Dying toll in Gaza in the present day rises to 25
The loss of life toll in Gaza in the present day has elevated to 25, Al Jazeera studies, including that 12 folks have been killed whereas searching for assist.
Between 27 Could and eight August, the Pink Cross subject hospital in Rafah handled greater than 4,500 wounded sufferers, with most saying they have been injured whereas making an attempt to entry meals distribution websites, in accordance with the UN.
Condemning the humanitarian disaster in Gaza, UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric mentioned: “It’s crucial that the UN and its humanitarian companions are enabled to ship assist at scale, utilizing community-based mechanisms to achieve essentially the most susceptible.”
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Two Palestinians have been killed and 15 wounded in an Israeli strike in southern Gaza, it has been reported.
The assault was believed to be a drone strike in an space of al-Mawasi which Israel has designated a “protected zone”, Al Jazeera studies, citing two emergency sources.
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Hundreds of individuals are anticipated to attend a protest in Tel Aviv in the present day to demand the discharge of the hostages held in Gaza.
The demonstration is about to happen at Hostages Sq. outdoors Tel Aviv Museum at 8pm native time, earlier than a nationwide strike is held on Sunday.
About 60,000 folks attended a protest calling for the discharge of the hostages within the metropolis final weekend.
Amongst audio system anticipated at in the present day’s protest is Dana Silberman Sitton, sister and aunt of murdered hostages Shiri, Kfir and Ariel Bibas, in accordance with the Occasions of Israel.
There are at the moment 50 hostages held in Gaza, of whom 20 are believed to be alive.
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Al Jazeera has reported that an Israeli drone has crashed within the Remal neighbourhood of Gaza Metropolis due to a technical malfunction.
It cited the Israeli Public Broadcasting Company as reporting that the drone was an intelligence-gathering unit being operated by Israeli military artillery.
The Jerusalem Put up studies that the IDF has ‘dominated out’ fears of intelligence leaks due to the Skylark 3 reconnaissance drone’s malfunction.
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Eleven folks, together with a baby, have died of hunger in Gaza over the previous 24 hours, native well being officers say.
The newest figures deliver the entire variety of hunger-related deaths within the territory to 251, in accordance with Gaza’s well being ministry.
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Dying toll in Gaza in the present day rises to 25
The loss of life toll in Gaza in the present day has elevated to 25, Al Jazeera studies, including that 12 folks have been killed whereas searching for assist.
Between 27 Could and eight August, the Pink Cross subject hospital in Rafah handled greater than 4,500 wounded sufferers, with most saying they have been injured whereas making an attempt to entry meals distribution websites, in accordance with the UN.
Condemning the humanitarian disaster in Gaza, UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric mentioned: “It’s crucial that the UN and its humanitarian companions are enabled to ship assist at scale, utilizing community-based mechanisms to achieve essentially the most susceptible.”
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The Metropolitan police has mentioned that 60 extra folks will probably be prosecuted for displaying help for Palestine Motion, which was proscribed by the UK authorities final month.
Greater than 700 folks have been arrested for supporting the group since its proscription on 5 July.
Final weekend 522 folks – half of whom have been over 60 – have been arrested beneath part 13 of the Terrorism Act at an indication in central London for carrying placards that said: “I oppose genocide, I help Palestine Motion.”
In a press release launched on Friday night, the Met police mentioned the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), a non-departmental public physique, holds information of individuals convicted of offences beneath the Terrorism Act. It warned that employers and universities test DBS information, and may refuse candidates who’re discovered to have had terrorism convictions.
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Individuals in Gaza selecting between ingesting water or showering, NRC warns
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has mentioned civilians in Gaza are compelled to decide on between ingesting water or utilizing it to scrub themselves and preserve clear.
An NRC spokesperson informed the Guardian:
We’re deeply involved concerning the unimaginable disaster in Gaza, which is having a horrible impression on civilians and particularly the kids.
Hunger is deepening. Water shortage is rising very a lot every day. Colleagues on the bottom are reporting that folks are actually principally rationing between both utilizing water for ingesting or for hygiene.
There’s an pressing want to permit help into Gaza and for humanitarian organisations to be allowed to do their jobs. Denial of entry is now costing lives each single day with folks ravenous to loss of life.
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Unrwa has warned that girls and ladies in Gaza are compelled to undertake “more and more harmful survival methods like venturing out seeking meals and water on the excessive threat of being killed”.
The company added that a million ladies and ladies in Gaza are actually going through “mass hunger, violence and abuse”.
It known as for the “siege” on Gaza to be lifted and assist allowed in “at scale”.
Palestinian ladies accumulating assist in Gaza Metropolis on Friday. {Photograph}: Anadolu/Getty ImagesShare
4 Palestinians have been wounded in an assault by Israeli settlers north of Hebron within the occupied West Financial institution, Al Jazeera studies.
One individual was additionally wounded after reportedly being shot within the Sheikh Saad space of al-Eizariya, a city bordering occupied East Jerusalem, in accordance with the Palestinian Pink Crescent Society.
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Microsoft has launched an “pressing” exterior inquiry into claims Israel’s army surveillance company has used the corporate’s expertise to facilitate the mass surveillance of Palestinians.
The corporate mentioned the formal assessment was in response to a Guardian investigation that exposed how the Unit 8200 spy company has relied on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform to retailer an enormous assortment of on a regular basis Palestinian cell phone calls.
