Benjamin Netanyahu to carry press convention with worldwide media this afternoon
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to carry a press convention with worldwide media in Jerusalem at 4:30pm native time (13:30 GMT; 14:30 GMT; 15:30 BST).
He’ll seemingly be requested in regards to the safety cupboard’s controversial resolution on Friday to broaden its assault on Gaza and take management of Gaza Metropolis.
The choice noticed Netanyahu ignore the recommendation of the Israeli army and warnings that increasing the warfare might endanger the hostages being held there and kill much more Palestinian civilians. Hamas warned of “fierce resistance” to the transfer.
Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that Israel plans to take management of all of Gaza. {Photograph}: Ronen Zvulun/ReutersShare
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“The invasion of Gaza dangers turning right into a Vietnam for Israeli troopers,” the Italy’s overseas minister, Antonio Tajani, has stated in an interview with each day Il Messaggero.
Senior Israeli army officers and former senior commanders have warned that Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to occupy Gaza Metropolis would endanger the lives of the remaining Israeli hostages, threat additional worldwide isolation of Israel and require its troopers to manage a inhabitants during which Hamas fighters had been nonetheless current.
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A bunch of Dutch activists have been blocking entry to the grounds of the Microsoft information centre in Middenmeer, north of Amsterdam, following revelations from the Guardian that the Israeli army had undertaken an formidable venture to retailer a large trove of Palestinians’ telephone calls on the corporate’s servers.
A number of activists climbed the roof and lit flares. The group, Geef Tegengas (Push Again), is demanding that each one information from Israeli intelligence providers be faraway from the location and is looking for a boycott of Microsoft merchandise.
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Police in London are braced for an additional day of demonstrations as protesters demanding the quick launch of all of the remaining hostages in Gaza plan to march by central London to the prime minister’s residence at No 10 Downing Avenue.
The march on Sunday comes a day after police arrested 474 individuals at a protest in help of Palestine Motion, which is proscribed within the UK.
Related Press experiences that amongst these anticipated to attend Sunday’s rally is Noga Guttman, a cousin of 24-year-old hostage Evyatar David. Final week Hamas launched a video displaying an emaciated David who stated that he’s digging his personal grave inside a tunnel in Gaza.
Hamas-led militants kidnapped 251 individuals after they attacked Israel on 7 October 2023. Some 50 of the hostages nonetheless haven’t been launched, of whom 20 are regarded as alive.
“We’re united in a single clear and pressing demand: the quick and unconditional launch of all hostages,” Cease the Hate, a coalition of teams organizing the march, stated in an announcement. “No matter our numerous political beliefs, this isn’t a political concern — it’s a human one.”
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The far-right Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has criticised Benjamin Netanyahu’s resolution to take over Gaza Metropolis, describing it as half hearted.
Smotrich stated:
The prime minister and the cupboard gave in to weak point. Emotion overcame purpose, they usually as soon as once more selected to do extra of the identical – launching a army operation whose aim is just not decisive victory, however moderately to use restricted strain on Hamas to be able to carry a couple of partial hostage deal.
They determined as soon as once more to repeat the identical strategy, embarking on a army operation that doesn’t goal for a decisive decision.
The far-right nationwide safety minister Itamar Ben Gvir, in the meantime, instructed Kan radio on Sunday: “It’s attainable to realize victory. I would like all of Gaza, switch and colonisation. This plan won’t endanger the troops.”
Netanyahu’s fragile right-wing coalition is extraordinarily reliant on Smotrich and Ben Gvir. The Israeli chief is on trial for corruption and heading off requires an official inquiry into the 7 October 2023 assaults, and can be eager to keep away from early elections.
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Demise toll from Israeli assaults on Gaza reaches 61,430, says well being ministry
No less than 61,430 Palestinian individuals have been killed and 153,213 others injured in Israeli assaults on Gaza since 7 October 2023, the Gaza well being ministry stated in an announcement on Sunday.
No less than 61 Palestinian individuals had been killed and 363 others injured within the final 24 hours alone, the ministry stated.
