Israel’s war on Gaza live: 50 bodies recovered from Jabalia refugee camp
- Qatar, Egypt and the United States call on Hamas and Israel to finalise an agreement that embodies the principles outlined by US President Joe Biden on May 31, 2024. Meanwhile, a Hamas leader says the group is still waiting to receive the proposal.
- Rescuers find 50 more bodies from the Jabalia refugee camp days after the end of Israel’s three-week operation. Nonstop Israeli attacks on Gaza continue, killing at least 60 people in the last 24 hours.
Ambulance found destroyed in Jabalia
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says it has found a second ambulance destroyed in northern Gaza’s Jabalia camp, after Israeli forces partially withdrew from the territory on Thursday.
Rescuers with PRCS attempting to reach killed and injured Palestinians have regularly faced threats and attacks from Israeli forces. Since October 7, the organisation says it has lost 30 of its staff members, including 17 killed while on the job.
1,858 aid trucks entered Gaza over past week, says Israel
In its weekly summary, the Israeli army said 1,858 trucks carrying humanitarian aid had entered the Gaza Strip via the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) and Western Erez crossings.
The numbers included 764 Egyptian trucks, 312 flour trucks by the World Food Programme and 124 Jordanian trucks.
Thirteen tankers also carried “over half a million litres of fuel” into the besieged enclave.
WATCH: Israeli peace activist urges end to Gaza war
Israeli activist Maoz Inon, who lost both his parents in Hamas’s October 7 attack, has said it is time to “break the cycle of revenge” and for Israel to find a “diplomatic solution” to end the war.
“While our government cares about Jewish supremacy, we care about security and safety,” he tells Al Jazeera. “The only way to reach security and safety is a diplomatic solution and to sign a peace accord between nations”.
‘Gaza is witnessing the worst of the worst levels of malnutrition’
Save the Children’s Alexandra Saieh says aid organisations fear the situation in Gaza may worsen.
“Gaza is witnessing the worst of the worst levels of malnutrition, especially child malnutrition, and it’s entirely man-made,” Saieh told Al Jazeera.
“Children in Gaza are being starved, they are being deprived of clean water and they are being deprived of adequate medical assistance. And this is all being fuelled by the systematic obstruction of humanitarian aid and the ongoing hostility. A medical point in Tal as-Sultan [Rafah], which was addressing malnutrition, had to close this past week due to [Israeli] attacks in the area.”
Of the 36,000 Palestinians killed by Israel since October 7, 15,000 are children.
Saieh said there might be “an acceleration of deaths due to malnutrition, starvation, disease and dehydration, possibly even higher than what we are already seeing, which is just the tip of the iceberg”.
“We actually fear that the situation is much worse. Back in March, the UN warned of a famine, and we have not as humanitarian organisations been given the access to stave off that famine.”
Israeli military claims air strikes on 30 targets
In its latest war update, the Israeli military said it is continuing “precise” operations in Rafah, where its troops have killed several armed fighters in the last day.
The military is also continuing to wage strikes from the air in central Gaza, it said, targeting military infrastructure, weapons depots and fighter cells. In total, Israeli jets struck 30 targets over the last day, according to the military update.
Israel’s latest strikes across Gaza have also killed civilians, including a woman and an infant in Gaza City, according to the Wafa news agency.
Parents fear sick, injured children will die without evacuation
Doctors at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah are helpless, unable to provide patients with essential medical care. They say the vast majority of cases need to be evacuated for treatment abroad … but patients are unable to leave Gaza.
I saw children suffering from high rates of malnutrition, combined with different kinds of diseases. It was completely disturbing. This is due to the severe shortage of food supplies and deteriorating medical conditions.
Parents of sick and injured children express deep agony, saying they are helpless, that they can’t do anything for their kids. They are afraid they will lose their children as the situation worsens by the day.
Israeli forces arrest 6 family members near Ramallah
Israeli troops have stormed a family’s apartment in the town of Beitunia, 4km (2.5 miles) from Ramallah, and arrested six relatives, reports the Wafa news agency.
