Israeli assaults throughout Gaza have killed not less than 82 individuals since daybreak, in accordance with Gaza’s Well being Ministry, amid ongoing ceasefire talks and criticism of plans to forcibly switch Palestinians to Rafah.
Amongst these killed on Thursday, 15 individuals, together with 9 kids and 4 ladies, have been killed in an Israeli air assault whereas ready in line for dietary provides for kids in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza.
At the very least 30 others have been wounded, together with 19 kids, throughout the Israeli assault.
Catherine Russell, the director of the United Nations Kids’s Fund (UNICEF), condemned the assault on help seekers and stated the killing of households attempting to entry help was “unconscionable”.
“That is the merciless actuality confronting many in Gaza immediately after months of inadequate help being allowed into the territory and events to the battle failing to uphold fundamental duties to guard civilians,” the UNICEF official stated.
“The dearth of help means kids are going through hunger whereas the chance of famine grows. The variety of malnourished kids will proceed to rise till life-saving help and companies are resumed at full scale,” she added.
Russell known as on Israel to make sure “full compliance with worldwide humanitarian legislation” and to conduct an investigation into the incident.
Individually, Hamas condemned the assault and stated it was a part of Israel’s “ongoing marketing campaign of genocide within the Strip”.
Israel is “escalating its brutal massacres in opposition to harmless civilians in colleges, streets, displacement camps, and civilian centres, in a scientific behaviour that quantities to a full-fledged ethnic cleaning crime, perpetrated in full view of the world”, the Palestinian group stated.
Since Israel started its warfare on Gaza after the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led assaults that killed 1,139 individuals in Israel, not less than 57,762 Palestinians have been killed, and 137,656 others have been wounded, in accordance with Gaza’s Well being Ministry.
Compelled displacement
Since Sunday, Israel and Hamas, via mediators together with the USA, Qatar and Egypt, have been concerned in intense negotiations to return to a ceasefire deal that may pause Israeli assaults on the enclave and return the captives.
Whereas Hamas stated that it had agreed to launch 10 captives in what is anticipated to be a 60-day ceasefire, the group stated on Thursday that points remained on the movement of help into Gaza and the withdrawal of Israeli troops.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was getting ready to depart the US on the final day of a sequence of conferences in Washington, DC, stated Israel continues to pursue a deal for a 60-day pause within the preventing and the discharge of half the 50 captives remaining in Gaza.
As soon as that deal is in place, Israel is ready to barter a everlasting finish to the warfare, Netanyahu stated – however solely on the situation that Hamas disarms and offers up its governing and navy capabilities in Gaza.
“If this may be achieved via negotiations, a lot the higher,” he stated in a video assertion. “If it’s not achieved via negotiations in 60 days, we’ll obtain it in different methods; by utilizing power.”
This comes as Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz introduced earlier this week a plan to forcibly switch Palestinians to a tent metropolis in Rafah, southern Gaza, doubtlessly affecting any ceasefire deal.
Tamara Alrifai, a senior communications director on the UN Reduction and Works Company for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), advised Al Jazeera that the plan would “de facto create huge focus camps on the border with Egypt for the Palestinians”.
“We can’t be silent and complicit of such large-scale pressured displacement,” she stated.
Displaced Palestinians make their method in direction of the al-Mawasi space as they flee amid an Israeli floor offensive, in Khan Younis within the southern Gaza Strip, July 10, 2025 (Hatem Khaled/Reuters)
I deal for gaza help
Past the entrance traces, European officers struck a brand new cope with Israel to permit desperately wanted meals and gasoline into Gaza, the European Union’s overseas coverage chief stated on Thursday.
The settlement may lead to “extra crossings open, help and meals vehicles getting into Gaza, restore of significant infrastructure and safety of help employees”, stated Kaja Kallas, the 27-member EU’s prime diplomat.
“We rely on Israel to implement each measure agreed,” she stated in a publish on social media.
Support teams say Israeli navy restrictions and recurring violence have made it troublesome to ship help in Gaza even after Israel eased a complete blockade in Could. Consultants have warned that the territory is susceptible to famine, 21 months into Israel’s warfare.
Kallas stated the deal would reactivate help corridors from Jordan and Egypt and reopen group bakeries and kitchens throughout Gaza.
Israeli International Minister Gideon Saar acknowledged the deal whereas attending a convention in Vienna, saying it got here “following our dialogue with the EU”. He stated the deal contains “extra vehicles, extra crossings and extra routes for the humanitarian efforts”.
Neither Saar nor Kallas stated whether or not the help would undergo the UN-run system or the controversial different, US- and Israeli-backed GHF mechanism that has been marred by violence and controversy.
