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07-08-2025
GAZA STRIP: At least 135 Palestinians, including 87 aid seekers, have been killed and 771 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
The number of people who starved to death in the enclave during Israel’s war has risen to 193, with the five new confirmed hunger-related deaths coming in the past 24 hours, the ministry says.
UN Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenca told the UN Security Council that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reported push to occupy Gaza fully is “deeply alarming”. European Commission Vice President Teresa Ribera also described the plan as an “unacceptable provocation”.
Hezbollah says it will treat a Lebanese government plan to disarm the group “as if it doesn’t exist”.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 61,158 people and wounded 151,442. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.
Israeli opposition leader warns against taking over all of Gaza
After a security briefing with Netanyahu, Yair Lapid says he told Netanyahu that fully occupying Gaza would be a “very bad idea”.
“You don’t send the State of Israel to war unless the majority of the people are behind you, and the people of Israel are not interested in this war,” the Times of Israel quoted Lapid as saying.
Although Israel withdrew its military forces and settlers from Gaza in 2005, it retained control over the enclave’s airspace, territorial waters and ports of entry, so the territory remained legally occupied.
Palestinian football icon killed while waiting for food in Gaza
Suleiman Al-Obaid, a former Palestine national team player, was killed in an Israeli strike targeting civilians waiting for humanitarian aid in southern Gaza, the Palestine Football Association (PFA) has said.
Also known as the Pele of Palestinian football, al-Obaid began his career with his home club, the Khadamat Al-Shati Club. He later joined the Al-Amari Youth Center Club in the occupied West Bank, then the Gaza Sports Club, before ultimately making it to the national team, PFA said.
“During his long career, Al-Obeid scored more than 100 goals, making him one of the brightest stars of Palestinian football,” the association said.
The football star is the 662nd member of the sports community to have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war, it added.
Rights advocates have been calling for FIFA, football’s world governing body, to ban Israel for abuses against Palestinian footballers. Israeli clubs based in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank also participate in Israel’s football competitions, a practice in breach of FIFA’s discrimination rules.
Palestinian Civil Defence agency makes plea for fuel
The Palestinian Civil Defence has called on the United Nations and international groups to urgently provide the agency with fuel to keep its rescue operations going.
“We warn that most of the rescue equipment across Gaza’s districts is no longer able to respond to distress calls,” the agency said in a statement.
Malnutrition, dehydration impede blood donations in Gaza
Blood donations are needed now, right now, across the remaining operational medical facilities in Gaza – al-Shifa Hospital, Al-Aqsa Hospital, and Nasser Hospital.
We read and hear doctors’ appeals for more blood because what is available is not sufficient to deal with the influx of injuries that keep pouring into these three major health facilities. (Int’l News Desk)