The joint investigation with the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Journal and the Hebrew-language outlet Native Name found that Unit 8200 made use of a personalized and segregated space inside Azure to retailer recordings of hundreds of thousands of calls made each day in Gaza and the West Financial institution.
Microsoft mentioned “utilizing Azure for the storage of information information of cellphone calls obtained by way of broad or mass surveillance of civilians in Gaza and the West Financial institution” can be prohibited by its phrases of service.
The inquiry, to be overseen by attorneys on the US agency Covington & Burling, is the second exterior assessment commissioned by Microsoft into the usage of its expertise by the Israeli army.
You may learn extra about Microsoft’s exterior inquiry by the Guardian’s investigations correspondent, Harry Davies, and Israeli investigative journalist, Yuval Abraham, under.
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Turkey’s president has mentioned the “tragedy unfolding in Gaza” ought to be thought-about a “deepening humanitarian disaster that wounds the collective conscience of humanity with every passing day”.
Writing for Al Jazeera, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan mentioned cities in Gaza have been rendered “uninhabitable”, including: “Houses, hospitals, faculties, and locations of worship have been diminished to rubble; important companies reminiscent of meals, water, healthcare, and electrical energy have collapsed.”
He condemned the world’s “feeble responses” to the disaster in Gaza, which he mentioned “stands earlier than us as a litmus check of whether or not the worldwide neighborhood is keen and capable of uphold essentially the most basic human values”.
Israel has repeatedly denied concentrating on Palestinian civilians, saying its strikes in Gaza search to eradicate Hamas.
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Eight Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza – report
Eight Palestinians have been killed in Israeli assaults on the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza and the Mawasi al-Qarara space, north of Khan Younis, it has been reported.
The Palestinian information company Wafa reported that six of the casualties, together with 4 youngsters, have been killed on account of an Israeli strike on a home within the Bureij refugee camp, citing sources on the al-Awda hospital in Nuseirat.
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The Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, has described her Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu as a “drawback”, accusing Israel’s authorities of going “too far”.
Frederiksen condemned the “completely appalling and catastrophic” humanitarian state of affairs in Gaza and the Israeli authorities’s new settlement plans within the occupied West Financial institution in an interview with the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
“We’re one of many international locations that desires to extend strain on Israel, however we now have not but obtained the help of EU members,” she mentioned.
Israel’s controversial settlement mission, named E1, goals to construct greater than 3,000 properties within the occupied West Financial institution. Earlier this week, the Israeli far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, mentioned the plans would “bury the thought of a Palestinian state”.
Frederiksen added that she wished to contemplate “political strain, sanctions, whether or not in opposition to settlers, ministers, and even Israel as a complete”, referring to commerce or analysis sanctions.
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Two former officers who labored beneath Joe Biden’s administration have mentioned they obtained no proof that “Hamas was bodily diverting US-funded items supplied by the World Meals Programme or worldwide nongovernmental organizations”.
The remarks have been made in a joint op-ed in International Affairs by Jacob Lew, who served as US ambassador to Israel from 2023 to 2025, and David Satterfield, a former US particular envoy for Center East humanitarian points from 2023 to 2024.
The pair wrote that “there was no proof of considerable Hamas diversion of any main help funded by the UN or nongovernmental organisations (NGOs)”.
Israel has repeatedly accused Hamas of stealing assist from Palestinians within the Gaza Strip, both to eat it or promote it at larger costs.
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Up to date at 04.28 EDT
Opening abstract
Good morning and welcome to the Guardian’s Center East stay weblog.
Right here’s an outline of the most recent developments within the area:
The UN company for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) warned that malnutrition in Gaza Metropolis has reached 21.5%, that means about one in 5 younger youngsters are actually malnourished.
The Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) mentioned earlier this week that just about 13,000 new admissions of kids for acute malnutrition therapy have been recorded in July 2025 throughout Gaza.
Two extra folks have been killed close to assist distribution websites in Gaza, Al Jazeera reported, after the UN mentioned the loss of life toll close to the humanitarian centres has risen to 1,760 since Could.
International Ministers of 31 Arab and Islamic international locations and the secretaries-general of the League of Arab States launched a press release condemning the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s backing of the notion of a “Larger Israel”. Requested by i24News whether or not the prime minister “connects” with the imaginative and prescient of a Larger Israel, he mentioned: “Very a lot.” The time period is commonly used to explain biblical Israel, which incorporates components of Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Syria. Responding to the remarks, the Arab and Islamic nations mentioned the remarks quantity to “a grave disregard” of worldwide regulation and “a direct menace to Arab nationwide safety”.
A particular unit in Israel’s army was tasked with figuring out reporters it may smear as undercover Hamas fighters, the Israeli-Palestinian outlet +972 Journal studies. This comes after Israel claimed duty for distinguished Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif, who it accused of main a Hamas cell.
The Israeli army claimed an air strike in southern Lebanon within the late hours of final evening, saying it focused websites run by Hezbollah.
This comes after Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem accused Lebanon’s authorities of “handing” the nation to Israel by pushing for the group’s disarmament, warning it might combat to maintain its weapons.
Israel’s far-right nationwide safety minister Itamar Ben Gvir printed a video on Friday displaying him confronting essentially the most high-profile Palestinian detainee in Israeli custody in his jail cell. Marwan Barghouti, a number one member of the Palestinian Fatah social gathering, has spent greater than 20 years behind bars after being sentenced for his position in anti-Israeli assaults within the early 2000s.
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