Middle East

The Committee to Protect Journalists, which has tracked journalist deaths globally since 1992, has counted a staggering 189 Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza since the war began.

Retired Maj. Gen. Doron Almog, now head of the Jewish Agency for Israel, had been scheduled to meet the local Jewish community but called off the visit as a precaution to avoid potential "legal and diplomatic complications," according to reports.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused Palestinian leaders of undermining peace and pushing for “the unilateral recognition of a conjectural Palestinian state”.

Across the Gaza Strip today, the WHO said that more than half a million people are trapped in famine, with destruction to food and health services, and to water and sanitation systems.

The OHCHR spokesperson told journalists in Geneva that Israeli authorities had carried out investigations in the past, as the occupying power.

According to Anadolou, five journalists who lost their lives include Palestine TV cameraman Hussam al-Masri, Al Jazeera photographer Mohammad Salama, photojournalists Mariam Abu Daqqa and Moaz Abu Taha, and reporter Ahmed Abu Aziz, who succumbed to injuries hours after the strike.

Several international NGOs have limited their language and advocacy on the topic of Gaza, a DW investigation found. They fear that Israel might otherwise refuse them permits to operate in the Palestinian territories.

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), UNICEF, the World Food Programme (WFP), and the World Health Organisation (WHO) stressed that immediate action is needed to avert further mass deaths.

The race for food is not limited to men. Women are forced to take this risk, driven by the responsibilities of motherhood and the needs of their children.

According to the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR), the Israeli army has been issuing evacuation orders across wide areas of Jabalya, using quadcopters to drop messages and placing direct phone calls to residents.

Wells also catalogued how news outlets told those stories. They minced words to protect the perpetrators, while smearing the reputations of the dead, who were always named.

Recognition of a Palestinian state sends a strong message of the world’s revulsion to the Netanyahu government’s actions in Gaza. However, it is unlikely to make much of a difference on the ground without Israel and the United States agreeing to move forward on a two-state solution.

The data, compiled from a classified Israeli military intelligence database and reviewed by The Guardian, +972 Magazine and Local Call, indicates that five out of every six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces were civilians.

OCHA said the wider occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) would feel the effect, with 18 Palestinian Bedouin communities put at a higher risk of displacement.

Since August 8, the office has recorded 54 attacks on residential buildings and entire blocks in Gaza City, killing 87 Palestinians, including at least 25 children and entire families.

Al-Kheetan insisted that in the past few weeks, Israeli authorities have only allowed aid to enter in quantities that remain “far below what would be required to avert widespread starvation”.

In the recordings, Haliva is heard saying, “For everything that happened on October 7, for every one person on October 7, 50 Palestinians must die. It doesn’t matter now if they are children.”

Amnesty's Monday report cited testimonies of displaced Palestinians and medical staff who treated malnourished children.

The remarks came as Gaza-based health authorities reported on Saturday, 11 more deaths, including a child, from famine and malnutrition in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of hunger-related deaths to 251, including 108 children.

Over 83 per cent of people with disabilities in Gaza do not have the assistive devices they need, including wheelchairs, hearing aids and other tools. And for those that do, the batteries which enable these devices to work are in very short supply.

Between May 27 and August 8, the Red Cross Field Hospital in Rafah treated more than 4,500 wounded patients – most reporting injuries sustained while attempting to reach food distribution sites.

The humanitarian organisations blame new INGO registration rules introduced in March, which allow Israel to deny access based on vague criteria such as alleged "delegitimisation" of the state, or to demand sensitive data, including donor lists and full details of Palestinian staff for "security vetting."

Penda Naanda, executive director in the ministry, said the ministry welcomes the condemnation of this plan by compassionate members of the international community.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation said the claims are baseless and not a reflection of the official position or policy of the Government of the Republic of South Sudan.

The children’s ward at Nasser was full of malnourished patients, she added, and even injured adults were “extremely frail, extremely thin and very, very hungry.”

Mohammed Qreiqeh, a journalist, and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Moamen Aliwa and Mohammed Noufal, were all killed in the strike.

On Tuesday, multiple Israeli media outlets reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to announce plans to fully occupy Gaza.

The findings come amid growing international condemnation of Israel's military campaign in Gaza, which has reportedly killed more than 60,000 Palestinians, the majority of them women and children.

The aid deliveries began after Israel eased some of its restrictions late last month, following months of tight border closures that had severely limited humanitarian access to the territory.

On Tuesday, UN experts called for the dismantling of the foundation, saying it was being exploited for covert military operations.

Despite aid being air-dropped into Gaza, the situation on the ground remains dire. Israel faces mounting pressure to allow more aid to enter through land crossings.

Conditional recognition subject to action by Israel – a third state – represents an unwelcome and arguably dangerous departure from international practice.

While reaffirming their condemnation of Hamas' October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, the ambassadors said the scale and persistence of Israel's response have crossed all boundaries of humanitarian law.

FM Penny Wong reiterated previous comments from Treasurer Jim Chalmers that it is a matter of "when, not if" Australia will move to formally recognise a Palestinian state.

Johnson visited a Jewish settlement in the West Bank on Monday. Israeli officials told US media outlet Axios that his visit was "private."

Thousands have died and much of Gaza has been laid to waste, but life must continue, according to the correspondent, who is remaining anonymous for security reasons.

Meanwhile, Gaza’s health ministry reported five additional deaths from starvation on Monday, raising the hunger-related death toll to 180, including 93 children.

Dozens of bodies have washed ashore in the southern Yemeni governorate of Abyan. Authorities in Abyan are taking part in a search and rescue operation.

Jordan carried out seven joint airdrop missions over the Gaza Strip, delivering a total of 61 tonnes of humanitarian and food assistance.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society said its facility is “well known” to the Israeli military and “clearly marked with the protective red emblem”, and shared a video showing flames engulfing the building, thick smoke, and large patches of blood on the floor.

As one in three people currently go days without food, OCHA reiterated that no one should ever be forced to risk their life to get something to eat.

Rome plans to evacuate Palestinian children in need of medical treatment from the Gaza Strip.

Carney justified the decision, saying that it was necessary to preserve hopes of a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

International pressure on Israel to end its military campaign and allow the unrestricted entry of humanitarian aid into the besieged territory has been mounting in recent weeks as aid groups and the UN have warned of a famine in the Gaza Strip.

In a statement on Tuesday, the Hamas-run Ministry of Health in Gaza reported that 60,034 people had been killed and 145,870 injured since the conflict began, with thousands more feared trapped under collapsed buildings.

Speaking at a United Nations meeting on Monday aimed at addressing the conflict, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot urged the EU to take decisive action to push Israel toward a two-state agreement with Palestine.

Women-led organisations inside Gaza describe how women are boiling discarded food scraps to feed their children, and risking being killed when searching for food and water.

With Israel barring foreign media from entering Gaza, local reporters have shouldered the entire burden of documenting the war, often without protective gear, medical assistance, or institutional support, and while under constant threat of airstrikes.

African Union Commission Chairperson Mahmoud Ali Youssouf commended French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent declaration, which he said aligns fully with the African Union’s position on Palestine.

Speaking in Beijing on Friday, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun described Palestine as the “core of Middle East issues” and reiterated China’s support for the two-state solution as the only realistic path to resolving the conflict.

Despite widespread international recognition of Palestine as a state, many Western nations say they will only endorse Palestinian statehood as part of a comprehensive peace agreement with Israel.