Not less than 30 reported killed in Gaza together with 10 ready for help
Gaza’s civil defence company stated Israeli forces killed at the least 30 folks on Friday, together with 10 who have been ready for help within the south of the war-ravaged territory, Agence France-Presse (AFP) stories.
Gaza civil defence official Mohammed al-Mughayyir stated that 10 folks have been shot by Israeli forces on Friday whereas ready for provides within the Al-Shakoush space northwest of Rafah, the place there have been repeated stories of lethal fireplace on help seekers.
The newest deaths got here because the UN stated practically 800 folks had been killed attempting to entry meals in Gaza since late Could, when Israel started easing a greater than two-month blockade on deliveries.
UN human rights workplace spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani stated a lot of the deaths occurred close to amenities operated by the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Basis (GHF)
“We’ve recorded now 798 killings, together with 615 within the neighborhood of the GHF websites,” from the time the group’s operations started in late Could till 7 July, Shamdasani stated on Friday.
An formally personal effort, GHF operations have been marred by chaotic scenes and frequent stories of Israeli forces firing on folks ready to gather rations.
UN companies and main help teams have refused to cooperate with the inspiration over issues it was designed to cater to Israeli navy targets and violates fundamental humanitarian ideas.
Responding to the UN’s figures, Israel’s navy stated it had labored to minimise “potential friction between the inhabitants and the (military) as a lot as potential”.
It stated:
Following incidents wherein hurt to civilians who arrived at distribution amenities was reported, thorough examinations have been carried out… and directions have been issued to forces within the subject following classes discovered.
GHF known as the UN report “false and deceptive”, claiming that “most dangerous assaults on help websites have been linked to UN convoys”.
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UN says gas scarcity in Gaza at ‘crucial ranges’
The UN stated on Saturday that the gas scarcity in Gaza has reached “crucial ranges”. The assertion stated that gas provides have been wanted to maneuver important items throughout the Gaza Strip and function a community of bakeries producing contemporary bread for the affected inhabitants.
It stated an absence of gas meant “lifelines will vanish for two.1 million folks”, who the UN stated have been “teetering on the sting of hunger”.
It added:
With out ample gas, Gaza faces a collapse of humanitarian efforts. Hospitals are already going darkish, maternity, neonatal and intensive care models are failing, and ambulances can now not transfer. Roads and transport will stay blocked, trapping these in want. Telecommunications will shut down, crippling lifesaving coordination and chopping households off from crucial data, and from each other.
With out gas, bakeries and group kitchens can not function. Water manufacturing and sanitation programs will shut down, leaving households with out secure ingesting water, whereas strong waste and sewage pile up within the streets. These situations expose households to lethal illness outbreaks and push Gaza’s most weak even nearer to demise.
The UN welcomed the small quantity of gas that entered Gaza this week for the primary time in 130 days, however stated it was a “small fraction” of what’s wanted every day to maintain day by day life and demanding help operations working.
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Newest Israeli strikes kill 28 Palestinians, hospital officers say
Israeli airstrikes killed at the least 28 Palestinians within the Gaza Strip, together with 4 kids, hospital officers stated on Saturday, the Related Press (AP) stories.
The 4 kids and two ladies have been amongst at the least 13 individuals who have been killed in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, after Israeli airstrikes pounded the realm beginning late on Friday, officers in Al-Aqsa Martyr’s hospital stated.
One other 4 folks have been killed in strikes close to a gas station, and 15 others died in Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, in keeping with Nasser hospital.
The Israeli navy stated in an announcement that over the previous 48 hours, troops struck roughly 250 targets within the Gaza Strip, together with militants, booby-trapped constructions, weapons storage amenities, anti-tank missile launch posts, sniper posts, tunnels and extra Hamas infrastructure websites.
The navy didn’t instantly reply to the AP’s request for touch upon the civilian deaths.
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Listed below are among the newest pictures of Gaza coming to us by means of the wires:
Palestinians carry out funeral prayer after Israeli assault in the direction of al-Mawasi neighbourhood claimed Palestinians’ lives in Gaza Strip on Saturday, 12 July 2025. {Photograph}: Anadolu/Getty PhotosPalestinians examine the wreckage of a gasoline station destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip on Saturday. {Photograph}: Abdel Kareem Hana/APKinfolk and family members of Palestinians, who misplaced their lives in Israel’s assaults on completely different components of the Gaza Strip, mourn their loss because the our bodies are delivered to Shifa Hospital for funeral procedures in Gaza Metropolis, Gaza on Saturday. {Photograph}: Anadolu/Getty PhotosPalestinians examine the harm on the website of an in a single day Israeli airstrike that hit a tent sheltering displaced folks, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Saturday. {Photograph}: Ramadan Abed/ReutersShare
Talks geared toward securing a ceasefire in Gaza are stalling over the extent of Israeli forces’ withdrawal from the Palestinian territory, Palestinian and Israeli sources aware of the negotiations in Doha instructed Reuters and Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The sources stated the oblique talks over a US proposal for a 60-day ceasefire are anticipated to proceed regardless of the newest obstacles. Delegations from either side started discussions in Qatar final Sunday to attempt to agree on a short lived halt to the 21-month battle sparked by Hamas’s lethal assault on Israel on 7 October 2023.
