Israel starves two Palestinians to death; Gaza City attacks intensify
- Gaza’s Health Ministry has recorded two deaths “due to famine and malnutrition in the past 24 hours”, raising the total number of hunger-related deaths in the enclave over the course of Israel’s war on Gaza to 271, including 112 children.
- Israel has begun intensifying attacks on Gaza City, which it is planning to seize, forcibly displacing close to 1 million people and carrying out the “systematic demolitions” of Palestinian homes.
- Hamas accused Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu of disregarding efforts by international mediators to reach a ceasefire and of forging ahead with the military seizure of Gaza City.
- World leaders have condemned Israel’s approval of the so-called E1 settlement expansion project, severing one of the last links between Ramallah and Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 62,122 people and wounded 156,758
Gaza death toll rises
At least 70 Palestinians, including 18 aid seekers, have been killed and 356 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed 62,192 Palestinians and injured 157,114 since October 7, 2023, the ministry added.
The total number of aid seekers killed since May 27, when Israel introduced a new aid distribution mechanism through the US-based GHF, has reached 2,036, with more than 15,064 injured, the statement said.
Israeli official’s arrest, flight from US prompts fury among Trump supporters
The arrest and flight from the US of an Israeli cybersecurity official who was caught in a child sex setup has sharpened Republican divisions over Washington’s relationship with Israel amid the Gaza war.
Earlier this month, Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, who headed a division at the Israel National Cyber Directorate, was arrested after trying to meet a 15-year-old girl for “sexual contact”, police said.
He posted bail and fled for Israel before his court date. The US State Department denied the US government intervened in any way.
But Republican lawmakers such as Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie, along with major right-wing commentators like Tucker Carlson, cast the case as part of a wider pattern of US deference to Israel and demanded Alexandrovich be extradited.
“The most concerning question is when and how did America become so subservient to Israel that we immediately release a CHILD SEX PREDATOR after arrest,” wrote Greene, one of Trump’s most vocal supporters, in a post on X, in which she also criticised a State Department decision to halt visitor visas for Palestinians from Gaza, including for children who need medical care.
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