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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal got together on Capitol Hill with victims' families to demand justice from government

Offensive conducted as UN inquiry concludes that Israel’s nearly two-year war on Gaza amounts to genocide.

Israeli forces intensify attacks on Gaza City as UN commission finds Israel committing genocide in Gaza.

At least 91 were killed in the city on Tuesday as Israel intensifies its offensive, forcing thousands to flee.

MSF, Islamic Relief, Save the Children and CARE International are among the aid groups issuing the joint call.

The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.

<article data-history-node-id="428008" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-military-drops-incendiary-grenades-ambulance-gaza-city" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-military-drops-incendiary-grenades-ambulance-gaza-city" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli military drops incendiary grenades on ambulance in Gaza City</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Israeli military used a drone to drop incendiary grenades on an ambulance at Al-Sheikh Radwan Clinic in Gaza City, Al Jazeera Arabic reported. It is currently unknown whether there were paramedics or patients in the ambulance.</p> <p>Healthcare workers, their vehicles, and medical facilities have been a key target of the Israeli miltary since they started their offensive on Gaza since October 2023.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="427946" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-students-return-classrooms-gazas-schools-lie-ruins" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-students-return-classrooms-gazas-schools-lie-ruins" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">As Israeli students return to classrooms, Gaza's schools lie in ruins</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>On Monday, 2.58 million&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/middleeasteye.org/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli&nbsp;</a>students returned to their classrooms to begin the new school year.&nbsp;Of these, 180,600 are starting first grade, while 149,000 are entering twelfth grade, their final year of school.&nbsp;</p> <p>In Gaza, meanwhile, the education system has been largely levelled by two years of Israeli bombardment.</p> <p>The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) warned that over 660,000 children in Gaza are being deprived of schooling for a third consecutive year amid Israel’s genocide in the territory.</p> <p>Analysis of satellite images by the United Nations Satellite Centre in April revealed that 97 percent of schools “sustained some level of damage to their buildings”, with 432 school buildings, 76.6 percent of the total school buildings in Gaza, suffering a “direct hit” since 7 October 2023.</p> <p>According to the Palestinian education ministry the schooling of around 700,000 has been suspended, with over 70,000 barred from taking secondary school exams in the past two years.</p> <p>You can read more <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-students-begin-school-year-gazas-schools-lie-ruins">here</a>.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

Israel is weighing the annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank, three Israeli officials said, just as several Western nations move towards recognizing Palestinian statehood this month.

Hundreds of media outlets, brought together by the campaigning platform Avaaz and Reporters Without Borders (RSF), are waging a campaign calling for the protection of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, ...

Western academics now speak of ‘genocide’ with newfound authority. Why weren’t our voices enough?

<article data-history-node-id="427870" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/child-injured-or-killed-every-10-minutes-gaza-unicef-spokesperson-says" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/child-injured-or-killed-every-10-minutes-gaza-unicef-spokesperson-says" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">A child is injured or killed every 10 minutes in Gaza, Unicef spokesperson says</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Gaza has become the "most dangerous place in the world for children", Unicef spokesperson Tess Ingram&nbsp;told Al Jazeera, warning that the territory has transformed into a place where their lives are being destroyed.&nbsp;</p> <p>Ingram noted that a Palestinian child is killed or wounded every 10 minutes, adding that the only way to end the "killing and maiming of children is a ceasefire."</p> <p>The Unicef spokesperson stressed the dire conditions children in the besieged enclave endure, including famine, lack of humanitarian aid, a collapsing health sector and constant Israeli bombardment.&nbsp;</p> <p>"Every child in Gaza has experienced unspeakable levels of fear and suffering, and UNICEF estimates that nearly one million children are in need of psychosocial support,"&nbsp;Ingram said.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="427878" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/oxfam-says-israeli-aid-blockade-gaza-city-fuelling-famine" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/oxfam-says-israeli-aid-blockade-gaza-city-fuelling-famine" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Oxfam says Israeli aid blockade in Gaza City fuelling famine</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="414" data-start="196">Israel’s decision to halt humanitarian pauses in Gaza City is making it “even harder” to deliver desperately needed aid, Chris McIntosh, Oxfam’s humanitarian response adviser, told Al Jazeera.</p> <p data-end="605" data-start="416">Speaking via videolink from Deir el-Balah, McIntosh described severe shortages across the enclave, saying food and basic goods are now priced far beyond what most Palestinians can afford.</p> <p data-end="782" data-start="607">He added that reversing the crisis is “as simple as opening the crossings and allowing the trucks, already loaded with supplies, to enter Gaza at a steady, unhindered pace”.</p> <p data-end="984" data-start="784">“There’s nothing complicated about fixing the famine. The major holding point is the Israeli authorities and their insistence on keeping the blockade in place for ‘security reasons’,” McIntosh said.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Les corps de 66 personnes ont par ailleurs été acheminés dans les hôpitaux de la bande de Gaza au cours des vingt-quatre dernières heures, annonce le ministère de la santé de l’enclave, administrée pa...

GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed grave concern over the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s (GHF) operations, saying Palestinians are paying the ultimate price of the international community’s legal, p...

BY BROOKE LOBER, ELI MEYERHOFF, AND EMILY SCHNEIDER The climate on American university campuses is dangerous. Administrators ban protests for Palestinian rights. Immigration and Customs Enforcement…

<article data-history-node-id="426713" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/two-killed-israeli-raid-near-qabatiya-west-bank" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/two-killed-israeli-raid-near-qabatiya-west-bank" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Two killed in Israeli raid near Qabatiya, West Bank</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="750" data-start="524">Israeli troops shot and killed two Palestinians during a military operation near the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, sources told Al Jazeera.</p> <p data-end="824" data-start="752">The Israeli army removed the bodies from the scene, the sources added.</p> <center> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="rtl" lang="ar">تغطية صحفية| قوات الاحتلال تقصف منشأة زراعية بعد حصارها بين بلدتي قباطية ومركة جنوب جنين. <a href="https://t.co/6kgJPMDDAM">pic.twitter.com/6kgJPMDDAM</a></p> — الجرمق الإخباري (@aljarmaqnet) <a href="https://twitter.com/aljarmaqnet/status/1952240519809323439?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 4, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="426714" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/least-54-palestinians-missing-near-aid-centres-run-us-backed-group-ghf" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/least-54-palestinians-missing-near-aid-centres-run-us-backed-group-ghf" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">At least 54 Palestinians missing near aid centres run by US-backed group GHF</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Addameer Foundation, a Palestinian NGO says at least 54 Palestinians are unaccounted for near aid control centres operated by the so called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a US-Israeli backed group that has been condemned for killing Palestinians seeking aid.</p> <p data-end="902" data-start="763">In a statement, the group said Israeli forces have blocked efforts to recover the bodies of those reportedly killed near these locations.</p> <p data-end="1156" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="904">Addameer accused Israeli troops and foreign contractors of carrying out mass killings since the US-backed foundation began overseeing aid operations under a joint American-Israeli framework, which has killed at least&nbsp;1,500 people seeking food to avert starvation.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="426715" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/five-more-people-have-died-hunger-israel-continues-starve-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/five-more-people-have-died-hunger-israel-continues-starve-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Five more people have died of hunger, as Israel continues to starve Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="699" data-start="508">The Palestinian Health Ministry reported on Monday that at least five adults have died from hunger or malnutrition in the last 24 hours, as Israel continues to restrict aid.</p> <p data-end="829" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="701">This raises the total number of hunger-related deaths in the territory to 180, including 93 children, according to the ministry.</p> </div> </div> </article>

For the past 21 months of horrific violence and heartbreaking suffering in the Gaza Strip, I’ve been wrestling with the contentious…

A 21-year-old writer living in Gaza documents her daily life under the U.S.–Israeli program of mass starvation.

We drink salt and water to stay standing, to keep ourselves from going dizzy and collapsing. This is what we’ve come to in Gaza, where most people will go without food for three days at a time.