A Palestinian supply instructed Reuters on Saturday that Hamas has rejected the withdrawal maps which Israel has proposed, as they would depart about 40% of the territory beneath Israeli management, together with the entire southern space of Rafah and additional territories in northern and jap Gaza.
Two Israeli sources instructed Reuters that Hamas needs Israel to retreat to traces it held in a earlier ceasefire earlier than it renewed its offensive in March.
The Palestinian supply stated issues concerning help and ensures for ending the battle have been additionally presenting a problem, and added that the disaster could also be resolved with extra US intervention.
One other Palestinian supply instructed AFP that mediators had requested either side to postpone the talks till the arrival of US president Donald Trump’s particular envoy, Steve Witkoff, in Doha.
The supply stated:
The negotiations in Doha are dealing with a setback and sophisticated difficulties as a result of Israel’s insistence, as of Friday, on presenting a map of withdrawal, which is definitely a map of redeployment and repositioning of the Israeli military somewhat than a real withdrawal.
Hamas has lengthy demanded an finish to the battle earlier than it will free remaining hostages; Israel has insisted it will finish the preventing solely when all hostages are launched and Hamas is dismantled.
Each Hamas and Israel have stated that 10 dwelling hostages who have been taken that day and are nonetheless in captivity could be launched if an settlement for a 60-day ceasefire have been reached.
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Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated on Saturday his nation had achieved victory after Kurdish rebels destroyed their weapons, ending their decades-long armed battle towards Ankara, Agence France-Presse (AFP) stories.
Erdoğan stated:
Turkey has received. Eighty-six million residents have received.
We all know what we’re doing. No one wants to fret or ask questions. We’re doing all this for Turkey, for our future.
Friday’s symbolic weapons destruction ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan marked a serious step within the transition of the Kurdistan Employees’ occasion (PKK) from armed insurgency to democratic politics – a part of a broader effort to finish one of many area’s longest-running conflicts.
The PKK was fashioned in 1978 by Ankara College college students, with the final word aim of attaining the Kurds’ liberation by means of armed battle. It took up arms in 1984 and the following battle has value greater than 40,000 lives.
It determined in Could to disband, disarm and finish its separatist battle after a public name to take action from its long-imprisoned chief Abdullah Ocalan.
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Kiran Stacey is a political correspondent based mostly in Westminster.
Practically 60 Labour MPs have demanded the UK instantly recognises Palestine as a state, after Israel’s defence minister introduced plans to drive all residents of Gaza right into a camp on the ruins of Rafah.
The MPs, who embody centrist and leftwing backbenchers, despatched a letter to David Lammy on Thursday warning they believed Gaza was being ethnically cleansed.
They’re urging the overseas secretary to take rapid steps to stop the Israeli authorities from finishing up its Rafah plan, and to go additional and recognise Palestinian statehood instantly.
The letter was despatched simply after the French president, Emmanuel Macron, made an analogous plea at a joint press convention with Keir Starmer, the UK prime minister.
The MPs wrote:
It’s with nice urgency and concern that we’re writing to you concerning the Israeli defence minister’s announcement on Monday of his plans to forcibly switch all Palestinian civilians in Gaza to a camp within the ruined metropolis of Rafah with out permitting them to go away.
The defence minister’s plans have been described by a number one Israeli human rights lawyer, Michael Sfard, as ‘an operational plan for crimes towards humanity. It’s about inhabitants switch to the southern tip of Gaza in preparation for deportation outdoors the strip.
Although an correct description, we consider there’s a clearer one. The ethnic cleaning of Gaza.
You may learn extra of Kiran Stacey’s article on the letter right here: Practically 60 Labour MPs name for UK to instantly recognise Palestinian state
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A global convention meant to revive work on a two-state answer to the Israeli-Palestinian battle has been rescheduled for July 28-29, diplomatic sources instructed Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Initially set for mid-June, the convention on the UN headquarters in New York was postponed on the final minute as a result of Israel’s shock navy marketing campaign towards Iran.
