated. It stated that Hams, in control of area hospitals within the territory, was on his method to go to the ICRC hospital within the metropolis of Rafah when an Israeli drive “kidnapped” him after opening fireplace, killing one particular person and wounding one other civilian close by.
Belgian authorities stated on Monday that that they had briefly held and questioned two Israeli residents who attended an digital music pageant, after pro-Palestinian teams accused them of warfare crimes. Prosecutors stated they acquired authorized complaints alleging that two Israeli troopers chargeable for “severe violations of worldwide humanitarian legislation” in Gaza had been noticed on the Tomorrowland pageant close to the northern metropolis of Antwerp final week.
Syrian authorities evacuated Bedouin households from the Druze-majority metropolis of Sweida on Monday, after a ceasefire within the southern province halted every week of sectarian bloodshed {that a} monitor stated killed greater than 1,260 folks. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor stated the ceasefire was largely holding regardless of remoted gunfire in areas north of Sweida metropolis, with no new stories of casualties.
US president Donald Trump was “caught off guard” by Israeli strikes in Syria final week, White Home spokesperson Karoline Leavitt stated on Monday, including that he mentioned the difficulty with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel had launched strikes on the capital Damascus and the southern Druze-majority metropolis of Sweida, saying it aimed to place strain on the Syrian authorities to withdraw its troops from the area amid ongoing clashes there.
Iran has no plans to desert its nuclear programme together with uranium enrichment regardless of the “extreme” harm attributable to US strikes to its services, the nation’s international minister stated forward of renewed talks with European powers. Iran is scheduled to fulfill Britain, France and Germany in Istanbul on Friday, to debate its nuclear programme, with Tehran accusing European powers of scuppering a landmark 2015 nuclear deal. The assembly would be the first since Iran’s 12-day warfare with Israel final month, throughout which the USA carried out strikes towards Tehran’s nuclear services.
Visiting US envoy Tom Barrack stated Monday that disarming Hezbollah was a home problem, at the same time as Washington presses the brand new authorities for motion after the group was weakened by warfare with Israel. Lebanese leaders who took workplace within the aftermath of greater than a 12 months of hostilities, together with two months of open warfare between Israel and Hezbollah, have vowed a state monopoly on bearing arms, whereas demanding Israel adjust to a November ceasefire.
The Israeli army stated on Tuesday it had intercepted a missile launched from Yemen towards Israel that triggered sirens throughout a number of areas within the nation. The launch from Yemen follows an Israeli army assault on Houthi targets in Yemen’s Hodeidah port on Monday in its newest assault on the Iran-backed militants, who’ve been hanging ships sure for Israel and launching missiles towards it.
Iranian authorities have requested folks to restrict water consumption amid extreme heatwaves and a water disaster throughout the nation. Iran is experiencing its hottest week of the 12 months, in accordance with the nationwide meteorological service, with temperatures exceeding 50C in some areas. On prime of the acute warmth, the nation is in a severe water disaster.
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