Those detained include a woman and three of her brothers, all originally hailing from the Gaza Strip, according to Wafa.
In a separate raid in the town of ad-Dhahiriya, near Hebron, Israeli forces arrested two more brothers in their homes, according to Wafa.
Since October 7, Israeli troops have launched near nightly raids on Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank, making at least 8,975 arrests.
Israel’s raids on Jenin fuel Palestinian resistance
Israel has intensified raids in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem since it launched its war on Gaza on October 7.
At least 516 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli raids and shootings in the occupied West Bank in the past eight months, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
The Jenin refugee camp has been the site of numerous Israeli incursions over the years. And after October 7, things have become worse for the Palestinians.
The renewed Israeli violence has only fuelled Palestinian resistance in Jenin.
Pro-Palestine book faces censorship calls in South Africa
The Cape Town SA Jewish Board of Deputies has called for a ban on a book on Palestinian history, saying it is an attempt to “indoctrinate” children.
The book, From the River to the Sea, highlights the history of Palestine, including its multiethnic background and the 1948 Nakba, and celebrates key Palestinian figures and culture.
Its writer, Nathi Ngubane, says he has been bombarded with hate messages over the book, despite simply telling “the story of Palestine and their fight for freedom”.
The South African Jews for a Free Palestine (SAJFP) backed up the book, saying it is an important resource for understanding Palestinian history amid the “ongoing genocide”, and denounced calls for it to be censored.
“It is imperative that parents and educators have tools like this well-researched and expertly produced publication to counter the persistent erasure and silencing of Palestinian voices in public discourse,” the group said.
Israel has encroached on 32 percent of Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation shows
Israel has taken over some 32 percent of Gaza’s area by “systematically demolishing neighbourhoods” to create a buffer zone and a central axis dividing it, according to Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency.
Sanad’s analysis of satellite imagery showed 80-90 percent destruction rates in the 120sq km (46sq miles) Israel has taken.
Israeli forces demolish Palestinian home near Bethlehem
Israeli forces have demolished a house in the village of al-Walaja, northwest of Bethlehem, the Wafa news agency is reporting.
The village is carved into hillside terraces and olive farms between the Israeli-occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem.
In 2022, the Israeli Supreme Court froze demolition orders for 38 houses in al-Walaja, but many of its 3,000 residents fear losing their homes amid rising Israeli demolitions in East Jerusalem since October 2023.
Woman, infant among 3 killed in Israeli attack on Gaza City
We’ve been covering Israel’s attacks on the cities of Gaza and Rafah overnight.
The Wafa news agency is now reporting that the bodies of three people were brought to al-Ahli Arab Hospital following an Israeli attack on an apartment belonging to the Nabi family in Gaza City’s Daraj neighbourhood.
The victims included a woman and an infant, the agency said.
Air raid sirens blare as drones infiltrate northern Israel
Sirens warning of suspected infiltration by drones have sounded in several areas along Israel’s border with Lebanon, according to Israeli media outlets.
At least two of the drones – launched by Lebanon’s Hezbollah group – were not intercepted and exploded in the Katzrin area in Israeli territory, causing a fire to break out, the station reported.
A third was intercepted in the skies over the town of Metula, it added.
What’s the situation at Gaza’s hospitals?
- Only 14 out of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are currently partially functional, according to the WHO.
- All three hospitals in the southern city of Rafah are currently out of service. They are al-Helal al-Emirati Maternity Hospital, the Kuwait Speciality Hospital and Abu Youssef El Najjar Hospital.
- The two hospitals in north Gaza – al-Awda and Kamal Adwan – are also inaccessible.
- This means about half a million people in Rafah and in north Gaza have no “functional accessible hospitals”, the global health agency said.
- The closure of Rafah border crossing with Egypt has also halted medical evacuation of patients and severely restricted the entry of fuel and medical supplies, impacting the functionality of hospitals, it added.