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Particulars about Israel’s plan to take over Gaza Metropolis
Listed here are some particulars about Israel’s Gaza Metropolis takeover plan, which could possibly be the primary section of a full scale takeover of the Strip (you’ll be able to learn the complete story by my colleagues, Lorenzo Tondo and Julian Borger, right here):
The proposal is reported to have opened a deep rift between Netanyahu and the Israel Protection Forces (IDF) management however has not been opposed by the Trump administration, Israel’s most essential backer…
Earlier than the safety cupboard assembly, which started on Thursday and ran by the night time, the Israeli prime minister had stated Israel deliberate to take management of the whole territory and finally hand it to pleasant Arab forces against Hamas.
The plans introduced on Friday morning cease in need of that aim, maybe reflecting the opposition of the IDF chief of basic employees, Lt Gen Eyal Zamir, who instructed Netanyahu on Tuesday he was “strolling right into a lure” in line with Israeli press experiences, warning it could endanger the remaining 20 or so dwelling hostages held by Hamas and additional pressure Israel’s military after almost two years of regional wars.
The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on Gaza Metropolis’s southern al-Zeitoun neighbourhood. {Photograph}: AFP/Getty Photos
Nonetheless, in a gathering with the management of the IDF southern command on Friday, Zamir vowed to hold out the federal government’s orders…
Israel has repeatedly bombarded Gaza Metropolis and carried out quite a few raids in its devastated streets, returning to completely different neighbourhoods repeatedly as militants regrouped. It is likely one of the few areas of Gaza that has not been was an Israeli buffer zone or positioned below evacuation orders.
The Netanyahu plan would imply sending floor troops into the few areas of the territory that haven’t been completely destroyed, making up about 25% of the Gaza Strip. It might power roughly 1 million Palestinians in Gaza Metropolis and surrounding areas into evacuation zones within the southern a part of the Gaza Strip. Sources accustomed to particulars of the assembly stated the evacuation of town was scheduled to be accomplished by 7 October.
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Benjamin Netanyahu to carry press convention with worldwide media this afternoon
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to carry a press convention with worldwide media in Jerusalem at 4:30pm native time (13:30 GMT; 14:30 GMT; 15:30 BST).
He’ll seemingly be requested in regards to the safety cupboard’s controversial resolution on Friday to broaden its assault on Gaza and take management of Gaza Metropolis.
The choice noticed Netanyahu ignore the recommendation of the Israeli army and warnings that increasing the warfare might endanger the hostages being held there and kill much more Palestinian civilians. Hamas warned of “fierce resistance” to the transfer.
Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that Israel plans to take management of all of Gaza. {Photograph}: Ronen Zvulun/ReutersShare
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The Israeli army has simply posted to X to say that two projectiles had been “seemingly” launched from Gaza and crossed into Israel.
It wrote:
Following the alerts activated within the Gaza Envelope, it’s seemingly that two launches from the Gaza Strip crossed into the nation’s territory, interception makes an attempt had been made, and their outcomes are below evaluation.
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Listed here are a number of the newest photographs popping out of the newswires from Gaza:
A view captured close to the Gaza border reveals tank and armoured automobile actions of the Israeli military. {Photograph}: Anadolu/Getty PhotosPalestinian individuals mourn family members killed whereas searching for support close to Zikim, west of Beit Lahiya within the northern Gaza Strip. {Photograph}: Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP/Getty PhotosThe our bodies of lifeless Palestinian individuals lay on the morgue of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza Metropolis. {Photograph}: Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP/Getty PhotosPalestinians search support provides from vans that entered Gaza by Israel. {Photograph}: Dawoud Abu Alkas/ReutersShare
Wafa, the Palestinian information company, is reporting that earlier as we speak the al-Awda hospital acquired the our bodies of 5 individuals killed by the Israeli army close to an support distribution level within the central Gaza Strip. Three different individuals delivered to the hospital had been additionally focused close to the help distribution level (on Salah al-Din avenue) and are being handled for accidents, in line with Wafa.
One individual was killed and a number of other others ready for support had been injured within the al-Shakoush space, northwest of the southern metropolis of Rafah, Wafa reported. Now we have not but been capable of independently confirm this data.
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Israel has been broadly accused of utilizing meals as a political weapon and of flagrantly breaking worldwide legislation by collectively punishing the civilian inhabitants of Gaza by its support blockade.
Help organisations had been bringing someplace between 500 and 600 support vans a day into Gaza through the ceasefire earlier this 12 months, however now Israeli restrictions imply a lot much less support is being allowed into the territory.
