If you’re just joining us Here are the day’s major developments: Israeli air forces have hit Suwayda in southern Syria. At least 12 people were killed by an Israeli air strike on a refugee camp in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon’s state media reported. The Israeli army has issued another forced evacuation threat for civilians living in 16 areas in northern Gaza. The United Nations rights office has said it had recorded at least 875 killings within the past six weeks at aid points in Gaza run by the US- and Israel-backed GHF and convoys run by other relief groups, including the UN. Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said negotiations for a ceasefire have not stopped but are still in the early stages. Israeli and Hamas delegations are both in Doha, it added. There has been an increase in killings of and attacks against Palestinians by settlers and security forces in the occupied West Bank in recent weeks, according to the UN human rights office. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) says that malnutrition rates in Gaza are increasing, with one in 10 children screened being malnourished. The administrative court of Berlin has ruled that an order imposed on Palestinian doctor Ghassan Abu-Sittah preventing him from speaking in Germany is unlawful.

The Kremlin says it needs time to respond to Donald Trump’s statement threatening tariffs unless a Ukraine peace deal is reached within 50 days, as top security official Dmitry Medvedev says Russia “didn’t care” about the “theatrical ultimatum” issued by the US president.
Trump has announced a deal to supply more weapons to Ukraine and threatened to impose steep tariffs on Russia unless the deal is reached.Civilian casualties ‘almost doubled’ in second quarter of 2025
Jarno Habicht, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) representative in Ukraine, has said civilian casualties “almost doubled” in the second quarter of 2025 compared to the first three months of the year.

Speaking during a media briefing, he said the UN’s health agency had recorded 2,504 attacks on healthcare since the start of the war, involving 212 deaths and 768 injuries.

“That means that healthcare is not a safe place for the patients and healthcare workers – and it’s a violation of humanitarian law,” said Habicht.

He also sounded an alarm on “problem” behaviours growing during the war, including heavy drinking among adults and new tobacco products used by young people.Ukraine’s PM Denys Shmyhal resigns
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has reportedly filed a resignation letter, as part of a major governmental reshuffle expected this week.

Shmyhal has been prime minister since 2020, the longest any Ukrainian head of government has served since the country gained independence in 1991.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday nominated Yulia Svyrydenko, first deputy prime minister, for the post.

Svyrydenko, 39, gained prominence this year during fraught negotiations around a rare minerals deal with the US that nearly derailed ties between Kyiv and its most important military ally.

Accountability must be at the heart of any move towards peace: UN
The United Nations has said any peace talks must include full accountability for the countless violations during the war.

“An immediate ceasefire is needed now to end this unbearable suffering,” Liz Throssell, a spokesperson for the office of UN rights chief Volker Turk, told reporters.

“Work on a lasting peace, in line with international law, must intensify – a peace that ensures accountability for gross violations of international human rights law and serious violations of international humanitarian law,” she said, noting “accountability must be” at the heart of “any move towards ceasefire, towards peace”.

Throssell said Turk wanted any negotiations to focus in the immediate term on ending attacks that affect civilians and protecting the rights of people in occupied territory.

They should also seek to return forcibly transferred or deported children, establish humanitarian corridors across the line of control and bring an end to the torture and ill treatment of prisoners of war and other detainees, she added.

Russia has unleashed record waves of drone and missile attacks over the past few weeks, with the number of Ukrainian civilians killed or wounded in June hitting a three-year high, according to UN figures, with 232 people killed and 1,343 injured.

“July has brought no respite for civilians in Ukraine,” said Throssell. So far this month, at least 139 civilians have reportedly been killed and 791 wounded, she said.

“Intense and sustained attacks using explosive weapons with wide area effects in populated areas are likely to have indiscriminate impacts and as such raise serious concerns as to their compliance with international humanitarian law,” said Throssell.

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