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19-07-2025
GAZA/ SANA’A/ JERUSALEM: The Health Ministry in Gaza says an “unprecedented” number of starving Palestinians are pouring into hospitals across the besieged territory.
As the daily death toll in Gaza continues to mount, with at least 35 people killed in Israeli attacks today, Hamas’s military wing says its fighters are ready for a lengthy battle.
Fighting has resumed between Druze fighters and Bedouin tribes in the southern Syrian province of Suwayda, a day after Syrian troops pulled out of the area.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 58,667 people and wounded 139,974, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.
Fuel deliveries still falling: UN
Farhan Haq, the UN secretary-general’s deputy spokesman, says despite allowing limited supplies of fuel into Gaza, Israel continues to block the amounts needed to sustain healthcare, water, and other services for Palestinians in the territory.
Speaking to reporters in New York, Haq said the UN has sent about 600,000 litres of diesel to the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing into Gaza since limited fuel entries were authorised on July 9. Yesterday, the UN also sent 35,000 litres of petrol.
“The volumes are limited because the Israeli authorities have allowed only 14 trucks over the past two weeks. This is on average 55,000 litres per day, including the weekends when the crossing is closed,” Haq said.
“As we’ve said before, to sustain life-saving operations, we need hundreds of thousands of litres of fuel every single day.”
‘Stray ammunition accidentally’ struck Gaza church: Netanyahu
In a phone call to Pope Leo XIV, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed Israel’s regret “for the tragic incident in which stray ammunition accidentally” struck the Holy Family Church in Gaza. Three people were killed and 10 were wounded in the attack.
Israel has repeatedly attacked churches and the displaced Palestinians sheltering inside them since it began its war on Gaza on October 7, 2023.
Netanyahu sent Israel’s condolences to the families of those hurt in the incident, read a statement from the prime minister’s office.
The Israeli leader also gave the pontiff an update on efforts to secure a deal for the captives and a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza, “efforts that have so far not been reciprocated by Hamas,” a statement claimed.
A short while ago, a Hamas spokesperson said that Israel had rejected a deal that would have seen the release of all captives held by Palestinian groups in Gaza.
Israel rejected ceasefire deal: Hamas
In his first video message since March 6, the spokesperson of Hamas’s military wing Qassam Brigades has said the Palestinian group repeatedly offered to release all captives at once to conclude a comprehensive ceasefire deal, but Israel rejected the proposal.
Abu Obeida said the group would not agree to an interim truce in the future if a ceasefire agreement was not reached and accused Israel of intransigence.
His comments come as stuttering indirect talks have resumed in Qatar, but with no progress. If Israel disavows this round of talks, the spokesperson said, Hamas “will not guarantee a return to the formula of partial [swap] deals or the proposal of the 10 prisoners”.
Abu Obeida also said Hamas fighters are “ready to continue a long battle of attrition”. (Int’l News Desk)