It has now been rescheduled to late July, diplomatic sources stated, though they may not present particulars on any modifications to the agenda or stage of attending representatives. Heads of state and authorities had been anticipated to attend in June.
The convention was convened by the UN common meeting and is co-chaired by France and Saudi Arabia.
On Thursday, French president Emmanuel Macron known as throughout his UK state go to for joint recognition by France and Britain of a Palestinian state, saying such strikes are “the one hope for peace” within the area.
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Household of Palestinian American man name for investigation following demise
The household of a Palestinian American man who was overwhelmed to demise by settlers within the Israeli-occupied West Financial institution have demanded for an investigation to be launched, Reuters stories.
The Palestinian Well being Ministry stated in an announcement that US citizen Sayafollah Musallet, who was in his early 20s, died after being severely overwhelmed within the incident on Friday night in Sinjil, north of Ramallah.
A second man, Hussein Al-Shalabi, 23, additionally died after being shot within the chest.
Musallet’s household, from Tampa in Florida, stated in an announcement that medics tried to achieve him for 3 hours earlier than his brother managed to hold him to an ambulance, however that he died earlier than reaching the hospital.
The household assertion stated:
That is an unimaginable nightmare and injustice that no household ought to ever need to face. We demand the U.S. State Division lead an instantaneous investigation and maintain the Israeli settlers who killed Saif accountable for his or her crimes.
A US state division spokesperson stated on Friday it was conscious of the incident, however that the division had no additional remark “out of respect for the privateness of the household and family members” of the reported sufferer.
The Israeli navy stated Israel was probing the incident within the city of Sinjil. It stated confrontations between Palestinians and settlers broke out after Palestinians threw rocks at Israelis, evenly injuring them.
The navy stated forces have been dispatched to the scene and used non-lethal weapons to disperse the crowds.
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Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan stated on Saturday {that a} new web page opened for Turkey following the beginning of a weapons handover by Kurdistan Employees’ occasion (PKK) militants, Reuters stories.
He stated:
As of yesterday, the scourge of terrorism has entered the method of ending. At present is a brand new day; a brand new web page has opened in historical past. At present, the doorways of an ideal, highly effective Turkey have been flung broad open.
Thirty PKK militants burned their weapons on the mouth of a collapse northern Iraq on Friday, marking a symbolic however vital step towards ending a decades-long insurgency towards Turkey.
The primary group of the Kurdistan Employees’ Social gathering (PKK) lays down and destroys their weapons in Sulaymaniyah, northern Iraq on 11 July 2025. {Photograph}: Anadolu/Getty ImagesShare
Not less than 30 reported killed in Gaza together with 10 ready for help
Gaza’s civil defence company stated Israeli forces killed at the least 30 folks on Friday, together with 10 who have been ready for help within the south of the war-ravaged territory, Agence France-Presse (AFP) stories.
Gaza civil defence official Mohammed al-Mughayyir stated that 10 folks have been shot by Israeli forces on Friday whereas ready for provides within the Al-Shakoush space northwest of Rafah, the place there have been repeated stories of lethal fireplace on help seekers.
The newest deaths got here because the UN stated practically 800 folks had been killed attempting to entry meals in Gaza since late Could, when Israel started easing a greater than two-month blockade on deliveries.
UN human rights workplace spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani stated a lot of the deaths occurred close to amenities operated by the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Basis (GHF)
“We’ve recorded now 798 killings, together with 615 within the neighborhood of the GHF websites,” from the time the group’s operations started in late Could till 7 July, Shamdasani stated on Friday.
An formally personal effort, GHF operations have been marred by chaotic scenes and frequent stories of Israeli forces firing on folks ready to gather rations.
UN companies and main help teams have refused to cooperate with the inspiration over issues it was designed to cater to Israeli navy targets and violates fundamental humanitarian ideas.
Responding to the UN’s figures, Israel’s navy stated it had labored to minimise “potential friction between the inhabitants and the (military) as a lot as potential”.
It stated:
Following incidents wherein hurt to civilians who arrived at distribution amenities was reported, thorough examinations have been carried out… and directions have been issued to forces within the subject following classes discovered.
GHF known as the UN report “false and deceptive”, claiming that “most dangerous assaults on help websites have been linked to UN convoys”.
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Gaza’s civil defence company stated Israeli forces killed at the least 30 folks on Friday, together with 10 who have been ready for help within the south of the war-ravaged territory.
The newest deaths got here because the United Nations stated practically 800 folks had been killed attempting to entry meals in Gaza since late Could, when Israel started easing a greater than two-month blockade on deliveries.
UN human rights workplace spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani stated a lot of the deaths occurred close to amenities operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Basis (GHF), backed by the US and Israel.