The Guardian’s chief Center East correspondent, Emma Graham-Harrison, has damaged down in nice element how Israel has intentionally prompted a famine in Gaza. Right here is an extract from her piece:
The arithmetic of famine are easy in Gaza. Palestinians can not depart, warfare has ended farming and Israel has banned fishing, so virtually each calorie its inhabitants eats have to be introduced in from exterior.
Israel is aware of how a lot meals is required. It has been calibrating starvation in Gaza for many years, initially calculating shipments to exert strain whereas avoiding hunger.
“The concept is to place the Palestinians on a weight loss plan, however to not make them die of starvation,” a senior adviser to the then prime minister, Ehud Olmert, stated in 2006…
Knowledge compiled and printed by Israel’s personal authorities makes clear that it has been ravenous Gaza. Between March and June, Israel allowed simply 56,000 tonnes of meals to enter the territory, Cogat information present, lower than 1 / 4 of Gaza’s minimal wants for that interval.
Even when each bag of UN flour had been collected and handed out, and the Gaza Humanitarian Basis had developed secure methods for equitable distribution, hunger was inevitable. Palestinians didn’t have sufficient to eat.
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Israel imposed a complete support blockade for 11 weeks beginning in March (ostensibly to place strain on Hamas to launch hostages), and the trickle of meals, gasoline and medical provides allowed in since Might has not relieved excessive starvation.
Help teams have stated Israel’s blockade of humanitarian support into the Gaza Strip is the principal reason behind the hunger disaster.
When Israel allowed support again in, it did so largely below a contentious new support supply system – run by the Israeli-backed logistics group the Gaza Humanitarian Basis. Israel says the brand new distribution system stops support going to Hamas.
No less than 1,400 individuals have been killed whereas searching for support since 27 Might 2025, most of whom had been killed close to GHF websites, whereas different Palestinian individuals had been killed alongside the routes of support convoys, the UN has stated.
Two-year-old Sham Kadih, who’s affected by malnutrition, is handled at Gaza’s Nasser hospital, on 9 August 2025. {Photograph}: Anadolu/Getty Photos
Responding to a worldwide outcry provoked by photographs of widespread hunger and malnutrition in Gaza, together with the common killings of support seekers by Israeli forces, the Israeli army elevated the size of support allowed into the Strip on the finish of final month.
However the quantity of support Israel allowed in continues to be completely insufficient for the humanitarian wants of Gaza’s two million inhabitants that’s now experiencing catastrophic ranges of famine, in line with support and human rights organisations.
Letting in small numbers of vans and airdropping provides (which is dear, harmful and inefficient) is nowhere close to sufficient to reverse the famine development.
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No less than 100 kids in Gaza have died from famine and malnutrition, well being ministry says
Over the previous 24 hours, hospitals within the Gaza Strip recorded 5 new deaths as a result of famine and malnutrition, together with two kids, in line with the territory’s well being ministry.
This brings the entire variety of Palestinian individuals who have died from famine and malnutrition to 217, together with 100 kids.
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The request for the UN safety council was reportedly endorsed by all members of the safety council besides Panama, which is its present chair, and the US, Israel’s strongest ally and largest arms provider.
The safety council is the UN’s strongest physique; it has the authority to concern legally binding resolutions that may be backed up by sanctions and peacekeepers.
There are 5 everlasting members of the council (China, the Russian Federation, France, the UK and the US). They’ll vote towards, and successfully veto, any proposal put ahead by the council.
The ten non-permanent members are at the moment Algeria, Denmark, Greece, Guyana, Pakistan, Panama, the Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia and Somalia.
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UN safety council to fulfill over Israel’s Gaza Metropolis takeover plan
The UN safety council will shortly maintain an emergency session to debate Israel’s plan to seize and occupy Gaza Metropolis, which if carried out would give Israel management of about 85% of the strip (the Israeli army at the moment controls about 75% of the territory).
The assembly, requested by Denmark, France, Greece, the UK and Slovenia, is scheduled to start out at 10am (14:00 GMT) in New York and can see UN rapporteurs define the seemingly disastrous penalties of seizing Gaza’s fundamental metropolis.
European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen was amongst overseas leaders urging Israel to rethink its resolution to advance into Gaza Metropolis.
