Israel’s war on Gaza live: Hospital ‘barely coping’ with dead and wounded
- Israeli air strikes on a UN-operated school sheltering displaced Palestinians in central Gaza killed at least 33 people. Israel’s army says Hamas fighters were also in the shelter.
- Egyptian and Qatari mediators reportedly say they expect Hamas will submit response to the latest ceasefire proposal as pressure continues to mount to get a deal done.
- Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah is a “sinking ship” – overwhelmed with wounded and dead – after days of unrelenting strikes by Israeli forces on central Gaza, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says.
- At least 36,654 people have been killed and 83,309 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza
- 12m ago(05:30 GMT)
UN warns Israeli military of violations of international law after UN school attack
The UN’s human right office has said that the Israeli military’s failure to ensure “distinction, proportionality and precaution” in its attacks that have killed Palestinian civilians would amount to violations of international humanitarian law.
Responding after an Israeli air strike killed at least 35 people at a UN-run school in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, the UN rights office said that Israel’s claim that Palestinian fighters were using the school does not justify such an attack.
The presence of fighters “would not allow or justify violations” of the international humanitarian law principles of distinguishing between civilians and combatants when carrying out attacks, and proportionately and precaution to ensure civilians are not targeted, the UN said in a statement.
“We note with concern that this attack follows a strike last week on an IDPs camp that left at least 45 Palestinians dead,” the UN rights office said.
A UN staff member checks some of the destruction after an Israeli attack on a UN school housing displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, on Thursday [Bashar Taleb/AFP] - 26m ago(05:15 GMT)
WATCH: Analyst unpacks implications of Hezbollah drone attack on Israeli soldiers
Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah have been engaged in regular cross-border exchanges of fire since the start of the war in Gaza.
The violence has raised concerns about the possibility of regional escalation.
On Wednesday, Israel’s military said a drone attack launched by Hezbollah killed one soldier and injured nine others.
Sultan Barakat, professor of public policy at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar, joined Al Jazeera earlier to discuss the risk of all-out conflict.
Barakat said he believed it would be unlikely for Israel to launch a major offensive against Hezbollah.
“They have the whole world watching their actions. It is very unlikely that they would be foolish enough to want to add to the civil victims and to the urban warfare that they already are conducting in Gaza,” he said.
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Hezbollah drone attack: One Israeli soldier killed & nine injured - 42m ago(05:00 GMT)
These are the main developments from overnight:
- Five people were reported killed in an Israeli strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp and four people died and six were injured in an attack on the Maghazi refugee camp, also located in central Gaza.
- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has paid tribute to UN staff who died in the line of duty last year, saying there needs to be “full accounting” for the 135 employees of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) killed in Israel’s war on Gaza.
- Israel is privately objecting to a US attempt to pass a resolution at the UN Security Council that would lead to a ceasefire in Gaza, The Associated Press reports.
- Overnight raids by the Israeli military have been carried out across the occupied West Bank after the killing on Thursday of three Palestinian youths in Jenin.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been invited to visit the United States to address a joint session of the US Congress on July 24.
- The Palestinian national football team have advanced to the final round of World Cup qualification for the first time ever, with a 0-0 draw against Lebanon, the AP reports.
Palestinians flee as an Israeli air strike hits Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday [Bashar Taleb/AFP] - 57m ago(04:45 GMT)
Israeli forces conduct raids across occupied West Bank
The Palestinian news agency Wafa has reported on numerous raids by Israeli troops and military vehicles on communities, villages, towns and cities across the occupied West Bank following the killing earlier of three young people in Jenin.
A crowd of thousands formed a funeral march for the three Palestinian youths, aged 17 to 24, who were killed by Israeli forces on Thursday.
Areas raided overnight and into early Friday morning, include:
- The Abu Sneina neighbourhood in Hebron City
- Israeli snipers took up positions in the al-Ein refugee camp in Nablus while a house in the camp was raided and buildings searched on the camp’s outskirts, Wafa reports. Local residents engaged in clashes with the Israeli military to prevent the incursion.
- A dawn raid was carried out on the towns of Silat, al-Dhahr and al-Fandaqumiya, located to the south of Jenin, where Palestinian homes were searched by troops accompanied by police dogs.
- Israeli soldiers fired stun grenades and deployed a noxious gas during confrontations with local Palestinians, who rallied to resist a raid on Husan village, west of Bethlehem.
- Troops also stormed the Khallet al-Farra village community south of Hebron, where they searched and ransacked homes before withdrawing.
A Palestinian man walks in a house destroyed by an Israeli antitank shell fired during a raid by Israeli forces on Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, on June 6, 2024 [Raneen Sawafta/Reuters]
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