“We’ve recorded now 798 killings, together with 615 within the neighborhood of the GHF websites,” from the time the group’s operations started in late Could till 7 July, Shamdasani stated on Friday.
Israel started easing a greater than two-month whole blockade of help in late Could. Since then, the GHF has successfully sidelined the territory’s huge UN-led help supply community.
Requested in regards to the UN figures, the navy stated it had labored to minimise “potential friction” between help seekers and troopers, and that it carried out “thorough examinations” of incidents wherein “hurt to civilians who arrived at distribution amenities was reported”.
“Directions have been issued to forces within the subject following classes discovered,” it added in an announcement.
GHF known as the UN report “false and deceptive”, claiming that “most dangerous assaults on help websites have been linked to UN convoys”.
Friday’s reported violence got here as negotiators from Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas have been locked in oblique talks in Qatar to attempt to agree on a short lived ceasefire within the greater than 21-month battle.
Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated on Thursday he hoped a deal for a 60-day pause within the battle could possibly be struck within the coming days, and that he would then be prepared to barter a extra everlasting finish to hostilities.
Hamas has stated the free movement of help is a essential sticking level within the talks, with Gaza’s greater than 2 million residents dealing with a dire humanitarian disaster of starvation and illness amid the grinding battle.
In different developments:
Israeli settlers beat a Palestinian American man to demise within the occupied West Financial institution on Friday, the Palestinian well being ministry confirmed. A spokesperson for the ministry, Annas Abu El Ezz, instructed Agence France-Presse (AFP) that Saif al-Din Kamil Abdul Karim Musalat “died after being severely overwhelmed throughout his physique by settlers within the city of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, this afternoon”. The US state division stated it was conscious of the reported demise.
Israeli officers have signaled they need the UN to stay the important thing avenue for humanitarian deliveries in Gaza, the deputy head of the World Meals Programme stated on Friday, noting the work of the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Basis help group was not mentioned. “They wished the U.N. to proceed to be the primary observe for supply, particularly ought to there be a stop fireplace, and so they requested us to be able to scale up,” Carl Skau, deputy government director of the UN meals company, instructed reporters on Friday after visiting Gaza and Israel final week.
Francesca Albanese, the highest UN professional on Palestinian rights stated on Friday that the US determination to position her beneath sanctions may have a “chilling impact” on individuals who have interaction together with her and limit her actions, however that she deliberate to proceed her work. Albanese warned that the US determination may set a “harmful” precedent for human rights defenders worldwide. “There are not any crimson traces anymore … It’s scary,” she instructed Reuters by way of video hyperlink from Bosnia, the place she was attending occasions for the thirtieth anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide.
Medical doctors With out Borders warned on Friday that its groups on the bottom in Gaza have been witnessing surging ranges of acute malnutrition within the besieged and war-ravaged Palestinian territory. The medical charity stated ranges of acute malnutrition had reached an “all-time excessive” at two of its amenities within the Gaza Strip. It stated it now had greater than 700 pregnant and breastfeeding ladies and practically 500 kids with extreme and reasonable malnutrition at the moment enrolled in ambulatory therapeutic feeding centres in each clinics.
Thirty Kurdistan Employees’ occasion (PKK) militants burned their weapons on the mouth of a collapse northern Iraq on Friday, marking a symbolic however vital step towards ending a decades-long insurgency towards Turkey. Footage from the ceremony confirmed the fighters, half of them ladies, queuing to position AK-47 assault rifles, bandoliers and different weapons into a big gray cauldron.
An Iranian assault on an airbase in Qatar that’s key to the U.S. navy hit a geodesic dome housing tools utilized by the People for safe communications, satellite tv for pc photos analysed Friday by the Related Press (AP) present. Hours after the publication of the AP report, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell acknowledged that an Iranian ballistic missile had hit the dome.
A UN convention hosted by France and Saudi Arabia to work in the direction of a two-state answer between Israel and the Palestinians has been rescheduled for July 28-29, diplomats stated on Friday, after it was postponed final month when Israel launched a navy assault on Iran.
An Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon on Friday killed one individual, the Lebanese well being ministry reported, with Israel saying it had focused a person accused of serving to smuggle weapons from Iran. The assault was the newest in Lebanon regardless of a months-long ceasefire between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah there.
Palestinians have been mourning for 14 folks, together with 9 kids, killed when an Israeli strike hit a bunch of ladies and kids ready for help in Deir al-Balah on Thursday. The kids’s deaths drew outrage from humanitarian teams at the same time as Israel allowed the primary supply of gas to Gaza in additional than 4 months, although nonetheless lower than a day’s provide, in keeping with the UN.
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