Buildings destroyed in Israeli airstrikes encompass makeshift shelters for displaced Palestinian individuals in Gaza Metropolis. {Photograph}: Bashar Taleb/AFP/Getty Photos
Regional energy Saudi Arabia, which has stated it couldn’t normalise ties with Israel with out the institution of a Palestinian state, condemned any transfer to occupy Gaza.
Germany, Israel’s second-biggest arms provider and strongest backer in Europe, on Friday suspended the supply of weaponry that could possibly be utilized in Gaza.
International ministers from the UK, Germany, Italy, New Zealand and Australia launched a joint assertion rejecting the plan on the identical day, saying it could “irritate” the already “catastrophic” state of affairs in Gaza.
“Any makes an attempt at annexation or of settlement extension violate worldwide legislation,” they added.
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Tens of 1000’s protest in Israel over plan to escalate warfare on Gaza
Welcome to our stay protection of Israel’s warfare on Gaza.
Tens of 1000’s of protesters took to the streets of Tel Aviv on Saturday night time to oppose Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to escalate his warfare on Gaza.
The plan lists 5 so-called “rules” for ending the warfare: disarming Hamas, returning all hostages, demilitarising the Gaza Strip, taking safety management of Gaza, and establishing “another civil administration that’s neither Hamas nor the Palestinian Authority”.
The demonstration towards the plan, estimated to have attracted greater than 100,000 protesters by organisers, noticed requires a right away finish to the army assault and for the discharge of hostages.
Authorities didn’t present an official estimate for the dimensions of the group, although it dwarfed different latest anti-war rallies.
Public opinion polls present an awesome majority of Israelis favour a right away finish to the warfare to safe the discharge of the remaining 50 hostages held by militants in Gaza. Israeli officers consider about 20 hostages are nonetheless alive.
Households of hostages lead a march across the Kirya advanced in Tel Aviv throughout an anti-government protest and rally towards an enlargement to the warfare on Gaza. {Photograph}: Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Photos
In different developments:
The Israeli authorities has confronted sharp criticism at dwelling and overseas, together with from a few of its closest European allies, over the announcement that the army would broaden the warfare to grab Gaza Metropolis. The complete cupboard is predicted to provide its approval as quickly as Sunday.
The Palestinian Authority on Saturday lambasted the Israeli authorities’s resolution to broaden its assault in Gaza, because it known as on the worldwide group to push for the entry of support into the strip. In line with the official Palestinian information company Wafa, the PA’s presidential spokesperson Nabil Abu Rudeineh stated the Israeli authorities’s strikes had been “an unprecedented problem and provocation to the worldwide will to realize peace and stability”.
A number of Arab and Muslim nations on Saturday condemned as a “harmful escalation” Israel’s plan to take management of Gaza Metropolis. About 20 nations, together with Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, stated the plan constituted “a flagrant violation of worldwide legislation, and an try and entrench the unlawful occupation and impose a fait accompli… in contravention of worldwide legitimacy”. Muslim nations should work in whole unison and work to mobilise the worldwide group towards Israel’s plan to take management of Gaza Metropolis, Turkish overseas minister Hakan Fidan stated on Saturday after talks in Egypt. Talking at a joint press convention in El Alamein together with his Egyptian counterpart after assembly Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Fidan additionally stated the Organisation of Islamic cooperation had been known as to an emergency assembly.
Greater than 450 individuals had been arrested in central London on Saturday on the largest demonstration regarding Palestine Motion because the group was proscribed as a terrorist organisation. On Saturday night time, police stated that as of 9pm, 466 individuals had been arrested for displaying help for Palestine Motion. There have been an extra eight arrests for different offences together with 5 assaults on officers. Police stated the entire of 474 was essentially the most arrests it had made associated to a single operation in not less than the previous decade.
The UK introduced one other £8.5m for UN support to Gaza after Israel unveiled plans to broaden its army operations within the territory. Improvement minister Baroness Jenny Chapman stated the cash would “assist tackle pressing want” in Gaza, however provided that Israel allowed the area to be “flooded with support”.
5 Lebanese troopers had been killed in a blast on Saturday whereas eradicating munitions from a Hezbollah army facility in south Lebanon, a army supply instructed AFP.
Iran’s judiciary stated Saturday it was investigating the circumstances of 20 individuals arrested over their suspected hyperlinks with Israel after the 12-day warfare between the 2 arch-foes.
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